Psalm - 18:48



48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

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Explanation and meaning of Psalm 18:48.

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He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.
Who hath delivered me from mine enemies: yea, thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me; from the man of violence hast thou delivered me.
My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.
He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.
Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, and subdueth peoples under me.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

He delivereth me from mine enemies - From all my foes.
Yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me - So that I triumph over them. Instead of being subdued by them, and trampled under their feet, I am exalted, and they are humbled.
Thou hast delivered me from the violent man - Margin, as in Hebrew, man of violence; the man characterized by injustice and wrong; the man who endeavored to overcome and subdue me by force and arms. There is probably a special allusion here by the psalmist to Saul as his great enemy, but perhaps he had also in his eye others of the same kind, and the meaning may be that he had been delivered from all of that class of people.

He delivereth me - That is, he hath delivered me, and continues to deliver me, from all that rise up against me.
The violent man - Saul; this applies particularly to him.

He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the (l) violent man.
(l) That is, Saul who out of malice persecuted him.

He delivereth me from mine enemies,.... From Saul and his men, from Ishbosheth and Abner, from Absalom, and the conspirators with him; so all believers are delivered out of the hands of their enemies by Christ, as that they can serve the Lord without fear; and so Christ himself is delivered from all his enemies, being raised from the dead, and set at the right hand of God, where he must reign till all enemies are put under his feet;
yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me; David was lifted up from a low and mean estate, and placed on the throne of Israel, above all those that rose up against him, and sought to destroy him; and the saints are set upon their high places in Christ, where they are out of the reach of their enemies to do them any harm; and Christ, he is highly exalted at the right hand of God, above all principality and power, might and dominion, and every name that is named in this world;
thou hast delivered me from the violent man; either from Saul, from whom David was delivered; or from Satan the enemy, the son of wickedness, who shall no more exact upon and afflict the Messiah, Psalm 89:21. The Chaldee paraphrase says, from Gog; as the saints will be delivered from antichrist, the man of sin, and son of perdition, who will be destroyed with the breath of Christ's mouth.

liftest me up--to safety and honors.

Violent man - From Saul: whom for honour's sake he forbears to mention.

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