Protect me from wicked people who attack me, from murderous enemies who surround me.
Parallel translations
- WEB from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
- KJV From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
- BSB from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.
- NKJV From the wicked who oppress me, From my deadly enemies who surround me.
- NASB From the wicked who deal violently with me, My deadly enemies who surround me.
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Quick answer
David seeks protection from the wicked and deadly enemies who surround him. It matters because God is the refuge of the faithful when they are besieged by foes.
Overview
David names the threat plainly: wicked oppressors and mortal enemies encircle him. He looks to God alone for shelter from their assault. Such reliance on God amid hostility foreshadows Christ, who entrusted himself to the Father while surrounded by enemies.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Ps 35:4Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
- Ps 35:12They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
- 1 Chr 17:9I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
- Ps 7:5let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
- Ps 31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
- 1 Sam 24:11Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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