Psalms 18:48
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
American King James Version (AKJV)
He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
American Standard Version (ASV)
He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.
Webster's Revision
He delivereth me from my enemies: yes, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
World English Bible
He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
English Revised Version (ERV)
He rescueth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me: thou deliverest me from the violent man.
Definitions for Psalms 18:48
Clarke's Psalms 18:48 Bible Commentary
He delivereth me - That is, he hath delivered me, and continues to deliver me, from all that rise up against me.
The violent man - Saul; this applies particularly to him.
Barnes's Psalms 18:48 Bible Commentary
He delivereth me from mine enemies - From all my foes.
Yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me - So that I triumph over them. Instead of being subdued by them, and trampled under their feet, I am exalted, and they are humbled.
Thou hast delivered me from the violent man - Margin, as in Hebrew, man of violence; the man characterized by injustice and wrong; the man who endeavored to overcome and subdue me by force and arms. There is probably a special allusion here by the psalmist to Saul as his great enemy, but perhaps he had also in his eye others of the same kind, and the meaning may be that he had been delivered from all of that class of people.
Wesley's Psalms 18:48 Bible Commentary
18:48 Violent man - From Saul: whom for honour's sake he forbears to mention.