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Psalms 102:8
8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.
Psalms 102:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My enemies reproach me all day long; Those who deride me swear an oath against me.
- New Living Translation (NLT)My enemies taunt me day after day. They mock and curse me.
Context of Psalms 102:8
6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. 7I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof. All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse. 9For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears 10because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.
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כָּל־הַ֭יּוֹם חֵרְפ֣וּנִי אוֹיְבָ֑י מְ֝הוֹלָלַ֗י בִּ֣י נִשְׁבָּֽעוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:8
- Psalms 31:11Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors and an object of dread to my closest friends— those who see me on the street flee from me.
- Psalms 55:3because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger.
- Psalms 69:9for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
- Psalms 89:51the taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.
- Romans 15:3For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
- Luke 6:11But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
- Acts 7:54When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
- Acts 16:11From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day we went on to Neapolis.
- Acts 23:12The next morning some Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Commentaries on Psalms 102:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8They that are mad against me are sworn against me - The Chaldeans are determined to destroy us; and they have bound themselves by oath to do it. See a similar case related Acts 23:12-14, where a number of Jews had bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had slain Paul.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Mine enemies reproach me all the day - Continually. They reproach me as one of thy people; or, I bear reproaches in common with others, and it becomes to me a personal matter, so entirely are my feelings and interests identified with those of thy people. Perhaps there were also, mingled with this, personal reproaches and calumnies. And they that are mad against me - Angry; excited even to madness. Are sworn against me - literally, “swear by me,” or…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The psalmist cannot sleep (see Psalm 63:6–8). Like a lone bird on a housetop, he feels alone and separated from both friends (see Psalm 88:8) and enemies.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. sworn against me--or literally, "by me," wishing others as miserable as I am (Nu 5:21).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 102
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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