Psalms 56:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

Psalms 56:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 118:10-12
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. …
Psalms 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Daniel 5:18
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
Psalms 3:1
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Psalms 35:1
A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

David, in this psalm, by his faith throws himself into the hands of God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath, whither he fled for fear of Saul, forgetting the quarrel they had with him for killing Goliath; but they soon put him in mid of it, 1 Sam. 21:10, 11. Upon that occasion he changed his behaviour, but with…

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

(vv. 2)

Psa 56:1-13. Upon Jonath-elem-rechokim--literally, “upon the dove of silence” of distant places; either denoting a melody (see on Psa 9:1) of that name, to which this Psalm was to be performed; or it is an enigmatical form of denoting the subject, as given in the history referred to (1Sa 21:11, &c.), David being regarded as an uncomplaining, meek dove, driven from his native home to wander in exil…