Psalms 89:43 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 89:43

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

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ASV

Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

WEB

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

YLT

Also--Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle,

DBT

Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him stand in the battle.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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8 verses on the floor

2 Chronicles 25:8
But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
Joshua 7:8–12
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
Joshua 7:4–5
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Leviticus 26:36–37
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

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The ruin is depicted under several figures--a vineyard whose broken "hedges," and "strongholds," whose ruins invite spoilers and invaders; a warrior, whose enemies are aided by God, and whose sword's "edge"--literally, "rock" or "strength" (Jos 5:2) is useless; and a youth prematurely old.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

If men's hearts fail them, it is God that dispirits them; but it is sad with the church when those cannot stand who should stand up for it. It was upon the brink of an inglorious exit (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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