_WHY BOASTEST THOU THYSELF IN MISCHIEF, O MIGHTY MAN? THE GOODNESS OF GOD ENDURETH CONTINUALLY._ Title. - WHEN DOEG THE EDOMITE CAME AND TOLD SAUL ... DAVID IS SOME TO ... AHIMELECH. David had just heard that Saul, on Doeg's information, caused 85 priests to be killed. It was virtually a 'boast' (Ps... [ Continue Reading ]
_THY TONGUE DEVISETH MISCHIEFS; LIKE A SHARP RASOR, WORKING DECEITFULLY._ Thy tongue - the organ of thy inner man. LIKE A SHARP RAZOR. Saul's charge of high treason against David was the instrument used to cut off Abimelech and the priests. So the charge of treason to Caesar was the pretext for c... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU LOVEST EVIL MORE THAN GOOD; AND LYING RATHER THAN TO SPEAK RIGHTEOUSNESS. SELAH._ Thou lovest evil more than good ... lying ... than ... righteousness - or justice: in direst defiance of Deuteronomy 16:20, margin. SELAH. The pause marks the close of the strophe. As the first strophe (Psalm... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU LOVEST ALL DEVOURING WORDS, O THOU DECEITFUL TONGUE._ Thou lovest all devouring words, O ... deceitful tongue - resumed from Psalms 52:2, to mark the inner and invariable connection between sin and its penalty.... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD SHALL LIKEWISE DESTROY THEE FOR EVER, HE SHALL TAKE THEE AWAY, AND PLUCK THEE OUT OF THY DWELLING PLACE, AND ROOT THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF THE LIVING. SELAH._ God shall likewise. Punishment is the necessary consequence of guilt (Ezekiel 16:43). DESTROY ( _ NAATATS_ (H5422 ); AS BUILDINGS) ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE RIGHTEOUS ALSO SHALL SEE, AND FEAR, AND SHALL LAUGH AT HIM:_ The righteous also shall see - (Malachi 1:4; Isaiah 66:24: cf. Exodus 14:30.) AND FEAR - not slavish dread, but reverential childlike fear in seeing God's terrible judgments on sinners. There is a play on like sounds in Hebrew, ire... [ Continue Reading ]
_LO, THIS IS THE MAN THAT MADE NOT GOD HIS STRENGTH; BUT TRUSTED IN THE ABUNDANCE OF HIS RICHES, AND STRENGTHENED HIMSELF IN HIS WICKEDNESS._ MADE NOT GOD HIS STRENGTH; BUT ... RICHES, AND ... WICKEDNESS - (1 Timothy 6:17; Luke 12:21; Psalms 62:10.) Compare, as to Saul, notes on title above. The 'c... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT I AM LIKE A GREEN OLIVE TREE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD: I TRUST IN THE MERCY OF GOD FOR EVER AND EVER._ But I am like a green olive tree - in contrast to the once mighty sinner. 'plucked out of his dwelling, and rooted out of the land the living' (Psalms 52:5). IN THE HOUSE OF GOD - where in spirit... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL PRAISE THEE FOR EVER, BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE IT: AND I WILL WAIT ON THY NAME; FOR IT IS GOOD BEFORE THY SAINTS._ I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done (it). Faith anticipates in hope the deliverance as already accomplished, and praises God beforehand for it (2 Chronicles 20:19... [ Continue Reading ]