English Standard Version
Psalms 59:9
9O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress.
Psalms 59:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
- New International Version (NIV)You are my strength, I watch for you; you, God, are my fortress,
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will wait for You, O You his Strength; For God is my defense.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You are my strength; I wait for you to rescue me, for you, O God, are my fortress.
Context of Psalms 59:9
7There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for "Who," they think, "will hear us?" 8But you, O Lord, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision. O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress. 10My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies. 11Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
Read all of Psalms 59Psalms 59:9 word by word
עֻ֭זּוֹ אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֶשְׁמֹ֑רָה כִּֽי־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים מִשְׂגַּבִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 59:9
- Psalms 18:1I love you, O Lord, my strength.
- Psalms 27:1The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- Psalms 62:5For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
- Isaiah 12:2"Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."
- Isaiah 26:3You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
- Isaiah 40:31but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
- Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
- Psalms 59:17O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.
- Psalms 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
- Psalms 9:9The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
- Psalms 20:1May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
- Psalms 46:7The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
- Isaiah 58:14then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
- Habakkuk 3:19God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
Commentaries on Psalms 59:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Because of his strength will I wait upon thee - With this reading, I can make no sense of the passage. But instead of עזו uzzo, "his strength," עזי uzzi, "my strength," is the reading of fourteen of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., of the Vulgate, Septuagint, Chaldee, and, in effect, of the Aethiopia, Syriac, and Arabic; and also of the Anglo-Saxon. To thee I commit all my strength; all I have I derive from thee, and all the good I possess I attribute to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Because of his strength will I wait upon thee - literally, “His strength - I will wait upon thee.” The reference here is not to the strength or power of God, as if the fact that “He” was powerful was a reason why the psalmist should look to him - but it is to the strength or power of the enemy - of Saul and his followers. There is much abruptness in the expression. The psalmist looks at the power of his enemy. “His strength,‘ he cries. It is great. It is…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. 1-17The psalmist laments the power of enemies who conspire with other nations.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. By judicious expositors, and on good grounds, this is better rendered, "O my strength, on Thee will I wait" (Psa 59:17). defence--(Compare Psa 18:3).Read the comment
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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
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