Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 142:7
Prison — Set me at liberty. Compass — Shall flock to me from all parts, to rejoice and bless God with me and for me.
Prison — Set me at liberty. Compass — Shall flock to me from all parts, to rejoice and bless God with me and for me.
Verse Psalms 142:7. _BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON_] Bring נפשי _naphshi_, my _life_, out of this _cave_ in which it is now _imprisoned_; Saul and his men being in possession of the entrance. _THE RIG...
BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON - Bring me out of my present condition which is like a prison. I am as it were shut up; I am encompassed with foes; I do not know how to escape. Compare Psalms 25:17. THAT...
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...
_Bring my soul out of prison_ Probably to be understood figuratively, -bring my soul out of distress" (Psalms 143:11). Cp. Isaiah 42:7, of the Exile; Psalms 107:10. But it may mean that he was actuall...
Reminding God of his devotion in past times, he prays for a speedy answer to his prayer....
DISCOURSE: 737 LIBERTY DESIRED Psalms 142:7. _Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name!_ GREAT are the changes which, from time to time, we observe in the material world; namely, from...
I CRIED UNTO THEE, O LORD, &C.— He applies himself to God to rescue him out of this prison, the cave wherein he was concealed. _I have said,_ &c. "I have solemnly devoted myself to thee, as my God and...
THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL ENCOMPASS ME, &C.— From me the righteous shall their hopes confirm, When I the object of thy care appear. FENWICK. Dr. Chandler renders it, _The righteous will crown thee with pra...
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
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON, THAT I MAY PRAISE THY NAME - ans...
142:7 celebrate (c-10) As Psalms 138:2 . see Psalms 109:30 ....
A prayer of a hunted soul: ascribed to David 'in the cave,' but not likely to be by him....
PRISON] metaphorical: cp. Psalms 107:10. COMPASS ME ABOUT] RM 'crown themselves because of me.' The meaning is, that they will rejoice with him in his rejoicing....
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!" ...
OUT OF PRISON. — This expression, which must certainly be figurative of distress (comp. Psalms 143:11), probably led to the inscription. COMPASS ME ABOUT. — The Hebrew word here employed is used in a...
_[Psalms 142:8]_ הֹ֘וצִ֤יאָה מִ מַּסְגֵּ֨ר ׀ נַפְשִׁי֮ לְ...
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...
Bring my soul out of (c) prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall (d) compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. (c) For he was on all sides beset with his enemies as t...
_Pit. Or "lake," meaning (Haydock) the grave. (Calmet) --- If man be left to himself, he will presently yield to sin, from which he will not be delivered without God's grace._...
REFLECTIONS Pause, my soul, over this sweet Psalm, and take from it, for thy constant meditation, the many precious instructions it holds forth unto thee. Look again and again at Jesus, as thou ponder...
Reader! look once more to Jesus, to while reading this account. Call to min d how one disciple betrayed him, and another denied him, and all forsook him and fled! Hear the strong cries Jesus on the cr...
_THE VICTORY OF FAITH_ ‘Thou shalt deal bountifully with me.’ Psalms 142:7 I. THESE WORDS HONOURED GOD.—David was in the cave, praying and pouring out complaints. His ‘spirit was overwhelmed’; ‘ref...
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...
BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON,.... Not out of purgatory, to which some Popish writers wrest these words very absurdly; nor out of the prison of his body, as Joseph Ben Gorion p; knowing that none but Go...
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. Ver. 7. _Bring my soul out of prison_] _i.e._ Out of this distr...
_Attend unto my cry_, &c. O let my importunate cry prevail for some relief; which will come most seasonably in this exceeding great necessity; _for I am brought very low_ And if thou do not help me I...
Bring my soul out of prison, out of this extremity of sorrows in which he found himself, THAT I MAY PRAISE THY NAME, in grateful appreciation of what the Lord had done for him. THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL COM...
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,...
BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON; bring me safe out of this cave, wherein I am imprisoned, and set me at perfect liberty. SHALL COMPASS ME ABOUT; shall flock to me from all parts, partly out of curiosity t...
Psalms 142:7 Bring H3318 (H8685) soul H5315 prison H4525 praise H3034 (H8687) name H8034 righteous H6662 surround...
Psalms 142:7 I. Consider what is to be understood by "the soul in prison." The ideas suggested by the word "prison" are such as these: deprivation of liberty, severe and gloomy restraint, and exclusio...
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...
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:...
_Bring my soul out of prison._ THE SOUL IN PRISON I. The prison into which so many souls are cast. David said, “In the way wherein I walked, the hunters laid a snare for me.” No one had better intent...
_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 142:5 The final section ties the whole psalm together. CRY TO YOU echoes v. Psalms 142:1, while you are my refuge
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...
Acts 2:24; Isaiah 61:1; James 5:11; Psalms 107:41; Psalms 107:42;...