the Fifth Week after Easter
Click here to join the effort!
Read the Bible
THE MESSAGE
Psalms 35:6
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- TheParallel Translations
Let their way be dark and slippery,with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, The angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
Let their road be dark and slippery as the angel of the Lord chases them.
May their path be dark and slippery, as the Lord 's angel chases them!
Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the LORD pursuing and harassing them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, The angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
Let their way be dark and slippery,With the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
Make them run in the dark on a slippery road, as your angel chases them.
May their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Adonai to pursue them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them.
Make their road dark and slippery. Let the Lord 's angel chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
May their path be dark and slippery while the angel of the Lord strikes them down!
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, and the Angel of Jehovah their pursuer.
Let their waye be darcke and slippery, and the angell of the LORDE to persecute them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.
Let their way be dark and slippery, the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Let their way be darke and slippery, and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
Let their way be darke and slipperie: & let the angell of God persecute them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, and the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Her weie be maad derknesse, and slydirnesse; and the aungel of the Lord pursue hem.
Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, And let the angel of the LORD pursue them.
Make their path dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
Let their way be dark and dangerous, with the angel of the Lord going to get them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
Let their way become dark and slippery, with, the messenger of Yahweh, pursuing them.
(34-6) Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!
Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer.
Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
their: Psalms 73:18, Proverbs 4:19, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 23:12
dark and slippery: Heb. darkness and slipperiness
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:21 - General Exodus 10:21 - darkness 2 Samuel 24:16 - the angel 2 Kings 19:35 - the angel 2 Chronicles 20:22 - to sing and to Isaiah 37:36 - the angel Lamentations 3:66 - Persecute Zephaniah 3:20 - I turn Luke 17:10 - General
Cross-References
He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God .
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau." Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since." They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob. Jacob and his company arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan. He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel (God-of-Bethel) because that's where God revealed himself to him when he was running from his brother. And that's when Rebekah's nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried just below Bethel under the oak tree. It was named Allon-Bacuth (Weeping-Oak). God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)." God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants. And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House). They left Bethel. They were still quite a ways from Ephrath when Rachel went into labor—hard, hard labor. When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid—you have another boy." With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune). Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone." Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob. The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun. The sons by Rachel: Joseph Benjamin. The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan Naphtali. The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram.
Jacob said to Joseph, "The Strong God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. He said, ‘I'm going to make you prosperous and numerous, turn you into a congregation of tribes; and I'll turn this land over to your children coming after you as a permanent inheritance.' I'm adopting your two sons who were born to you here in Egypt before I joined you; they have equal status with Reuben and Simeon. But any children born after them are yours; they will come after their brothers in matters of inheritance. I want it this way because, as I was returning from Paddan, your mother Rachel, to my deep sorrow, died as we were on our way through Canaan when we were only a short distance from Ephrath, now called Bethlehem."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let their way be dark and slippery,.... In which they run before the angel, chasing and pursuing them; so that they know not where they are, at what they stumble, whither to flee, nor how to stand; the ways of wicked men are as darkness, they know not in what condition they are, and whither they are going; and utter darkness, even blackness of darkness, is reserved for them: but here it means a calamitous, uncomfortable, fickle, and unstable situation in this life; see Jeremiah 23:11. The allusion is to some of the valleys in the land of Palestine, which were dark, and the roads in them very smooth and slippery, as travellers in those parts have observed q;
and let the angel of God persecute them; Jeremiah 23:11- :.
q See Maundrell's Travel's, p. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let their way be dark - Margin, as in Hebrew: “darkness.” That is, let them not be able to see where they go; what danger they incur; what is before them. The idea is that of persons who wander in the night, not knowing what is before them, or what danger may be near. The succession of images and figures here is terrific. The representation is that of persons scattered as the chaff is before the wind; pursued by the angel seeking vengeance; and driven along a dark and slippery path, with no guide, and no knowledge as to the precipices which may be before them, or the enemies that may be pressing upon them.
And slippery - Margin, as in Hebrew: “slipperiness.” This is a circumstance which adds increased terror to the image. It is not only a dark road, but a road made slippery by rains; a road where they are in danger every moment of sliding down a precipice where they will be destroyed.
And let the angel of the Lord persecute them - Pursue or follow them. The word “persecute” we use now in the sense of subjecting one to pain, torture, or privation, on account of his religious opinions. This is not the meaning of the word used here. It is simply to “follow” or “pursue.” The image is that of the avenging angel following on, or pursuing them in this dark and slippery way; a flight in a dark and dangerous path, with a destroying angel close in the rear.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 35:6. Let their way be dark — Let them lose their way, be entangled in morasses and thickets, and be confounded in all their attempts to injure me. All these phrases are military; and relate to ambushes, hidden snares, forced marches in order to surprise, and stratagems of different kinds.
