Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 17:12
like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, eagerly lurking on its path, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places, cowering in his hiding-places, ready to spring upon an unsuspecting victim.
like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, eagerly lurking on its path, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places, cowering in his hiding-places, ready to spring upon an unsuspecting victim.
Verse Psalms 17:12. _LIKE AS A LION_ THAT _IS GREEDY OF HIS PREY_] I believe the word _lion_ is here used to express _Saul_ in his strength, kingly power, and fierce rapacity. See the observations at...
LIKE AS A LION - Margin, “The likeness of him” (that is, “of every one of them”) is “as a lion that desireth to ravin.” The meaning is plain. They were like a lion intent on securing his prey. They wa...
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...
_Like as a lion_&c. Lit., He is like a lion that is greedy to raven. (Psalms 22:13). One of the pursuers (Saul, if the singer is David) is conspicuous for ferocity and craftiness. Cp. Psalms 7:2; Psal...
The character of his 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,...
_LIKE AS A LION THAT IS GREEDY OF HIS PREY, AND AS IT WERE A YOUNG LION LURKING IN SECRET PLACES._ Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey - literally, 'the likeness of him (the ideal wicked Man_1:...
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 ...
LIKE AS A LION] RV 'He is like a lion,' the chief enemy (perhaps Saul) being meant....
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...
YOUNG LION. — Heb., _kephir._ The Hebrew has seven different names for the lion. Milton’s description of Satan naturally recurs to the reader — “About them round A lion now he stalks with fiery glar...
דִּמְיֹנֹ֗ו כְּ֭ אַרְיֵה יִכְסֹ֣וף לִ טְרֹ֑וף...
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...
Pavilion. Job xxii. 14., and xxvi. 9. The Jews had this idea of God's throne, of which we behold only the less brilliant side, as the Egyptians did that of the cloud, Exodus xiv. 19. The poets represe...
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...
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...
LIKE AS A LION [THAT] IS GREEDY OF HIS PREY,.... Or "the likeness of him is as a lion" i; meaning Saul, as Kimchi interprets it; or everyone of them that compassed them about, as Aben Ezra observes; s...
Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. Ver. 12. _Like as a lion that is greedy, &c._] Cruelty and craft are conjoined in the Church's enemi...
_They have compassed us in our steps_ In all our ways. We go from place to place: we flee for safety to rocks, caves, and woods; but whithersoever we go they are at hand, and ready to surround us. See...
LIKE AS A LION: _ Heb._ The likeness of him (i. of every one of them) is as a lion that desireth to ravin LURKING: _ Heb._ sitting...
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,...
LIKE A LION THAT IS GREEDY OF HIS PREY; when he is hungry, and therefore cruel. See PSALMS 7:2, PSALMS 10:8-10....
Psalms 17:12 As H1825 lion H738 eager H3700 (H8799) prey H2963 (H8800) lion H3715 lurking H3427 ...
‘He is like a lion which is greedy for his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.' The ‘he' here is some individual who is like a hunting lion greedy for its prey, a prime young...
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 Peter 5:8; 2 Timothy 4:17; Psalms 22:13; Psalms 7:2...