Psalms 17:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Disappoint. — Rather, go to meet, as a champion defending some one.

Which is thy sword. — This thought, making the wicked God’s weapons of wrath (Isaiah 10:5), is arbitrarily introduced by the Authorised Version, and is quite out of keeping with the context. Translate “with thy sword,” either understanding a preposition, or treating the accusative as an adverb of manner; as an adverb of time and place it is common. Similarly in the next verse, “with thy hand from men of the world.”

Psalms 17:13

13 Arise, O LORD, disappointe him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: