Psalms 58:2
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Eripe me de inimicis meis, Deus meus, et ab insurgentibus in me libera me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐξελοῦ με ἐκ τῶν ἐχθρῶν μου, ὁ θεός, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐπανιστανομένων ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ λύτρωσαί με.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 59:2
- הַצִּילֵ֖נִי מֵאֹיְבַ֥י אֱלֹהָ֑י מִּמִתְקוֹמְמַ֥י תְּשַׂגְּבֵֽנִי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Letter CXXX
22. For whatever other words we may say, whether the desire of the person praying go before the words, and employ them in order to give definite form to its requests, or come after them, and concentrate attention upon them, that it may increase in fervour, if we pray rightly, and as becomes our wants, we say nothing but what is already contained in the Lord’s Prayer. And whoever says in prayer anything which cannot find its place in that gospel prayer, is praying in a way which, if it be not unlawful, is at least not spiritual; and I know not how carnal prayers can be lawful, since it becomes those who are born again by the Spirit to pray in no other way than spiritually. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Part 1
4. “Deliver me from mine enemies, my God, and from men rising up upon me, redeem Thou me” ( ver. 1 ). There hath been done this thing in the flesh of Christ, it is being done in us also. For our enemies, to wit the devil and his angels, cease not to rise up upon us every day, and to wish to make sport of our weakness and our frailness, by deceptions, by suggestions, by temptations, and by snares of whatsoever sort to entangle us, while on earth we are still living. But let our voice watch unto God, and cry out in the members of Christ, under the Head that is in heaven, “Deliver me from mine enemies, my God, and from men rising up upon me, redeem Thou me.”