Psalm 59:5 {58:6}
Good News Translation
Rise, LORD God Almighty, and come to my aid; see for yourself, God of Israel! Wake up and punish the heathen; show no mercy to evil traitors!

New Revised Standard Version
You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Awake to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah

Contemporary English Version
LORD God All-Powerful, you are the God of Israel. Punish the other nations and don't pity those terrible and rebellious people.

New American Bible
You, LORD God of hosts, are the God of Israel! Awake! Punish all the nations. Have no mercy on these worthless traitors. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.

the God

Genesis 33:20 And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

Exodus 3:15 And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

visit

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

the heathen

Psalm 9:15 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 54:3 For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

Amos 9:7 He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath founded his bundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name.

Romans 2:28,29 For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. . . .

Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.

be not

Psalm 7:12,13 Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. . . .

Psalm 55:15 Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them.

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Ezekiel 18:27,28 And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive. . . .

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Context
Deliver Me From My Enemies
4Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps. 5Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.6They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 69:6
Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.

Psalm 80:4
O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

Psalm 84:8
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.

Isaiah 2:9
And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

Isaiah 26:14
Let not the dead live, let not the giants rise again: therefore hast visited and destroyed them, and hast destroyed all their memory.

Jeremiah 18:23
But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Psalm 59:4
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