_DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD: DEFEND ME FROM THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME._ Psalms 59:1.-Two divisions. Prayer for the overthrow of the wicked and the deliverance of the Psalmist (Psalms 59:1 and Psalms 59:11); separated in each division by a "Selah," from confident hope resting on the pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_DELIVER ME FROM THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY, AND SAVE ME FROM BLOODY MEN._ And save me from bloody men - such as Saul, who seeks to shed my life-blood.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR, LO, THEY LIE IN WAIT FOR MY SOUL: THE MIGHTY ARE GATHERED AGAINST ME; NOT FOR MY TRANSGRESSION, NOR FOR MY SIN, O LORD._ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul - (1 Samuel 19:11.) THE MIGHTY - `the strong;' the same Hebrew as in Psalms 59:9; Psalms 59:17. ARE GATHERED AGAINST ME. So in Dav... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY RUN AND PREPARE THEMSELVES WITHOUT MY FAULT: AWAKE TO HELP ME, AND BEHOLD._ THEY RUN AND PREPARE THEMSELVES WITHOUT MY FAULT - "They run" as armed warriors rushing to the assault (Psalms 18:29). The Hebrew for "prepare themselves" х_ KUWN_ (H3559)] means also 'they establish themselves;' they... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU THEREFORE, O LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, AWAKE TO VISIT ALL THE HEATHEN: BE NOT MERCIFUL TO ANY WICKED TRANSGRESSORS. SELAH._ Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel. These names of God are so many pleas for obtaining the divine help. LORD or _ YAHWEH_ (H3068), is the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY RETURN AT EVENING: THEY MAKE A NOISE LIKE A DOG, AND GO ROUND ABOUT THE CITY._ They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Here hopeful anticipation succeeds to prayer. David's enemies in character resembled unclean dogs attacking him (Psalms 22:16); the... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, THEY BELCH OUT WITH THEIR MOUTH: SWORDS ARE IN THEIR LIPS: FOR WHO, SAY THEY, DOTH HEAR?_ Behold, they belch out with their mouth - a torrent of false charges and calumnies (Psalms 94:4). SWORDS ARE IN THEIR LIPS - (Psalms 55:21, end.) FOR WHO, (SAY THEY), DOTH HEAR? - (Psalms 10:11; P... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THOU, O LORD, SHALT LAUGH AT THEM; THOU SHALT HAVE ALL THE HEATHEN IN DERISION._ But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them - (Psalms 2:4.) THOU SHALT HAVE ALL THE HEATHEN IN DERISION - (cf. note, Psalms 59:5.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE OF HIS STRENGTH WILL I WAIT UPON THEE: FOR GOD IS MY DEFENCE._ Because of his strength will I wait upon thee - literally, 'I will keep watch to thee,' alluding to the title, "when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him." David sets his watching before God against their watching... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE GOD OF MY MERCY SHALL PREVENT ME: GOD SHALL LET ME SEE MY DESIRE UPON MINE ENEMIES._ The God of my mercy. So the Qeri' reads, but the Khethibh has 'My God shall prevent me with His mercy,'-literally, 'shall anticipate in giving me His grace' (Psalms 21:3). The Qeri' was copied from Psalms 59:1... [ Continue Reading ]
_SLAY THEM NOT, LEST MY PEOPLE FORGET: SCATTER THEM BY THY POWER; AND BRING THEM DOWN, O LORD OUR SHIELD._ Slay them not, lest my people forget - Slay not the race, while thou consumest (Psalms 59:13) the individuals hostile to the Lord's anointed. Let the race survive as a lasting monument of God'... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE WORDS OF THEIR LIPS LET THEM EVEN BE TAKEN IN THEIR PRIDE: AND FOR CURSING AND LYING WHICH THEY SPEAK._ (For) the sin of their mouth (and) the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride. So Muis. But Hengstenberg, 'The word of their lips (is) the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_CONSUME THEM IN WRATH, CONSUME THEM, THAT THEY MAY NOT BE: AND LET THEM KNOW THAT GOD RULETH IN JACOB UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. SELAH._ Consume them in wrath. Such was Saul's fate, and such that of the Jews who opposed David's antitype, Messiah. Such shall be the doom of Antichrist's followers i... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AT EVENING LET THEM RETURN; AND LET THEM MAKE A NOISE LIKE A DOG, AND GO ROUND ABOUT THE CITY._ -Second part of the second division. David's anticipation of the enemy's doom, and of his own joyful thanksgivings, because of the previous prayer: Verse 14,15. AND AT EVENING LET THEM RETURN; AND LE... [ Continue Reading ]