George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 17:9
By it. This relates to the clouds, thunder, and lightning. (Muis) --- God's wrath is compared with smoke, fire, a dark night, or mist. (Worthington)
By it. This relates to the clouds, thunder, and lightning. (Muis) --- God's wrath is compared with smoke, fire, a dark night, or mist. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 17:9. FROM _MY DEADLY ENEMIES_, WHO _COMPASS ME ABOUT._] This is a metaphor taken from huntsmen, who spread themselves around a large track of forest, driving in the deer from every part...
FROM THE WICKED THAT OPPRESS ME - Margin, “That waste me.” The margin expresses the sense of the Hebrew. The idea is that of being wasted, desolated, destroyed, as a city or country is by the ravages...
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...
THE WICKED. the lawless ones. MY DEADLY ENEMIES. the foes of my soul Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
After protesting his integrity he resumes his prayer....
_that oppress me_ R.V., that spoil me. Cp. Psalms 12:5. (R.V.). _my deadly enemies_ Nothing but his life will satisfy them. Cp. 1 Samuel 24:11. This is the sense, whether the exact meaning is _enemies...
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,...
_FROM THE WICKED THAT OPPRESS ME, FROM MY DEADLY ENEMIES, WHO COMPASS ME ABOUT._ From my deadly enemies - literally, 'my enemies in soul.' Compare Ps. 41:14 ,...
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 ...
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...
DEADLY. — Literally, _with the soul,_ or _life,_ or better, as in the Syriac, “against the life,” and so _deadly._ Others take it adverbially with the verb, “eagerly compass.”...
מִ פְּנֵ֣י רְ֭שָׁעִים ז֣וּ שַׁדּ֑וּנִי אֹיְבַ֥י...
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...
From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass (h) me about. (h) For their cruelty cannot be satisfied but with my death....
It is impossible to read these verses but with an eye to Christ. For though his people, as his people, do partake in the afflictions which the enemies of their salvation excite, yet eminently so in th...
9._From the face of the ungodly. _The Psalmist, by again accusing his enemies, intends to set forth his own innocence, as an argument for his obtaining the favor of God. At the same time, he complains...
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...
FROM THE WICKED THAT OPPRESS ME,.... Or "waste" or "destroy" g; as wild beasts do a field or vineyard when they get into it; and such havoc do persecutors and false teachers make of the church and peo...
From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about. Ver. 9. _From the wicked that oppress me_] Heb. that waste me, i. e. that cast me out into banishmeat, despoiled of...
_Keep me as the apple of the eye_ Which thou hast marvellously fenced on every side, and which men use their utmost care and diligence to preserve. _Hide me under the shadow of thy wings_ Protect me f...
from the wicked that oppress me, greedily surrounding him for the purpose of wasting and devouring him, FROM MY DEADLY ENEMIES, WHO COMPASS ME ABOUT, ready to attack him from all sides....
DAVID CALLS UPON GOD FOR HELP...
THAT OPPRESS ME: _ Heb._ that waste me DEADLY ENEMIES: _ Heb._ my enemies against the soul...
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,...
FROM THE WICKED; or, _because of the wicked. From my deadly enemies_; Heb. _from those who are mine enemies in_, or _for_, or _against my_ (which pronoun is easily supplied out of the foregoing word,...
Psalms 17:9 From H6440 wicked H7563 who H2098 oppress H7703 (H8804) deadly H5315 enemies H341 (H8802) surround...
‘Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of your wings, From the unrighteous who oppress (spoil) me, My deadly enemies, who encompass me about.' The apple of the eye is the pupil....
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...
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
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 Chronicles 17:9; 1 Samuel 24:11; Psalms 35:12; Psalms 35:4; Psa