Holy Scripture

Psalms 59:11

A church father on this verse
“So likewise that conditional threat of the sword, "If you refuse and do not listen to me, the sword shall devour you," has proved that the sword was Christ, for rebellion against whom they have perished. In the fifty-ninth psalm he demands of the Father their dispersion: "Scatter them in your power." By Isaiah he also…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — AGAINST MARCION 3.23

Source: Septuagint

Original

11Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will guide me as far as Edom?

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9Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; And Ephraim is the strength of my head;

10Judah is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; Over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; The Philistines have been subjected to me.

— Psalms 59:11 —

12Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? And wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our forces?

13Give us help from trouble: For vain is the deliverance of man.

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