King James Version
Psalms 27:12 in the King James Version says “Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out ...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 27 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.”
Psalms 27:12 · KJV
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. take: Heb. gather me
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. a plain: Heb. a way of plainness mine: Heb. those which observe me
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“Deliver”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“me not over unto the will”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“are risen up”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“witnesses”
H5707concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e., prince
“against me and such as breathe out”
H3307properly, puffing, i.e., (figuratively) meditating
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