Psalms 59:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Psalms 59:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 35:23
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Acts 23:15
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Psalms 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Romans 3:15
Their feet are swift to shed blood:

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David’s house in the night, that they might seize him and kill him; we have the story 1 Sam. 19:11. It was when his hostilities against David were newly begun, and he had but just before narrowly escaped Saul’s javelin. These first eruptions of Saul’s mal…

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

(vv. 4)

4-5. prepare, &c.--literally, “set themselves as in array.” awake--(Compare Psa 3:7; 7:6), appeals to God in His covenant relation to His people (Psa 9:18).