Tree of Life Version
Psalms 118:13
13You pushed me hard to make me fall, but Adonai helped me.
Psalms 118:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.
- New International Version (NIV)I was pushed back and about to fall, but the Lord helped me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You pushed me violently, that I might fall, But the Lord helped me.
Context of Psalms 118:13
11They surrounded me, yes, all around me— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off. 12They swarmed around me like bees— they were extinguished like burning thorns— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off. You pushed me hard to make me fall, but Adonai helped me. 14Adonai is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. 15Shouts of joy and victory are in the tents of the righteous: “Adonai’s right hand is mighty!
Read all of Psalms 118Psalms 118:13 word by word
דַּחֹ֣ה דְחִיתַ֣נִי לִנְפֹּ֑ל וַ֖יהוָ֣ה עֲזָרָֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 118:13
- Psalms 18:17He reached down from on high and took hold of me. He drew me out of mighty waters.
- Psalms 56:1For the music director: “A Silent Dove Far Away,” a Michtam of David, when the Philistines had seized him in Gath.
- 1 Samuel 20:3Then David swore again saying, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes. So he must have thought, ‘Let’s not let Jonathan know about this, else he will be grieved.’ But truly as Adonai lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
- 1 Samuel 25:29If anyone rises to pursue you and seek your life, then let my lord’s life be bound up in the bundle of the living—with Adonai your God. But let the soul of your enemies be hurled away as from the hollow of a sling.
- 2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose 12,000 men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
- Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I have fallen—I will arise. Though I sit in darkness, Adonai is my light.
- Matthew 4:1Then Yeshua was led by the Ruach into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
- Hebrews 2:14Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared the same humanity—so that through death He might break the power of the one who had the power of death (that is, the devil)
Commentaries on Psalms 118:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Thou hast thrust sore at me - In pushing thou hast pushed me that I might fall. But the Lord helped me - Though he possessed skill, courage, and strength, yet these could not have prevailed had not God been his helper; and to him he gives the glory of the victory.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall - literally, “Thrusting thou hast thrust at me.” This is the Hebrew mode of expressing intensity, repetition, or emphasis. The meaning is, that they had made a deadly thrust at him; that they had repeated the blows; that they had come with a fierce determination to crush and destroy him. The psalmist, as it were, sees the enemy again before him, and addresses him as if he were present. Everything is vivid to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-29The psalmist joyfully thanks the Lord for his goodness and urges others to trust in his loving devotion (Psalm 118:1–4, 29). This poem is the last of the Egyptian Hallel (Psalms 113–118).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1613-16. The enemy is triumphantly addressed as if present.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 118
- 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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