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Selected Verse: Psalms 18:47 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 18:47 |
Strong Concordance |
It is God [0410] that avengeth [05414] [05360] me, and subdueth [01696] the people [05971] under me. |
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King James |
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
avengeth me--His cause is espoused by God as His own. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
It is God that avengeth me - Margin, giveth avengements for me. The marginal reading is a literal translation of the Hebrew. The meaning is, that God had punished the enemies of the author of the psalm for all the wrongs which they had done to him. Compare Rom 12:19.
And subdueth the people under me - Margin, destroyeth. The idea is that he had subdued the nations so that they became obedient to him. The primary notion of the word used here - from דבר dâbar - is to set in a row; to range in order; to connect; to lead; to guide; - then, to reduce to order; to subdue. This God had done in respect to the nations. Instead of being rebellious and tumultuous, God had reduced them to obedience, and had thus set him over a kingdom where all were subject to order and to law. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
God that avengeth me - The way that I took was after his own heart; therefore he sustained me in it, and did me justice over my enemies.
Subdueth the people under me - He keeps down the spirits of the disaffected, and weakens their hands. They are subdued, and they continue under me; and this is the Lord's doing. |
19 Dearly beloved [27], avenge [1556] not [3361] yourselves [1438], but [235] rather give [1325] place [5117] unto wrath [3709]: for [1063] it is written [1125], Vengeance [1557] is mine [1698]; I [1473] will repay [467], saith [3004] the Lord [2962].