What Does Psalm 55:3 Mean in the King James?
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The psalm uses one root for what enemies do to your footing and for what their pressure cannot finally take from you.
THE MEANING
The voice targeting you and the harm it carries are real; the verse does not ask you to call them harmless. It locates the wickedness in those bringing the harm and the hatred in their anger, rather than making their hostility a verdict on your worth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being attacked does not prove that you deserve the attack; the verse names the wickedness and hatred as coming from the people acting against you.
THE ROOT
יָמִיטוּ
yāmîṭû
GROWS FROM
מוט
To totter, waver, or slip; in the causative form, to make someone totter.
The verb translated “cast” describes enemies making the speaker totter. Later in this psalm, the same root names being moved, binding the assault and the promise of steadied footing in one word.
ALSO GROWS
mōṭ: Slipping or tottering; rendered “to be moved” in Psalm 55:22.
מוֹט
The same root returns later in this psalm: the righteous are not left to totter under pressure.
ʾāmûṭ: “I am moved” or “I totter” in Psalm 13:4.
אָמוּט
The same verb pictures the threatened loss of footing when enemies press against the speaker.
THE PATTERN
Hostile pressure can knock a person down without becoming the final word over their footing.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;THE THREAD
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.In verse 3, the root מוט describes enemies making the speaker totter. In verse 22, the same root appears in the promise that the righteous will not be moved; one repeated word connects the hostile force with the footing that holds.
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