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Psalms 18:42
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind, driven in hopeless confusion; I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets, the dust that is trodden under foot.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind, driven in hopeless confusion; I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets, the dust that is trodden under foot.
Verse Psalms 18:42. _THEN DID L BEAT THEM_] God was with _him_, and _they_ had only an arm of flesh. No wonder then that his enemies were destroyed. _SMALL AS THE DUST BEFORE THE WIND_] This well ex...
THEN DID I BEAT THEM SMALL AS THE DUST BEFORE THE WIND - As the fine dust is driven by the wind, so they fled before me. There could be no more striking illustration of a defeated army flying before a...
Psalms 18 The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ _ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_ 2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7) 3. God gave Him glory ...
XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. CAST THEM OUT: or scatter them. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "crush". Compare 2 Samuel 22:43....
Two figures are combined to express the annihilation of David's enemies. They were, as it were, pounded to dust (2 Kings 13:7), and then scattered like that dust driven before the wind. Cp. Isaiah 29:...
Thus God gave him victory over all his enemies....
I DID CAST THEM OUT AS THE DIRT IN THE STREETS— _As the mire in the streets I trampled them down._ Chandler. _I beat them flat._ Mudge....
PSALMS 18 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE David's Song of Deliverance. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...
_FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE: THE LORD MY GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN MY DARKNESS._ Here follows the fourth section of the psalm. The aid which God had given the Psalmist against foreign enemies, after he ha...
Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel 22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...
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...
BEFORE THE WIND. — In Samuel, the weaker “of the earth.” CAST THEM OUT — _i.e.,_ sweep them before me. In Samuel “stamp and tread them out.” So LXX. here “grind,” or “pound.”...
_[Psalms 18:43]_ וְֽ אֶשְׁחָקֵ֗ם כְּ עָפָ֥ר עַל...
Psalms 18:1 THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout imag...
GIRDED WITH STRENGTH FOR SERVICE Psalms 18:27 God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads him through the...
This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
These are all glorious triumphs of our risen and exalted Saviour. And He who hath thus conquered for us, can and will conquer sin in us. Like another Joshua, our Almighty Leader and Commander, which J...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
THEN DID I BEAT THEM SMALL, AS THE DUST BEFORE THE WIND,.... They being given up by God, and he not answering to their cries; the phrase denotes the utter ruin and destruction of them, and represents...
_Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets._ Ver. 42. _Then did I beat them as small as the dust_] When God once withdraws his protection...
_Thou hast given me the necks_, &c. That I might put my yoke upon their necks, or bring them into subjection. But Houbigant and some others render the clause, more agreeably to the Hebrew, _As for my...
29-50 When we praise for one mercy, we must observe the many more, with which we have been compassed all our days. Many things had contributed to David's advancement, and he owns the hand of God in t...
Or, _rid them away_, as dirt is usually swept or carried out of houses or streets. Or, _tread them down_, or _bruise them_, as men do dirt when they walk in the streets....
Psalms 18:42 beat H7833 (H8799) dust H6083 before H6440 wind H7307 out H7324 (H8686) dirt H2916 streets...
HE DECLARES THAT YHWH HAS GIVEN HIM VICTORY OVER ALL HIS ENEMIES (PSALMS 18:37). We should note as we consider this cry of triumph that this is not describing peaceful nations who are being subjugated...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I will trust; my buckler, and my horn of my salvation, and my hi...
CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...
David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his c...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:31 David’s rescue (vv. Psalms 18:16) came by way of his military skill, which was itself God’s gift....
INTRODUCTION “This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commenta...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...
The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician. It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...
2 Kings 13:7; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 41:15; Isaiah 41:16;...