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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 9:3
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When my enemies retreat,they stumble and perish before you.
When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish in your presence.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence.
My enemies turn back; they are overwhelmed and die because of you.
When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you.
When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You.
When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You.
When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish in your presence.
For that mine enemies are turned backe: they shall fall, and perish at thy presence.
When my enemies turn back,They stumble and perish before You.
When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.
When my enemies face you, they run away and stumble and are destroyed.
I will be glad and exult in you. I will sing praise to your name, ‘Elyon.
When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence:
My enemies turned to run from you, but they fell and were destroyed.
When mine enemies are beaten back, they shall stumble and perish before thy presence.
My enemies turn back when you appear; they fall down and die.
When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish because of your presence.
When my enemies turn back, they will fall and perish before You.
Because thou hast dryue myne enemies abacke, they were discofited, & perished at thy presence.
When mine enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at thy presence.
When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
I will be glad and exult in Thee; I will sing praise to Thy name, O Most High:
When mine enemies are turned backe, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
For that myne enemies are returned backwarde: are fallen and perished at thy presence.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at thy presence.
When mine enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at thy presence.
For thou turnest myn enemy abac; thei schulen be maad feble, and schulen perische fro thi face.
When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at your presence.
When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
When my enemies turn back, They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
My enemies retreated; they staggered and died when you appeared.
When those who hate me turn away, they fall and are lost from You.
When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before you.
When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished from before thee;
(9-4) When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.
When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before thee.
In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.
When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they shall: Psalms 68:1, Psalms 68:2, Psalms 76:7, Psalms 80:16, Isaiah 64:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Revelation 6:12-17, Revelation 20:11
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:35 - cause Job 22:29 - men Psalms 18:37 - General Psalms 21:12 - Therefore Psalms 40:14 - driven Psalms 142:7 - my soul
Cross-References
God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don't eat that.
"But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.
God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."
It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle and deer in your towns and eat all you want from them with the blessing of God , your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat.
God's kingdom isn't a matter of what you put in your stomach, for goodness' sake. It's what God does with your life as he sets it right, puts it together, and completes it with joy. Your task is to single-mindedly serve Christ. Do that and you'll kill two birds with one stone: pleasing the God above you and proving your worth to the people around you.
Looking at it one way, you could say, "Anything goes. Because of God's immense generosity and grace, we don't have to dissect and scrutinize every action to see if it will pass muster." But the point is not to just get by. We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well.
So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you—you're eating to God's glory, after all, not to please them. As a matter of fact, do everything that way, heartily and freely to God's glory. At the same time, don't be callous in your exercise of freedom, thoughtlessly stepping on the toes of those who aren't as free as you are. I try my best to be considerate of everyone's feelings in all these matters; I hope you will be, too.
So don't put up with anyone pressuring you in details of diet, worship services, or holy days. All those things are mere shadows cast before what was to come; the substance is Christ.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When mine enemies are turned back,.... As the Philistines were, when Goliath their champion was dead; and as the men that came to apprehend Christ, David's antitype, went backwards and fell to the ground, through the superior power of Christ; and as sin, Satan, and the world, and at last antichrist, are made to retreat from the Lord's people, who are more than conquerors over them through Christ that has loved them. "They shall fall and perish at thy presence"; they shall stumble at one thing or another which divine Providence will throw in their way to hinder them from executing their designs, and so fall before them they meant to destroy, and perish at the presence of God as wax melteth before the fire; see Psalms 27:2; so antichrist shall be consumed with the breath of Christ's mouth, and the brightness of his coming, 2 Thessalonians 2:8; and this is the ground and foundation of the psalmist's joy, and rejoicing, and singing praise to God as it will be the reason of the joy of saints in the latter day, Revelation 18:22.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When mine enemies are turned back - Who these enemies were, the psalmist does not say. It is clear, however, as was remarked in the introduction, that the psalm was composed:
(a) in view of a victory which had been achieved over some formidable enemies; and
(b) in view of some dangers still impending from a similar source.
The literal meaning of the passage here is, “In the turning of my enemies back;” that is, in their retreat, defeat, overthrow. So far as the Hebrew form of expression is concerned, this may either refer to what had been done, or to what would be; and may imply either that they had been turned back, or that the psalmist hoped and believed that they would be; for in either case the fact would show the divine perfections, and give occasion for gratitude and praise. The verbs with which this is connected - “they shall fall and perish” - are indeed in the Hebrew, as in our version, in the future tense; but this does not necessarily determine the question whether the psalmist refers to what had occurred or what would occur. His attitude is this: he contemplates his enemies as mighty and formidable; he sees the danger which exists when such enemies surround one; he looks at the interposition of God, and he sees that whenever it occurs it would be followed by this consequence, that they would stumble and fall before him. But while this verse does not determine the question whether he refers to what has been, or to what would be, the subsequent verses Psalms 9:4-6 seem to settle it, where he speaks as if this were already done, and as if God had interposed in a remarkable manner in defeating his foes. I regard this, therefore, as a reflection on what had occurred, and as expressing what was then actually a ground of praise and thanksgiving.
They shall fall and perish - A general statement in view of what had occurred, meaning that this would always be the case.
At thy presence - Before thee; that is, when thou dost manifest thyself. This was the reason why they would stumble and fall, and is equivalent to saying, that “whenever mine enemies are turned back, the reason why they stumble and fall is “thy presence.” It is the interposition of thy power. It is not to be traced to the prowess of man that they thus turn back, and that they fall and perish; it is to be traced to the fact that thou art present - that thou dost interpose.” It is thus an acknowledgment of God as the author of the victory in all cases.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 9:3. When mine enemies are turned back — It is a sure sign of a nearly approaching complete conquest over sin, when, by resistance to its influences, it begins to lose its power. That is the time to follow on to know the Lord.
