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Psalm 55

Psa. 55:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Day
yowmam (Hebrew #3119)
daily
KJV usage: daily, (by, in the) day(-time).
Pronounce: yo-mawm'
Origin: from 3117
and night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
they go about
cabab (Hebrew #5437)
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Pronounce: saw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
it upon the walls
chowmah (Hebrew #2346)
a wall of protection
KJV usage: wall, walled.
Pronounce: kho-maw'
Origin: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
thereof: mischief
'aven (Hebrew #205)
strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain ,vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Pronounce: aw-ven'
Origin: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught)
also and sorrow
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
are in the midst
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
of it.

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Night,
Walls

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Day.
Psa. 59:6,14‑15• 6Let them return at the evening,{HR}Let them howl like the dog,{HR}And go around the city.
 14And at the evening let them return,{HR}Let them howl like the dog,{HR}And go around the city.
 15They shall wander for food;{HR}If they be not satisfied,{HR}Then they tarry all night. (Psa. 59:6,14‑15)
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1 Sam. 19:11• 11And Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning! and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain. (1 Sam. 19:11)
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2 Sam. 17:1‑2• 1And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight;
 2and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; (2 Sam. 17:1‑2)
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Hos. 7:6• 6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. (Hos. 7:6)
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Mic. 2:1‑2• 1Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
 2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. (Mic. 2:1‑2)
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John 18:3,28• 3Judas then, having received the band and officials from the high priests and from [the] Pharisees, cometh there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
 28They led then Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium; and it was early; and they entered not into the Praetorium that they might not be defiled but eat the Passover. (John 18:3,28)
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Acts 9:24• 24but their plot became known to Saul. And they were watching the gates also day and night that they might kill him; (Acts 9:24)
mischief.
2 Sam. 16:21‑22• 21And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art become odious with thy father; and the hands of all that are with thee shall be strong.
 22So they spread a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. (2 Sam. 16:21‑22)
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Isa. 59:6‑15• 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.
 7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction [are] in their paths.
 8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.
 9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in obscurity.
 10We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, we grope as having no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among the flourishing we [are] as dead [men].
 11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.
 12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions [are] with us, and our iniquities, we know them:
 13in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
 14And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
 15And truth is lacking; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. (Isa. 59:6‑15)
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Ezek. 9:4• 4Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. (Ezek. 9:4)
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Zeph. 3:1‑3• 1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
 2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.
 3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zeph. 3:1‑3)
• The walls, that should have protected the city from every attack, are marked by violence and strife. (“Psalm 55” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquitya and mischief are in the midst of it.

JND Translation Notes

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See Note m, Ps 55.3.

W. Kelly Translation

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Day and night they surround it upon its walls;{HR}And iniquity and mischief [are] in its midst.