Psalm 17:11 Parallel Translations

They have tracked me down. They have surrounded me. They have focused their attention on throwing me to the ground.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

ASV:

They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

BBE:

They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

DBY:

They have now encompassed us in our steps; their eyes have they set, bowing down to the earth.

ERV:

They have now compassed us in our steps: they set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

JPS:

At our every step they have now encompassed us; they set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

WBS:

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

WEB:

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

YLT:

Our steps now have compassed him;' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

Psalm 17:11 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 37:14 The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow To cast down the afflicted and the needy, To slay those who are upright in conduct.

Psalm 88:17 They have surrounded me like water all day long; They have encompassed me altogether. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

17:11 Steps - In all our ways. We go from place to place, to rocks, and caves, and woods; but wheresoever we go they are at hand, and ready to surround us. Eyes - They keep their eyes fixed upon us. Bowing - Couching down upon the earth, that they may watch the fittest opportunity to surprize us.

MHC:

17:8-15 Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted state, and is a pattern to Christians to commit the keeping of their souls to God, trusting him to preserve them to his heavenly kingdom. Those are our worst enemies, that are enemies to our souls. They are God's sword, which cannot move without him, and which he will sheathe when he has done his work with it. They are his hand, by which he chastises his people. There is no fleeing from God's hand, but by fleeing to it. It is very comfortable, when we are in fear of the power of man, to see it dependent upon, and in subjection to the power of God. Most men look on the things of this world as the best things; and they look no further, nor show any care to provide for another life. The things of this world are called treasures, they are so accounted; but to the soul, and when compared with eternal blessings, they are trash. The most afflicted Christian need not envy the most prosperous men of the world, who have their portion in this life. Clothed with Christ's righteousness, having through his grace a good heart and a good life, may we by faith behold God's face, and set him always before us. When we awake every morning, may we be satisfied with his likeness set before us in his word, and with his likeness stamped upon us by his renewing grace. Happiness in the other world is prepared only for those that are justified and sanctified: they shall be put in possession of it when the soul awakes, at death, out of its slumber in the body, and when the body awakes, at the resurrection, out of its slumber in the grave. There is no satisfaction for a soul but in God, and in his good will towards us, and his good work in us; yet that satisfaction will not be perfect till we come to heaven.

CONC:

Alert Aside Bowing Cast Circle Compassed Encompassed Fixed Forcing Ground Round Step Steps Surround Surrounded Throw Track Turn

Alert Bowing Cast Circle Compassed Earth Encompassed Eyes Fixed Forcing Ground Round Step Steps Surround Surrounded Throw Track Tracked Turn

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