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Selected Verse: Psalms 22:20 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 22:20 |
King James |
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
my soul--or self (compare Psa 3:2; Psa 16:10).
my darling--literally, "my only one," or, "solitary one," as desolate and afflicted (Psa 25:16; Psa 35:17). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Deliver my soul from the sword - The word soul here means life, and denotes a living person. It is equivalent to "deliver me." "The sword" is used to denote an instrument of death, or anything that pierces like a sword. Compare Sa2 11:24-25. As applied to the Saviour here, it may mean those extreme mental sufferings that were like the piercing of a sword.
My darling - Margin, "my only one." Prof. Alexander, "my lonely one." DeWette, my life. The Hebrew word - יחיד yâchı̂yd - means "one alone, only," as of an only child; then one alone, as forsaken, solitary, wretched, Psa 25:16; Psa 68:6; then it means one only, the only one, in the sense of "most dear, darling." Here, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), it is used poetically for life, as being something most dear, or as denoting all that we have, and, therefore, most precious. Compare Job 2:4. This is the most probable interpretation here, as it would thus correspond with the expression in the first part of the verse, "deliver my soul."
From the power of the dog - Margin, as in Hebrew, from the hand. The enemy is represented, as in Psa 22:16, as a "dog" (see the notes on that verse); and then that enemy is spoken of as inflicting death by his hand. There is a little incongruity in speaking of a "dog" as having hands, but the image before the mind is that of the enemy with the character of a dog, and thus there is no impropriety in using in reference to him the language which is commonly applied to a man. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Darling - Heb. my only one; his soul, which he so calls, because it was left alone and destitute of friends and helpers. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Deliver my soul from the sword - Deliver נפשי naphshi, my life; save me alive, or raise me again.
My darling - יחידתי yechidathi, my only one. The only human being that was ever produced since the creation, even by the power of God himself, without the agency of man. Adam the first was created out of the dust of the earth; that was his mother; God was the framer. Adam the second was produced in the womb of the virgin; that was his mother. But that which was conceived in her was by the power of the Holy Ghost; hence the man Christ Jesus is the Only Son of God; God is his Father, and he is his Only One. |
17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.