George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 142:4
Troubled. David knew not what course to take, 1 Kings xv. 25, 31. Our Saviour was in the greatest agony. (Calmet)
Troubled. David knew not what course to take, 1 Kings xv. 25, 31. Our Saviour was in the greatest agony. (Calmet)
Verse Psalms 142:4. THERE WAS _NO MAN, THAT WOULD KNOW ME_] This has been applied to the time in which our Lord was deserted by his disciples. As to the case of David in the cave of En-gedi, he had no...
I LOOKED ON MY RIGHT HAND, AND BEHELD - Margin, “Look on the right hand and see The words translated “looked” and “beheld” are in the imperative mood in the Hebrew. They are not, however, improperly r...
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...
BEHELD. Supply Ellipsis: "beheld [on my left hand], but", &c. KNOW. regard, or recognize. MY SOUL. me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
Look on the right hand and see, for I have none that acknowledgeth me: There is no asylum left me; my soul hath none that careth for her. Though he will tell Jehovah of his distress, he knows that,...
Jehovah knows his peril, and his loneliness....
WHEN MY SPIRIT, &C.— _Now, when my spirit is overwhelmed within me, yet thou knowest my path._ "Though the lowness of my spirits renders me incapable of providing for my own escape; yet thou art able...
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 looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I LOOKED ON (MY) RIGHT HAND, AND BEHELD, BUT (THERE WAS) NO MAN THAT WOUL...
142:4 refuge (a-15) 'A place of escape,' as Psalms 59:16 ; Amos 2:14 ....
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 LOOKED. — The Authorised Version follows the ancient versions in turning the Hebrew imperatives into historic tenses. But they are easily intelligible if taken rhetorically, and indeed the psalm los...
_[Psalms 142:5]_ הַבֵּ֤יט יָמִ֨ין ׀ וּ רְאֵה֮ וְ...
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...
Reader! look once more to Jesus, to while reading this account. Call to min d how one disciple betrayed him, and another denied him, and all forsook him and fled! Hear the strong cries Jesus on the cr...
4._On looking to the right hand_, (247) _etc_. , He shows that there was good cause for the dreadful sufferings he experienced, since no human aid or comfort was to be expected, and destruction seemed...
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 LOOKED ON [MY] RIGHT HAND, AND BEHELD,.... On the left, so Kimchi supplies it, and after him Piscator; he looked about him every way to the right and left, to see if he could get any help, or find o...
I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. Ver. 4. _I looked on my right hand_] Not a man would appear for me. Aφι...
_I looked on my right hand_, &c. The place where the patron, or assistant used to stand; _but there was no man_ Namely, in Saul's court or camp: none of my former relations, friends or acquaintance; _...
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 looked on my right hand, the place of a protector, AND BEHELD, BUT THERE WAS NO MAN THAT WOULD KNOW ME, no friend upon whom he could depend without reserve; REFUGE FAILED ME, there seemed to be no p...
I LOOKED ON MY RIGHT HAND, AND BEHELD: Or, Look on the right hand, and see FAILED ME: _ Heb._ perished from me NO MAN CARED FOR MY SOUL: _ Heb._ no man sought after my soul...
RIGHT HAND; the place where the patron or assistant used to stand. See PSALMS 16:8, PSALMS 109:31 121:5. NO MAN, to wit, in Saul's court or camp; none of my former acquaintance, and friends. and relat...
Psalms 142:4 Look H5027 (H8685) right H3225 see H7200 (H8798) acknowledges H5234 (H8688) Refuge H4498 failed...
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:...
_No man cared for my soul _ GOD’S CARE FOR EACH LIFE With normal natures happiness begins with the thought that God has time to care for each life. In a world where no grain of sand escapes Nature’s...
_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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 142:3 These verses express what people often feel when being threatened: out of energy, beset by dangers, confused, and painfully alone. ⇐...
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 23:11; 1 Samuel 23:19; 1 Samuel 23:20; 1 Samuel 27:1;...
Right — hand — The place where the patron or assistant used to stand....