Psalms Chapter 55 verse 20 Holy Bible
He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
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He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.
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He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.
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He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
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God will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
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He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
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He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him. Some explain "he" as "the wicked collectively," and maintain that in this verse and the next no particular person is pointed at; but it seems better to regard the psalmist as "suddenly reverting to the fixed and deepest thought in his heart - the treachery of his friend" (Canon Cook). Ahithophel had put forth his hand against such as were at peace with him." He hath broken his covenant. The covenant of friendship with David (ver. 14), not, perhaps, a formal one, but involved in the terms on which they stood one towards the other.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) He hath.--As in Psalm 55:12, the individual specially prominent in the traitorous crew is here singled out, and his treachery exposed.He hath broken . . .--Literally, he perforated. In a note in his work on the Creed, referring to Colossians 2:14, Bishop Pearson says one mode of cancelling a bond was to drive a nail through it.
