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Selected Verse: Psalms 9:9 - American Standard
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 9:9 |
American Standard |
Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; |
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King James |
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. |
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] |
The oppressed, and all who know Him (Psa 5:3; Psa 7:1), find Him a sure refuge. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The Lord also will be a refuge - Margin, an high place. The margin expresses the more exact sense of the, Hebrew word - משׂגב miśgâb. It means properly height, altitude; then a height, rock, crag; and then, as such localities, being inaccessible to an enemy, were sought in times of danger as places of secure retreat, it comes to denote a place of security and refuge, Psa 18:2; Psa 46:7, Psa 46:11; Psa 48:3; Psa 59:9, Psa 59:17; Psa 94:22. The declaration here is equivalent to what is so often said, that God is a refuge, a rock, a high tower, a defense; meaning, that those referred to might find safety in him. See the notes at Psa 18:2.
For the oppressed - literally, for those who are crushed, broken; hence, the dejected, afflicted, unhappy - דך dak - from דכך mor dākak - to beat small; to break in pieces; to crush. The allusion here is to those who are wronged or down-trodden; to the victims of tyranny and injustice. Such may look to God to vindicate them and their cause, and they will not look in vain. Sooner or later he will manifest himself as their protector and their helper. See Psa 9:12.
A refuge in times of trouble - Not only for the oppressed, but for all those who are in trouble. Compare Psa 46:1. That is, all such may come to him with the assurance that he will be ready to pity them in their sorrows, and to deliver them. The psalmist had found it so in his own case; and he infers that it would be so in all cases, and that this might be regarded as the general character of God. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
(Heb.: 9:10-11) Thus judging the nations Jahve shows Himself to be, as a second ו-strophe says, the refuge and help of His own. The voluntative with Waw of sequence expresses that which the poet desires for his own sake and for the sake of the result mentioned in Psa 9:11. משׂגּב, a high, steep place, where one is removed from danger, is a figure familiar to David from the experiences of his time of persecution. דּך (in pause דּך) is properly one who is crushed (from דּכך = דּכא, דּכה to crush, break in pieces, דקק to pulverize), therefore one who is overwhelmed to the extreme, even to being completely crushed. The parallel is לעתּות בצּרה with the datival ל (as probably also in Psa 10:1). עתּות from עת (time, and then both continuance, Psa 81:16, and condition) signifies the public relations of the time, or even the vicissitudes of private life, Psa 31:16; and בצּרה is not הצּרה with בּ (Bttch.), which gives an expression that is meaninglessly minute ("for times in the need"), but one word, formed from בּצּר (to cut off, Arab. to see, prop. to discern keenly), just like בּקּשׁה ekil from בּקּשׁ, prop. a cutting off, or being cut off, i.e., either restraint, especially motionlessness (= בּצּרת, Jer 17:8, plur. בּצּרות Jer 14:1), or distress, in which the prospect of deliverance is cut off. Since God is a final refuge for such circumstances of hopelessness in life, i.e., for those who are in such circumstances, the confidence of His people is strengthened, refreshed, and quickened. They who know His name, to them He has now revealed its character fully, and that by His acts; and they who inquire after Him, or trouble and concern themselves about Him (this is what דּרשׁ signifies in distinction from בּקּשׁ), have now experienced that He also does not forget them, but makes Himself known to them in the fulness of His power and mercy. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
A refuge - משגב misgab, a high place, where their enemies can neither reach nor see them. He who has God for his portion has all safety in him. |
1 Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto Jehova, concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,
3 O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.
1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
12 For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.
2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
22 But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing praises: For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
9 Because of his strength I will give heed unto thee; For God is my high tower.
3 God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.
11 Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
7 Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
1 The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Save me in thy lovingkindness.
16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
1 Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
11 Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the people his doings.