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Psalms 59

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. ✦ 2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. ✦ 3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. ✦ 4They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. ✦ 5Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. ✦ 6They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. ✦ 7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear? ✦ 8But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. ✦ 9Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence. ✦ 10The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. ✦ 11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield. ✦ 12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak. ✦ 13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah. ✦ 14And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. ✦ 15Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. ✦ 16But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. ✦ 17Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 59 ·81 Sam 19 ·6Ps 46 ·5Ps 10 ·5Ps 7 ·4Ps 5 ·3Ps 56 ·3Ps 55 ·3

Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 59 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 59YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 59David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 59Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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