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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 13:4
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My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him," lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
Otherwise my enemy will say, "I have won!" Those against me will rejoice that I've been defeated.
Then my enemy will say, "I have defeated him!" Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended.
And my enemy will say, "I have overcome him," And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.
And my enemy will say, "I have overcome him," And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
Lest mine enemie say, I haue preuailed against him: and they that afflict me, reioyce when I slide.
Lest my enemy says, "I have overcome him,"And my adversaries rejoice that I am shaken.
lest my enemy say, "I have overcome him," and my foes rejoice when I fall.
My enemies will say, "Now we've won!" They will be greatly pleased when I am defeated.
Look, and answer me, Adonai my God! Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him! [lest] mine adversaries be joyful when I am moved.
If that happens, my enemy will say, "I beat him!" He will be so happy that he won.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him, and those that trouble me rejoice when I am shaken.
Don't let my enemies say, "We have defeated him." Don't let them gloat over my downfall.
and lest my enemy should say, "I have overcome him," lest my enemies rejoice because I am shaken.
lest my enemy say, I have overcome him; and my foes rejoice when I am shaken.
Lest myne enemie saye: I haue preuayled agaynst hi for yf I be cast downe, they that trouble me will reioyse at it.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.
Behold Thou, and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Least mine enimie say, I haue preuailed against him: and those that trouble mee, reioyce, when I am moued.
Lest myne enemie say, I haue preuayled agaynst hym: lest they that trouble me reioyce yf I shoulde be remoued.
lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
My Lord God, biholde thou, and here thou me. Liytne thou myn iyen, lest ony tyme Y slepe in deth;
Or else my enemy will say, I have prevailed against him; [and] my adversaries will rejoice when I am moved.
Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him"; Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Don't let my enemies gloat, saying, "We have defeated him!" Don't let them rejoice at my downfall.
Or the one who hates me will say, "I have power over him." And those who hate me will be happy when I am shaken.
and my enemy will say, "I have prevailed"; my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed over him! and, mine adversaries, exult, that I totter.
(12-4) Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death:
lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him"; lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
Lest mine enemy say, `I overcame him,' Mine adversaries joy when I am moved.
And my enemy will say, "I have overcome him," And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Lest: Psalms 10:11, Psalms 25:2, Psalms 35:19, Psalms 35:25, Psalms 38:16, Joshua 7:9, Ezekiel 35:12-15
I have: Psalms 9:19, Jeremiah 1:19, Lamentations 1:16
when: Psalms 55:22, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:6, Psalms 112:6, Psalms 121:1-3, Proverbs 12:3
Reciprocal: Psalms 17:6 - incline Psalms 30:1 - hast not Psalms 41:11 - because Psalms 119:153 - Consider Micah 7:8 - Rejoice Revelation 11:10 - rejoice Revelation 12:8 - prevailed not
Cross-References
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold.
He moved on from the Negev, camping along the way, to Bethel, the place he had first set up his tent between Bethel and Ai and built his first altar. Abram prayed there to God .
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
God , I love living with you; your house glows with your glory. When it's time for spring cleaning, don't sweep me out with the quacks and crooks, Men with bags of dirty tricks, women with purses stuffed with bribe-money.
One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. I'd rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin. All sunshine and sovereign is God , generous in gifts and glory. He doesn't scrimp with his traveling companions. It's smooth sailing all the way with God -of-the-Angel-Armies.
Oh, thank God —he's so good! His love never runs out. All of you set free by God , tell the world! Tell how he freed you from oppression, Then rounded you up from all over the place, from the four winds, from the seven seas.
God 's there, listening for all who pray, for all who pray and mean it.
"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen.
"In the end I will turn things around for the people. I'll give them a language undistorted, unpolluted, Words to address God in worship and, united, to serve me with their shoulders to the wheel. They'll come from beyond the Ethiopian rivers, they'll come praying— All my scattered, exiled people will come home with offerings for worship. You'll no longer have to be ashamed of all those acts of rebellion. I'll have gotten rid of your arrogant leaders. No more pious strutting on my holy hill! I'll leave a core of people among you who are poor in spirit— What's left of Israel that's really Israel. They'll make their home in God . This core holy people will not do wrong. They won't lie, won't use words to flatter or seduce. Content with who they are and where they are, unanxious, they'll live at peace."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him,.... Which is an argument God takes notice of; and for which reason he does not give up his people into the hands of their enemies; see Deuteronomy 32:27. The Chaldee paraphrase interprets this of the evil imagination or corruption of nature, and represents it as a person, as the Apostle Paul does in Romans 7:15; and which may be said to prevail, when it pushes on to sin, and hinders doing good, and carries captive; and it may be applied to Satan, the great enemy of God's people, who triumphs over them, when he succeeds in his temptations;
[and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved; meaning from his house and family, from his country and kingdom, from a prosperous state and condition to a distressed one; at which the troublers of David's peace would rejoice. They that trouble the saints are sin, Satan, and the world; and the two last rejoice when they are in an uncomfortable and afflicted condition; and especially Satan rejoices when he gains his point, if it is but to move them from any degree of steadfastness, of faith and hope, or from the ways of God in any respect: the Targum adds, "from thy ways"; for to be moved so as to perish eternally they cannot, being built upon the Rock of ages, and surrounded by the power and grace of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him - I have overpowered him; I have conquered him. That is, to triumph over him as having obtained a complete victory.
And those that trouble me - Hebrew, âMy adversaries.â The reference here is the same as in the former member of the verse. It is to the enemies that seemed almost to have triumphed over him already, and under whose power he was ready to sink. âRejoice.â Exult; triumph.
When I am moved - Moved from my steadfastness or firmness; when I am overcome. Hitherto he had been able to hold out against them; now he began to despair, and to fear that they would accomplish their object by overcoming and subduing him. His ground of apprehension and of appeal was, that by his being vanquished the cause in which he was engaged would suffer, and that the enemies of religion would triumph.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 13:4. Let mine enemy say — Satan's ordinary method in temptation is to excite strongly to sin, to blind the understanding and inflame the passions; and when he succeeds, he triumphs by insults and reproaches. None so ready then to tell the poor soul how deeply, disgracefully, and ungratefully it has sinned! Reader, take heed.
When I am moved. — When moved from my steadfastness and overcome by sin. O what desolation is made by the fall of a righteous soul! Itself covered with darkness and desolation, infidels filled with scoffing, the Church clad in mourning, the Spirit of God grieved, and Jesus crucified afresh, and put to an open shame! O God, save the pious reader from such wreck and ruin!
