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Psalm 59:11-13
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 59:11-13
New Catholic Bible
11 O God of mercy.
May God go before me
and allow me to have my way with my enemies.
12 Do not put them to death,
lest my people forget.[a]
Scatter them in your power
and bring them to their knees,
O Lord, our shield.[b]
13 For the sins of their mouths
and the words of their lips,
let them be trapped in their pride.
For the curses and lies they speak,
Footnotes
- Psalm 59:12 Another translation possible is: “O God, put them to death, / so that they may not seduce my people.”
- Psalm 59:12 O Lord, our shield: just as the king was regarded as the people’s shield in ancient Israel (see Ps 84:10), so the Lord was called the Shield of his people (see Pss 7:11; 84:12; 89:19; 91:4; 115:9-11; Deut 33:29; Prov 30:5). Accordingly, the psalmist invokes this attribute of the Lord at this point.
