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From the wicked who oppress me, My deadly enemies, who compass me about.
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The Severity of the Threat
Commentators explain that the language here is intense. The enemies are described as "deadly," literally meaning "enemies against the soul" or life. The word for "oppress" carries the idea of completely wasting or desolating, like an army ravaging a city. This highlights the extreme peril and desperation behind the psalmist's prayer.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From the wicked that oppress me - Margin, “That waste me.” The margin expresses the sense of the Hebrew. The idea is that of being …
19th Century
Anglican
Deadly. —Literally, with the soul, or life, or better, as in the Syriac, “against the life,” and so deadly.<…
Baptist
They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowi…
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16th Century
Protestant
From the face of the ungodly. The Psalmist, by again accusing his enemies, intends to present his own innocence as an argument for obtaini…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
From the wicked that oppress me Or "waste" or "destroy" {g}; as wild beasts do a field or vineyard when they get int…
Being surrounded by enemies, David prays to God to keep him safe. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved through all the hardsh…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Above, the psalmist described the divine justice and showed that he kept it; here he puts forward a prayer in which he asks to be heard f…
