Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 18:4
Death — Dangerous and deadly troubles. Floods — Their multitude, and strength, and violent assaults, breaking in upon me like a flood.
Death — Dangerous and deadly troubles. Floods — Their multitude, and strength, and violent assaults, breaking in upon me like a flood.
Verse Psalms 18:4. _THE SORROWS OF DEATH COMPASSED ME_] חבלי מות _chebley_ _maveth_, the _cables_ or _cords of death_. He was almost taken in those _nets_ or _stratagems_ by which, if he had been ent...
THE SORROWS OF DEATH COMPASSED ME - Surrounded me. That is, he was in imminent danger of death, or in the midst of such pangs and sorrows as are supposed commonly to attend on death. He refers probabl...
Psalms 18 The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ _ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_ 2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7) 3. God gave Him glory ...
XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...
SORROWS. meshes, or snares (Hebrew. _hebel)._ Not bodily pains. UNGODLY MEN. Belial....
_The sorrows of death_ Rather, as R.V., The cords of death. But the word has been wrongly introduced here from Psalms 18:5, and the true reading should be restored from 2 Sam.: the waves (lit. _breake...
In forcible figures David pictures the extremity of need in which he cried for help, and not in vain. Again and again there had been -but a step between him and death." (1 Samuel 20:3.) The perils to...
THE SORROWS OF DEATH, &C.— _The whirlpools of death in heaps rolled over me._ Chandler. In the parallel place of Samuel, it is, _The waves of death compassed me._ Dr. Delaney observes, that nothing ca...
PSALMS 18 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE David's Song of Deliverance. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...
_THE SORROWS OF DEATH COMPASSED ME, AND THE FLOODS OF UNGODLY MEN MADE ME AFRAID._ The sorrows ... the sorrows - rather, 'the cords ... the cords,' as the parallel word, "the snares" (Psalms 18:5), r...
SORROWS] RV 'cords.' So in Psalms 18:5....
Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel 22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...
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...
THE SORROWS OF DEATH. — The Hebrew word may mean either _birth pangs_ (LXX. and Acts 2:24, where see Note, _New Testament Commentary_)_,_ or _cords._ The figure of the hunter in the next verse, “the s...
_[Psalms 18:5]_ אֲפָפ֥וּנִי חֶבְלֵי ־מָ֑וֶת וְֽ נַחֲלֵ֖י...
Psalms 18:1 THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout imag...
A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE Psalms 18:1 There is another edition of this psalm in 2 Samuel 22:1.Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:2 and...
This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
(c) The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. (c) He speaks of the dangers and malice of his enemies from which God had delivered him....
There. Symmachus joins this with the preceding. "Will announce knowledge. Not by words or speeches, the sounds of which are not heard," so as to be understood. (Haydock) --- "They are not languages or...
How beautifully Peter comments upon these sufferings of Jesus, Acts 2:24. But, while we behold the holy nature of Christ, as incapable of corruption, and therefore incapable of being holden by the cor...
4._The cords _(394) _of death had compassed me about. _David now begins to recount the undoubted and illustrious proofs by which he had experienced that the hand of God is sufficiently strong and powe...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
THE SORROWS OF DEATH COMPASSED ME,.... These words and the following, in this verse and Psalms 18:5, as they respect David, show the snares that were laid for his life, the danger of death he was in,...
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. Ver. 4. _The sorrows of death compass me_] Or, the pangs, pains, throes as of a travailing woman, these environed me,...
_The sorrows of death compassed me_ That is, dangerous and deadly troubles. Or, _the bands_, or _cords_, of death, as חבלי, _cheblee_, may be rendered, quæ hominem quasi fune arctissime constringunt,...
The sorrows of death, the bands of death, COMPASSED ME, AND THE FLOODS OF UNGODLY MEN MADE ME AFRAID, the brooks of abysmal evil and perdition terrifying him....
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, His p...
UNGODLY MEN: _ Heb._ Belial...
1-19 The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence...
THE SORROWS OF DEATH, i.e. dangerous and deadly troubles. Or, _the bands or cords of death_, which had almost seized me, and was putting its bands upon me. Compare PSALMS 73:4. THE FLOODS OF UNGODLY M...
Psalms 18:4 pangs H2256 death H4194 surrounded H661 (H8804) floods H5158 ungodliness H1100 afraid H1204 (H8762)...
TROUBLES AND DEATH HAD PRESSED IN ON HIM (PSALMS 18:4). ‘The cords of death encompassed me, And the floods of ungodliness (literally ‘worthlessness' - belial) made me afraid. The cords of Sheol wer...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I will trust; my buckler, and my horn of my salvation, and my hi...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._ What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he must do so,...
Psalms 18:1. _To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength._ «I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind myself to thee for the future as well as the present.» Psalms 18:2. The LORD is...
CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...
David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his c...
_The sorrows of death compassed me._ ESTIMATING OUR SORROWS No attempt is here made to diminish the severity of the crisis. Often when a great agony is overpast, the sufferer himself forgets its inte...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v....
INTRODUCTION “This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commenta...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...
The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician. It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...
2 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Samuel 22:5; 2 Samuel 22:6; Acts 21:30; Isaiah