Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 60:11
Though I have some reputation for valour and conduct, and though my people are very numerous, and now united under me, yet all this will avail little or nothing without thy almighty help.
Though I have some reputation for valour and conduct, and though my people are very numerous, and now united under me, yet all this will avail little or nothing without thy almighty help.
Verse Psalms 60:11. _GIVE US HELP FROM TROUBLE: FOR VAIN_ IS _THE HELP OF_ _MAN._] We have done all we can do, and have trusted too much in ourselves; now, Lord, undertake for us....
GIVE US HELP FROM TROUBLE - From the troubles which have now come upon us and overwhelmed us. FOR VAIN IS THE HELP OF MAN - Margin, salvation. The idea is, that they would look in vain to man to assis...
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...
HELP FROM TROUBLE. succor out of trouble. HELP OF MAN. salvation or deliverance of man. Compare "save", Psalms 60:5....
_Give us help from trouble_ Or, as R.V., Give us help against the adversary. Cp. Psalms 60:12. _for vain_is _the help of man_ Lit. _salvation_. It is a delusion (cp. Psalms 33:17) to look to human str...
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....
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...
FROM TROUBLE] RV 'against the adversary.'...
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 60:13]_ הָֽבָה ־לָּ֣נוּ עֶזְרָ֣ת מִ צָּ֑ר...
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...
11_Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. _Again he reverts to the exercise of prayer, or rather is led to it naturally by the very confidence of hope, which we have seen that he ente...
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...
GIVE US HELP FROM TROUBLE,.... To have trouble is the common lot of all men, but especially of the people of God. They have some troubles which others have not, arising from indwelling sin, Satan's te...
Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man. Ver. 11. _Give us help from trouble_] Give it us whensoever we need it; as hitherto thou very graciously hast done. _ For vain is the help of...
_Give us help from trouble_ Do not frustrate these hopes, but afford us thy help against the Syrians also 2 Samuel 8:5, who now distress us; _for vain is the help of man_ No human force is able to del...
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...
Give us help from trouble, affording them deliverance from the enemy; FOR VAIN IS THE HELP OF MAN, this conviction being the basis of every trustful prayer....
HELP OF MAN: _ Heb._ salvation...
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 60:11 Give H3051 (H8798) help H5833 trouble H6862 help H8668 man H120 useless H7723 Give -...
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...
_Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man._ HELP IN GOD IN ALL TIMES OF TROUBLE If a man had a long and perilous journey to take, in which he would be exposed to many difficulties and...
_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...
Isaiah 30:7; Isaiah 31:3; Psalms 130:8; Psalms 25:22; Psalms 62:1;...