Psalms 54:5

5 He will repay my adversaries for [their] evil. Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them.

Psalms 54:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 54:5

He shall reward evil unto mine enemies
That eyed him as Saul did; that observed his haunts, where he resorted, and who were with him, as the Ziphites did under Saul's direction; as the Word F13 here used for "enemies" signifies: the mischief they had devised for him, he believed, would be returned upon their own heads; the pit they digged they would fall into themselves; and the net they had spread for others their own feet would be taken in. This was true as of David's enemies, so of Christ's, the wicked Jews, who narrowly watched him to take every advantage against him;

cut them off in thy truth;
root and branch, as Saul, and his family, and his courtiers, quickly were, according to the truth of promises made to David, and of threatenings unto them.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 (yrrvl) "observatoribus meis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

Psalms 54:5 In-Context

3 For strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life. They have no regard for God. Selah
4 God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my life.
5 He will repay my adversaries for [their] evil. Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them.
6 I will sacrifice a freewill offering to You. I will praise Your name, Lord, because it is good.
7 For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked down on my enemies.
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