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Selected Verse: Psalms 89:18 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 89:18 |
King James |
For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. |
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] |
(Margin). Thus is introduced the promise to "our shield," "our king," David. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For the Lord is our defense - Margin, "Our shield is of the Lord." The original word rendered "defense," is shield. Compare Psa 5:12, note; Psa 33:20, note; Psa 59:11, note. The meaning is, that protection was to be found in God alone. The true construction of this verse is, "For to Yahweh (belongs) our shield, and to the Holy One of Israel our king." That is, All that they had, and all that they relied on as a defense, belonged to God, or was of God; in other words, their very protectors were themselves protected by Yahweh. They had no other defense; nothing else on which they could depend. |
11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.