New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 62:3
3How long will you attack a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a 1leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
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?
- English Standard Version (ESV)How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a 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.
Context of Psalms 62:3
1My soul waits in silence for God alone; From Him comes my salvation. 2He alone is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I will not be greatly shaken. How long will you attack a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? 4They have planned only to thrust him down from his high position; They delight in falsehood; They bless with their mouth, But inwardly they curse. Selah 5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, For my hope is from Him.
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עַד־אָ֤נָה׀ תְּהֽוֹתְת֣וּ עַל אִישׁ֮ תְּרָצְּח֪וּ כֻ֫לְּכֶ֥ם כְּקִ֥יר נָט֑וּי גָּ֝דֵ֗ר הַדְּחוּיָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 62:3
- Psalms 4:2You sons of man, how long will my honor be treated as an insult? How long will you love what is worthless and strive for a lie? Selah
- Psalms 82:2How long will you judge unjustly And show partiality to the wicked? Selah
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
- Exodus 16:28Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?
- Proverbs 1:22“How long, you naive ones, will you love simplistic thinking? And how long will scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie down, you lazy one? When will you arise from your sleep?
- Jeremiah 4:14Wash your heart from evil, Jerusalem, So that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts Lodge within you?
- Matthew 17:17And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”
- Psalms 21:11Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed.
- Psalms 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they plot deception all day long.
- Psalms 140:2Who devise evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars.
- Hosea 7:15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me.
- Psalms 73:18You indeed put them on slippery ground; You dropped them into ruin.
- 1 Samuel 26:10David also said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord certainly will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down in battle and perish.
- Isaiah 30:13Therefore this wrongdoing will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose collapse 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
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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
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