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Selected Verse: Psalms 54:3 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 54:3 |
Strong Concordance |
For strangers [02114] are risen up [06965] against me, and oppressors [06184] seek [01245] after my soul [05315]: they have not set [07760] God [0430] before them. Selah [05542]. |
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King James |
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
strangers--perhaps Ziphites.
oppressors--literally, "terrible ones" (Isa 13:11; Isa 25:3). Such were Saul and his army.
not set . . . them--acted as atheists, without God's fear (compare Psa 16:8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For strangers are risen up against me - That is, foreigners; those of another nation or land. Saul and his friends who sought the life of David were his own countrymen; these persons who sought go betray him were another people. They attempted to gain the favor of Saul, or to secure a reward from him, by betraying to him an innocent man whom he was persecuting.
And oppressors seek after my soul - Seek after my life. The word here rendered "oppressors" means people of violence; the proud; the haughty; persecutors; tyrants. The word properly denotes those who exert their power in an arbitrary manner, or not under the sanction of law.
They have not set God before them - They do not act as in the presence of God. They do not regard his authority. See the notes at Psa 36:1. The word "Selah" here merely marks a musical pause. It indicates nothing in regard to the sense. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Strangers - The Zephites, whom, though Israelites, he calls strangers in regard of their barbarous and perfidious carriage. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Strangers are risen up against me - The Ziphites.
And oppressors - Saul, his courtiers, and his army.
They have not set God before them - It is on no religious account, nor is it to accomplish any end, on which they can ask the blessing of God.
Selah - This is true. |
8 I have set [07737] the LORD [03068] always [08548] before me: because he is at my right hand [03225], I shall not be moved [04131].
3 Therefore shall the strong [05794] people [05971] glorify [03513] thee, the city [07151] of the terrible [06184] nations [01471] shall fear [03372] thee.
11 And I will punish [06485] the world [08398] for their evil [07451], and the wicked [07563] for their iniquity [05771]; and I will cause the arrogancy [01347] of the proud [02086] to cease [07673], and will lay low [08213] the haughtiness [01346] of the terrible [06184].
1 To the chief Musician [05329], A Psalm of David [01732] the servant [05650] of the LORD [03068]. The transgression [06588] of the wicked [07563] saith [05002] within [07130] my heart [03820], that there is no fear [06343] of God [0430] before his eyes [05869].