Psalms 36:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. Let not the foot of pride come against me - Let me not be trampled under foot by proud and haughty men.

Let not the hand of the wicked remove me - תנדני tenideni, shake me, or cause me to wander. Both these verses may have immediate respect to the captives in Babylon. The Jews were, when compared with the Babylonians, the people that knew God; for in Jewry was God known, Psalms 76:1; and the psalmist prays against the treatment which the Jews had received from the proud and insolent Babylonians during the seventy years of their captivity: "Restore us to our own land; and let not the proud foot or the violent hand ever remove us from our country and its blessings; the temple, and its ordinances."

Psalms 36:11

11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.