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Psalmen 119:61
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Het rot der goddelozen berooft mij, maar ik vergeet uwe wet niet.
De goddeloze hopen hebben mij beroofd; nochtans heb ik Uw wet niet vergeten.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The bands: or, The companies, Psalms 119:95, Psalms 3:1, 1 Samuel 30:3-5, Job 1:17, Hosea 6:9
but I: Psalms 119:176, 1 Samuel 24:9-11, 1 Samuel 26:9-11, Proverbs 24:29, Romans 12:17-21
Reciprocal: Psalms 119:83 - yet do I Psalms 119:87 - but I forsook Hosea 4:6 - seeing
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The bands of the wicked have robbed me,.... Very probably Saul and his ministers seized on his effects, when he fled from him; and the Amalekites plundered him of all his substance, when they took Ziklag; and Absalom and the conspirators with him robbed him, when he was obliged, because of them, to flee from his palace and court, which they entered and took possession of. But Aben Ezra rejects this sense of the word, which Jarchi and Kimchi espouse, and we follow, and renders it, "took hold of me"; and so the Targum,
"the company of the wicked were gathered together against me:''
they surrounded him and put him into fear, great numbers of them encompassing him about; see Psalms 18:4;
[but] I have not forgotten thy law; this was written in his heart; he kept it in his memory, and retained an affection for it; and could not be deterred from obedience to it by the numbers and violence of wicked men, who hated and persecuted him for his attachment to it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The bands of the wicked - Margin, “companies.” The Hebrew word properly means a cord, a rope; then a snare, gin, net; then, a band or a company of men. The reference is to some time in the life of the psalmist when he was surrounded by wicked men.
Have robbed me - Rather, have surrounded me; have environed me - for so the Hebrew word means.
But I have not forgotten thy law - I have not been deterred from keeping it by the dangers to which I have been exposed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:61. The bands of the wicked have robbed me — חבלי chebley, the cables, cords, or snares of the wicked. They have hunted us like wild beasts; many they have taken for prey, and many they have destroyed.
