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Salmos 59:1
Para el director del coro; según tonada de No destruyas. Mictam de David, cuando Saúl envió hombres y vigilaron la casa para matarlo.
Líbrame de mis enemigos, Dios mío; ponme a salvo en lo alto, lejos de los que se levantan contra mí.Bible Study Resources
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Al Vencedor: sobre No destruyas: Mictam de David, cuando envi� Sa�l, y guardaron la casa para matarlo. L�brame de mis enemigos, oh Dios m�o; ponme a salvo de los que se levantan contra m�.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Michtam: The seven poems of the celebrated Arabian poets who flourished before the time of Mohammed, called Moallakat, from being suspended on the walls of the temple of Mecca, were also called Modhabat, "golden," because they were written in letters of gold on the papyrus; and probably this is another reason why the six poems of David were called golden.
when: Judges 16:2, Judges 16:3, 1 Samuel 19:11-24, 2 Corinthians 11:32, 2 Corinthians 11:33
Deliver: Psalms 7:1, Psalms 7:2, Psalms 18:48, Psalms 71:4, Psalms 143:12, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75, 2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:18
defend me: Heb. set me on high, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 91:14, Isaiah 33:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:11 - Deliver 2 Samuel 22:17 - he drew Psalms 38:19 - But Psalms 56:1 - Michtam Psalms 60:1 - Michtam Psalms 140:1 - Deliver
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God,.... David had his enemies in his youth, notwithstanding the amiableness of his person, the endowments of his mind, his martial achievements, his wise behaviour and conduct, and the presence of God with him; yea, it were some of these things that made Saul his enemy, who, by his power and authority, made others; see 1 Samuel 18:5. Christ had his enemies, though he went about doing good, both to the bodies and souls of men, continually; the chief priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, were his implacable enemies, and even the people of the Jews in general: and the church of God, and members of it, whom David may represent, have their enemies, sin, Satan, and the world; and as David and Christ, so the church has a covenant God to go unto, from whom deliverance from enemies may be desired and expected;
defend me from them that rise up against me; or, "set me on high above them" l; out of their reach, as David was protected from Saul and his men, who rose up in an hostile manner against him; and as Christ was, when raised from the dead, and exalted at his Father's right hand; and as the saints are in great safety, dwelling on high, where their place of defence is the munition of rocks; and therefore it matters not who rise up against them.
l תשגבני "statue me in loco alto, i.e. tuto", Vatablus; and to the same sense Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis, Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God - See the notes at Psalms 18:48. This prayer was offered when the spies sent by Saul surrounded the house of David. They had come to apprehend him, and it is to be presumed that they had come in sufficient numbers, and with sufficient power, to effect their object. Their purpose was not to break in upon him in the night, but to watch their opportunity, when he went forth in the morning, to slay him 1 Samuel 19:11, and there seemed no way for him to escape. Of their coming, and of their design, Michal, the daughter of Saul, and the wife of David, seems to have been apprised - perhaps by someone of her father’s family. She informed David of the arrangement, and assured him that unless he should escape in the night, he would be put to death in the morning. She, therefore, let him down through a window, and he escaped, 1 Samuel 19:12. It was in this way that he was in fact delivered; in this way that his prayer was answered. A faithful wife saved him.
Defend me from them that rise up against me - Margin, as in Hebrew, “Set me on high.” The idea is that of placing him, as it were, on a tower, or on an eminence which would be inaccessible. These were common places of refuge or defense. See the notes at Psalms 18:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM LIX
The psalmist prays for deliverance from his enemies, whose
desperate wickedness he describes, 1-7;
professes strong confidence in God, 8-10;
speaks of the destruction of his enemies, 11-15;
praises God for benefits already received; and determines to
trust in him, 16, 17.
NOTES ON PSALM LIX
The title, "To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David," has already occurred: and perhaps means no more than that the present Psalm is to be sung as Psalms 57:1-11, the first which bears this title. But there is here added the supposed occasion on which David made this Psalm: it was, "when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him." When the reader considers the whole of this Psalm carefully, he will be convinced that the title does not correspond to the contents. There is scarcely any thing in it that can apply to the circumstances of Saul's sending his guards by night to keep the avenues to the house of David, that when the morning came they might seize and slay him; and of his being saved through the information given him by his wife Michal, in consequence of which he was let down through a window, and so escaped. See 1 Samuel 19:10-11. There is not in the whole Psalm any positive allusion to this history; and there are many things in it which show it to be utterly inconsistent with the facts of that history. The Psalm most evidently agrees to the time of Nehemiah, when he was endeavouring to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, when the enterprise was first mocked; then opposed by Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, who watched day and night that they might cause the work to cease; and laid ambuscades for the life of Nehemiah himself. Every part of the Psalm agrees to this: and I am therefore of Calmet's opinion, that the Psalm was composed in that time, and probably by Nehemiah, or by Esdras.
Verse Psalms 59:1. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God — A very proper prayer in the mouth of Nehemiah, when resisted in his attempts to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, who opposed the work, and endeavoured to take away the life of the person whom God had raised up to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. I conceive the Psalm to have been made on this occasion; and on this hypothesis alone I think it capable of consistent explanation.
