Psalms 143:12 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 143:12

And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

BSB

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ASV

And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.

KJV

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies,.... Which, though an act of vindictive justice, and terrible righteousness to them, would be an act of grace and mercy to him, who thereby would be delivered from them: or, "for thy grace" (b); for the sake of it, for the honour of it, do this; those being, as Cocceius thinks, despisers of the grace of God; and destroy all them that afflict my soul; by their persecutions, reproaches, and blasphemies.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 7 (1885)

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul. He believes that it will be so, and thus prophesies the event; for the words may be read as a declaration, and it is better so to understand them. We could not pray just so with our Christian light; but under Old Testament arrangements the spirit of it was congruous to the law. It is a petition which justice sanctions, but the spirit of love is not at home in presenting it. We, as Christians, turn the petition to spiritual use only.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּֽבְחַסְדְּךָ֮	u.ve.chas.de.Kha	and in covenant loyalty your	H2617 →
תַּצְמִ֪ית	tatz.Mit	you will destroy	H6789 →
אֹ֫יְבָ֥י	'o.ye.Vai	enemies my	H341 →
וְֽ֭הַאֲבַדְתָּ	Ve.ha.'a.vad.ta	and you will destroy	H6 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
צֹרֲרֵ֣י	tzo.ra.Rei	[the] opposers of	H6887 →
נַפְשִׁ֑י	naf.Shi	life my	H5315 →
כִּ֝֗י	Ki	for	H3588 →
אֲנִ֣י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃	'av.De.kha	[am] servant your	H5650 →

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 walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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.

Through
Psalms 116:16
Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.
leads to
- Psalms 86:16
  Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
Through
Psalms 52:5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
leads to
- Proverbs 2:22
  but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Through
Psalms 119:94
I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
leads to
- Zephaniah 3:17
  The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
- Acts 27:23–24
  For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me
- Psalms 119:27
  Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.
- Isaiah 64:8–10
  But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Through
1 Samuel 26:10
David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
leads to
- Romans 12:19
  Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Through
Psalms 54:5
He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
leads to
- Psalms 89:49
  Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms