Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 17:13
Sword — Thy instrument to execute vengeance upon thine enemies. Do not punish me with this rod: let me fall into thy hands, and not into the hands of men.
Sword — Thy instrument to execute vengeance upon thine enemies. Do not punish me with this rod: let me fall into thy hands, and not into the hands of men.
Verse Psalms 17:13. _ARISE, O LORD, DISAPPOINT HIM_] When _he_ arises to spring upon and tear me to pieces, arise _thou_, O Lord; disappoint him of his prey; seize him, and cast him down. _DELIVER MY...
ARISE, O LORD - See the notes at Psalms 3:7. DISAPPOINT HIM - Margin, “prevent his face.” The marginal reading expresses the sense of the Hebrew. The word used in the original means “to anticipate, to...
Psalms 17 The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy _ 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1)_ 2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6) 3. The deliverance ...
XVII. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS FOES. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made in...
DISAPPOINT. anticipate. MY SOUL. me myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. SWORD. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
_Arise, O Lord_(Psalms 3:7), confront him, meet him face to face as he prepares to spring (or, as R.V. marg., _forestall him_), make him bow down, crouching in abject submission (Psalms 18:39). The sa...
_from the wicked_, which is _thy sword: from men_which are _thy hand_ This rendering, which is in part that of Jerome, is retained in R.V. marg. For the thought that God uses even the wicked as His in...
DELIVER MY SOUL FROM THE WICKED, WHICH IS THY SWORD— _Let thy sword deliver me from the wicked: thy hand, O Lord, from men:_ Psalms 17:14. _From those men who are of this world;_ &c. Houbigant....
PSALMS 17 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One who is Righteous Prays, in Great Trouble, for Divine Deliverance and Manifestation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 17:1-2, The Prayer of Righteousness. Stanza II., vers,...
_ARISE, O LORD, DISAPPOINT HIM, CAST HIM DOWN: DELIVER MY SOUL FROM THE WICKED, WHICH IS THY SWORD:_ Arise, O Lord, disappoint him - literally, 'anticipate his presence,' for it threatens me with des...
17:13 sword; (k-15) Or '[by] thy sword.'...
The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God (Psalms 17:1), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence (Psalms 17:3) and an account of the eager cruelty of his enemies ...
DISAPPOINT] RV 'confront.' FROM THE WICKED, _which is,_ etc.] RV 'from the wicked by thy sword.'...
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...
DISAPPOINT. — Rather, _go to meet,_ as a champion defending some one. WHICH IS THY SWORD. — This thought, making the wicked God’s weapons of wrath (Isaiah 10:5), is arbitrarily introduced by the Autho...
קוּמָ֤ה יְהוָ֗ה קַדְּמָ֣ה פָ֭נָיו הַכְרִיעֵ֑הוּ פַּלְּטָ֥ה...
Psalms 17:1 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definition; lat...
GOD'S TRUE SERVANTS SAFELY KEPT Psalms 17:1 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends with glad...
This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly me...
Arise, O LORD, (k) disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword: (k) Stop his rage....
Clouds. 2 Kings, The coals (Hebrew, "flames") of fire were kindled. Two words, habaw haberu, his clouds removed, (Haydock) omitted in this passage, are here supplied, as the former word is found in Sy...
This is a beautiful verse, and the doctrine of it is as important as the verse is beautiful. Jesus eyes the hand of the Father in his afflictions. Satan will advance; the enemies of salvation will ari...
13._Arise, O Jehovah. _The more furiously David was persecuted by his enemies, he beseeches God the more earnestly to afford him immediate aid; for he uses the word _face _to denote the swift impetuos...
The key to Psalms 16 was in the words, "In thee do I put my trust"; to Psalms 17, "Hear the right." In Psalms 16 we have seen the blessed path and working of that spirit of confidence. It is, though t...
ARISE, O LORD,.... See Psalms 3:7; DISAPPOINT HIM, or "prevent his face" k; be beforehand with him, and so disappoint him, when he is about to seize his prey; who is comparable to the lion, or to the...
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword: Ver. 13. _Arise, O Lord, disappoint him_] _Anticipa faciem eius,_ that is, that raging and ravenin...
_Arise, O Lord, disappoint him_ Hebrew, קדמה פניו, _kadmah panaiv, prevent his face;_ that is, Go forth against him, and meet and face him in battle, as enemies are wont to do. Or, prevent the executi...
Arise, O Lord, again David's ringing appeal, DISAPPOINT HIM, going forth to meet the adversary and to anticipate his wicked move, CAST HIM DOWN; DELIVER MY SOUL FROM THE WICKED, from all the unrighteo...
DAVID CALLS UPON GOD FOR HELP...
DISAPPOINT HIM: _ Heb._ prevent his face WHICH IS THY SWORD: Or, by thy sword...
8-15 Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation,...
DISAPPOINT HIM, Heb. _prevent his face_, i.e. go forth against him, and meet and face him in battle, as enemies use to do. Or, prevent the execution of his mischievous designs against me; stop him in...
Psalms 17:13 Arise H6965 (H8798) LORD H3068 Confront H6923 (H8761) him H6440 down H3766 (H8685) Deliver...
‘Arise, O YHWH. Confront him, make him bow down, Deliver my soul from the unrighteous by your sword, From men by your hand, O YHWH, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose...
Psalms 17:13 I. If any are tempted to ask why the ungodly sometimes have such power and do so much evil, here is an answer. The ungodly in power is a sort of public hangman or executioner, who is app...
Psalms 17:1. _Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips._ Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the first v...
CONTENTS: David prays for relief from the pressure of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we are abused and misrepresented, we have a righteous God to go to whose judgment is according t...
Psalms 17:3. _Thou hast tried me._ Vulgate, _Igne me examinâsti,_ Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalms 17:14. _Men which have their portion in this life,_ a...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:1. This is an individual lament, dealing especially with cases in which a person considers himself unjustly accused of wrong (compare Psalms 7:1
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:13 Amid such threats, when it seems unlikely that the attacker will repent (v. Psalms 17:10), the proper response is prayer for the enemy’s defeat....
INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his life. We find in it his opinion of the character of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions (Psalms 17:1, Psalms 17:2, Psalms 17:6,...
The seventeenth psalm is another prayer of David. And it is, again, one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause, his own righteousness before the Lord. Hear the right, O LORD,...
Acts 4:28; Habakkuk 1:12; Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 13:5;...