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Psalms 59:10
The God of my mercy shall prevent me, coming to meet him with the fullness of His grace; God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies, those who were lying in wait to murder him.
The God of my mercy shall prevent me, coming to meet him with the fullness of His grace; God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies, those who were lying in wait to murder him.
Verse Psalms 59:10. _THE GOD OF MY MERCY SHALL PREVENT ME_] The mercy of God shall go before me, and thus help me in all my doings. _GOD SHALL LET ME SEE_ MY DESIRE] The sentence is short. _God will_...
THE GOD OF MY MERCY SHALL PREVENT ME - Or rather, “My God - his mercy shall prevent me.” This is in accordance with the present reading of the Hebrew text, and is probably correct. The psalmist looks...
Psalms 59 Gentile Enmity Against Israel _ 1. Surrounded by nations (Psalms 59:1)_ 2. Their judgment anticipated (Psalms 59:9) Another Michtam of David when he was persecuted by Saul. While in prev...
LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms 59:8 the...
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace. PREVENT. anticipate....
The _Kthîbh_, with which the LXX agrees, has _My God shall meet me with His lovingkindness:_but the _Qrç_is, _The God of my lovingkindness shall meet me_. This variety of reading possibly points to an...
His enemies will be punished: yet let them not be utterly destroyed forthwith, but kept awhile for a warning, till they perish through their own iniquity, an evidence of the sovereignty of God....
GOD SHALL LET ME SEE, &C.— The word rendered _enemies_ in this verse properly signifies _insidious men,_ who craftily observed and lay in wait for him. David says, _God will cause me to see amongst th...
PSALMS 59 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Beleaguered Psalmist Prays for Rescue and Avenging. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 59:1-5, In Praying for Rescue, the Psalmist Describes the Character and Conduct of his...
_THE GOD OF MY MERCY SHALL PREVENT ME: GOD SHALL LET ME SEE MY DESIRE UPON MINE ENEMIES._ The God of my mercy. So the Qeri' reads, but the Khethibh has 'My God shall prevent me with His mercy,'-liter...
59:10 loving-kindness (c-3) Or 'The God of my mercy ( _ chesed_ ),' as ver. 17....
SHALL PREVENT ME] i.e. shall come to meet me....
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; _set_ to Al-tashheth. _A Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57. The s...
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...
PREVENT — _i.e._, come to meet. (See Psalms 21:3, Note.) SEE MY DESIRE. — See Note, Psalms 54:7. (Comp. Psalms 92:11.)...
_[Psalms 59:11]_ אֱלֹהֵ֣י _חַסְדִּ֣י_† יְקַדְּמֵ֑נִי אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים יַרְאֵ֥נִי...
Psalms 59:1 THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with the others of that group, but its closest affinitie...
“GOD IS MY HIGH TOWER” Psalms 59:1 This is the fifth of the _Michtams,_ or “Golden Psalms.” Compare Psalms 16:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms
Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is m...
The God of my mercy shall (h) prevent me: God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies. (h) He will not fail to help me when need requires....
The pot of my hope; or my watering pot. That is, a vessel for meaner uses, by being reduced to serve me, even i nthe meanest employments. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- Plautus (Mort. ii. scen. 1. 40)...
What a very sweet verse is this, considered in any, and in every point of view. The God of my mercy shall prevent me! Preventing mercies, or such mercies as go before hand, and before they are asked f...
_THE MERCIFUL GOD_ ‘The God of my mercy.’ Psalms 59:10 I. ALL ROUND DAVID’S HOUSE THE MESSENGERS OF SAUL PROWLED LIKE THE WILD DOGS OF AN EASTERN CITY.—He could hear their muttered curses as he lay...
10._The God of my mercy will prevent me _In the Hebrew, there is the affix of the third person, but we have the point which denotes the first. (367) The Septuagint has adopted the third person, and Au...
Psalms 59 gives more the external enemies. The same wickedness is found there, but the might of human power with it. But they also must be judged, that wickedness may be set aside. Nor was it the sin...
THE GOD OF MY MERCY SHALL PREVENT ME,.... Or "of my grace", or "goodness", as the Targum; see 1 Peter 5:10. God is gracious in himself, and he has treasured up a fulness of grace in Christ: he is the...
The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies. Ver. 10. _The God of my mercy shall prevent me_] Or, God will prevent me with his mercy, _sc._ before I ask o...
_The God of my mercy_ The giver of all that mercy and comfort which I have or hope for; _shall prevent me_ With _the blessings of his goodness, Psalms 21:3_. Thou shalt help me seasonably, before it b...
MINE ENEMIES: _ Heb._ mine observers...
8-17 It is our wisdom and duty, in times of danger and difficulty, to wait upon God; for he is our defence, in whom we shall be safe. It is very comfortable to us, in prayer, to look to God as the Go...
THE GOD OF MY MERCY, i.e. the giver of all that mercy and comfort which I either have, or hope for. Heb. _of his mercy_. But here also there is (as appears by comparing this with PSALMS 59:17) a chang...
Psalms 59:10 God H430 mercy H2617 meet H6923 (H8762) God H430 see H7200 (H8686) enemies H8324 ...
DAVID EXPRESSES HIS CONFIDENCE THAT YHWH WILL PROTECT HIM (PSALMS 59:6). Describing his enemies as like a pack of stray dogs on the prowl (compare also Psalms 59:14) David is confident that YHWH will...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and comfort and confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who are for Christ's sake, harmless and innocent may expect to be hated of w...
Psalms 59:6. _They make a noise like a dog._ Mr. Jowett, in his christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day, and...
_The God of my mercy shall prevent me._ A SINGULAR TITLE AND A SPECIAL FAVOUR Our trials and troubles, while they test and develop us, do also by Divine grace strengthen and improve us, and ever have...
DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD. REVELATIONS OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN HUMAN NATURE I. The enmity of man towards man. 1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we learn that...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:1. This is an individual lament, seeking God’s protection from enemies who threaten the faithful person’s life. The title connects the psalm to...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—_“_To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. “_When Saul sent, and they watched the house...
EXPOSITION LIKE Psalms 56:1 and Psalms 57:1, this is a cry for deliverance out of great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17) that the deliverance will be granted. From the psal...
Psa 59:1-17 is another one of those "destroy not" prayers of David, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him. His wife, Michael, let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped. B...
1 Peter 5:10; 1 Samuel 26:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:15; 2 Corinthians 1:3;...
Prevent — Thou wilt help me sooner than I expect....