(A)He raises the poor from the dust,
(B)He lifts the needy from the garbage heap
(C)To seat them with nobles,
And He gives them a seat of honor as an inheritance;
(D)For the pillars of the earth are the Lords,
And He set the world on them.

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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.

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Prayer for Rescue from Enemies.

For the music director; set to [a]Al-tashheth. A [b]Mikhtam of David, [c]when Saul sent men and they watched the house in order to kill him.

59 (A)Rescue me from my enemies, my God;
[d](B)Set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59 Title Lit Do Not Destroy
  2. Psalm 59 Title Possibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
  3. Psalm 59 Title 1 Sam 19:11
  4. Psalm 59:1 Or May You put me in an inaccessibly high place

59 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

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He (A)raises the poor from the dust,
He lifts the needy from the garbage heap,
To (B)seat them with noblemen,
With the noblemen of His people.

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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

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