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Psalms 35:3
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Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers,and assure me: “I am your deliverance.”
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your yeshu`ah."
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your salvation!"
Lift up your spears, both large and small, against those who chase me. Tell me, "I will save you."
Use your spear and lance against those who chase me! Assure me with these words: "I am your deliverer!"
Draw also the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me; Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
Bring out also the speare and stop the way against them, that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.
Draw also the spear and the battle‑axe to meet those who pursue me;Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: "I am your salvation."
Brandish spear and battle-axe against my pursuers; let me hear you say, "I am your salvation."
And draw out the spear, and stop [the way] against my pursuers: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Take a spear and javelin and fight those who are chasing me. Tell me, "I will rescue you."
Draw out the sword and flash it against them that persecute me; say unto my soul. I am your Saviour.
Lift up your spear and war ax against those who pursue me. Promise that you will save me.
And draw the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
Draw out the spear and close ranks to meet my pursuers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.
Drawe out thy swearde, and stoppe the waye agaynst them that persecute me, saye vnto my soule: I am yi helpe.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Take up your spear and keep back my attackers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.
Draw out also the spear, and the battle-axe, against them that pursue me; say unto my soul: 'I am Thy salvation.'
Draw out also the speare, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.
Bryng foorth the speare, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.
Bring forth a sword, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Schede out the swerd, and close togidere ayens hem that pursuen me; seie thou to my soule, Y am thin helthe.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those that pursue me: Say to my soul, I am your salvation.
Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I [am] thy salvation.
Also draw out the spear, And stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
Lift up your spear and javelin against those who pursue me. Let me hear you say, "I will give you victory!"
Take a spear and battle-ax against those who come to get me. Say to my soul, "I am the One Who saves you."
Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
Then draw the spear, and close up against my pursuers, Say to my soul, Thy salvation, I am!
(34-3) Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation.
Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your deliverance!"
And draw out spear and lance, To meet my pursuers. Say to my soul, `Thy salvation I [am].'
Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me; Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."
Contextual Overview
(A psalm by David.)
Fight my enemies, Lord ! Attack my attackers! 2 Shield me and help me. 3 Aim your spear at everyone who hunts me down, but promise to save me. 4 Let all who want to kill me be disappointed and disgraced. Chase away and confuse all who plan to harm me. 5 Send your angel after them and let them be like straw in the wind. 6 Make them run in the dark on a slippery road, as your angel chases them. 7 I did them no harm, but they hid a net to trap me, and they dug a deep pit to catch and kill me. 8 Surprise them with disaster! Trap them in their own nets and let them fall and rot in the pits they have dug. 9 I will celebrate and be joyful because you, Lord , have saved me. 10 Every bone in my body will shout: "No one is like the Lord !" You protect the helpless from those in power; you save the poor and needy from those who hurt them.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
stop: Psalms 27:2, Psalms 76:10, 1 Samuel 23:26, 1 Samuel 23:27, Job 1:10, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 10:12, Acts 4:28
say: Psalms 51:12, Psalms 62:7, Psalms 91:16, Genesis 49:18, Isaiah 12:2, Luke 2:30
Reciprocal: Exodus 17:12 - stayed up his hands John 6:20 - It is
Cross-References
Wherever you go, I will watch over you, then later I will bring you back to this land. I won't leave you—I will do all I have promised.
One day the Lord said, "Jacob, go back to your relatives in the land of your ancestors, and I will bless you."
If the fearsome God worshiped by Abraham and my father Isaac had not been on my side, you would have sent me away without a thing. But God saw my hard work, and he knew the trouble I was in, so he helped me. Then last night he told you how wrong you were.
Jacob was so frightened that he divided his people, sheep, cattle, and camels into two groups.
Afterwards, Jacob went back and spent the rest of the night alone. A man came and fought with Jacob until just before daybreak.
God told Jacob, "Return to Bethel, where I appeared to you when you were running from your brother Esau. Make your home there and build an altar for me."
Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was traveling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.
While Jacob and his family were traveling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.
I will give you the land that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family forever.
