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Selected Verse: Psalms 143:9 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 143:9 |
King James |
Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. |
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] |
| (Compare Psa 31:15-20). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies - See the notes at Psa 69:14.
I flee unto thee to hide me - Margin, "Hide me with thee." The Hebrew is, I hide myself with thee; that is, I take refuge with thee; I put myself under thy protection; I make myself thus secure, as thou art secure. See the notes at Psa 17:8. Compare Psa 27:5; Psa 31:20. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| I flee unto thee to hide me - That I may not be found by my enemies, who seek my life to destroy it. |
15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.