Psalm 27:12
12 Deliver [nathan] me not over unto
the will [nephesh] of mine enemies [tsar]: for false [sheqer]
witnesses [`ed] are risen up [quwm] against me, and such as breathe out [yapheach] cruelty [chamac]. KJV-Interlinear
12 Do
not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries; For false witnesses have
risen against me, And such as breathe out violence. NASB
The word for deliver, ‘nathan,’
conveys great latitude in its meaning to transport, ascribe, assign, direct,
distribute and so forth. It comes to
mean the abandonment or giving over of someone to another.
The word for will, ‘nephesh,’
typically refers to the soul or the breathing as in inhale and exhale
activities of a person or creature. This
refers to the heart or core of the purpose of the individual. It refers to their fundamental beliefs and
directions from life, which are evil in nature.
False witnesses, does not
mean false accusations being made by people, it refers to the people themselves
as carrying false ideas or false beliefs or false opinions within themselves.
When people ignore doctrine, then the core of their beliefs is false. Their soul is saturated to the point that
they are blinded, and not only cannot see truth, but they are blinded to their
own errors, not realizing that their beliefs are false and therefore wrong.
Risen up, refers to the
dynamics of the world as an anti-God forum invented and directed by Satan in an
effort to defeat God and truth and anything and anyone connected with God.
The cruelty, ‘chamac,’
refers to wrongs, deceptions, false ideas, unrighteous activities, cruel,
injustice and so forth.
To breathe out, ‘yapheach,’
refers to puffing, or to meditation, to steadily direct, to breathe hard as in
anger.
And so there may be
people that you know, or who know you and would prefer to see harm come to you,
but this psalm references the entire world at large, and the common activities
of Satan’s policy, within this world, which is typically referred to as ‘cosmos
diabolicus’ or the realm or universe of supernatural evil beyond the human
experience.
And thus the prayer
within this portion of the psalm, is that God not deliver or abandon us over to
the very heart and soul of evil, which would lead us to certain destruction and
worse.
