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Psalms 10:12
12Rise up, Lord God! Lift up your hand. Do not forget the oppressed.
Psalms 10:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
- New International Version (NIV)Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
Context of Psalms 10:12
10So he is oppressed and beaten down; helpless people fall because of the wicked one’s strength. 11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; he hides his face and will never see.” Rise up, Lord God! Lift up your hand. Do not forget the oppressed. 13Why has the wicked person despised God? He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.” 14But you yourself have seen trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into your hands. The helpless one entrusts himself to you; you are a helper of the fatherless.
Read all of Psalms 10Psalms 10:12 word by word
קוּמָ֤ה יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֭ל נְשָׂ֣א יָדֶ֑ךָ אַל־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח עֲנָוִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 10:12
- Psalms 3:7Rise up, Lord! Save me, my God! You strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 7:6Rise up, Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my adversaries; awake for me; you have ordained a judgment.
- Psalms 9:19Rise up, Lord! Do not let mere humans prevail; let the nations be judged in your presence.
- Psalms 94:2Rise up, Judge of the earth; repay the proud what they deserve.
- Isaiah 26:11Lord, your hand is lifted up to take action, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame. Let fire consume your adversaries.
- Isaiah 33:10“Now I will rise up,” says the Lord. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
- Micah 5:9Your hand will be lifted up against your adversaries, and all your enemies will be destroyed.
- Psalms 9:12For the one who seeks an accounting for bloodshed remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the oppressed.
- Psalms 13:1How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” Selah
Commentaries on Psalms 10:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Arise, O Lord - Hear their reproaches see their guile, consider thy oppressed people. "Lift up thine hand," threaten them, that they may desist and repent. If they repent not let them be punished.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Arise, O Lord - See the note at Psalm 3:7. This commences the second part of the psalm, in which the author calls on God to remember those who were oppressed and wronged by the wicked. By suffering the wicked thus to carry on their plans, God seemed to be indifferent to human affairs, and the psalmist, therefore, invokes him to interpose, and to rescue the afflicted from their grasp. O God, lift up thine hand - As one does when he is about to strike, or…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-18Verses 12-18 The psalmist speaks with astonishment, at the wickedness of the wicked, and at the patience and forbearance of God. God prepares the heart for prayer, by kindling holy desires, and strengthening our most holy faith, fixing the thoughts, and raising the affections, and then he graciously accepts the prayer. The preparation of the heart is from the Lord, and we must seek unto him for it. Let the poor, afflicted, persecuted, or tempted believer…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-15With confidence that the wicked will be held responsible for their deeds and that the Lord will care for the helpless, the psalmist prays intensely for rescue from evil.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. (Compare Psa 9:19; 3:7). the humble--(Compare Psa 10:17, and Margin.) lift up thine hand--exert thy power.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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