EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Psalms 59:11
11Do not kill them yet, or my people will soon forget. Use your power to send them away without homes. Then make them fall! You are our Lord who keeps us safe like a soldier's shield.
Psalms 59:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
- New International Version (NIV)But do not kill them, Lord our shield, or my people will forget. In your might uproot them and bring them down.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not slay them, lest my people forget; Scatter them by Your power, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Context of Psalms 59:11
9I will wait for you to help me, because you are the one who gives me strength. You, God, are the strong place where I will be safe. 10Yes God, you love me with a faithful love, and you will come to help me. God will let me see that he has won against my enemies. Do not kill them yet, or my people will soon forget. Use your power to send them away without homes. Then make them fall! You are our Lord who keeps us safe like a soldier's shield. 12They speak bad words that are evil. Let their own pride catch them in a trap, because they curse people, and they tell lies. 13Because you are angry with them, destroy them! Destroy them completely, so that they are no more. Then everybody will know that God rules in Israel, and he rules everywhere in the earth. Selah.
Read all of Psalms 59Psalms 59:11 word by word
אַל־תַּהַרְגֵ֤ם׀ פֶּֽן־יִשְׁכְּח֬וּ עַמִּ֗י הֲנִיעֵ֣מוֹ בְ֭חֵילְךָ וְהוֹרִידֵ֑מוֹ מָֽגִנֵּ֣נוּ אֲדֹנָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Slayהָרַגhârag · to killH2026
- them not, lest my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- forgetשָׁכַחshâkach shâkêach · to forgetH7911
- scatterנוּעַnûa‛ · to shakeH5128
- them by thy powerחַ֫יִלchayil · strengthH2428
- and bring them downיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
- O Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
- our shieldמָגֵןmâgên meginnâh · shieldH4043
Cross-references for Psalms 59:11
- Genesis 4:12When you work hard to dig the ground, no plants will grow in it for your food. You will travel from place to place. You will not have your own home.’
- Judges 1:6The king ran away, but the Israelites caught him. They cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5People who are alive know that they will die one day. But dead people do not know anything. No more good things can happen to them. Nobody remembers them.
- Ezekiel 12:15I will send the people away from their homes to other countries. They will have to live among foreign people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 14:22But some people will still be alive. Some sons and daughters will come out from the city. They will come to you here in Babylon. You will see the way that those people have lived. You will see the things that they have done. Then you will not be upset that I have punished Jerusalem in all these ways.
- Revelation 9:6During that time of great pain, people will want to kill themselves. They will want to die, but they will not find any way to die.
- Psalms 44:11You have put us under their power, so that they kill us like sheep for them to eat. You have sent us away to live in foreign countries.
- Psalms 52:5But God will knock you down, and he will break you into pieces. He will take you away from your home. He will remove you from this world where people live. Selah.
- Leviticus 26:33God will push you out. He will send your people away to other countries. He will destroy your cities. And he will make your land a desert.
- Deuteronomy 4:27The Lord will send you out of that land to live among other nations. Only a few of you will continue to be alive.
- Deuteronomy 28:64If that happens, the Lord will send you away to live among many other nations, all over the world. There you will worship other gods. They are gods that people have made from wood and from stone. Neither you nor your ancestors have ever known those gods before.
- Deuteronomy 30:3If you do that, the Lord your God will bring you back home and he will forgive you. He will turn to help you again. He will bring you back from the countries where he sent you to live.
- Luke 1:51He has shown how strong he is to do great things. Some people think that they are very important. But he has sent them away in different directions.
- Luke 21:21People in Judea must then run away to the hills to hide. People that are inside the city must leave it. People that are outside in the fields must not go back into the city.
- Job 40:12Yes, cause all the proud people to be humble. Knock down wicked people to the ground.
- Psalms 3:3But Lord, you are like a shield for me. You are the one who gives me honour. You lift my head up high.
Commentaries on Psalms 59:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Slay them not, lest my people forget - I believe the Chaldee gives the true sense of this verse: "Do not slay them suddenly, lest my people should forget. Drive them from their habitations by thy power, and reduce them to poverty by the loss of their property." Preserve them long in a state of chastisement that Israel may see thou hast undertaken for them: that thy hand is on the wicked for evil and on them for good. The Canaanites were not suddenly…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Slay them not, lest my people forget - The meaning of this seems to be, Do not destroy them at once, lest, being removed out of the way, the people should forget what was done, or should lose the impression which it is desirable should be produced by their punishment. Let them live, and let them wander about, as exiles under the divine displeasure, that they may be permanent and enduring proofs of the justice of God; of the evil of sin; of the danger of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-17Verses 8-17 It is our wisdom and duty, in times of danger and difficulty, to wait upon God; for he is our defence, in whom we shall be safe. It is very comfortable to us, in prayer, to look to God as the God of our mercy, the Author of all good in us, and the Giver of all good to us. The wicked can never be satisfied, which is the greatest misery in a poor condition. A contented man, if he has not what he would have, yet he does not quarrel with…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-13The psalmist prays that the wicked will suffer the same pain they have caused others.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. 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.Read the comment
Topics related to Psalms 59:11
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Psalms 59
- 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
EasyEnglish Bible 2018 — Copyright © MissionAssist 2018
Commentaries