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Psalm 59:11-13
New English Translation

11 Do not strike them dead suddenly,
because then my people might forget the lesson.[a]
Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down,
O Lord who shields us.[b]
12 They speak sinful words.[c]
So let them be trapped by their own pride
and by the curses and lies they speak.
13 Angrily wipe them out. Wipe them out so they vanish.
Let them know that God rules
over Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59:11 tn Heb “do not kill them, lest my people forget.”sn My people might forget the lesson. Swift, sudden destruction might be quickly forgotten. The psalmist wants God’s judgment to be prolonged so that it might be a continual reminder of divine justice.
  2. Psalm 59:11 tn Heb “make them roam around by your strength and bring them down, O our shield, the Lord.”
  3. Psalm 59:12 tn Heb “the sin of their mouth [is] the word of their lips.”
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