George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 17:15
PSALM XVII. (DILIGAM TE DOMINE.)
David's thanks to God for his delivery from all his enemies.
Arrows. Thunderbolts. Tela reponuntur manibus fabricata Cyclopum. (Metam. Hesiod Theog. 708.)
PSALM XVII. (DILIGAM TE DOMINE.)
David's thanks to God for his delivery from all his enemies.
Arrows. Thunderbolts. Tela reponuntur manibus fabricata Cyclopum. (Metam. Hesiod Theog. 708.)
Verse Psalms 17:15. _AS FOR ME_] I cannot be satisfied with such a portion. _I WILL BEHOLD THY FACE_] Nothing but an evidence of thy _approbation_ can content my soul. _IN RIGHTEOUSNESS_] I cannot...
AS FOR ME - In strong contrast with the aims, the desires, and the condition of worldly individuals. “They” seek their portion in this life, and are satisfied; “I” cherish no such desires, and have no...
Psalms 17 The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy _ 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1)_ 2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6) 3. The deliverance ...
XVII. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS FOES. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made in...
I WILL BEHOLD THY FACE. See note on Exodus 23:15; Exodus 34:20. FACE. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Compare Psalms 17:1, and see note on...
As for me, in righteousness let me behold thy face: Let me be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. With the low desires of worldly men the Psalmist contrasts his own spiritual aspirations. He...
DISCOURSE: 515 THE MAN OF GOD Psalms 17:15. _As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness._ IN respect of outward appearance, there is but...
I WILL BEHOLD, &C.— _I will through righteousness behold thy face._ Bishop Hare has observed, that the sense of the latter part of this verse, according to the genius of the Hebrew poetry, is the same...
PSALMS 17 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One who is Righteous Prays, in Great Trouble, for Divine Deliverance and Manifestation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 17:1-2, The Prayer of Righteousness. Stanza II., vers,...
_AS FOR ME, I WILL BEHOLD THY FACE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS: I SHALL BE SATISFIED, WHEN I AWAKE, WITH THY LIKENESS._ As for me - in contrast to my enemies for whom the Lord is preparing destruction. I WILL...
17:15 with (o-18) Or 'as.'...
The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God (Psalms 17:1), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence (Psalms 17:3) and an account of the eager cruelty of his enemies ...
The Psalmist's satisfaction, present and future, lies in the fellowship of God. WHEN I AWAKE] either 'after each night's rest,' or 'after the night of trouble is past.' The thought of life after death...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
I — emphatic. The satisfaction of worldly men is in their wealth and family honours, that of the poet in the sun of God’s presence and the vision of His righteousness. (Comp. Note, Psalms 11:7.) Inste...
אֲנִ֗י בְּ֭ צֶדֶק אֶחֱזֶ֣ה פָנֶ֑יךָ אֶשְׂבְּעָ֥ה...
Psalms 17:1 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definition; lat...
GOD'S TRUE SERVANTS SAFELY KEPT Psalms 17:1 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends with glad...
This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly me...
As for me, I will behold thy face (n) in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I (o) awake, with thy likeness. (n) This is the full happiness, comforting against all assaults to have the face of...
What a beautiful contrast is drawn here between men of the world and the followers of the Lord! The former have their portion in this life. It is all they wish; all they covet; all they can enjoy. Fro...
REFLECTIONS BLESSED Jesus! help me to be looking unto thee, and, under the trials my soul is exercised with, teach me, Lord, so to pray, and so to commit my cause unto thee, that in thy righteousness...
_SATISFIED_ ‘I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.’ Psalms 17:15 Notice:— I. THE DATE OF THE SATISFACTION.—‘When I awake.’ The intermediate state is often in the Bible called slee...
Having with anguish of heart declared before God the troubles which afflicted and tormented him, that he might not be overwhelmed with the load of temptations which pressed upon him, he now takes, as...
The key to Psalms 16 was in the words, "In thee do I put my trust"; to Psalms 17, "Hear the right." In Psalms 16 we have seen the blessed path and working of that spirit of confidence. It is, though t...
AS FOR ME,.... I do not desire to be in their place and stead, with all their plenty and prosperity; I am content with my present condition and situation: for I WILL, or "shall" BEHOLD THY FACE IN R...
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. Ver. 15. _As for me_] I neither envy nor covet these men's happiness, but partly have and pa...
_As for me_ I do not envy their felicity, but my hopes and happiness are of another nature. _I will_ (or, _shall_) _behold thy face_ I do not place my portion in earthly and temporal pleasures, as the...
As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness, as the happy possessor of the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, the most glorious treasure of the Christian; I SHALL BE SATISFIED, with an everl...
DAVID CALLS UPON GOD FOR HELP...
8-15 Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation,...
I do not envy this their felicity, but my hopes and happiness are of another nature. I do not place my portion in earthly and temporal treasures, as they do, but in _beholding God's face_, i.e. in the...
Psalms 17:15 see H2372 (H8799) face H6440 righteousness H6664 satisfied H7646 (H8799) awake H6974 (H8687) likeness
‘As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness, I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your form (likeness).' In contrast to his enemies the psalmist beholds YHWH's face ‘in righteousness'....
Psalms 17:15 Notice: I. The date of the satisfaction. "When I awake." The intermediate state is often in the Bible called sleep. It is a metaphor, chosen not to describe a state of unconsciousness, b...
Psalms 17:1. _Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips._ Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the first v...
CONTENTS: David prays for relief from the pressure of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we are abused and misrepresented, we have a righteous God to go to whose judgment is according t...
Psalms 17:3. _Thou hast tried me._ Vulgate, _Igne me examinâsti,_ Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalms 17:14. _Men which have their portion in this life,_ a...
_I will behold Thy face in righteousness._ THE VISION OF THE FACE I. The vision of the face of God. 1. The object of this vision: “Thy face.” (1) A sensible glory: such a glory was seen by Moses a...
_Which have their portion in this life._ THE UNCERTAINTY OF WORLDLY PROSPERITY Like many other passages (such as Job 21:7; Psalms 73:12), these verses clearly show how little “the old Fathers looked,...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:1. This is an individual lament, dealing especially with cases in which a person considers himself unjustly accused of wrong (compare Psalms 7:1
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:15 BEHOLD YOUR FACE. Compare Psalms 11:7; Revelation 22:4....
INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his life. We find in it his opinion of the character of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions (Psalms 17:1, Psalms 17:2, Psalms 17:6,...
The seventeenth psalm is another prayer of David. And it is, again, one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause, his own righteousness before the Lord. Hear the right, O LORD,...
1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:3; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:27;
I will — I do not place my portion in earthly treasures, but in beholding God's face, in the enjoyment of God's presence and favour; which is enjoyed in part in this life, but not fully. Satisfied — T...