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Psalms 55:12 — King James Version← Study notes

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:


Psalms 55:12Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 55:127 words
HebrewMeaning
הַוּ֥וֹתhawwōt
destructionnounH1942
iniquity · mischief · mischievous · naughtiness ···
בְּ/קִרְבָּ֑/הּbəqirəbāh
are in midst itspronH7130
among · before · unto charge · eat ···
וְֽ/לֹאwəlōʾ
and notconjH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
יָמִ֥ישׁyāmiyš
it departsverbH4185
depart · go back · remove · take away
מֵ֝/רְחֹבָ֗/הּmērəḥōbāh
from public square itspronH7339
street. See also
תֹּ֣ךְtōkə
oppressionnounH8496
fraud
וּ/מִרְמָֽהwmirəmāh
and deceitconjH4820
deceit(-ful · -fully) · false · feigned ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 55:12

1. Of this Psalm the title is: “At the end, in hymns, understanding to David himself.” What the “end” is, we will briefly call to your recollection, because you have known it. “For the end of the Law is Christ, for righteousness unto every man believing.” Romans 10:4 Be the attention therefore directed unto the End, directed unto Christ. Wherefore is He called the end? Because whatever we do, to Him we refer it, and when to Him we shall have come home, more to ask we shall…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 55 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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