Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
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Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
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Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
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(36-12) Let not the foot of pride overtake me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
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Passages linked to Psalms 36:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 16:8 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Job 40:11-12 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Psalms 12:3-5 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts, who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?” “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
- Psalms 123:3-4 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
- Isaiah 51:23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
- Psalms 10:2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
- Psalms 17:8-14 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me. They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly. They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth. He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword; from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
- Psalms 119:51 The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
- Psalms 119:69 The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
- Psalms 119:85 The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
- Psalms 119:122 Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
- Psalms 21:7-8 For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved. Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
- Psalms 62:6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
- Psalms 125:1-3 Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more. For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
- Daniel 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 11. Let not the foot of pride come upon…
11. Let not the foot of pride come upon me As I have observed a little before, the Psalmist here applies to his own circumstances the prayer which he had offered. But by including in his prayer in the preceding verse all the children of God, he designed to show that he asked nothing for himself apart from others, but only desired that as one of the godly and upright, who have their eyes directed to God, he might enjoy his favor. He has employed the expressions, the foot of pride, and the hand of the wicked, in the same sense. As the wicked rush boldly to the destruction of good men, lifting up their feet to tread upon them, and having their hands ready to do them wrong, David entreats God to restrain their hands and their feet; and thus he confesses that he is in danger of being exposed to their insolence, abuse, and violence, unless God come speedily to his aid.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Let not the proud advance himself against me, neither…
Let not the proud advance himself against me, neither the power of the wicked drive me away.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come…
Psa 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Ver. 11. Let not the foot of pride come against me] The wicked do manibus pedibusque obnixe omnia facere, that they may ruin the righteous (Terent.); but God can divert them, manacle them, shackle them, that they shall neither march against his people nor meddle to unsettle their faith. Nevertheless, he looketh to be sought unto for these things, Eze 36:37 Dan 10:12, I came forth for thy word, saith the angel, that is, upon thy prayer.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Of pride, i. e. of my proud and insolent…
Of pride, i. e. of my proud and insolent enemies; the abstract being put for the concrete, as Jer 50:31,32; so also Pro 12:27; 13:6.
Against me; or, upon me, to wit, so as to overthrow or remove me, as it is in the next clause. Remove me; either,
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1. From my trust in thee, or obedience to thee. Or,
2. From my place and station; from the land of my nativity, and the place of thy worship. Or, shake me, or cast me down, i.e. subdue and destroy me.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let not the foot of pride come against me,....…
Let not the foot of pride come against me,.... Meaning some proud enemy, such an one as Ahithophel, of whom R. Obadiah expounds, it, who lifted up his heel against him; and is applicable to any haughty enemy of Christ and his people, and particularly to antichrist, the man of sin, that exalts himself above all that is called God;
and let not the hand of the wicked remove me; either from the house of God; or from his throne, that high station and dignity in which he was placed.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The foot - Of my proud and insolent enemies.…
The foot - Of my proud and insolent enemies. Come - So as to overthrow me.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Let not the foot of pride come…
Verse 11. Let not the foot of pride come against me] Let me not be trampled under foot by proud and haughty men.
Let not the hand of the wicked remove me.] תנדני tenideni, shake me, or cause me to wander. Both these verses may have immediate respect to the captives in Babylon. The Jews were, when compared with the Babylonians, the people that knew God; for in Jewry was God known, Ps 76:1; and the psalmist prays against the treatment which the Jews had received from the proud and insolent Babylonians during the seventy years of their captivity: "Restore us to our own land; and let not the proud foot or the violent hand ever remove us from our country and its blessings; the temple, and its ordinances."
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 36:11. Let not the foot of pride —…
Psa 36:11. Let not the foot of pride — That is, of my proud and insolent enemies; come against me — Or upon me, namely, so as to overthrow or remove me, as it is in the next clause; either, 1st, From my trust in, and obedience to thee: or, 2d, From my place and station; from the land of my nativity, and the place of thy worship. Or as תנדני, tenedeeni, may be rendered, shake me, or cast me down, that is, subdue and destroy me. Some translate the former clause; Let me not be trampled under the foot of pride. “There seems,” says Dr. Dodd, “to be a particular beauty in this expression, by which David elegantly intimates the supercilious haughtiness and disdainful insolence of his enemy; who, if he had been in his power, would spurn him under his foot, and trample on him.”
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Let not the foot of pride come against me…
Let not the foot of pride come against me - The foot of the proud man. The word rendered “come against me” more properly means, “come not upon me;” and the meaning is, Let me not be “trampled down” as they who are vanquished in battle are “trodden down” by their conquerors. Compare the notes at Psa 18:40.
And let not the hand of the wicked remove me - Let no efforts of the wicked do this. The “hand” is the instrument by which we accomplish anything, and the reference here is to the efforts which the wicked might make to destroy him. The prayer is, that he might be “firm” and “unmoved” amid all the attempts which might be made to take his life.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain foot of . . . hand . . .…
foot of . . . hand . . . wicked--all kinds of violent dealing.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. Let me not be trampled under foot by…
11. Let me not be trampled under foot by proud oppressors, or driven from my home by wicked violence. This verse clearly refers to Psa_36:1-4. The Psalmist is himself in danger of falling a victim to the ruthless oppressors there described.
remove me] R.V. drive me away, from hearth and home to become a wanderer and a vagabond. The word may be used of exile (2Ki_21:8; Jer_4:1); but there is not the slightest hint here of an impending invasion. What the Psalmist fears is treatment like that described in Mic_2:9, leaving him a homeless beggar (Job_15:23; Psa_109:10).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) The foot of pride . . . the…
(11) The foot of pride . . . the hand of the wicked.—The one tramples on the lowly; the other is full of violence.
Remove.—Better, expel, but we have no indication from where. Perhaps from the Temple.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let not the foot of pride come against me.…
Let not the foot of pride come against me. The mention of "the foot of pride" is noted as a mark of Davidical authorship. "Every psalm of David which speaks of danger points to the pride of his enemies as the source" (Canon Cook). And let not the hand of the wicked remove me; or, drive me away (Revised Version), i.e. force me into exile, as Absalom"s party succeeded for a time in doing. (2Sa_15:13-30)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 11. Let not the foot of pride come…
Ver. 11. Let not the foot of pride come against me. The general prayer is here turned into a particular and personal one for himself. Pride is the devil's sin. Good men may well be afraid of proud men, for the serpent's seed will never cease to bite the heel of the godly. Fain would proud scoffers spurn the saints or trample them under foot: against their malice prayer lifts up her voice. No foot shall come upon us, no hand shall prevail against us, while Jehovah is on our side. Let not the hand of the wicked remove me. Suffer me not to be driven about as a fugitive, nor torn from my place like an uprooted tree. Violence with both hand and foot, with means fair and means foul, strove to overthrow the psalmist, but he resorts to his great Patron, and sings a song of triumph in anticipation of the defeat of his foes.
Ver. 11. Foot...Hand. Both foot and hand are named because both used in waging war. Simeon de Muis.
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