Ch 59 / 150~2 min
Tehillim

Chapter 59

My Strength, I Watch for You Alone

David's plea to be rescued from violent enemies without becoming like them mirrors Yeshua, who absorbed violence at the cross rather than retaliating against His accusers.

  1. Deliver Me From My Enemies

    Surrounded by enemies who circle like dogs, David's prayer rises: deliver me and show Your strength.

  2. 1Deliver me from my enemies, my Elohim. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
  3. 2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
  4. 3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, YHWH.
  5. 4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
  6. 5You, LORD God of Armies, the Elohim of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.
  7. 6They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
  8. 7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
  9. 8But you, YHWH, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
  10. 9Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for Elohim is my high tower.
  11. 10My Elohim will go before me with his chesed. Elohim will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
  12. 11Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Adonai our shield.
  13. 12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
  14. 13Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that Elohim rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.
  15. 14At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
  16. 15They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
  17. 16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your chesed in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
  18. 17To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For Elohim is my high tower, the Elohim of my chesed.
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