Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 18:5
Of hell; or, of the grave, which brought me to the brink of the grave. Prevented me; had almost taken hold of me, ere I was aware of my danger.
Of hell; or, of the grave, which brought me to the brink of the grave. Prevented me; had almost taken hold of me, ere I was aware of my danger.
Verse Psalms 18:5. _THE SORROWS OF HELL_] חבלי שאול _chebley sheol_, the _cables_ or _cords of the grave_. Is not this a reference to the _cords_ or _ropes_ with which they _lowered the corpse into th...
THE SORROWS OF HELL - Margin, “cords.” The word used here is the same which occurs in the previous verse, and which is there rendered “sorrows.” It is correctly translated here, as in that verse, “sor...
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...
HELL. the grave. Hebrew Sheol. App-35. SNARES. Hebrew. _yakash =_ noose, or snare. PREVENTED. were beforehand with, or confronted....
In forcible figures David pictures the extremity of need in which he cried for help, and not in vain. Again and again there had been -but a step between him and death." (1 Samuel 20:3.) The perils to...
Render with R.V., The cords of Sheol were round about me: The snares of death came upon me. The Heb. word rendered _sorrows_in the A.V. may no doubt have the meaning _pangs_, and is so rendered by...
THE SORROWS OF HELL, &C.— _The nets of Hades,_ &c. Chandler; with whom Houbigant and Mudge agree; for, by this rendering, the clauses again in this verse properly correspond. By the _cords_ and _toils...
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...
_THE SORROWS OF DEATH COMPASSED ME, AND THE FLOODS OF UNGODLY MEN MADE ME AFRAID._ The sorrows ... the sorrows - rather, 'the cords ... the cords,' as the parallel word, "the snares" (Psalms 18:5), r...
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...
HELL] RV 'Sheol,' the state of the dead. Prevented] RV 'came upon.' So in Psalms 18:18; Psalms 18:4 mean that David felt himself in peril of death....
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...
HELL. — Heb., _sheôl._ (See Note on Psalms 6:5.) PREVENTED — _i.e.,_ suddenly seized upon. The poet seems to feel the cords already tightening on his limbe. He is not dead yet, but like to them who g...
_[Psalms 18:6]_ חֶבְלֵ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ול סְבָב֑וּנִי קִ֝דְּמ֗וּנִי מֹ֣וקְשֵׁי
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...
A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE Psalms 18:1 There is another edition of this psalm in 2 Samuel 22:1.Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:2 and...
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...
Sound. So, St. Paul reads this text, though the Hebrew have, "line." Yet there is no reason why we should suppose that the Septuagint read differently, or that the Jews have corrupted their copies, as...
How beautifully Peter comments upon these sufferings of Jesus, Acts 2:24. But, while we behold the holy nature of Christ, as incapable of corruption, and therefore incapable of being holden by the cor...
We shall now make a few observations with respect to the words. The Hebrew word חבלי, _chebley, _means _cords _or _sorrows, _or any deadly evil, (395) which consumes a man’s health and strength, and w...
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...
THE SORROWS OF HELL COMPASSED ME ABOUT,.... Or "the cords of the grave" s, under the power of which he was detained for awhile; the allusion may be to the manner of burying among the Jews, who wound u...
_The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me._ Ver. 5. _The sorrows_] Or, throes, or cords, such as wherewith they bind malefactors led forth to execution. _ The snares...
_The sorrows of death compassed me_ That is, dangerous and deadly troubles. Or, _the bands_, or _cords_, of death, as חבלי, _cheblee_, may be rendered, quæ hominem quasi fune arctissime constringunt,...
The sorrows of hell, the bands of the realm of death, COMPASSED ME ABOUT; THE SNARES OF DEATH PREVENTED ME, going ahead, anticipating his every move, seizing upon him suddenly....
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, His p...
SORROWS: Or, cords...
1-19 The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence...
Psalms 18:5 sorrows H2256 Sheol H7585 surrounded H5437 (H8804) snares H4170 death H4194 confronted H6923 (H8765)...
TROUBLES AND DEATH HAD PRESSED IN ON HIM (PSALMS 18:4). ‘The cords of death encompassed me, And the floods of ungodliness (literally ‘worthlessness' - belial) made me afraid. The cords of Sheol wer...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._ What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he must do so,...
Psalms 18:1. _To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength._ «I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind myself to thee for the future as well as the present.» Psalms 18:2. The LORD is...
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...
_The sorrows of death compassed me._ ESTIMATING OUR SORROWS No attempt is here made to diminish the severity of the crisis. Often when a great agony is overpast, the sufferer himself forgets its inte...
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....
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...
Acts 2:24; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Psalms 86:13; Psalms 88:3...
Sorrows — Which brought me to the brink of the grave. Death — Had almost taken hold of me, before I was aware....