Psalms 3:7 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 3:7

Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.

KJV

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

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Commentary

4 voices

Eusebius of Caesarea

COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 3:8 (339)

When he foresees his deliverance after death, he has faith that he has been saved by grace and that kindness has been granted. He is certain that this faith of some in the resurrection of the Savior is able to come to him, and consequently he prays that the resurrection of the Lord be hastened so that through it he himself will experience salvation.… Now, he says, you have broken the teeth of sinners; that is, their conversations and blasphemous words hurled against me you have stripped away.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Saul and the Philistines, who were sometimes ready to swallow him up, could not effect what they designed. The teeth that are gnashed or sharpened against God's people shall be broken. When, at any time, the power of the church's enemies seems threatening, it is good to remember how often God has broken it; and we are sure that his arm is not shortened.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Arise, O Lord - This is a common mode of calling upon God in the Scriptures, as if he had been sitting still, or had been inactive. It is, of course, language taken from human conceptions, for in the intervals of active effort, in labor or in battle, we sit or lie down, and when we engage in toil we arise from our sitting or recumbent posture. So the mind accustoms itself to think of God. The idea is simply that David now calls upon God to interpose in his behalf and to deliver him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ק֘וּמָ֤ה	ku.Mah	arise !	H6965 →
יְהוָ֨ה׀	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
הוֹשִׁ֘יעֵ֤נִי	ho.Shi.'E.ni	save me	H3467 →
אֱלֹהַ֗י	'e.lo.Hai	O God my	H430 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
הִכִּ֣יתָ	hi.Ki.ta	you have struck	H5221 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
אֹיְבַ֣י	'o.ye.Vai	enemies my	H341 →
לֶ֑חִי	Le.chi	jaw	H3895 →
שִׁנֵּ֖י	shi.Nei	[the] teeth of	H8127 →
רְשָׁעִ֣ים	re.sha.'Im	wicked [people]	H7563 →
שִׁבַּֽרְתָּ׃	shi.Bar.ta	you have broken	H7665 →

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 10:12
Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
leads to
- Micah 5:9
  Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.
- Psalms 94:2
  Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.
Through
Job 16:10
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
leads to
- Psalms 35:15
  But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
- Psalms 22:13
  They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
- Isaiah 50:6
  I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
- Lamentations 3:30
  Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
- Micah 5:1
  Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.
Through
Job 29:17
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
leads to
- Proverbs 30:14
  there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

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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

The record, by era

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