Psalms 59:8-14

8 Deus locutus est in sancto suo laetabor et partibor Sicima et convallem tabernaculorum metibor

9 meus est Galaad et meus %est; Manasses et Effraim fortitudo capitis mei Iuda rex meus

10 Moab olla spei meae in Idumeam extendam calciamentum meum mihi alienigenae subditi sunt

11 quis deducet me in civitatem munitam quis deducet me usque in Idumeam

12 nonne tu Deus qui reppulisti nos et non egredieris Deus in virtutibus nostris

13 da nobis auxilium de tribulatione et vana salus hominis

14 in Deo faciemus virtutem et ipse ad nihilum deducet tribulantes nos

Psalms 59:8-14 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. The history of Saul's sending messengers to watch the house of David, and to kill him when he rose in the morning, is in 1 Samuel 19:11; which was the occasion of his writing this psalm; though the title of the Syriac version of it is, "David said or composed this, when he heard that the priests were slain by Saul:" and in the same is added, "but unto us it declares the conversion of the Gentiles to the faith, and the rejection of the Jews." And which perhaps is designed in Psalm 59:5; and some interpreters are of opinion that the whole psalm is to be understood of Christ, of whom David was a type, especially in his sufferings; and there are some things in it which better agree with him than with David, as particularly his being without sin, Psalm 59:3.