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Psalm 59

Psa. 59:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou therefore, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
, the God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, awake
quwts (Hebrew #6974)
to awake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: arise, (be) (a-)wake, watch.
Pronounce: koots
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 6972 through the idea of abruptness in starting up from sleep (compare 3364))
to visit
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
all the heathen
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
: be not merciful
chanan (Hebrew #2603)
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
KJV usage: beseech, X fair, (be, find, shew) favour(-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious(-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, X very.
Pronounce: khaw-nan'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2583)
to any wicked
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
transgressors
bagad (Hebrew #898)
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
KJV usage: deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), X very.
Pronounce: baw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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Israel,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the God.
Gen. 33:20• 20And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel. (Gen. 33:20)
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Ex. 3:15• 15And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. (Ex. 3:15)
visit.
Ex. 20:5• 5thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous *God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me, (Ex. 20:5)
the heathen.
Psa. 9:15• 15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken. (Psa. 9:15)
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Psa. 54:3• 3For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah. (Psa. 54:3)
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Isa. 1:10• 10Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah! (Isa. 1:10)
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Amos 9:7• 7Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? (Amos 9:7)
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Rom. 2:28‑29• 28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;
 29but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom. 2:28‑29)
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Rom. 9:6• 6Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel; (Rom. 9:6)
be not.
Psa. 7:12‑13• 12If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,
 13And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his arrows hath he made burning. (Psa. 7:12‑13)
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Psa. 55:15• 15Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst. (Psa. 55:15)
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Isa. 27:11• 11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour. (Isa. 27:11)
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Ezek. 18:27‑28• 27And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness which he hath committed, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall keep his soul alive.
 28Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die. (Ezek. 18:27‑28)
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James 2:13• 13for judgment will be without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment. (James 2:13)
• They look for the intervention of God in judgment, without mercy, upon those who have shown no mercy to His people. (“Psalms 59” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. Selah.