Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 60:10
To wit, in former times, but now hast graciously returned to us. He brings to his own and people's minds their former calamities, that they may be more thankful for present mercies and deliverance.
To wit, in former times, but now hast graciously returned to us. He brings to his own and people's minds their former calamities, that they may be more thankful for present mercies and deliverance.
Verse Psalms 60:10. _WILT NOT THOU, O GOD_] It is God alone from whom we can expect our enlargement. He who has cast us off, and has abandoned us in battle; it is that very God alone from whom we expe...
WILT NOT THOU, O GOD, WHICH HADST EAST US OFF? - See the notes at Psalms 60:1. The meaning is, that although God had seemed to reject and forsake them, they had no other resource, and the appeal might...
Psalms 60 The Lord with His People _ 1. Confessions and prayer (Psalms 60:1)_ 2. The inheritance anticipated (Psalms 60:6) 3. Faith's certainty ...
LX. This Ps. really consists of two bound together in an abrupt style. In A, _i.e._ in Psalms 60:1; Psalms 60:10_ b_, Psalms 60:11 f. we have a lament over the desperate condition of Israel, though th...
O GOD. Some codices omit "O God"....
None but God can give help, and though for the moment He has abandoned His people, He will surely once more lead them to victory....
Wilt _not thou, O God_&c. This rendering, which is that of the LXX, Vulg., Symm., and Jer., is grammatically legitimate, though less obvious than that of R.V.; Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And...
PSALMS 60 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Outcry of Anguish, Expostulation and Entreaty, under a Severe Reverse. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 60:1-4, Lamentation over a Defeat. Stanza II., Psalms 60:5-8, Prayer...
_WHO WILL BRING ME INTO THE STRONG CITY? WHO WILL LEAD ME INTO EDOM?_ -Anticipation of, and prayer for, success in the expedition against Edom. Verse 9. WHO WILL BRING ME INTO THE STRONG CITY? - `the...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth: Michtam of David, to teach: when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt...
RV 'Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.'...
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...
_[Psalms 60:12]_ הֲ לֹֽא ־אַתָּ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים זְנַחְתָּ֑נוּ...
Psalms 60:1 THIS psalm has evidently a definite historical background. Israel has been worsted in fight, but still continues its campaign against Edom. Meditating on God's promises, the psalmist antic...
PRAYER FOR HELP AGAINST FOES Psalms 60:1 This was a national psalm to be _taught_ the people. See title; also Deuteronomy 31:19. A strong coalition had been formed against David at that time. See 2 S...
This is a song out of defeat. It may be divided into three parts. The first is a recognition of the cause of defeat, ending with a prayer (verses Psa 60:1-5). The second expresses the answer of God in...
How beautiful are all these things, if seen and read with reference to Christ! The prophet beheld in a vision the Lord Jesus coming up from Edom after his victory, when travelling in the greatness of...
In Psalms 60 the remnant acknowledge God's having cast them off. Their only hope is, that He will turn to them again. This is exactly the point of Israel's righteousness as a nation: no going for help...
[WILT] NOT THOU, O GOD?.... This is an answer to the question, and is made by putting another, which tacitly contains in it an affirmation that God would do it. He has foretold the destruction of the...
Psalms 60:10 [Wilt] not thou, O God, [which] hadst cast us off? and [thou], O God, [which] didst not go out with our armies? Ver. 10. _Wilt not thou, O God?_] Or, hast not thou, &c. The glory of all...
_Who will bring me into the strong city_, &c. As if he had said, These are difficult things indeed; and I may well ask, when I consider how potent these nations are, By what power shall I enter that s...
Wilt not Thou, O God, to whom he here confidently turns, WHICH HADST CAST US OFF, as he had complained in v. 1, AND THOU, O GOD, WHICH DIDST NOT GO OUT WITH OUR ARMIES? by permitting this reversal to...
A HYMN OF WAR AND VICTORY. To the chief musician upon Shushaneduth, to be chanted in public worship according to the melody "The Lily of Testimony," this tune indicating also the contents of the psalm...
6-12 If Christ be ours, all things, one way or another, shall be for our eternal good. The man who is a new creature in Christ, may rejoice in all the precious promises God has spoken in his holiness...
Psalms 60:10 God H430 off H2186 (H8804) God H430 go H3318 (H8799) armies H6635 Wilt -...
DAVID DECLARES HIS ASSURANCE THAT ALTHOUGH GOD HAS APPEARED FOR A WHILE TO HAVE ABANDONED HIS PEOPLE, HE WILL NOW ARISE AND ENABLE THEM TO GAIN THE VICTORY (PSALMS 60:9). David now questions who it is...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the deliverance of God's people from enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God often gives His own people a hard course in this world that they may not take up their rest...
Psalms 60:1. _Oh God thou hast cast us off;_ or interrogatively, Why hast thou cast us off? At this juncture all the surrounding nations, named here, in the eighty third psalm, and in 2 Samuel 8., see...
_Moab is my washpot._ MOAB IS MY WASHPOT “Moab is my wash-pot,” nothing more--a thing contemptible and despicable as compared with the eternal realities of covenant blessings; yet, for all that, ther...
_O God, Thou hast cast us off; Thou hast scattered us._ A PSALM OF DEFEAT In our own language we possess many fine songs of patriotism. It would be impossible to overestimate the value of such a song...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 60:1. This is a lament for the whole community of Israel at a time when their continued life in the land is being threatened by Gentile neighbors. The title says it is “for...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—_“To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Upon Shushaneduth_,” is probably a musical direction to the leader of the choir. In the superscription to Psa...
EXPOSITION IN the case of this psalm, the "title" is again our best guide, both with respect to the author and to the occasion of the composition. The title is unusually full, and contains such a numb...
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. For thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; fo...
1 Chronicles 10:1; 1 Samuel 4:10; 1 Samuel 4:11; 1 Samuel 4:6; 1
Hadst cut off — But now hast graciously returned to us....