Psalm 27:12

12 Gib mich nicht preis der Gier meiner Bedränger! Denn falsche Zeugen sind wider mich aufgestanden und der da Gewalttat schnaubt.

Psalm 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 27:12

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies
It is a dreadful thing for a man to be given up to his own heart's lusts, and to be delivered up into the hands of Satan; who would fain have even the people of God themselves in his hands, that he might distress them at pleasure, if not destroy them; and also to be suffered to fall into the hands of wicked men, whose tender mercies are cruel;

for false witnesses are risen up against me;
laying to his charge, that he sought to take away from Saul his crown and kingdom, and even his life, ( 1 Samuel 24:9 ) ;

and such as breathe out cruelty;
as Doeg the Edomite, whose tongue was as a sharp razor, and by whose hands four score and five priests were slain, on account of David's being supplied with bread by Ahimelech; the word is in the singular number; see ( Psalms 52:1-4 ) ( 1 Samuel 22:18 ) ; compare with this clause ( Acts 9:1 ) ; and Horace's phrase, "Spirabat amores" ^F12.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Carmin. l. 4. Ode. 13. v. 19.

Psalm 27:12 In-Context

10 Denn hätten mein Vater und meine Mutter mich verlassen, so nähme doch Jehova mich auf.

11 Lehre mich, Jehova, deinen Weg, und leite mich auf ebenem Pfade um meiner Feinde willen!

12 Gib mich nicht preis der Gier meiner Bedränger! Denn falsche Zeugen sind wider mich aufgestanden und der da Gewalttat schnaubt.

13 Wenn ich nicht geglaubt hätte, das Gute Jehovas zu schauen im Lande der Lebendigen...!

14 Harre auf Jehova! Sei stark, und dein Herz fasse Mut, und harre auf Jehova!