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Psalms 7:10
My defense is of God, He Himself having undertaken his protection and vindication, which saveth the upright in heart, those who are believers in truth, without a show of hypocrisy.
My defense is of God, He Himself having undertaken his protection and vindication, which saveth the upright in heart, those who are believers in truth, without a show of hypocrisy.
Verse Psalms 7:10. _MY DEFENCE_ IS _OF GOD_] I now leave my cause in the hands of my Judge. I have no uneasy or fearful apprehensions, because I know God will save the upright in heart....
MY DEFENSE IS OF GOD - The meaning here is, that God was his protector, and that in his troubles he confided in him. The original word here, as in Psalms 3:3, note; Psalms 5:12, note; is “shield.” See...
Psalms 7 _ 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1)_ 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6) 4. God's dealings in governm
VII. A AND VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:12 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6 Israel personified asks f...
DEFENCE. shield. See note on "shield", Psa 6:12. UPRIGHT. Plural....
PSALMS 7 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One Wrongfully Accused Commits his Vindication to the Righteous Judge of All the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 7:1-2, Appeal to Jehovah for Safety. Stanza II., Psalms...
_MY DEFENCE IS OF GOD, WHICH SAVETH THE UPRIGHT IN HEART._ Defence - Hebrew 'buckler' (cf. note, Psalms 5:12). IS OF GOD - literally, 'upon God.' Upon Him it rests to hold Him buckler over me....
This Ps. is an appeal to God as the righteous Judge against an ungrateful and vindictive enemy. Nothing is known of Cush the Benjamite, but the case of Shimei affords a parallel to the circumstances h...
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...
MY DEFENCE. — Literally, as in margin, _my shield is upon God._ (Comp. Psalms 62:7, “In God is my salvation,” where the Hebrew is as here, “God is my shield-bearer.”) Another explanation appears in Mi...
_[Psalms 7:11]_ מָֽגִנִּ֥י עַל ־אֱלֹהִ֑ים מֹ֝ושִׁ֗יעַ יִשְׁרֵי...
Psalms 7:1 THIS is the only psalm with the title "Shiggaion." The word occurs only here and in Habakkuk 3:1, where it stands in the plural, and with the preposition "upon," as if it designated instrum...
REFUGE IN GOD FROM EVIL MEN Psalms 7:1 This psalm should be compared with 1 Samuel 24:1; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 26:1. Cush,
This is a song of the singer's confidence and appeal in circumstances of the most trying description. He is persecuted by enemies, some among them being violent and cruel. The basis of their attack wo...
_Reins; affections, (Jeremias xii. 2.; Calmet) and inmost recesses, which are open to God. (Menochius)_...
If we read these verses with reference to David's history, how were these truths confirmed in the instance of the Benjamite Saul? And if we read them with reference to a greater than David, even David...
10._My shield _It is not wonderful that David often mingles meditations with his prayers, thereby to inspire himself with true confidence. We may go to God in prayer with great alacrity; but our fervo...
Psalms 7 appeals to Jehovah, on the ground of the righteous and more than righteous dealing of the godly with their enemies, that Jehovah may arise and awake to the judgment He has commanded, and that...
MY DEFENCE [IS] OF GOD,.... Or "my shield [is] in" or "of God" e; God was his shield, his protector and defender; see Psalms 3:3; or "my shield [is] with God"; that is, Christ, who was the shield his...
My defence [is] of God, which saveth the upright in heart. Ver. 10. _My defence is of God_] Heb. My buckler is upon God. _See Trapp on "_ Psa 3:3 _"_ Which saveth the upright in heart] Of which numb...
_My defence is of God_ Hebrew, מגני על אלהים, _maginni gnal Elohim, my shield_ is _upon God._ He, as it were, carries my shield before me: see 1 Samuel 17:7. He does and will protect me against all mi...
my defense is of God: _ Heb._ my buckler is upon God...
10-17 David is confident that he shall find God his powerful Saviour. The destruction of sinners may be prevented by their conversion; for it is threatened, If he turn not from his evil way, let him...
MY DEFENCE IS OF GOD, Heb. _My shield is upon God_; he doth as it were carry my shield before me. See 1 SAMUEL 17:7. He doth and will protect me against all mine enemies. WHICH SAVETH THE UPRIGHT IN _...
Psalms 7:10 defense H4043 God H430 saves H3467 (H8688) upright H3477 heart H3820 My - etc. Heb. My buckler is upon God,...
HE CALLS ON GOD TO SET UP A COURT OF JUSTICE AND PUT ALL ON TRIAL SO THAT THE WORLD CAN BEGIN AGAIN (PSALMS 7:6). His plight has moved David to a consciousness of the way sin triumphs and the righteo...
CONTENTS: David prays for deliverance from persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When the believer is slandered he has the court of heaven to fly to and a righteous Judge who is the patro...
The title of this psalm is similar to that of Zechariah 3:1. It is called, not a psalm, but _Shiggaion_ or _Shigionoth_ of David; which he sung to the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite....
_Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end._ THE SELF-DESTROYING POWER OF WICKEDNESS The accents require Psalms 7:9 to be rendered, “Let wickedness make an end of the wicked,” but that introduc...
_My defence is of God, which sayeth the upright in heart._ GOD, THE SHIELD BEARER OF THE UPRIGHT Lit.: God is my shield bearer. Fig.: I hang my shield upon God. The idea is that of going to war, and...
_O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust._ AN APPEAL FROM THE SLANDERED I. The appeal (Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:6). A petition for freedom and deliverance from his persecutors, in which he desires God t...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 7:1. The title of this individual lament from David refers to an otherwise unknown incident in his life when a man of Benjamin (the tribe of Saul) slandered David. The psalm...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 7:6 The singers see their requests as part of the larger picture: God is a RIGHTEOUS JUDGE (v. Psalms 7:11), to whom all the...
INTRODUCTION “From the matter of this psalm it appears that it was composed with reference to some calumny on the character of David; but commentators are not agreed as to when and by whom this injur...
EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its date the earlier portion of David's public life—that during...
The seventh psalm is Shiggaion. Which means the loud crying of David which he sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from al...
Genesis 15:1; Job 8:6; Proverbs 11:20; Proverbs 2:21; Proverbs 28:18;...