Psalms 55:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 55:3

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

KJV

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ASV

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

WEB

at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

YLT

Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

DBT

Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

About this book

Old Testament

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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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Cross-references

19 verses on the floor

2 Samuel 16:7–8
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
Psalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Proverbs 18:14
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Psalms 71:11
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

David was a man of great boldness, and in some very eminent instances had signalized his courage, and yet, when the danger was surprising and imminent, his heart failed him. Let not the stout man therefore glory in his courage any more than the strong man in his strength. Now David's heart is sorely pained within him; the terrors of death have fallen upon him,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), but here he says enough to frighten them and make them tremble with more reason, and no remedy; for they could not ease themselves of their fears as David could, by faith in God. (1.) David here gives their character as the reason why he expected God would bring them down. [1.] They are impious and profane, and stand in no awe of God, of his authority or wrath (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Words5

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 55:3PSA 27:12 MAT 26:59-60
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 55:3PSA 27:12 PSA 31:8
PSA 55:3PSA 27:12 PSA 35:11
PSA 55:3PSA 35:11 PSA 27:12
PSA 55:3PSA 27:12 PSA 41:11
PSA 55:3PSA 27:12 ACT 6:11-13
PSA 55:32SA 19:19 1SA 22:15
PSA 55:3PSA 71:11 PSA 7:2

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