Psalms Chapter 27 verse 12 Holy Bible
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
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Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
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Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
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Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.
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Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies; literally, the soul of mine enimies; i.e. their desire (see Psalm 35:25; Psalm 41:2), which was no doubt to capture him, and. bring him a prisoner to Jerusalem. For false witnesses are risen up against me. The party which attached itself to Absalom accused David of cruelty to the house of Saul (2 Samuel 16:8), and probably of other crimes and misdemeanours. Absalom himself accused him of a failure in his kingly duties (2 Samuel 15:8). And such as breathe out cruelty; or, violence. To "breathe out" violence, threats, slaughter, malice, etc., is a common metaphor in many languages (Acts 9:1; Aristoph., 'Eq.,' 1. 437; Her, 'Od.,' 4. 13, 1. 19, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) By slightly changing a letter, we avoid the awkward ellipse in Psalm 27:13, and get"Such as breathe out cruelty against me,So that I did not believe to see," &c