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Psalms 60:3
3You have given your people a time of difficult trouble. You have given us strong wine to drink, that has made us fall like drunk people.
Psalms 60:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- New International Version (NIV)You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of confusion.
Context of Psalms 60:3
1God, you have turned against us, and you have broken down our strong walls. You are angry with us, but please make us strong again! 2You made the ground shake and you tore it open. Now mend the holes, or everything will fall down. You have given your people a time of difficult trouble. You have given us strong wine to drink, that has made us fall like drunk people. 4But you have lifted up a flag for the people who serve you. They can meet together there, to be safe in the battle. Selah. 5Use your power to rescue us! Answer our prayers! Then the people that you love will be safe.
Read all of Psalms 60Psalms 60:3 word by word
הִרְאִ֣יתָה עַמְּךָ֣ קָשָׁ֑ה הִ֝שְׁקִיתָ֗נוּ יַ֣יִן תַּרְעֵלָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 60:3
- Psalms 71:20You have caused me to have many bad troubles. But you will make my life strong again. You will lift me back out from this deep hole under the earth.
- Nehemiah 9:32So we pray to you, our God. You are great and powerful. You continue to love your people as you have promised in your covenant with us. Please see how much trouble has come to us! Our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets and our ancestors and your people all belong to you. We have all had many great troubles since the time that the kings of Assyria attacked us.
- Daniel 9:12So you have done what you promised to do to us and to our rulers. You have caused us to have terrible trouble. You have punished Jerusalem with more trouble than has ever happened to any other city.
- Psalms 75:8The Lord holds a cup of punishment in his hand. It is full of wine, with spices in it. The Lord pours out his anger from this cup. All the wicked people in the world will have to drink it. They will drink all of it, so that none remains.
- Isaiah 51:17Wake up, people in Jerusalem! Get ready! The Lord has been angry with you, and he has punished you. You had to receive all of his anger, like you were drinking strong wine from a cup. Now that you have drunk it all, you cannot stand up straight!
- Jeremiah 25:15The Lord, Israel's God, said to me, ‘Take this cup from me. It is full of wine that shows my great anger. Take it to the nations where I send you. Make them drink this wine of punishment.
- Lamentations 4:21You, Edom's people, live in the country called Uz. And you are happy now. But at a future time, God will hurt you too. The enemy will take away everything that you have. So you will become like drunks.
- Ezekiel 23:31You have lived in the same bad way that your sister lived. So I will punish you as I punished her.”
- Habakkuk 2:16But it is you who will become ashamed, not great. You will become drunk so that people see you with no clothes on! The Lord has a cup of wine in his right hand. He is ready to give it to you as a punishment. You will no longer be great, but you will be ashamed.
- Revelation 16:19As a result, the great city of Babylon broke into three parts. When the ground shook, it also destroyed the big cities of other nations in the world. God did not forget the evil things that the people of the great city of Babylon had done. So they had to drink wine from the cup of God's great anger.
- Revelation 18:16They will say, ‘Bad trouble has come to you, Babylon! Great city! It is very bad for you! You wore beautiful clothes that were made from good linen. You wore bright things that made you look beautiful. You shone with gold, valuable stones and pearls.
Commentaries on Psalms 60:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment - We reel as drunken men; we are giddy, like those who have drank too much wine; but our giddiness has been occasioned by the astonishment and dismay that have taken place in consequence of the prevalence of our enemies, and the unsettled state of the land. It has been remarked that the three first verses of this Psalm do not agree with the rest, and it also appears that the three first verses of Psalm…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Thou hast showed thy people hard things - Thou hast caused them to see reverses, disappointments, and trials. This refers, according to the supposition in the Introduction to the psalm, to some calamitous events which had occurred. The probability seems to be that the Edomites may have spread desolation over the land. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment - The word rendered “astonishment” - תרעלה tar‛êlâh - occurs only here and in Isaiah…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3we are staggered from the wine: Yayin, the Hebrew word for "wine," is often associated with drunkenness (2 Samuel 13:28; Isaiah 5:11; 28:7–8; see also Psalm 104:15; Deuteronomy 14:26; Isaiah 55:1). It symbolized God's judgment on the wicked (Psalm 75:8; Jeremiah 51:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-121-3. allude to disasters. cast ... off--in scorn (Psa 43:2; 44:9). scattered--broken our strength (compare 2Sa 5:20). Oh, turn thyself--or, "restore to us" (prosperity). The figures of physical, denote great civil, commotions (Psa 46:2, 3).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 60
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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