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Psalms 59:11
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Do not kill them; otherwise, my people will forget.By your power, make them homeless wanderersand bring them down,Lord, our shield.
Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
Lord, our protector, do not kill them, or my people will forget. With your power scatter them and defeat them.
Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!
Do not kill them, or my people will forget; Scatter them and make them wander [endlessly] back and forth by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield!
Do not kill them, or my people will forget; Scatter them by Your power and bring them down, Lord, our shield.
Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
Slay them not, least my people forget it: but scatter them abroad by thy power, and put them downe, O Lord our shield,
Do not slay them, or my people will forget;Make them wander about by Your power, and bring them down,O Lord, our shield.
Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Don't kill them, or everyone may forget! Just use your mighty power to make them tremble and fall. You are a shield for your people.
God, who gives me grace, will come to me; God will let me gaze in triumph at my foes.
Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Don't just kill them, or my people might forget. My Lord and Protector, scatter and defeat them with your strength.
Spare them for a living example, lest my people forget; but scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O LORD my hope.
Do not kill them, O God, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your strength and defeat them, O Lord, our protector.
Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them to wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Do not kill them, lest my people forget; scatter them by Your power and bring them down, O Jehovah our shield.
Slaye the not, lest my people forget it: but scatre the abrode with thy power & put the downe, o LORDE oure defence.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.
The God of my mercy will come to meet me; God will let me gaze upon mine adversaries.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them downe, O Lord our shield.
Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but in thy stoutnes scatter them like vagaboundes, and put them downe O God our defence.
Slay them not, lest they forget thy law; scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
God schewide to me on myn enemyes, slee thou not hem; lest ony tyme my puples foryete. Scatere thou hem in thi vertu; and, Lord, my defender, putte thou hem doun.
Don't slay them, or else my people will forget: Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Do not slay them, lest my people forget; Scatter them by Your power, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Don't kill them, for my people soon forget such lessons; stagger them with your power, and bring them to their knees, O Lord our shield.
Do not kill them, or my people may forget. Divide them by Your power and bring them down, O Lord, our safe-covering.
Do not kill them, or my people may forget; make them totter by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Do not slay them, lest my people forget, Cause them to wander by thy strength, and prostrate them, Thou our shield, O Lord!
(58-12) God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:
Slay them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Don't make quick work of them, God , lest my people forget. Bring them down in slow motion, take them apart piece by piece. Let all their mean-mouthed arrogance catch up with them, Catch them out and bring them down —every muttered curse —every barefaced lie. Finish them off in fine style! Finish them off for good! Then all the world will see that God rules well in Jacob, everywhere that God's in charge.
Do not slay them, or my people will forget; Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Slay: Genesis 4:12-15, Judges 1:6, Judges 1:7, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ezekiel 12:15, Ezekiel 12:16, Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23, Revelation 9:6
scatter: Psalms 44:11, Psalms 52:5, Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 30:3, Deuteronomy 30:4, Ezekiel 12:15, Luke 1:51, Luke 1:52, Luke 21:21
bring: Job 40:12
our shield: Psalms 3:3, Psalms 84:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:15 - Therefore Psalms 59:13 - Consume Psalms 60:1 - scattered Psalms 68:1 - be scattered Psalms 89:10 - scattered Psalms 92:9 - scattered
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Slay thou not,.... Though they deserved to be slain, and the Lord seemed as if he was about to slay them, who was able to do it; he seemed to be whetting his glittering sword, and his hand to take hold of vengeance ready to execute it; wherefore intercession is made to spare them, which agrees with Christ's petition on the cross,
Luke 23:34. The Targum adds, "immediately": slay them not directly, and at once; give them space for repentance; and so the Jews had: for it was forty years after the death of Christ before their destruction was: or the meaning may be, slay them not utterly; destroy them not totally: and so it was; for though multitudes were slain during the siege of Jerusalem, and at the taking of it, yet they were not all slain: there were many carried captive, and sent into different parts of the world, whose posterity continue to this day. The reason of this petition is,
lest my people forget: the Syriac version renders it, "lest they should forget my people"; or my people should be forgotten. David's people, the Jews by birth and religion, though not as yet his subjects, unless in designation and appointment, and Christ's people according to the flesh: now if these had all been slain at once, they had been forgotten, like dead men out of mind: or Christ's special and peculiar people; his chosen, redeemed, and called ones, who truly believe in him, and are real Christians; and then the sense is, if full vengeance had been taken of the Jews at once, and they had been cut off root and branch, so that none of them remained, Christ's people would have forgot them, and the vengeance inflicted on them for their rejection of the Messiah; but now they are a continued and lasting instance of God's wrath and displeasure on that account, and they and their case cannot be forgotten. The Arabic version renders it, "lest my people forget the law"; its precepts and sanction, its rewards and punishments;
scatter them by thy power; or let them wander up and down like fugitives and vagabonds in the earth, as Cain did, and as the Jews now do, being dispersed in the several parts of the world; and which was done by the power of God, or through the kingdom of God coming with power upon that people, Mark 9:1; or "by thine army" x; the Roman army, which was the Lord's, being permitted by him to come against them, and being made use of as an instrument to destroy and scatter them, Matthew 22:7;
and bring them down; from their excellency, greatness, riches, and honour, into a low, base, mean, and poor estate and condition, in which the Jews now are;
O Lord, our shield; the protector and defender of his people, while he is the destroyer and scatterer of their enemies.
x בחילך "exercitu tuo", Michaelis, Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Slay them not, lest my people forget - The meaning of this seems to be, Do not destroy them at once, lest, being removed out of the way, the people should forget what was done, or should lose the impression which it is desirable should be produced by their punishment. Let them live, and let them wander about, as exiles under the divine displeasure, that they may be permanent and enduring proofs of the justice of God; of the evil of sin; of the danger of violating the divine law. So Cain wandered on the earth Genesis 4:12-14, a living proof of that justice which avenges murder; and so the Jews still wander, a lasting illustration of the justice which followed their rejection of the Messiah. The prayer of the psalmist, therefore, is that the fullest expression might be given to the divine sense of the wrong which his enemies had done, that the salutary lesson might not be soon forgotten, but might be permanent and enduring.
Scatter them by thy, power - Break up their combinations, and let them go abroad as separate wanderers, proclaiming everywhere, by being thus vagabonds on the earth, the justice of God.
And bring them down - Humble them. Show them their weakness. Show them that they have not power to contend against God.
O Lord our shield - See Psalms 5:12, note; Psalms 33:20, note. The words “our” here, and “my” in the former part of the verse, are designed to show that the author of the psalm regarded God as “his” God, and the people of the land as “his,” in the sense that he was identified with them, and felt that his cause was really that of the people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 59:11. Slay them not, lest my people forget — I believe the Chaldee gives the true sense of this verse: "Do not slay them suddenly, lest my people should forget. Drive them from their habitations by thy power, and reduce them to poverty by the loss of their property." Preserve them long in a state of chastisement, that Israel may see thou hast undertaken for them: that thy hand is on the wicked for evil, and on them for good. The Canaanites were not suddenly destroyed; they were left to be pricks in the eyes and thorns in the sides of the Israelites. It is in a sense somewhat similar that the words are used here.
