Psalms 17:9
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Psalms 17:9 in other translations
| BSB | from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me. |
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| WEB | from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me. |
| ASV | From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about. |
| YLT | From the face of the wicked who spoiled me. Mine enemies in soul go round against me. |
| DARBY | From the wicked that destroy me, my deadly enemies, who compass me about. |
| BBE | From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death. |
| Webster | From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who encompass me, |
What does Psalms 17:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 17:8-15
Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted state, and is a pattern to Christians to commit the keeping of their souls to God, trusting him to preserve them to his heavenly kingdom. Those are our worst enemies, that are enemies…
Psalms 17:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 17:9
- Psalms 35:4
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
- Psalms 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
- Psalms 7:5
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
- Psalms 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
- Psalms 35:12
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
- 1 Chronicles 17:9
Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
- 1 Samuel 24:11
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
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Context
- Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
- Psalms 17:9
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
- Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 17:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De delante de los malos que me oprimen, de mis enemigos que me cercan por la vida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | De devant ces méchants qui me dévastent, mes ardents ennemis qui m’entourent. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vor den Gesetzlosen, die mich zerstören, meinen Todfeinden, die mich umzingeln. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ascendit fumus in ira ejus, et ignis a facie ejus exarsit; carbones succensi sunt ab eo. |