Psalms 55:18
ContextNETBible | He will rescue 1 me and protect me from those who attack me, 2 even though 3 they greatly outnumber me. 4 |
XREF | 2Sa 18:28; 2Sa 22:1; 2Ki 6:16; 2Ch 32:7,8; Ps 3:6,7; Ps 27:1-3; Ps 57:3; Ps 118:10-12; Mt 26:53; Ac 2:33-36; 1Jo 4:4 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The perfect verbal form is here used rhetorically to indicate that the action is certain to take place (the so-called perfect of certitude). 2 tn Heb “he will redeem in peace my life from [those who] draw near to me.” 3 tn Or “for.” 4 tn Heb “among many they are against me.” For other examples of the preposition עִמָּד (’immad) used in the sense of “at, against,” see HALOT 842 s.v.; BDB 767 s.v.; IBHS 219 §11.2.14b. |