Psalms 59:5

David appeals to the LORD of Armies, God of Israel, to deal justly with treacherous evildoers. It grounds his plea in God's covenant power and faithfulness.

Cross-references · 17

• Ps 55:15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
• Ps 84:8Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
• Ps 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
• Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
• Isa 1:10Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
• Amos 9:7Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
• Ezek 18:27–28Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Gen 33:20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
• Ps 54:3For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
• Ps 7:12–13If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
• Ps 80:4Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
• Rom 2:28–29For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
• Exod 3:15God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
• Rom 9:6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
• Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Jer 18:23Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you. Deal you with them in the time of your anger.

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