Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 71:10
Lay wait for my soul, or watch it, that they may find occasion to destroy it, and that it may not escape their hands.
Lay wait for my soul, or watch it, that they may find occasion to destroy it, and that it may not escape their hands.
Verse Psalms 71:10. _LAY WAIT FOR MY SOUL_] They seek to destroy my _life_....
FOR MINE ENEMIES SPEAK AGAINST ME - That is, they said substantially, as it is stated in Psalms 71:11, that God had forsaken him, and that therefore, they would arise and punish him, or treat him as a...
Psalms 71 Israel's Song of Hope _ 1. Declaration of trust (Psalms 71:1)_ 2. Anticipations of faith (Psalms 71:12) 3. Revival and victory ...
LXXI. A PSALM OF GRATITUDE FOR GOD'S CONSTANT CARE OF HIS SERVANT FROM YOUTH TO OLD AGE. The Psalmist expresses himself in language borrowed from older sources. PSALMS 71:1. Quoted from Psalms 31. Us...
MY SOUL. me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._...
Repeated deprecations and prayers....
_against me_ R.V. concerning me. Cp. Psalms 3:2; Psalms 41:5. What they say follows in Psalms 71:11. _they that lay wait for my soul_ Or, they that watch for my life....
Psalms 70, 71 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Not to be Forsaken in Old Age. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 70:1-3 (70), Prayer against Enemies. Stanza II., Psalms 70:4-5 (70), Prayer in behalf of Friends. Sta...
_FOR MINE ENEMIES SPEAK AGAINST ME; AND THEY THAT LAY WAIT FOR MY SOUL TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER,_ For mine enemies speak against me ... God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him. The ungodly persecu...
This Ps. of prayer (Psalms 71:1) and praise (Psalms 71:14) was apparently written by an old man (Psalms 71:9; Psalms 71:18) and in the time of the exile.
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...
(9-11) This piece may be compared with Psalms 41:6. The formal “saying” (Psalms 71:11), introducing a quotation, is an indication of a late date, the early literature employing no signs of quotation....
כִּֽי ־אָמְר֣וּ אֹויְבַ֣י לִ֑י וְ שֹׁמְרֵ֥י נ
Psalms 71:1 ECHOES of former psalms make the staple of this one, and even those parts of it which are not quotations have little individuality. The themes are familiar, and the expression of them is s...
“MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH&RDQUO Psalms 71:1 Some commentators ascribe this psalm to Jeremiah. His pensive, plaintive tone is certainly present in it. But whoever the author, he must have written in his...
This is pre-eminently a song of the aged, and, like old age, it is reminiscent. The singer passes from memory to hope, and from experience to praise. No very definite division is possible. Generally s...
Tharsis. Bordering on "the sea," (Berthier) or in Cilicia, though we find not that Solomon ever claimed any authority there, or that the Mediterranean was under his control. He sent his fleet indeed t...
The last of these verses serves as a clue to explain the others in reference to Christ. Recollect the taunts of the Jews, when the Lord hung on the cross, when they said, He trusted in God that he wou...
10._For my enemies have said of me, etc. _He pleads, as an argument with God to show him mercy, the additional circumstance, that the wicked took greater license in cruelly persecuting him, from the b...
Psalms 71, founded, I suppose, as much of this book, upon the flight of David on the rebellion of Absalom, presents, I apprehend, the sum of all God's ways with Israel from the commencement of their h...
FOR MINE ENEMIES SPEAK AGAINST, ME,.... Or "say unto me" y what is expressed in the following verse, "God hath forsaken him"; and so these words are a reason of the above petitions: or "mine enemies s...
_For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,_ Ver. 10. _For mine enemies_] Who, rather than their lives, would bereave me of mine; these would double...
_Let my mouth be filled with thy praise_ Give me occasion to multiply praises to thee for delivering me out of my present distress. _Cast me not off in my old age_ When I am most feeble, and most need...
PRAYER OF AN AGED BELIEVER FOR GOD'S ASSISTANCE. Prayer for Deliverance...
For mine enemies speak against me, taking new courage now that the believer has lost his youthful power and energy; AND THEY THAT LAY WAIT FOR MY SOUL, eagerly watching for his destruction, TAKE COUNS...
LAY WAIT: _ Heb._ watch, or observe...
1-13 David prays that he might never be made ashamed of dependence upon God. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace. The gracious care of Divine providence in o...
Psalms 71:10 enemies H341 (H8802) speak H559 (H8804) wait H8104 (H8802) life H5315 counsel H3289 ...
Psalms 71:1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteous, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habita...
This Psalm, written by an old man, is specially suitable for an old man. It is numbered seventy-one, and it may suit those who have reached that age; but it is also appropriate to us all in prospect o...
Psalms 71:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ There is his trust, and there is his fear; his trust he dares to avow, his fear he turns into a prayer. Psalms 71...
CONTENTS: Prayer that enemies might be put to shame. Joyful praise of God's goodness. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who live a life of confidence in God and continually resort to Him...
This psalm, though destitute of title, has passed down to us as composed by David, during the rebellion of Absalom. He uses the same words in his present troubles, as when Saul pursued him. Psalms 71...
_In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ A PICTURE OF A PIOUS OLD MAN I. The entreaties of a pious old man. 1. Against evil. (1) Moral failure (Psalms 70:1). (2) Gen...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 71:1. This is another individual lament, suited to a faithful person in danger from enemies who take advantage of any weakness or distress (vv. Psa
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Barnes, “is without a title. It is impossible to determine on what occasion it was composed. There is some plausibility in the supposition that Psalms 70 might have bee...
EXPOSITION Psalms 71:1 is, like so many others, a psalm divided between complaint and praise. It is comparatively wanting in originality, being, to a very great extent, an echo of other psalms, especi...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 71:1-24. Psalms 71:1-24 is the psalm of the aged man. Probably David as he was getting up into years, and his reddish colored hair had turned gray. David's li...
1 Samuel 19:11; 2 Samuel 17:1; Jeremiah 20:10; Matthew 26:3; M