The Apostle [Paul] is asking in Philippians 1 which is most worthwhile for him, to live or to die. Often has that question presented itself to us, and perhaps we like the Apostle, have answered that “we are in a strait.” But I fear we may have used the words in a sense far different from Paul's. When we have wished for death, we meant to say, “I know not which alternative I ought most to dread, the afflictions of life, from which death would release me, or the terrors of death, from which life protects me.” In other words, life and death look to us like two evils of which we know not which is the less. As for the Apostle, they look to him like two immense blessings of which he knows not which is the better (Adolphe Monod).
Other Authors

Bible – dutch – FREE Online Hollands Statenvertaling. Psalmen Chapter 64:1-10.

Main Index: Hollands Statenvertaling

 

Psalmen 64

[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
[23]
[24]
[25]
[26]
[27]
[28]
[29]
[30]
[31]
[32]
[33]
[34]
[35]
[36]
[37]
[38]
[39]
[40]
[41]
[42]
[43]
[44]
[45]
[46]
[47]
[48]
[49]
[50]
[51]
[52]
[53]
[54]
[55]
[56]
[57]
[58]
[59]
[60]
[61]
[62]
[63]
[64]
[65]
[66]
[67]
[68]
[69]
[70]
[71]
[72]
[73]
[74]
[75]
[76]
[77]
[78]
[79]
[80]
[81]
[82]
[83]
[84]
[85]
[86]
[87]
[88]
[89]
[90]
[91]
[92]
[93]
[94]
[95]
[96]
[97]
[98]
[99]
[100]
[101]
[102]
[103]
[104]
[105]
[106]
[107]
[108]
[109]
[110]
[111]
[112]
[113]
[114]
[115]
[116]
[117]
[118]
[119]
[120]
[121]
[122]
[123]
[124]
[125]
[126]
[127]
[128]
[129]
[130]
[131]
[132]
[133]
[134]
[135]
[136]
[137]
[138]
[139]
[140]
[141]
[142]
[143]
[144]
[145]
[146]
[147]
[148]
[149]
[150]

64:1 Een psalm van David, voor den opperzangmeester. (64:2) Hoor, o God! mijn stem in mijn geklag; behoed mijn leven voor des vijands schrik.

64:2 (64:3) Verberg mij voor den heimelijken raad der boosdoeners, voor de oproerigheid van de werkers der ongerechtigheid.

64:3 (64:4) Die hun tong scherpen als een zwaard, een bitter woord aanleggen als hun pijl;

64:4 (64:5) Om in verborgen plaatsen den oprechte te schieten; haastig schieten zij naar hem, en vrezen niet.

64:5 (64:6) Zij sterken zichzelven in een boze zaak; zij houden spraak van strikken te verbergen; zij zeggen: Wie zal ze zien?

64:6 (64:7) Zij doorzoeken allerlei schalkheid; ten uiterste doorzoeken zij, wat te doorzoeken is; zelfs het binnenste eens mans, en het diepe hart.

64:7 (64:8) Maar God zal hen haastig met een pijl schieten; hun plagen zijn er.

64:8 (64:9) En hun tong zal hen doen aanstoten tegen zichzelven; een ieder, die hen ziet, zal zich wegpakken.

64:9 (64:10) En alle mensen zullen vrezen, en Gods werk verkondigen, en Zijn doen verstandelijk aanmerken.

64:10 (64:11) De rechtvaardige zal zich verblijden in den HEERE, en op Hem betrouwen; en alle oprechten van hart zullen zich beroemen.