Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 18:41
He speaks of his Israelitish enemies, who in their distresses prayed to God for help against him.
He speaks of his Israelitish enemies, who in their distresses prayed to God for help against him.
Verse Psalms 18:41. _THEY CRIED_] The Philistines called upon their gods, but there was none to save them. EVEN _UNTO THE LORD_] Such as Saul, Ishbosheth, Absalom, c., who, professing to worship the...
THEY CRIED - They cried out for help, for mercy, for life. In modern language, “they begged for quarter.” They acknowledged that they were vanquished, and entreated that their lives might be spared....
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...
CRIED... SAVE. Figure of speech _Paronomasia._ App-6. May be represented in Eng. "they cried with fear, but none gave ear. ...
Thus God gave him victory over all his enemies....
_They cried_ Cp. Psalms 18:6. The Heb. text in 2 Sam. has _they looked_for help (Isaiah 17:7-8), but the LXX supports the reading _cried_, which is certainly right. There is only the difference of one...
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...
CRIED. — Sam. 22 has “looked.”...
_[Psalms 18:42]_ יְשַׁוְּע֥וּ וְ אֵין ־מֹושִׁ֑יעַ 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...
They (f) cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not. (f) They who reject the cry of the afflicted, God will also reject them when they cry for help, for...
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...
41._They shall cry, etc. _The change of the tense in the verb from the past to the future does not break the continuity of the narration; and, therefore, the words should be explained thus: Although t...
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...
THEY CRIED, BUT [THERE WAS] NONE TO SAVE [THEM],.... It is in 2 Samuel 22:42; "they looked"; that is, they looked round about, here and there, to see if there were any near at hand to help and delive...
They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not. Ver. 41. _They cried_] Through grief and impatience, _clamore incondito,_ as beasts when in durance fill...
_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...
GIVING ALL GLORY TO GOD ALONE...
They cried, calling upon their idols to help them, BUT THERE WAS NONE TO SAVE THEM; EVEN UNTO THE LORD, turning to the true God in the last emergency, BUT HE ANSWERED THEM NOT; it was too late, and th...
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...
Psalms 18:41 cried H7768 (H8762) save H3467 (H8688) LORD H3068 answer H6030 (H8804)...
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 Samuel 22:42; 2 Samuel 22:43; Ezekiel 8:18; Hosea 7:14; Isaiah 1:15