Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 11:2
For lo — David having directed his speech to his enemies, now turns it to God, and pours out before him his complaints. Ready — They lay designs for my destruction and make all things ready to execute them.
For lo — David having directed his speech to his enemies, now turns it to God, and pours out before him his complaints. Ready — They lay designs for my destruction and make all things ready to execute them.
Verse Psalms 11:2. _FOR, LO, THE WICKED BEND_ THEIR _BOW_] Perhaps these are more of the words of his advisers: Every thing is ready for thy destruction: the arrow that is to pierce thy heart is alrea...
FOR, LO, THE WICKED BEND THEIR BOW - These are to he regarded as the words of the persons referred to in the previous verse, who had advised the persecuted psalmist to flee to the mountains. In this v...
Psalms 11 __ 1. Faith's resources in the day of trouble (Psalms 11:1) 2. The recompense for the righteous and the wicked (Psalms 11:5) Psal
XI. YAHWEH THE SURE REFUGE. Psalms 11:1. The problem stated. The wicked are bold: the righteous cannot meet their attack. They can but flee like a little bird (the habitual meaning of the word transla...
THE WICKED. the lawless ones. Hebrew. _rasha. '._ PRIVILY. in the darkness. THE UPRIGHT. upright ones....
PSALMS 11 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Faith's Brave Answer to the Counsels of Fear. ANALYSIS Stanza, Psalms 11:1-3, Counsels of Despair, with an Expression of Surprise Refused. Antistanza, Psalms 11:4-6,Conf...
_FOR, LO, THE WICKED BEND THEIR BOW, THEY MAKE READY THEIR ARROW UPON THE STRING, THAT THEY MAY PRIVILY SHOOT AT THE UPRIGHT IN HEART._ For, lo. The argument follows whereon the friends of the godly...
of the Messianic hope in Psalms 2, 20, 28,, 40. The following Pss. are either quoted from or distinctly referred to in NT.: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 32, 34, 40, 41. In several instances the...
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...
PRIVILY. — See margin, which preserves the image of the archer lurking in a dark corner....
כִּ֤י הִנֵּ֤ה הָ רְשָׁעִ֡ים יִדְרְכ֬וּן קֶ֗שֶׁת...
Psalms 11:1 The correctness of the superscription is, in the present case, defended by Ewald and Hitzig. Delitzsch refers the psalm to the eve of Absalom's conspiracy, while other supporters of the Da...
GOD OUR REFUGE AND DEFENSE Psalms 11:1; Psalms 12:1 The first of these is a debate between fear and faith, and dates from Saul's persecutions. Timid friends, anxious for David's safety, urged him to...
This psalm is the answer of faith to the advice of fear. Both are alike conscious of immediate peril. Fear sees only the things that are near. Faith takes in the larger distances. If the things fear s...
Save. David, persecuted by Saul, (Bossuet) or Absalom; (Grotius) the captives at Babylon; (Calmet) our Saviour suffering, or coming to judge; (St. Augustine) in a word, any just man who sees the corru...
There will be, there must be, persecutions. But Jesus is the foundation of his Church, and that standeth sure....
2._Surely, behold! the ungodly. _Some think that this is added as the excuse made by those who desired David to save himself by flight. According to others, David expostulates with his countrymen, who...
What the righteous remnant are to do when the power of evil is thus dominant in Emmanuel's land, Psalms 11 treats of. Psalms 11-15, as I have already remarked, give the thoughts and feelings of the re...
FOR, LO, THE WICKED BEND [THEIR] BOW,.... Are devising mischief, and making preparations to accomplish it; THEY MAKE READY THEIR ARROW UPON THE STRING; of the bow, and are just about to execute their...
_For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart._ Ver. 2. _For, lo, the wicked bend their bow_] _sc._ To shoot...
_For, lo, the wicked bend their bow_, &c. Many eminent commentators consider these also as the words of David's friends, representing to him, as a motive for his flight, the extreme danger he was in,...
DAVID'S REFUSAL TO FLEE WHEN IN DANGER OF LIFE. There was a time when David's throne was in danger, when Absalom was scheming to usurp the royal power in Israel, when David's very life was no longer s...
For, lo, so the counselors of David told him, THE WICKED BEND THEIR BOW, THEY MAKE READY THEIR ARROW UPON THE STRING, adjusting it for a sudden shot, THAT THEY MAY PRIVILY SHOOT AT THE UPRIGHT IN HEAR...
PRIVILY: _ Heb._ in darkness...
FOR LO: these are the words, either, 1. Of David's friends or enemies, confirming their former advice; which might suit with it, if that was the counsel of his friends; but not if it was (as it seems...
Psalms 11:2 wicked H7563 bend H1869 (H8799) bow H7198 ready H3559 (H8790) arrow H2671 string H3499 shoot...
‘For the Chief Musician. Of David.' The psalm is dedicated to the Choirmaster and is of the Davidic collection, of which a large part, if not all, were written by David himself. For his reputation as...
CONTENTS: The doom of the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we get the vision of God on His throne, governing all creatures, rendering to all according to their works, we shall then see...
Psalms 11:1. _Flee as a bird to your mountain,_ the hill country of Judea. When hiding from Saul, and when the wicked bent their bow against him, it was prudent to shun the snares. Psalms 11:3. _If th...
_In the Lord put I my trust._ JEHOVAH THE PROTECTOR AND AVENGER OF THE PERSECUTED SAINT The Psalmist, beset by malicious foes, is warned by some of his adherents to seek refuge in flight. The Psalm i...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 11:1. This psalm describes the confidence that the faithful may have, even in times of severe crisis. ⇐...
INTRODUCTION “The friends of David advise him in this psalm to flee unto the mountainous parts of the land of Judah, in order to avoid the danger which was threatening him, should he remain in the pla...
EXPOSITION ASCRIBED to David in the "title," this psalm is almost universally allowed to be his. It "has all the characteristics of the earlier Davidic psalms." No allusion enables us to assign it to...
Psa 11:1-7 is to the chief musician. It is a psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how do you say to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? (Psalms 11:1) My trust is in the Lord. Why should...
1 Samuel 18:21; 1 Samuel 23:9; Acts 23:12; Jeremiah 9:3; Matthew 26:4