O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth - namely, to praise thee (cf. the second clause, and Psalms 71:18, second clause). God's power, exercised continually in the sufferer's behalf, gave him cause for praise; and God's Spirit taught his heart hitherto how to praise aright.
Verse Psalms 71:17. _THOU HAST TAUGHT ME FROM MY YOUTH_] I have had thee for my continual instructor: and thou didst begin to teach me thy fear and love from my tenderest infancy. Those are well taugh...
O GOD, THOU HAST TAUGHT ME FROM MY YOUTH - See Psalms 71:5. That is, God had guided and instructed him from his earliest years. He had made known to him his own being and perfections; he had made his...
Psalms 71 Israel's Song of Hope _ 1. Declaration of trust (Psalms 71:1)_ 2. Anticipations of faith (Psalms 71:12) 3. Revival and victory ...
LXXI. A PSALM OF GRATITUDE FOR GOD'S CONSTANT CARE OF HIS SERVANT FROM YOUTH TO OLD AGE. The Psalmist expresses himself in language borrowed from older sources. PSALMS 71:1. Quoted from Psalms 31. Us...
Past mercies are the ground of hope alike for the Psalmist and for the nation....
_thou hast taught me_&c. He has been a life-long disciple in the school of God. Cp. Isaiah 8:16; Isaiah 50:4; Isaiah 54:13. _have I declared_ Have I been declaring, habitually and constantly. _thy wo...
O GOD, THOU HAST TAUGHT ME— _O God, thou hast conducted me from my youth, and thus far may I declare thy wondrous works;_ Psalms 71:18 _and even to old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not: So fa...
Psalms 70, 71 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Not to be Forsaken in Old Age. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 70:1-3 (70), Prayer against Enemies. Stanza II., Psalms 70:4-5 (70), Prayer in behalf of Friends. Sta...
This Ps. of prayer (Psalms 71:1) and praise (Psalms 71:14) was apparently written by an old man (Psalms 71:9; Psalms 71:18) and in the time of the exile.
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...
אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים לִמַּדְתַּ֥נִי מִ נְּעוּרָ֑י וְ עַד...
Psalms 71:1 ECHOES of former psalms make the staple of this one, and even those parts of it which are not quotations have little individuality. The themes are familiar, and the expression of them is s...
THE GREATEST OF ALL WORKERS Psalms 71:13 The singer glances both backward and forward. He goes back in thought to the time when he was cast on God at birth, and acknowledges that God has taught him f...
This is pre-eminently a song of the aged, and, like old age, it is reminiscent. The singer passes from memory to hope, and from experience to praise. No very definite division is possible. Generally s...
Continueth. Protestants marginal note, "shall be as a son, to continue his father's name for ever." The Messias is the eternal son of God. Hebrew yinnin, (Keri.) might be rendered (Haydock) filiabitur...
I think it would be wrong to break the thread of this most beautiful address, and therefore I have preserved it entire. In any, and in every sense, whether we behold it as the words of Christ, or of D...
17._O God! thou hast taught me from my youth. _The Psalmist again declares the great obligations under which he lay to God for his goodness, not only with the view of encouraging himself to gratitude,...
Psalms 71, founded, I suppose, as much of this book, upon the flight of David on the rebellion of Absalom, presents, I apprehend, the sum of all God's ways with Israel from the commencement of their h...
O GOD, THOU HAST TAUGHT ME FROM MY YOUTH,.... The corruption of human nature; the weakness and impotence of it, to everything that is spiritually good; and the need of continual strength and grace fro...
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Ver. 17. _O God, thou hast taught me_] Happy David in such a school master. All the faithful are taught of G...
_O God, thou hast taught me from my youth_ By the instruction of my parents, by thy word and Spirit enlightening and convincing me, and also by my own experience, namely, concerning thy righteousness...
WARNING AND THANKSGIVING...
O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, namely, in His ways, as they agree with His holy will; AND HITHERTO HAVE I DECLARED THY WONDROUS WORKS, namely, of the guidance of God in his whole life....
14-24 The psalmist declares that the righteousness of Christ, and the great salvation obtained thereby, shall be the chosen subject of his discourse. Not on a sabbath only, but on every day of the we...
TAUGHT ME; partly by thy word and Spirit, convincing and assuring me; and partly by my own experience _of thy righteousness_ last mentioned, the wondrous effects whereof I have received and declared f...
Psalms 71:17 God H430 taught H3925 (H8765) youth H5271 declare H5046 (H8686) works H6381 (H8737) thou
Psalms 71:1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteous, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habita...
This Psalm, written by an old man, is specially suitable for an old man. It is numbered seventy-one, and it may suit those who have reached that age; but it is also appropriate to us all in prospect o...
CONTENTS: Prayer that enemies might be put to shame. Joyful praise of God's goodness. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who live a life of confidence in God and continually resort to Him...
This psalm, though destitute of title, has passed down to us as composed by David, during the rebellion of Absalom. He uses the same words in his present troubles, as when Saul pursued him. Psalms 71...
_O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared Thy wondrous works._ THE OLD MAN’S SERMON His scholarship. “O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth.” 1. The psalmist was an...
_In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ A PICTURE OF A PIOUS OLD MAN I. The entreaties of a pious old man. 1. Against evil. (1) Moral failure (Psalms 70:1). (2) Gen...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 71:1. This is another individual lament, suited to a faithful person in danger from enemies who take advantage of any weakness or distress (vv. Psa
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Barnes, “is without a title. It is impossible to determine on what occasion it was composed. There is some plausibility in the supposition that Psalms 70 might have bee...
EXPOSITION Psalms 71:1 is, like so many others, a psalm divided between complaint and praise. It is comparatively wanting in originality, being, to a very great extent, an echo of other psalms, especi...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 71:1-24. Psalms 71:1-24 is the psalm of the aged man. Probably David as he was getting up into years, and his reddish colored hair had turned gray. David's li...
1 Chronicles 16:4; 1 Samuel 17:36; 1 Samuel 17:37; 2 Samuel 22:1;...