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; Psalms 73:11.) Heretofore God's long-suffering with them gave a handle to his cavil, instead of leading them as His mercy designed, to repentance.
Verse Psalms 59:7. _THEY BELCH OUT WITH THEIR MOUTH_] They use the lowest insult, the basest abuse. They deal in sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies....
BEHOLD, THEY BELCH OUT WITH THEIR MOUTH - The word rendered “belch out” means properly to boil forth; to gush out, to flow; and then, to pour forth copiously, or in a running stream, as a fountain doe...
Psalms 59 Gentile Enmity Against Israel _ 1. Surrounded by nations (Psalms 59:1)_ 2. Their judgment anticipated (Psalms 59:9) Another Michtam of David when he was persecuted by Saul. While in prev...
LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms 59:8 the...
The figure of Psalms 59:6 is dropped. A flood of cursing and falsehood (Psalms 59:12) pours from their mouth (Proverbs 15:2; Proverbs 15:28); they mena
Be his enemies never so threatening and insolent, he can trust in God....
THEY BELCH OUT— The original verb בעה _bangah,_ properly signifies the bubbling noise of water rising out of a spring. Hence it is used in a good and bad sense of what is uttered by the mouth, accordi...
PSALMS 59 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Beleaguered Psalmist Prays for Rescue and Avenging. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 59:1-5, In Praying for Rescue, the Psalmist Describes the Character and Conduct of his...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; _set_ to Al-tashheth. _A Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57. The s...
SWORDS _are_ IN THEIR LIPS] Their speech is cutting and injurious. WHO, _say they_, DOTH hear?] They question whether there is a God....
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
BEHOLD. — Without question this word should, as Mr. Burgess suggests, be emended to “spears” (_chanîth_ instead of _hinneh_)_,_ to give — “Spears they pour out with their mouths, Swords with their li...
_[Psalms 59:8]_ הִנֵּ֤ה ׀ יַבִּ֘יע֤וּן בְּ פִיהֶ֗ם חֲ֭רָבֹות...
Psalms 59:1 THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with the others of that group, but its closest affinitie...
“GOD IS MY HIGH TOWER” Psalms 59:1 This is the fifth of the _Michtams,_ or “Golden Psalms.” Compare Psalms 16:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms
Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is m...
Behold, they (f) belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear? (f) They boast openly in their wicked devises, and every word is as a sword: for they neither...
_Save me. The king praying for all. (Menochius) --- St. Augustine reads, me, (Calmet) though the Vulgate does not here express it. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "save thy right hand," the people, or man of th...
All these expressions, if considered as referring to Christ, carry a correspondence with his complaints in other scriptures. Bulls of Bashan, and dogs from the assembly, beset him around. Psalms 22:11...
In the verse which follows, he describes their fierceness. The expression, _prating, _or belching out with their mouth, denotes that they proclaimed their infamous counsels openly, and without affecti...
Psalms 59 gives more the external enemies. The same wickedness is found there, but the might of human power with it. But they also must be judged, that wickedness may be set aside. Nor was it the sin...
BEHOLD, THEY BELCH OUT WITH THEIR MOUTH,.... Bark like dogs, so Aben Ezra; or "bubble out" u, as a fountain bubbles out with water; so they cast out their wickedness in great abundance; see Jeremiah 6...
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear? Ver. 7. _Behold, they belch out with their mouth_] Calling me traitor wherever they come, and seek...
_They return at evening_ Saul sent once to destroy him, and the messengers went back to inform him that he was ill; but they returned in the evening to bring him even in his bed. _They make a noise li...
Behold, they belch out with their mouth, as the dogs do with their growling and barking; SWORDS ARE IN THEIR LIPS, Psalms 57:4; FOR WHO, SAY THEY, DOTH HEAR? It is an impertinent challenge, for they b...
PRAYER OF AN INNOCENT PERSON AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK HIS SOUL. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, again according to the melody "Destroy not," Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David; when Sau...
1-7 In these words we hear the voice of David when a prisoner in his own house; the voice of Christ when surrounded by his merciless enemies; the voice of the church when under bondage in the world;...
THEY BELCH OUT; or, _they pour forth_, (to wit, words, for what else should come out of the mouth? even sharp and bitter words, as the next clause explains it,) abundantly and vehemently, as a fountai...
Psalms 59:7 belch H5042 (H8686) mouth H6310 Swords H2719 lips H8193 hears H8085 (H8802) belch -...
DAVID EXPRESSES HIS CONFIDENCE THAT YHWH WILL PROTECT HIM (PSALMS 59:6). Describing his enemies as like a pack of stray dogs on the prowl (compare also Psalms 59:14) David is confident that YHWH will...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and comfort and confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who are for Christ's sake, harmless and innocent may expect to be hated of w...
Psalms 59:6. _They make a noise like a dog._ Mr. Jowett, in his christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day, and...
DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD. REVELATIONS OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN HUMAN NATURE I. The enmity of man towards man. 1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we learn that...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:1. This is an individual lament, seeking God’s protection from enemies who threaten the faithful person’s life. The title connects the psalm to...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—_“_To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. “_When Saul sent, and they watched the house...
EXPOSITION LIKE Psalms 56:1 and Psalms 57:1, this is a cry for deliverance out of great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17) that the deliverance will be granted. From the psal...
Psa 59:1-17 is another one of those "destroy not" prayers of David, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him. His wife, Michael, let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped. B...
Jeremiah 33:24; Job 22:12; Job 22:13; Matthew 12:34; Proverbs 12:18;
Pour out — Sharp and bitter word's, abundantly and vehemently, as a fountain doth waters, as this word signifies. Swords — Words as keen and mischievous as swords. For who — David doth not hear us, an...