English Standard Version
Psalms 35:17
17How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!
Psalms 35:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- New International Version (NIV)How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue me from their destructions, My precious life from the lions.
- New Living Translation (NLT)How long, O Lord, will you look on and do nothing? Rescue me from their fierce attacks. Protect my life from these lions!
Context of Psalms 35:17
15But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; 16like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth. How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions! 18I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you. 19Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
Read all of Psalms 35Psalms 35:17 word by word
אֲדֹנָי֮ כַּמָּ֪ה תִּ֫רְאֶ֥ה הָשִׁ֣יבָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִשֹּׁאֵיהֶ֑ם מִ֝כְּפִירִ֗ים יְחִידָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
- how long wilt thou look onרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
- rescueשׁוּבshûb · to return: rescueH7725
- my soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: myselfH5315
- from their destructionsשׁוֹאshô' shô'âh shô'âh · ravageH7722
- my darlingיָחִידyâchîyd · onlyH3173
- from the lionsכְּפִירkephîyr · lionH3715
Cross-references for Psalms 35:17
- Psalms 6:3My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long?
- Psalms 13:1How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 74:9We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
- Psalms 89:46How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
- Psalms 94:3O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
- Psalms 10:14But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
- Habakkuk 1:13You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
- Psalms 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!
- Psalms 57:4My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalms 69:14Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
- Psalms 142:6Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!
Commentaries on Psalms 35:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17My darling - יחידתי yechidathi, my only one, Psalm 22:20. My united one, or He that is alone. Perhaps this may relate to Christ. See the note on Psalm 22:20.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? - How long wilt thou witness this without interposing to deliver me, and to punish those who treat me thus? God saw it all. He was able to save him that was thus persecuted and opposed. And yet he did not interpose. He seemed to pay no attention to it. He appeared to be indifferent to it. The psalmist, therefore, asks “how long” this was to continue. did not doubt that God would, at some thee, interpose and save him; but…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-28Verses 17-28 Though the people of God are, and study to be, quiet, yet it has been common for their enemies to devise deceitful matters against them. David prays, My soul is in danger, Lord, rescue it; it belongs to thee the Father of spirits, therefore claim thine own; it is thine, save it! Lord, be not far from me, as if I were a stranger. He who exalted the once suffering Redeemer, will appear for all his people: the roaring lion shall not destroy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-18The psalmist presents the Lord with the reasons for his suffering. Evil has many faces. He is tired and worn out, and he knows that only the Lord can help him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. darling--(Compare Psa 22:20, 21).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 35
- 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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