Justified. Compared with thee, (Calmet) and without mercy. God is bound by his promise to hear the penitent. (Worthington) --- David and St. Paul had been assured of the remission of their sins, yet never ceased to beg for pardon. (Berthier)
I POURED OUT MY COMPLAINT BEFORE HIM - literally, my meditation; that is, What so much occupied my thoughts at the time I expressed aloud. The word “complaint” does not express the idea. The meaning i...
PSALM 140-142 These three Psalms are Psalms of David. The third one in this series, 142 is another Maschil, the last Maschil Psalm, being a prayer when David was in the cave. In these Psalms the distr...
CXLII. The Psalmist prays for help to God who knows his distress. His enemies are stronger than he, and there is none to help him, save God. The righteous will welcome his deliverance from the snares...
I will pour out before him my complaint; My distress before him will I declare. _Aloud_, lit. _with my voice_, not merely in silent prayer, but with cries which give relief to pent up feeling and exp...
The Psalmist's resolve to seek relief by laying his distress before Jehovah....
I CRIED UNTO THE LORD— _I will cry;_ and so the following verbs would be rendered more properly in the future....
PSALMS 142 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Loud Outcries in a Cave Succeed Guarded Petitions at Court. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 142:1-2, A Loud-Voiced Prelude. Stanzas II. and III., Psalms 142:3-4, Severity
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. I POURED OUT MY COMPLAINT BEFORE HIM - (Psalms 102:1, Title; 62:8; .)...
A prayer of a hunted soul: ascribed to David 'in the cave,' but not likely to be by him....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ NOBODY *CARES ABOUT ME PSALMS 142 Jesus said, "Your Father in *heaven feeds the birds (that fly) in the air. You are much better than they are!" ...
I POURED OUT. — See the same verb used in similar sense, Psalms 42:4; Psalms 62:8; and with the second clause comp. Psalms 107:6....
_[Psalms 142:3]_ אֶשְׁפֹּ֣ךְ לְ פָנָ֣יו שִׂיחִ֑י צָ֝רָתִ֗י...
Psalms 142:1 THE superscription not only calls this a psalm of David's, but specifies the circumstances of its composition. It breathes the same spirit of mingled fear and faith which characterises ma...
“NO MAN CARED FOR MY SOUL” Psalms 142:1-7 The cave was dark and shared by rough and lawless men with whom David had little sympathy. His gentle and devout spirit must often have craved for more co...
In this psalm human need is yet more vividly set forth. Here is seen the consciousness resulting from the difficulties described in the previous psalm. Here there is a combination of fighting and fear...
If the Reader wish to see the part David, king of Israel, bore personally in this Psalm, he will find the explanation in David's history. It is more than likely, that the cave here spoken of was that...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...
I POURED OUT MY COMPLAINT BEFORE HIM,.... Not a complaint of the Lord and of his providences, but of himself; of his sins, and particularly his unbelief; and also of them that persecuted and afflicted...
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. Ver. 2. _I poured out my complaint_] Heb. my mussitation. _ I showed before him_] Plainly and plentifully, how my danger increas...
_I cried unto the Lord_, &c. Hebrew, אזעק, _I will cry unto the Lord_ The words express the resolution he formed, when all human help failed, to have recourse again, as he often had had before, unto G...
CRY FOR HELP IN GREAT EXTREMITY. Maschil, a didactic poem, one teaching an important lesson, of David; a prayer when he was in the cave, either in that of Adullam, 1 Samuel 22, or in that of Engedi,...
I poured out my complaint before Him, depositing all his worries and cares at one time, Psalms 37:5; I SHOWED BEFORE HIM MY TROUBLE, making known to Him all that was bothering him, all his distress....
I POURED OUT; I did it fully, and fervently, and confidently....
Psalms 142:2 out H8210 (H8799) complaint H7879 before H6440 declare H5046 (H8686) before H6440 trouble H6869...
Maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave. This «Maschil of David» is instructive to us, for the experience of one believer is very edifying to another. We are so much alike that, as in water...
Psalms 142:1. _I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication._ Silent prayers are often true prayers, but there are times when, in extremity of suffering...
An instructive psalm of David, for we speak to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, and they are a means of instruction, as well as a means of utterance of praise. «A prayer when he...
CONTENTS: The malice of enemies and expectation of God's deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: There is no cave so deep or dark but that out of it we may send up our souls in prayer to Go...
The title of this psalm seems undisputed; and it therefore fixes the author and the occasion of its composition. _Maschil,_ or an instruction, _of David; a prayer when he was in the cave. 1 Samuel 22:...
_I cried unto the Lord with my voice._ RELIGION IN THE TRIALS OF LIFE: - I. The trials here represented. He speaks of himself as-- 1. Overwhelmed (verse 3). 2. Walking in snares (verse 3). 3. Des...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 142:1. This individual lament is a companion to Psalms 57:1. It is also similar to...
INTRODUCTION “A maschil of David,” _ie_., an instruction or a didactic poem by David. “A prayer when he was in the cave;” “That is,” says Barnes, “either a prayer which he composed while there, or whi...
EXPOSITION DAVID once more cries to God for protection and deliverance. The "title" says that the prayer was composed by him "when he was in the cave," by which we must understand "the cave of Adullam...
This is a prayer of David when he was in the cave. No doubt the cave of Adullam when he was hiding from Saul. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my prayer. I p...
1 Samuel 1:15; 1 Samuel 1:16; Hebrews 5:7; Isaiah 26:16; Philippians 4: