King James Version
Psalms 109:1 in the King James Version says “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 109 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;”
Psalms 109:1 · KJV
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. of the deceitful: Heb. of deceit are opened: Heb. have opened themselves
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“O God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“Hold not thy peace”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
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