Salmos 59:11-17

11 No los matarás, porque mi pueblo no se olvide: Hazlos vagar con tu fortaleza, y abátelos. Oh Jehová, escudo nuestro,

12 Por el pecado de su boca, por la palabra de sus labios; Y sean presos por su soberbia, Y por la maldición y mentira que profieren.

13 Acábalos con furor, acábalos, y no sean: Y sepan que Dios domina en Jacob Hasta los fines de la tierra. (Selah).

14 Vuelvan pues á la tarde, y ladren como perros, Y rodeen la ciudad.

15 Anden ellos errantes para hallar qué comer: Y si no se saciaren, murmuren.

16 Yo empero cantaré tu fortaleza, Y loaré de mañana tu misericordia: Porque has sido mi amparo Y refugio en el día de mi angustia.

17 Fortaleza mía, á ti cantaré; Porque eres Dios de mi amparo, Dios de mi misericordia.

Salmos 59:11-17 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.