a: Lit Do Not Destroy
b: Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
Ps. 59:11: Or May You put me in an inaccessibly high place
Ps. 59:2a: Ps 28:3; 36:12; 53:4; 92:7; 94:16
b: Ps 26:9; 139:19; Prov 29:10
Ps. 59:3b: 1 Sam 24:11; Ps 7:3, 4; 69:4
1: Or lain in wait
2: Lit soul
3: Or Strong
4: Or stir up strife
Ps. 59:41: Lit Without guilt
2: Lit meet
Ps. 59:51: Lit visit
2: Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interlude
Ps. 59:6 Ps. 59:7c: Job 22:13; Ps 10:11; 73:11; 94:7
Ps. 59:8 Ps. 59:91: Many mss and some ancient versions read My strength
Ps. 59:101: Many mss and some ancient versions read The God of my lovingkindness
2: Lit those who lie in wait for me
Ps. 59:111: Or Make them wander
Ps. 59:121: Or The sin of their mouth is the word of their lips,
2: Lit lying
Ps. 59:131: Lit Bring to an end
1: Lit Bring to an end
2: Or is Ruler
Ps. 59:14 Ps. 59:151: Or to devour
2: Another reading is tarry all night
Ps. 59:16 Ps. 59:171: Lit God of my lovingkindness