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Salmos 57:4
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Mi vida est� entre leones; Estoy echado entre hijos de hombres encendidos: Sus dientes son lanzas y saetas, Y su lengua cuchillo agudo.
Mi vida est� entre leones; estoy acostado entre hijos de hombres enfurecidos; sus dientes son lanzas y saetas, y su lengua es espada aguda.
Mi vida est� entre leones; estoy echado entre hijos de hombres que echan llamas; sus dientes son lanzas y saetas, y su lengua cuchillo agudo.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
among: Psalms 10:9, Psalms 17:12, Psalms 17:13, Psalms 22:13-16, Psalms 35:17, Psalms 58:6, Proverbs 28:15, Daniel 6:22-24
set: Judges 9:20, James 3:6
whose: Psalms 58:6, John 4:10, John 4:11, Proverbs 30:14
tongue: Psalms 52:2, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 64:3, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 25:18, Revelation 19:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:1 - Jacob Numbers 17:10 - rebels Numbers 35:20 - by laying Job 4:10 - the teeth Job 5:21 - be hid Job 41:14 - his teeth Psalms 4:2 - O Psalms 25:19 - Consider Psalms 31:13 - fear Psalms 35:15 - they Psalms 59:7 - swords Psalms 119:121 - leave me Psalms 120:4 - Sharp Psalms 120:6 - soul Psalms 140:3 - sharpened Psalms 142:6 - for they Proverbs 14:3 - the mouth Proverbs 16:27 - in Jeremiah 2:15 - young lions Jeremiah 9:8 - tongue Jeremiah 18:18 - Come and let us smite Jeremiah 20:10 - I heard Ezekiel 38:13 - with Hosea 7:16 - the rage Luke 23:5 - they Luke 23:23 - General Romans 3:13 - with their James 3:8 - an unruly Revelation 9:8 - and their
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My soul [is] among lions,.... Not literally understood; though such there might be in the wildernesses where he sometimes was; but figuratively, men comparable to lions, for their stoutness, courage, strength, fierceness, and cruelty; meaning not his own men, as some think, who were fierce, and of keen resentment against Saul, and would fain have killed him when he was in the cave, had they not been restrained by David, 1 Samuel 24:4; but Saul, and those with him, who were three thousand chosen men, stout, courageous, fierce, and furious. It is usual in scripture to describe powerful princes, and especially persecuting ones, by the name of lions, Proverbs 28:15. Achilles, in Homer o, is compared to a lion for his cruelty. The soul of Christ was among such, when he was apprehended by the band of men that came with Judas to take him; when he was in the high priest's hall buffeted and spit upon; and when he was in the common hall of Pilate, surrounded by the Roman soldiers; and when he was encircled on the cross with the crowd of the common people, priests and elders,
Matthew 26:55; and so the souls of his people are often among lions, persecuting men, and Satan and his principalities, who is compared to a roaring lion, 1 Peter 5:8; and among whom they are as wonderfully preserved as Daniel in the lion's den;
[and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire; of hell, as the tongue is said to be in James 3:6; by the devil, who stirred up Saul against David, filled him with wrath and fury, so that he breathed out nothing but flaming vengeance, threatening and slaughter, against him; and by wicked men his courtiers, who kindled and stirred up the fire of contention between them; among these incendiaries, as Junius renders the word p, David was, who inflamed the mind of Saul against him, which he suggests in 1 Samuel 24:10;
[even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows; whose words, formed by means of their teeth, were very devouring ones,
Psalms 52:4; were very piercing and wounding; calumnies, detractions, and backbitings, speaking against him when absent and at a distance, may be meant; see Proverbs 30:14;
and their tongue a sharp sword; Proverbs 30:14- :; and there was a sort of swords called "lingulae", because in the shape of a tongue q.
o Iliad. 24. v. 40, 41. p להטים "incendiarios", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "flammantes", Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth, Cocceius, Vatablus, Musculus. q A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 10. c. 25.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My soul is among lions - That is, among people who resemble lions; men, fierce, savage, ferocious.
And I lie even among them that are set on fire - We have a term of similar import in common use now, when we say that one is “inflamed” with passion, referring to one who is infuriated and enraged. So we speak of “burning” with rage or wrath - an expression derived, perhaps, from the inflamed “appearance” of a man in anger. The idea here is not that he “would” lie down calmly among those persons, as Prof. Alexander suggests, but that he actually “did” thus lie down. When he laid himself down at night, when he sought repose in sleep, he was surrounded by such persons, and seemed to be sleeping in the midst of them.
Even the sons of men - Yet they are not wild beasts, but “men” who seem to have the ferocious nature of wild beasts. The phrase, “sons of men,” is often used to denote men themselves.
Whose teeth are spears and arrows - Spears and arrows in their hands are what the teeth of wild beasts are.
And their tongue a sharp sword - The mention of the tongue here has reference, probably, to the abuse and slander to which he was exposed, and which was like a sharp sword that pierced even to the seat of life. See the notes at Psalms 55:21.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 57:4. My soul is among lions — לבאם bethoch lebaim. I agree with Dr. Kennicott that this should be translated, "My soul dwells in parched places," from לאב laab, he thirsted. And thus the Chaldee seems to have understood the place, though it be not explicit.
I lie even among them that are set on fire — I seem to be among coals. It is no ordinary rage and malice by which I am pursued: each of my enemies seems determined to have my life.
