Psalms 71:4

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. ²In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me. ³Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress. ⁴Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.⁵For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth. ⁶I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother's womb. My praise is always for You. ⁷I have become a portent to many, but You are my strong refuge. ⁸My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long. ⁹Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails. ¹⁰For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,

Bible Verse Review
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out of the: Psalms 17:8, Psalms 17:9, Psalms 17:13, Psalms 59:1, Psalms 59:2, Psalms 140:1-4, 2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 16:22, 2 Samuel 17:1, 2 Samuel 17:2, 2 Samuel 17:12-14, 2 Samuel 17:21

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:7 - all the evil Psalms 43:1 - the deceitful Psalms 140:4 - Keep me

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,.... Meaning Absalom his son, as Arama, who had risen up in rebellion against him; and he may not only intend him, but all those wicked men that had joined with him: it was David's mercy he had a covenant God to go to, and could claim his interest in him, who had power to deliver him, and from whom he might expect it;

out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man; or "leavened" s; a sour ill natured man; one leavened with malice and wickedness: perhaps Ahithophel is intended. It may be applied to any wicked, lawless, and tyrannical persecutor of God's people; and particularly to the lawless and wicked one, the man of sin, the son of perdition, antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

s חומץ "malitiae fermento prorsus corrupti", Michaelis, "secundum", Gejerum Gussetium so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked - It is, of course, not possible now to ascertain who are particularly referred to here. If David was the author of the psalm, they may have been any of the numerous enemies that he had in his life.

Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man - Hebrew, “out of the palm.” This means here the same as hand, and refers to the “grasp” which anyone makes in taking hold of a thing by the hand.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 71:4. Out of the hand of the wicked — Probably his unnatural son Absalom, called here רשע rasha, the WICKED, because he had violated all laws, human and Divine.

The unrighteous and cruel man. — Probably Ahithophel who was the iniquitous counsellor of a wicked and rebellious son.