James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary
Psalms 20:1-9
Psalms 19
Proper Psalm for Christmas Day (Morning).
Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 (Morning).
Psalms 19
Proper Psalm for Christmas Day (Morning).
Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 (Morning).
PSALM XX _A prayer for the king in his enterprises, that his prayers may_ _be heard, his offerings accepted, and his wishes fulfilled_, 1-4. _Confidence of victory expressed_, 5, 6. _Vain hopes e...
THE LORD HEAR THEE IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE - According to the view expressed in the introduction to the psalm, this is the language of the people praying for their king, or expressing the hope that he w...
Psalms 20 Christ and His Salvation as Contemplated by His People _ 1. What God has done for Christ (Psalms 20:1)_ 2. The salvation His people enjoy (Psalms 20:5)...
XX. A prayer for deliverance from national disaster, changing (probably after the sacrifice has been offered) into confidence at Psalms 20:6; Now know I, etc. The mention of a king or anointed one wou...
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ See App-4. HEAR. answer. NAME. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the person himself. Occurs three times in t...
The people's prayer for their king's success....
_hear thee_ R.V., answer thee, and so in Psalms 20:6_; Psalms 20:9_. _the day of trouble_ Or _distress_, when _adversaries_(a cognate word) press him hard. The impending campaign is specially, though...
_The church blesseth the king in his exploits: her confidence in God's succour._ To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. _TITLE._— לדוד מזמור למנצח _lamnatseach mizmor ledavid._ This Psalm is suppos...
PSALMS 20 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE To Prayer for a King in Distress, a Favourable Answer is Confidently Awaited. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 20:1-4, Petitions for Divine Succour. Refrain, Psalms 20:5, Prom...
_THE LORD HEAR THEE IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE; THE NAME OF THE GOD OF JACOB DEFEND THEE;_ Israel's prayer for its anointed king in battle. So the Church's prayer for her Messiah's triumph. Psalms 20:1 and...
20:1 thee; (f-25) Or 'set thee up on high.'...
THE NAME] is equivalent to the God to whom it belongs. It expresses all that is known about Him. DEFEND THEE] RV 'set thee up on high,' over all enemies....
This and the following Ps. form a closely connected pair. The one is a prayer for a king going out to battle, and the other is a thanksgiving for his triumphant return. Both have the same title. There...
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...
DAY OF TROUBLE... GOD OF JACOB. — This certainly recalls the patriarch’s words (Genesis 35:3), “I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress.” The “name” alone of the...
לַ † מְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמֹ֥ור לְ דָוִֽד׃ ...
Psalms 20:1 THIS is a battle song followed by a chant of victory. They are connected in subject and probably in occasion, but fight and triumph have fallen dim to us, though we can still feel how hotl...
THE SAVING STRENGTH OF GOD'S RIGHT HAND Psalms 20:1 This may have been written on such an occasion as 2 Samuel 10:1. _ The prayer of the soldiers,_ Psalms 20:1. Ready, drawn up for the battle, they...
This and the next psalms are certainly closely connected. The first is the prayer of the people on behalf of the king as he goes forth to battle. The first five verses were sung in chorus and express...
"To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David." The (a) LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the (b) name of the God of Jacob defend thee; (a) By this kings are also admonished to call to God in their af...
_David, after his victory over the Ammonites; (Du Pin; Calmet) though many passages relate only to the Messias, as the Chaldean and even some of the modern Jews confess, (Kimchi; Muis) with the holy F...
CONTENTS We have here a prayer, put up by the whole church in faith, for Jehovah's prospering the cause of his glorious Messiah, the Church's king. And the Church, already taking for granted that wha...
The inscription shows that the psalm was composed by David; but though he was its author, there is no absurdity in his speaking of himself in the person of others. The office of a prophet having been...
In Psalms 20 we have, in the midst of sorrows and evil come in as regards the two preceding testimonies, the faithful witness, the living witness Himself. He is seen in the day of His distress, for He...
THE LORD HEAR THEE IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE,.... All the days of Christ were days of trouble; he was a brother born for adversity; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefs; he had his own sorrows, an...
Psalms 20:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. » The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; _A Psalm of David_] Or, concerning David; so Kimchi. Or, fo...
_The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble_ It was often a day of trouble with David. “Neither the crown on his head,” says Henry, “nor the grace in his heart, would exempt him from trouble.” But in hi...
PRAYER IN TIME OF WAR. To the chief musician, a psalm of David, evidently composed to be sung by the Tabernacle chorus while the king and his army were in the field, the purpose being to implore Jeho...
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble, graciously and attentively listening to the king's call when he would find himself in a difficult and dangerous position; THE NAME OF THE GOD OF JACOB, the mi...
DEFEND THEE: _ Heb._ set thee on an high place...
PSALM 20 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm contains a prayer to be used by the people, both now on the behalf of king David, when he was undertaking some great expedition, going forth, as is supposed, against t...
Psalms 20:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) Psalm H4210 David H1732 LORD H3068 answer H6030 (H8799) day H3117 trouble...
THE LEADING INTERCESSOR SPEAKS TO THE PEOPLE BY WAY OF INTERCESSION (PSALMS 20:1). We note here the singular ‘you'. The reference is probably to the whole people seen as one. Or it may be spoken to th...
DEFEND Hebrew, "set thee on an high place....
Psalms 20:1 I. The God of Jacob tells us, by the very name, that He is a God who is not deterred by a great transgression, or by great proneness to transgression, from constituting Himself the Guide...
The 20 th Psalm is a prayer for the king going forth to the conflict, a prayer for David; better still, a prayer for great David's greater Son. The 21 st Psalm is a song of victory for the returning c...
The 20 th Psalm is a prayer for the King; not only for David or Solomon, but for «great David's greater Son,» the true King of the Church. As if the Church saw Jesus going forth to his work, she offer...
CONTENTS: A prayer for God's annointed people. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The children of this world trust in second causes and rise or fall with them but those who have a believing and obe...
Psalms 20:1. _The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble._ We read in Psalms 83. that nearly all the surrounding nations, after David was made king, entered into a league to demolish the Jewish nation,...
_The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble._ A BATTLE PRAYER This, it is believed, is the battle prayer or litany which was solemnly chanted in the sanctuary on the eve of the great expedition to cru...
PSALMS PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 20:1. These two psalms form a pair of royal psalms. Psalms 20:1 is a prayer that God will give success to the Davidic king, particularly in b
INTRODUCTION “This is evidently a liturgical psalm, and was intended originally, it would seem, to be sung on behalf of a king who was about to go forth to war against his enemies. As the king stands...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm seems to have been composed for a special occasion, when David was about to proceed on an expedition against a foreign enemy. It is liturgical, and written to be recited in the c...
Psa 20:1-9 is to the chief musician also. It is a psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble (Psalms 20:1); Actually, Jehovah, "May Jehovah hear you in the day of trouble." the name of...
Exodus 3:13; Exodus 34:5; Genesis 32:27; Genesis 48:15; Genesis 48:1
God of Jacob — God had made a covenant with Jacob and his posterity....