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Psalms 56:7
7They stir up strife; they lie hidden. They mark my steps, eager to take my soul.
Psalms 56:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
- New International Version (NIV)Because of their wickedness do not let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
Context of Psalms 56:7
5In God—I keep praising His word— in God I trust, I will not fear. What can mere flesh do to me? 6All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. They stir up strife; they lie hidden. They mark my steps, eager to take my soul. 8In spite of such sin, will they escape? In fierce anger, O God, cast down such people! 9You have recorded my wanderings. You put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?
Read all of Psalms 56Psalms 56:7 word by word
עַל־אָ֥וֶן אֵין פַּלֶּט־לָ֑מוֹ בְּ֝אַ֗ף עַמִּ֤ים׀ הוֹרֵ֬ד אֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 56:7
- Psalms 94:20Can a throne of corruption be aligned with You—planning distress by decree?
- Ecclesiastes 8:8No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.
- Isaiah 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We cut a covenant with death, we made a pact with Sheol, so when the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come for us, for we have made lies our refuge, and hid ourselves in falsehood’—
- Jeremiah 7:10and then come and stand before Me in this house that bears My Name, saying, ‘We are saved!’—so that you may keep doing all these abominations?
- Habakkuk 1:13With eyes too pure to see evil You cannot look at such trouble! Why do You look at the treacherous? Why do You remain silent when a wicked one swallows up those more righteous than him?
- Psalms 55:9I would hurry to my shelter from the rushing wind of the storm.”
- Jeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You and on the families that do not call on Your Name. For they have devoured Jacob, devoured and consumed him, and destroyed his homeland.
- Jeremiah 18:19Be attentive to me, Adonai! Listen to the voice of my opponents.
Commentaries on Psalms 56:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Shall they escape by iniquity? - Shall such conduct go unpunished? Shall their address, their dexterity in working iniquity, be the means of their escape? No. "In anger, O God, wilt thou cast down the people."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Shall they escape by iniquity? - This expression in the original is very obscure. There is in the Hebrew no mark of interrogation; and a literal rendering would be, “By iniquity (there is) escape to them;” and, according to this, the sense would be, that they contrived to escape from just punishment by their sins; by the boldness of their crimes; by their wicked arts. The Septuagint renders it, “As I have suffered this for my life, thou wilt on no account…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7The psalmist specifies his charge against his attackers as he prays for their evil to end.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Shall they escape? &c.--or better, "Their escape is by iniquity." cast ... people--humble those who so proudly oppose Thy servant.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 56
- 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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