Psalms 27:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 27

¹²Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Psalms 27:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Psalms 41:11
By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
Psalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Acts 6:11-13
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-14)

David in these verses expresses, I. His desire towards God, in many petitions. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. 1. He humbly bespeaks, because he firmly believes he shall have, a gracious audience: “ Hear, O Lord, when I cry, not only with my heart, but, as one in earnest, with my voice too.” He bespeaks also…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. will--literally, “soul,” “desire” (Psa 35:25). enemies--literally, “oppressors.” Falsehood aids cruelty against him. breathe out--as being filled with it (Ac 9:1).