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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:122 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 119:122 |
Strong Concordance |
Be surety [06148] for thy servant [05650] for good [02896]: let not the proud [02086] oppress [06231] me. |
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King James |
Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress 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] |
| Be surety--Stand for me against my oppressors (Gen 43:9; Isa 38:14). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Be surety for thy servant for good - On the meaning of the word here rendered "be surety," see the notes at Job 17:3, and the notes at Isa 38:14, in both which places the same Hebrew word occurs: In Isaiah it is rendered "undertake for me." The word means, properly, "to mix, to mingle;" hence, to braid, to interweave; then, to exchange, to barter. Then it means to mix or intermingle interests; to unite ourselves with others so that their interests come to be our own; and hence, to take one under our protection, to become answerable for, to be a surety for: as, when one endorses a note for another, he mingles his own interest, reputation, and means with his. So Christ becomes the security or surety - ἔγγυος enguos - of his people, Heb 7:22. The prayer here is, that God would, so to speak, mix or mingle his cause and that of the psalmist together, and that he would then protect the common cause as his own; or, that he would become a "pledge" or "surety" for the safety of the psalmist. This now, through the Mediator, we have a right to ask at the hand of God; and when God makes our cause his own, we must be safe.
Let not the proud oppress me - See the notes at Psa 119:51. Let them not triumph over me, and crush me. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Surety - Do thou undertake and plead my cause. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Be surety for thy servant - ערב arob, give a pledge or token that thou wilt help me in times of necessity. Or, Be bail for thy servant. What a word is this! Pledge thyself for me, that thou wilt produce me safely at the judgment of the great day. Then sustain and keep me blameless till the coming of Christ. Neither of these two verses has any of the ten words in reference to God's law or attributes. The judgment and the justice refer to the psalmist's own conduct in Psa 119:121. The hundred and twenty-second has no word of the kind. |
14 Like a crane [05483] or a swallow [05693], so did I chatter [06850]: I did mourn [01897] as a dove [03123]: mine eyes [05869] fail [01809] with looking upward [04791]: O LORD [03068], I am oppressed [06234]; undertake [06148] for me.
9 I will be surety [06148] for him; of my hand [03027] shalt thou require [01245] him: if [0518] I bring [0935] him not [0518] unto thee, and set [03322] him before thee [06440], then let me bear the blame [02398] for ever [03117]:
51 The proud [02086] have had me greatly [03966] in derision [03887]: yet have I not declined [05186] from thy law [08451].
22 By [2596] so much [5118] was [1096] Jesus [2424] made [1096] a surety [1450] of a better [2909] testament [1242].
14 Like a crane [05483] or a swallow [05693], so did I chatter [06850]: I did mourn [01897] as a dove [03123]: mine eyes [05869] fail [01809] with looking upward [04791]: O LORD [03068], I am oppressed [06234]; undertake [06148] for me.
3 Lay down [07760] now, put me in a surety [06148] with thee; who is he that will strike [08628] hands [03027] with me?
121 AIN. I have done [06213] judgment [04941] and justice [06664]: leave [03240] me not to mine oppressors [06231].