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Psalms 56:2
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Psalms 56:2
2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
2†Mine enemies would dayly swallow me vp: for they bee many that fight against me, O thou most high.
- Hebr. mine obseruers.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 56:2
A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A battle, struggle, or contest; as a verb, to contend.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Greatest in amount, number, or degree; in the highest degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study10All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them.
11They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
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Open the full verse study3He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
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Open the full verse study25Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
26The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
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Open the full verse study18O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
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Open the full verse study15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
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Open the full verse study1LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
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Open the full verse study1PLEAD my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
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Open the full verse study5He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
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Open the full verse study2I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
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Open the full verse study1HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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Open the full verse study1IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
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Open the full verse study8But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.
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Open the full verse study4The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
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Open the full verse study14For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
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