HEADING. These headings were attached later and may well not be part of the inspired text (in the same way as we divide the original text into Chapter s and verses, divisions which are convenient but not inspired). They may have been later attempts to find a life situations in which to place the Ps... [ Continue Reading ]
‘For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.' This is another Psalm dedicated to the choirmaster. It is the first of four Maschils of David in succession (52-55). Thirteen Psalm are described as Masc... [ Continue Reading ]
A DESCRIPTION OF MAN'S SINFULNESS (PSALMS 52:1). In the first verse the ‘man of substance' is asked why he boasts continually about mischief he has wrought in the light of the fact of the continually enduring covenant love of God. He is then described as a man who speaks wickedness and deceit, and... [ Continue Reading ]
A DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSEQUENCES TO HIMSELF RESULTING FROM HIS SINFULNESS (PSALMS 52:4). The Psalmist now tells us that what a man sows he will reap. In the final analysis God will do to men what they have done to others. Thus those who devour with their words will themselves be devoured. Psalms... [ Continue Reading ]
A DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE RIGHTEOUS SEE THE DECEITFUL MAN'S FATE AND THE PERSONAL VINDICATION OF EACH OF THE RIGHTEOUS CONCERNING THEMSELVES (PSALMS 52:6). Psalms 52:6 ‘The righteous also will see, and fear, And will laugh at him, (saying), The righteous will see what happens to such a man and wil... [ Continue Reading ]