Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 55:4
My heart is sore pained within me, his inmost soul writhing with the agony laid upon him; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me, such as threatened death, taking away all hope of life.
My heart is sore pained within me, his inmost soul writhing with the agony laid upon him; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me, such as threatened death, taking away all hope of life.
Verse Psalms 55:4. _THE TERRORS OF DEATH ARE FALLEN UPON ME._] I am in hourly expectation of being massacred....
MY HEART IS SORE PAINED WITHIN ME - Heavy and sad; that is, I am deeply afflicted. The word rendered is “sore pained,” means properly to turn round; to twist; to dance in a circle; to be whirled round...
Psalms 55 In the Throes of the Great Tribulation _ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_ 2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4) 3. The great tribulation ...
LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12. A description of...
SORE PAINED... UNTO DEATH. Compare the words ot the true David (John 13:21) in reference to the Antitype (Psalms 55:18; Matthew 26:38)....
_terrors of death_ Such terrors as the presence of Death, "the king of terrors," inspires....
MY HEART IS SORE PAINED.— _Trembles._...
PSALMS 55 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend. ANALYSIS (Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.) Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous Exc...
_MY HEART IS SORE PAINED WITHIN ME: AND THE TERRORS OF DEATH ARE FALLEN UPON ME._ My heart is sore pained within me - literally, is agitated. THE TERRORS OF DEATH ARE FALLEN UPON ME - as the enemy...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
_(_4_)_ IS SORE PAINED. — Better, _writhes with pain._ TERRORS OF DEATH — _i.e., terrors caused by death, a horror of death. _...
_[Psalms 55:5]_ לִ֭בִּי יָחִ֣יל בְּ קִרְבִּ֑י וְ...
Psalms 55:1 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
FLEEING THE CITY'S ILLS Psalms 55:1 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references which, in their full extent, are chiefly applicable to Judas...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
_The height of the day. That is, even at noon day, when the sun is the highest, I am still in danger. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "many fight against me from an elevation, or from day-break." --- Fear. Ma...
We shall have a lively apprehension of this history of David, if we connect with what is here said of him, his flight from Absalom, when he went up the hill of mount Olivet; 2 Samuel 15:14. But who th...
4._My heart trembles within me _(299) Here we have additional evidence of the extremity of David’s sufferings. He that uses these words was no soft or effeminate person, but one who had given indubita...
Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
MY HEART IS SORE PAINED WITHIN ME,.... At the civil war in his kingdom; at the battle likely to ensue between his forces and Absalom's, and at the issue of it; see Jeremiah 4:19; this was true of Chri...
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Ver. 4. _My heart is sore pained within me_] No otherwise than a woman is pained in travail; _cordicitus doleo._ I am p...
_My heart is sore pained within me_ Hebrew, יחיל, _jachil, trembles_, or suffers pains like those of a travailing woman, as the word properly signifies. My heart, which hath generally supported me in...
1-8 In these verses we have, 1. David praying. Prayer is a salve for every sore, and a relief to the spirit under every burden. 2. David weeping. Griefs are thus, in some measure, lessened, while tho...
MY HEART IS SORE PAINED WITHIN ME; with pains like those of a travailing woman, as the word signifies. My heart, which hath commonly supported me in my distresses, is now ready to sink within me; ther...
Psalms 55:4 heart H3820 pained H2342 (H8799) within H7130 terrors H367 death H4194 fallen H5307 (H8804)...
HE DESCRIBES HIS INNER CONDITION (PSALMS 55:4). He points out to God his deep distress of heart. The situation has become too much for him. Living under the constant threat of execution by a jealous S...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm up...
CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
Psalms 55:6. _Oh that I had wings like a dove,_ to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
_The terrors of death are fallen upon me._ ON THE FEAR OF DEATH I. The nature of the fear of death. It appears to arise from an instinct of nature, which is increased and strengthened by observation...
_Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE CENSURABLE IN LIFE I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments, this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:4 This section describes more fully the intensity of the singer: IN ANGUISH, TERRORS OF DEATH, FEAR, TREMBLING, and...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century B.C. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppre...
2 Corinthians 1:8; Hebrews 5:7; Isaiah 38:10; John 12:27; Mark 14:33
The terrors — Deadly terrors; such as seize upon men in the agonies of death....