Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 142:3
Knowest — So as to direct me to it. My path — What paths I should chuse whereby I might escape.
Knowest — So as to direct me to it. My path — What paths I should chuse whereby I might escape.
Verse Psalms 142:3. _THEN THOU KNEWEST MY PATH._] When Saul and his army were about the cave in which I was hidden, _thou knewest my path _- that I had then no way of escape but by _miracle_: but thou...
WHEN MY SPIRIT WAS OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME - Luther renders this, “When my spirit was in distress.” The Hebrew word rendered “overwhelmed” means, in Kal, to cover as with a garment; then, to be covered...
PSALM 140-142 These three Psalms are Psalms of David. The third one in this series, 142 is another Maschil, the last Maschil Psalm, being a prayer when David was in the cave. In these Psalms the distr...
CXLII. The Psalmist prays for help to God who knows his distress. His enemies are stronger than he, and there is none to help him, save God. The righteous will welcome his deliverance from the snares...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. WAS OVERWHELMED. fainted. Hebrew. was darkened. Compare Psalms 77:3; Psalms 107:5; Psalms 143:4. Elsewhere only...
Jehovah knows his peril, and his loneliness....
When my spirit fainteth upon me, THOU knowest my path, In the way wherein I must walk have men hidden a snare for me....
WHEN MY SPIRIT, &C.— _Now, when my spirit is overwhelmed within me, yet thou knowest my path._ "Though the lowness of my spirits renders me incapable of providing for my own escape; yet thou art able...
PSALMS 142 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Loud Outcries in a Cave Succeed Guarded Petitions at Court. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 142:1-2, A Loud-Voiced Prelude. Stanzas II. and III., Psalms 142:3-4, Severity
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. WHEN MY SPIRIT WAS OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME, THEN THOU KNEWEST M...
A prayer of a hunted soul: ascribed to David 'in the cave,' but not likely to be by him....
'When my spirit is faint within me' (then I remember) 'thou knowest my path.'...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ NOBODY *CARES ABOUT ME PSALMS 142 Jesus said, "Your Father in *heaven feeds the birds (that fly) in the air. You are much better than they are!" ...
WHEN MY SPIRIT. — Literally, _in the muffling upon me of my spirit._ When my spirit was so wrapped in trouble and gloom, so “muffled round with woe” that I could not see the path before me, was distra...
_[Psalms 142:4]_ בְּ הִתְעַטֵּ֬ף עָלַ֨י ׀ רוּחִ֗י וְ...
Psalms 142:1 THE superscription not only calls this a psalm of David's, but specifies the circumstances of its composition. It breathes the same spirit of mingled fear and faith which characterises ma...
“NO MAN CARED FOR MY SOUL” Psalms 142:1-7 The cave was dark and shared by rough and lawless men with whom David had little sympathy. His gentle and devout spirit must often have craved for more co...
In this psalm human need is yet more vividly set forth. Here is seen the consciousness resulting from the difficulties described in the previous psalm. Here there is a combination of fighting and fear...
_Of old. Literally, "of an age," (Haydock) who are quite forgotten, Lamentations iii. 6. (Calmet) --- The devil had violently tempted me, by means of temporal and spiritual calamities. (Worthington) -...
If the Reader wish to see the part David, king of Israel, bore personally in this Psalm, he will find the explanation in David's history. It is more than likely, that the cave here spoken of was that...
3._When, my spirit_, _etc_. Though he owns here that he felt anxiety, yet he confirms what he had said as to the constancy of his faith. The figure which he uses of his spirit being _perplexed_, (246)...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...
WHEN MY SPIRIT WAS OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME,.... Ready to sink and faint under the present affliction, being attended with the hidings of God's face, and with unbelieving frames; which is sometimes the c...
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. Ver. 3. _When my spirit was overwhelmed within me_] Or, covered...
_When my spirit was overwhelmed within me_ And ready to sink under the burden of grief and fear: when I was quite at a loss what steps to take, and almost ready to despair; _then thou knewest my path_...
CRY FOR HELP IN GREAT EXTREMITY. Maschil, a didactic poem, one teaching an important lesson, of David; a prayer when he was in the cave, either in that of Adullam, 1 Samuel 22, or in that of Engedi,...
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, fainting away with the severity of his distress, THEN THOU KNEWEST MY PATH, the entire conduct of David lying open before the omniscient eyes of Jehovah, with...
THOU KNEWEST, to wit, practically, so as to direct me to it. MY PATH; what paths I should choose whereby I might escape Saul, when I fled hither and thither in deserts, and mountains, and woods; and w...
Psalms 142:3 spirit H7307 overwhelmed H5848 (H8692) knew H3045 (H8804) path H5410 way H734 which H2098 walk...
Maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave. This «Maschil of David» is instructive to us, for the experience of one believer is very edifying to another. We are so much alike that, as in water...
Psalms 142:1. _I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication._ Silent prayers are often true prayers, but there are times when, in extremity of suffering...
An instructive psalm of David, for we speak to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, and they are a means of instruction, as well as a means of utterance of praise. «A prayer when he...
CONTENTS: The malice of enemies and expectation of God's deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: There is no cave so deep or dark but that out of it we may send up our souls in prayer to Go...
The title of this psalm seems undisputed; and it therefore fixes the author and the occasion of its composition. _Maschil,_ or an instruction, _of David; a prayer when he was in the cave. 1 Samuel 22:...
_When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then Thou knewest my path._ AFFLICTION AND CONSOLATION I. The dejection which he felt. 1. A painful consciousness of past guilt. 2. An oppressive enduran...
_I cried unto the Lord with my voice._ RELIGION IN THE TRIALS OF LIFE: - I. The trials here represented. He speaks of himself as-- 1. Overwhelmed (verse 3). 2. Walking in snares (verse 3). 3. Des...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 142:1. This individual lament is a companion to Psalms 57:1. It is also similar to...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 142:3 These verses express what people often feel when being threatened: out of energy, beset by dangers, confused, and painfully alone. ⇐...
INTRODUCTION “A maschil of David,” _ie_., an instruction or a didactic poem by David. “A prayer when he was in the cave;” “That is,” says Barnes, “either a prayer which he composed while there, or whi...
EXPOSITION DAVID once more cries to God for protection and deliverance. The "title" says that the prayer was composed by him "when he was in the cave," by which we must understand "the cave of Adullam...
This is a prayer of David when he was in the cave. No doubt the cave of Adullam when he was hiding from Saul. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my prayer. I p...
Jeremiah 18:22; Job 23:10; Mark 14:33; Matthew 22:15; Psalms 1:6;...