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Psalm 17

Psa. 17:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They have now compassed
cabab (Hebrew #5437)
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Pronounce: saw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
us in our steps
'ashur (Hebrew #838)
from 833 in the sense of going; a step
KJV usage: going, step.
Pronounce: aw-shoor'
Origin: or ashshur {ash-shoor'}
: they have set
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
their eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
bowing down
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
to the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Ministry on This Verse

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compassed.
1 Sam. 23:26• 26And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them. (1 Sam. 23:26)
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1 Sam. 24:2‑3• 2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
 3And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. (1 Sam. 24:2‑3)
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1 Sam. 26:2‑3• 2Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
 3And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. (1 Sam. 26:2‑3)
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Psa. 10:8‑10• 8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
 9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
 10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. (Psa. 10:8‑10)
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Prov. 6:13‑14• 13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
 14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. (Prov. 6:13‑14)
• {v,11-12} They watch the righteous One and those associated with Him in order to cast them down, and secretly plot their destruction (Mark 3:26; John 11:53; 12:10). (“Psalms 17” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They have now encompassed ush in our steps; their eyes have they set, bowing down to the earthi.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "me."
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Or "they set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth."