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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Psalms 35:6

Let their way be dark and dangerous, with the angel of the Lord going to get them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (Holy Trinity);   Angel (a Spirit);   Enemy;   Gnashing of Teeth;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dark Way;   Light-Darkness;   Walking;   Way;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Angels;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Archangel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Slippery;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let their way be dark and slippery,with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
Hebrew Names Version
Let their way be dark and slippery, The angel of the LORD pursuing them.
King James Version
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
English Standard Version
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
New Century Version
Let their road be dark and slippery as the angel of the Lord chases them.
New English Translation
May their path be dark and slippery, as the Lord 's angel chases them!
Amplified Bible
Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the LORD pursuing and harassing them.
New American Standard Bible
Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
World English Bible
Let their way be dark and slippery, The angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let their way be dark and slippery,With the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Berean Standard Bible
May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
Contemporary English Version
Make them run in the dark on a slippery road, as your angel chases them.
Complete Jewish Bible
May their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Adonai to pursue them.
Darby Translation
Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Make their road dark and slippery. Let the Lord 's angel chase them.
George Lamsa Translation
Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Good News Translation
May their path be dark and slippery while the angel of the Lord strikes them down!
Lexham English Bible
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Literal Translation
Let their way be dark and slippery, and the Angel of Jehovah their pursuer.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let their waye be darcke and slippery, and the angell of the LORDE to persecute them.
American Standard Version
Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
Bible in Basic English
Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let their way be dark and slippery, the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
King James Version (1611)
Let their way be darke and slippery, and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let their way be darke and slipperie: & let the angell of God persecute them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.
English Revised Version
Let their way be dark and slippery, and the angel of the LORD pursuing them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Her weie be maad derknesse, and slydirnesse; and the aungel of the Lord pursue hem.
Update Bible Version
Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
New King James Version
Let their way be dark and slippery, And let the angel of the LORD pursue them.
New Living Translation
Make their path dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
New Revised Standard
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let their way become dark and slippery, with, the messenger of Yahweh, pursuing them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(34-6) Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
Revised Standard Version
Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!
Young's Literal Translation
Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the Lord pursuing them.

Contextual Overview

1 O Lord, stand against those who stand against me. Fight those who fight me. 2 Take hold of a safe-covering and rise up to help me. 3 Take a spear and battle-ax against those who come to get me. Say to my soul, "I am the One Who saves you." 4 Let the people be ashamed and without honor who want to take my life. Let those be turned away and brought to shame who plan to hurt me. 5 Let them be like straw in the wind. May the angel of the Lord drive them away. 6 Let their way be dark and dangerous, with the angel of the Lord going to get them. 7 For without a reason they hid their net for me. Without a reason, they dug a hole for my soul. 8 Let them be destroyed before they know it. And let them be caught in their own net. May they destroy themselves as they fall into their own hole. 9 My soul will be happy in the Lord. It will be full of joy because He saves. 10 All my bones will say, "Lord, who is like You? Who saves the weak from those too strong for them? Who saves the poor from those who would rob them?"

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

Genesis 12:8
Then he went from there to the mountain east of Bethel. He put up his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 28:19
He gave that place the name Bethel. Its name had been Luz before.
Genesis 28:22
I have set up this stone as a pillar to be God's house. And I will give You a tenth part of all You give to me."
Genesis 35:22
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the woman who acted as his father's wife. And Israel heard about it. There were twelve sons of Jacob.
Genesis 35:26
The sons of Zilpah, the woman who served Leah, were Gad and Asher. These are the sons who were born to Jacob in Paddan-aram.
Genesis 48:3
Then Jacob said to Joseph, "The All-powerful God showed Himself to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and He brought good to me.

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.


 
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