After God had gone,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Draw out also the spear,.... An offensive weapon; expressive of the vengeance which God sometimes takes of the enemies of his people, when he bends his bow, shoots his arrows, whets his glittering sword, and his hand takes hold of judgment;
and stop [the way] against them that persecute me; that they might not overtake him; God can hinder, and he sometimes does hinder persecutors from overtaking his people in their straits; and as he hedges up their way with thorns, that they cannot proceed as they have begun, so he hedges up the way of their enemies; interposes himself and his power, and is a wall of fire about them; a wall for the defence and security of his saints, and a wall of fire for the consumption of those that rise up against them. The words may be rendered, "draw out the spear and sword, to meet those that persecute me" p; for ס××ר is a noun, and signifies a sword shut up in its scabbard; from whence "sagaris" comes, which is kind of a sword;
say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation; Christ is the salvation of his people; he is the only person appointed, provided, promised, and sent to be the Saviour; and he is the alone author of salvation it is wrought out by him, and it is in him, and in him only; and therefore he is called their salvation, and the salvation of God: and they are interested in the salvation which is in him; it was designed, prepared, and wrought out for them, and for them only; and is applied unto them by the Spirit, and they shall perfectly enjoy it to all eternity: find yet sometimes they are at a loss about their interest in it, and desire might be made known unto them, which was the case of the psalmist here; they, as he, see their necessity it, and that there is no comfort nor safety without it they are wonderfully delighted with the excellency of it, that it is so great in itself, so suitable to them, so complete and perfect, and of an everlasting duration yet, what through the hidings of God's face, the temptations of Satan, the greatness of their sins, and the prevalence of unbelief, they cannot tell how to believe their interest in it; yet most earnestly desire the Lord would show it to them, and assure them of it; which favour, when granted, is by the witnessings of the Spirit to their spirits, that they are the children of God, and the redeemed of the Lamb: and this is said particularly to them; it is not a discovery of salvation by Christ in general; that they have before; but it is a saying to their souls, that it is theirs; and when this is spoken bathe to the soul by the Spirit of God, it is effectual; and removes unbelief at once, and fills with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
p So Grotius, Amama, Ainsworth, and some in Mollerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Draw out also the spear - The word here rendered âdraw outâ means properly to pour out; to empty; and it is applied to the act of emptying sacks, Genesis 42:35; to emptying bottles, Jeremiah 48:12; to drawing a sword from a sheath, Exodus 15:9; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 5:12. It is applied to a âspearâ either as drawing it out of the place where it was kept, or as stretching it out for the purposes of attack. The former probably is the meaning, and the idea is, that David prayed God to âarm himselfâ - as a warrior does - in order to defend him. The spear was a common weapon in ancient warfare. It was sometimes so short that it could be brandished as a sword in the hand, or hurled at an enemy, 1 Samuel 18:11; 1Sa 19:10; 1 Samuel 20:33; but it was usually made as long as it could be to be handled conveniently. The spear was a weapon of âattack.â The parts of armor referred to in Psalms 35:2 were designed for defense. The idea of the psalmist is that of a warrior prepared alike for attack or defense.
And stop the way against them that persecute me - The words âthe wayâ are not in the original. The word rendered âstopâ - ס×ר saÌgar - means properly to shut, to close, as a door or gate, Job 3:10; 1 Samuel 1:5; Genesis 19:6, Genesis 19:10. The idea here, according to the usage of the word, is, Shut or close up the way against those that persecute me. So Gesenius renders it. Grotius, Michaelis, DeWette, and others, however, regard the word as a noun, signifying the same as the Greek - ÏαÌγαÏÎ¹Ï sagaris - a two-edged sword, such as was used by the Scythians, Persians, and Amazons. Herod. vii. 64. See Rosenmuller in loc. It is not so rendered, however, in any of the ancient versions. The Septuagint render it: âAnd shut up against those that persecute me;â the Vulgate, âPre-occupy against those that persecute me;â the Aramaic has: âShut up against those that persecute me.â The correct idea probably is that which is given in the common version. The psalmist prays that God would go forth to meet his enemies; that he would arrest and check them in their march; that he would hedge up their way, and that he would thus prevent them from attacking him.
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation - Say to âme,â I will save you. That is, Give me some assurance that thou wilt interpose, and that thou wilt guard me from my enemies. Man only wants this assurance to be calm in respect to any danger. When God says to us that he will be our salvation; that he will protect us; that he will deliver us from sin, from danger, from hell, the mind may and will be perfectly calm. To a believer he gives this assurance; to all he is willing to give it. The whole plan of salvation is arranged with a view to furnish such an assurance, and to give a pledge to the soul that God âwillâ save. Death loses its terrors then; the redeemed man moves on calmly - for in all the future - in all worlds - he has nothing now to fear.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 35:3. Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. — Give me an assurance that thou wilt defend both body and soul against my adversaries.
