Psalms 62:3

Psalms 62:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
• New International Version (NIV)How long will you assault me? Would all of you throw me down— this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
• New King James Version (NKJV)How long will you attack a man? You shall be slain, all of you, Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.
• New Living Translation (NLT)So many enemies against one man— all of them trying to kill me. To them I’m just a broken-down wall or a tottering fence.

Context of Psalms 62:3

1For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. 2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? 4They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah 5For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.

Psalms 62:3 word by word

עַד־אָ֤נָה׀ תְּהֽוֹתְת֣וּ עַל אִישׁ֮ תְּרָצְּח֪וּ כֻ֫לְּכֶ֥ם כְּקִ֥יר נָט֑וּי גָּ֝דֵ֗ר הַדְּחוּיָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• How long will ye imagine mischiefהוּתhâthath · to assailH2050
• against a manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• ye shall be slainרָצַחrâtsach · to murderH7523
• all of you: as a bowingנָטָהnâţâh · to stretchH5186
• wallקִירqîyr qir qîyrâh · wallH7023
• a totteringדָּחָהdâchâh dâchach · to thrustH1760
• fenceגָּדֵרgâdêr · wallH1447

Cross-references for Psalms 62:3

• Psalms 4:2O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
• Psalms 82:2"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
• Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Exodus 16:28And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
• Proverbs 1:22"How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
• Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
• Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
• Matthew 17:17And Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."
• Psalms 21:11Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
• Psalms 38:12Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
• Psalms 140:2who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.
• Hosea 7:15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
• Psalms 73:18Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
• 1 Samuel 26:10And David said, "As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
• Isaiah 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;

Commentaries on Psalms 62:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3How long will ye imagine mischief - The original word, תהותתו tehothethu, has been translated variously; rush upon, rage against, stir yourselves up, thrust against: the root is התת hathath or התה hathah, to rush violently upon, to assault. It points out the disorderly riotous manner in which this rebellion was conducted. As a bowing wall - a tottering fence - Ye are just ready to fall upon others, and destroy them; and in that fall yourselves shall be…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? - The original word here rendered “imagine mischief,” from התת hâthath occurs only in this place. It means, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), to break in upon; to set upon; to assail: “How long will ye break in upon a man?” that is, set upon him. So the Septuagint, and the Latin Vulgate. It does not refer to their merely forming purposes of mischief against a man, but to their making assaults upon him; to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4The enemies want to overthrow the king using lies and tricks.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Their destruction will come; as a tottering wall they already are feeble and failing. bowing wall shall ye be--better supply "are." Some propose to apply these phrases to describe the condition of "a man"--that is, the pious suffer: thus, "Will ye slay him," &c.; but the other is a good sense.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 62:3

• Fence
• Malice
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Expectation
• Fence
• Imagine
• Jeduthun
• Psalms
• Bowing
• Korahites; Sons of Korah
• Psalms, Book of

Commentaries on Psalms 62

• 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