Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Psalms 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Leasing - old English for 'lies.'
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Leasing - old English for 'lies.'
Verse Psalms 5:6. _THAT SPEAK LEASING_] Falsity, from the Anglo-Saxon [A.S.] _leasunge, a lie, falsity, deceit_; from [A.S.] _leas, lie_, which is from the verb [A.S.] _leasian_, to _lie_. See on Psal...
:Title UPON NEHILOTH - The title of Psalms 4:1 is, “upon Neginoth.” As that refers to a musical instrument, so it is probable that this does, and that the idea here is that this psalm was intended par...
THOU SHALT DESTROY - Thou wilt bring to ruin; thou wilt cause to perish; that is, cause to perish as the wicked are caused to perish, by being punished. The idea is that God could not approve their ca...
Psalms 5 _ 1.The cry to God the King (Psalms 5:1)_ 2. Hating iniquity and trusting in mercy (Psalms 5:4) 3. Prayer for guidance and judgment (Psalms 5:8
V. A HYMN FOR MORNING SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE. Psalms 5:1. Solemn invocation of Yahweh. The Psalmist sets in order (Psalms 5:3), not perhaps his prayer (RV), but his sacrifice, the victim and the kind...
LEASING. falsehood. See note on Psalms 4:2....
THE BLOODY—MAN— _The man of blood,_ is generally understood to be a man guilty of murder, or disposed to be so; but, from the use of that word in Scripture, he seems to be a man whose blood, for any c...
PSALMS 5 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Morning Prayer for Deliverance from Conspirators. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 5:1-3, Petitions Pleaded to which an Answer is Awaited. Stanza II., Psalms 5:4-6, Jehovah's...
This is a morning prayer before going to the sanctuary. The chief difficulty in ascribing it to David lies in the reference (Psalms 5:7) to 'thy holy temple.' The word means a 'palace,' and is not str...
LEASING] RV 'lies.' WILL ABHOR THE BLOODY] RV 'abhorreth the bloodthirsty.'...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
LEASING. — See Psalms 4:2. BLOODY. — Margin, literally, _of bloods and deceit._ So LXX. and Vulg....
_[Psalms 5:7]_ תְּאַבֵּד֮ דֹּבְרֵ֪י כָ֫זָ֥ב אִישׁ ־דָּמִ֥ים...
Psalms 5:1 THE reference to the temple in Psalms 5:7 is not conclusive against the Davidic authorship of this psalm, since the same word is applied in 1 Samuel 1:9; 1
PROTECTION FROM THE WICKED Psalms 5:1 The _ordering_ of prayer is very necessary, Genesis 22:9. Our Lord's prayer should be our model. Often our _words_ need to be supplemented by our _meditations;_...
This is another song of the morning. It opens with language which reveals the reason of the soul's assurance as it faces another day. First are petitions asking the attention of Jehovah. These are fol...
_Eyes. God suffers them to remain for a time. (St. Jerome)_...
How beautiful and appropriate are all the things here said, if read with an eye to the great Redeemer, as putting up the several pleas, because of those evils he came to destroy. He came to destroy th...
In Psalms 5 the cry of the godly is presented, and the character of God, as necessarily responding to that of the godly, is appealed to as necessitating His hearing him and judging the wicked. If the...
THOU SHALL DESTROY THEM THAT SPEAK LEASING,.... Or "a lie" i; whether in matters of religion; as false doctrines, errors, and heresies, are lies; and so all that deny the deity, sonship, and Messiahsh...
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. Ver. 6. _Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing_] Whether in jest or earnest, those that lie in jest...
_The foolish shall not stand in thy sight_ Literally, _The mad shall not stand before thine eyes;_ shall not be admitted to attend upon thee, nor shall they be acquitted at the judgment of the great d...
MORNING PRAYER BEFORE WORSHIP. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical service, upon Nehiloth, flutes or wind instruments of the Temple-orchestra, a psalm of David. David was at this time in...
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing, engaging in falsehood and lying; THE LORD WILL ABHOR THE BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MAN. All the ungodly people, as here described, are an abomination before the...
BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MAN: _ Heb._ man of bloods and deceit...
1-6 God is a prayer-hearing God. Such he has always been, and he is still as ready to hear prayer as ever. The most encouraging principle of prayer, and the most powerful plea in prayer, is, to look...
LEASING; or, _lies_; that make it their business to raise and scatter calumnies and reproaches concerning me; as many did. THE BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MAN; those who design mischief against me or my frie...
Psalms 5:6 destroy H6 (H8762) speak H1696 (H8802) falsehood H3577 LORD H3068 abhors H8581 (H8762) bloodthirsty...
‘For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness, Evil will not sojourn with you, The arrogant will not stand in your sight, You hate all workers of iniquity, You will destroy him who speaks...
Psalms 5 This Psalm is peculiar in setting forth the characteristics of prayer in general. I. In the first and second verses we have a suggestion of the variety of prayer. (1) "Give ear to my _words...
Psalms 5:1. _Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation._ Sometimes we pray right off, as David did when he cried to the Lord, «Hear me when I call.» At other times, we sit down to meditate...
CONTENTS: David's prayer in which he extols God's holiness and asks judgment upon the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Prayer should be both the key of the morning and the bolt of the eve...
Psalms 5:6. _Leasing;_ a Gothic and primitive word equivalent to falsehood. They professed loyalty to the king, but were traitors in heart, as in Psalms 5:9. Psalms 5:9. _Their throat is an open sepu...
_Give ear to my words, O Lord._ THE INWARD AND OUTWARD SIDES OF THE DIVINE LIFE The Psalm falls into two main parts-- Psalms 5:1, and Psalms 5:8. The inward comes first; for communion with God in the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:1. This individual lament from David is the first psalm that prays for the downfall of one’s enemies. Such Psalms relate to situations where one is faced with bloodthirsty...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:4 The singer praises God for loving what is right. ⇐ ⇔...
INTRODUCTION “A morning prayer of David, appealing to God as his king, against whose sovereignty his own enemies were really in rebellion.”—_Kay_. “This psalm must have been composed at Jerusalem, sin...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is assigned by some to the time of Manasseh, but contains nothing that is really opposed to the superscription—"A Psalm of David"—since, before the temple was built, the tabernac...
Psa 5:1-12 is a prayer of the morning. Psalms 4:1-8 was the prayer of the evening, and now for the morning. Give ear unto my words, O LORD; consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my...
2 Samuel 16:8; 2 Samuel 20:1; Genesis 34:14; Genesis 34:25; Genesi