Psalms 49:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

Psalms 49:5 —

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Cross-References

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Romans 8:33-34
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. …
Acts 27:24
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Psalms 46:1-2
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. …
Hosea 7:2
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
1 Samuel 26:20
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

Topics

Doubting Faith

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

This is the psalmist’s preface to his discourse concerning the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy; and we seldom meet with an introduction more solemn than this is; for there is no truth of more undoubted certainty, nor of greater weight and importance, and the consideration of which will be of more advantage to us. I. He demands the attention of others to that which he was…

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

(vv. 5)

5. iniquity--or, “calamity” (Psa 40:12). of my heels--literally “my supplanters” (Ge 27:36), or oppressors: “I am surrounded by the evils they inflict.”