Psalms 55:20
My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
BSB
ASV
He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
KJV
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
He hath put forth his hands,.... The psalmist returns and describes, in this verse Psa 55:3, the cruelty, perfidy, and hypocrisy of his false friend; who had stretched forth his hands against such as be at peace with him, or he pretended to be at peace with.
ON THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS 2:13.1 (533)
Just as the most holy David blames the stubbornness of miserable and unhappy people who decline to be changed from evil to good during the course of this life, so he announces the coming punishment of divine retribution, saying, "For them there is no change, …
The psalmist cannot forget the traitor's conduct, and returns again to consider it. He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him. He smites those to whom he had given the hand of friendship, he breaks the bonds of alliance, he is perfidious to those who dwell at ease because of his friendly profession. He hath broken his covenant. The most solemn league he has profaned, he is regardless of oaths and promises.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 89:34I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
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God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
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Acts 12:1About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.
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Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours…
But beware of men; for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues.