Psalms 59:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Psalms 59:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 3:3
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Job 40:12
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Genesis 4:12-15
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 8-17)

David here encourages himself, in reference to the threatening power of his enemies, with a pious resolution to wait upon God and a believing expectation that he should yet praise him. I. He resolves to wait upon God (Ps. 59:9): “ Because of his strength ” (either the strength of his enemies, the fear of which drove him to God, or because of God’s strength, the hope of which drew him to God) “ Wil…

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

(vv. 11)

11. Slay them not--at once (Jud 2:21-23); but perpetuate their punishment (Ge 4:12; Nu 32:13), by scattering or making them wander, and humble them.