Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 5:7
Come — With holy boldness and confidence. Mercy — Trusting only in thy great mercy. Fear — With an holy dread and reverence of thy majesty. Towards — Looking towards it, when I cannot come to it.
Come — With holy boldness and confidence. Mercy — Trusting only in thy great mercy. Fear — With an holy dread and reverence of thy majesty. Towards — Looking towards it, when I cannot come to it.
Verse Psalms 5:7. _IN THE MULTITUDE OF THY MERCY_] David considered it an inexpressible privilege to be permitted to attend _public worship_; and he knew that it was only through the _multitude of Go...
:Title UPON NEHILOTH - The title of Psalms 4:1 is, “upon Neginoth.” As that refers to a musical instrument, so it is probable that this does, and that the idea here is that this psalm was intended par...
BUT AS FOR ME - While it is their characteristic that they are wicked, and have no desire to serve God; and while with such characteristics they can have no hope of access to God, and no reason to sup...
Psalms 5 _ 1.The cry to God the King (Psalms 5:1)_ 2. Hating iniquity and trusting in mercy (Psalms 5:4) 3. Prayer for guidance and judgment (Psalms 5:8
V. A HYMN FOR MORNING SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE. Psalms 5:1. Solemn invocation of Yahweh. The Psalmist sets in order (Psalms 5:3), not perhaps his prayer (RV), but his sacrifice, the victim and the kind...
AS FOR ME. Compare Psalms 17:15; Psalms 26:11; Psalms 35:13; Psalms 41:12;...
PSALMS 5 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Morning Prayer for Deliverance from Conspirators. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 5:1-3, Petitions Pleaded to which an Answer is Awaited. Stanza II., Psalms 5:4-6, Jehovah's...
_BUT AS FOR ME, I WILL COME INTO THY HOUSE IN THE MULTITUDE OF THY MERCY: AND IN THY FEAR WILL I WORSHIP TOWARD THY HOLY TEMPLE._ But as for me - While mine enemies, whom the Lord abhors, are put dow...
5:7 in (n-5) Or 'through.' loving-kindness (a-10) _ Chesed_ . see Psalms 4:3 . temple (b-22) Or 'palace.'...
This is a morning prayer before going to the sanctuary. The chief difficulty in ascribing it to David lies in the reference (Psalms 5:7) to 'thy holy temple.' The word means a 'palace,' and is not str...
The two features of access to God are (1) God's grace, and (2) the worshipper's reverence. TOWARD] The worshipper in the Temple court prostrated himself towards the sanctuary....
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...
HOUSE... TEMPLE. — These words must certainly be taken literally, and not, as Hupfeld suggests, metaphorically, or in a spiritual sense with reference to Psalms 5:4. The reference to worship hardly al...
_[Psalms 5:8]_ וַ אֲנִ֗י בְּ רֹ֣ב חַ֭סְדְּךָ...
Psalms 5:1 THE reference to the temple in Psalms 5:7 is not conclusive against the Davidic authorship of this psalm, since the same word is applied in 1 Samuel 1:9; 1
PROTECTION FROM THE WICKED Psalms 5:1 The _ordering_ of prayer is very necessary, Genesis 22:9. Our Lord's prayer should be our model. Often our _words_ need to be supplemented by our _meditations;_...
This is another song of the morning. It opens with language which reveals the reason of the soul's assurance as it faces another day. First are petitions asking the attention of Jehovah. These are fol...
But as for me, I (e) will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. (e) In the deepest of his temptations he puts his full confiden...
_Workers, ( operantur) "who work," (Haydock) and die impenitent. --- Lie. All heretics, who kill their own and neighbours' souls, (St. Jerome) and in general all seducers, (Calmet) who will be treated...
Of whom but Jesus doth the prophet here speak? Of all the sons of fallen Adam we may humbly adopt the words of the Lord himself, and say, for who is this that hath engaged his heart to approach unto m...
_WORSHIP A SIGHT OF GOD_ ‘But as for me, I will come into Thy house in the multitude of Thy mercy: and in Thy fear will I worship toward Thy holy temple.’ Psalms 5:7 Belief in God is the great regen...
Some think that the word _and, by _which this sentence is joined to the preceding, is put for but; as if David, comparing himself with the ungodly, declared and assured himself that God would be merci...
In Psalms 5 the cry of the godly is presented, and the character of God, as necessarily responding to that of the godly, is appealed to as necessitating His hearing him and judging the wicked. If the...
BUT AS FOR ME, I WILL COME [INTO] THY HOUSE,.... The tabernacle of Moses, sometimes called the house of God, 1 Chronicles 9:23; for as yet the temple was not built. Here David had been used to go in t...
But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Ver. 7. _But as for me_] Who am conscious of none of these foul and...
_But I will come into thy house_ Namely, into thy tabernacle, with holy boldness and confidence, as becomes thy son and servant; _in the multitude of thy mercy_ Trusting only in thy great mercy for ad...
MORNING PRAYER BEFORE WORSHIP. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical service, upon Nehiloth, flutes or wind instruments of the Temple-orchestra, a psalm of David. David was at this time in...
But as for me, I will come into Thy house, the Tabernacle, whose place was to be taken by a fine permanent structure, IN THE MULTITUDE OF THY MERCY, the riches of the grace of God in the Messiah; AND...
THY HOLY TEMPLE: _ Heb._ the temple of thy holiness...
7-12 David prayed often alone, yet was very constant in attendance on public worship. The mercy of God should ever be the foundation both of our hope and of our joy, in every thing wherein we have to...
I WILL COME, to wit, with holy boldness and confidence, as becomes thy son and servant; whereas mine enemies cannot appear in thy presence with any comfort and safety, PSALMS 5:5. INTO THY HOUSE, to w...
Psalms 5:7 come H935 (H8799) house H1004 multitude H7230 mercy H2617 fear H3374 worship H7812 (H8691) holy...
‘But as for me, in the multitude of your lovingkindness I will come into your house, In your fear I will worship towards your holy temple.' His own entry before God rests in his confidence in God's o...
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
Psalms 5:7 Worship a sight of God. Belief in God is the great regenerating force in the world. Not to believe in God is to be without the grandest idea which can exalt the mind and the noblest motive...
Psalms 5 This Psalm is peculiar in setting forth the characteristics of prayer in general. I. In the first and second verses we have a suggestion of the variety of prayer. (1) "Give ear to my _words...
Psalms 5:1. _Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation._ Sometimes we pray right off, as David did when he cried to the Lord, «Hear me when I call.» At other times, we sit down to meditate...
CONTENTS: David's prayer in which he extols God's holiness and asks judgment upon the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Prayer should be both the key of the morning and the bolt of the eve...
Psalms 5:6. _Leasing;_ a Gothic and primitive word equivalent to falsehood. They professed loyalty to the king, but were traitors in heart, as in Psalms 5:9. Psalms 5:9. _Their throat is an open sepu...
_I will come into Thy house in the multitude of Thy mercy._ SANCTUARY WORSHIP This noble resolution. It manifests-- I. An independence of character. “As for me.” How many there are who follow the c...
_Give ear to my words, O Lord._ THE INWARD AND OUTWARD SIDES OF THE DIVINE LIFE The Psalm falls into two main parts-- Psalms 5:1, and Psalms 5:8. The inward comes first; for communion with God in the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:1. This individual lament from David is the first psalm that prays for the downfall of one’s enemies. Such Psalms relate to situations where one is faced with bloodthirsty...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:7 ABUNDANCE OF YOUR STEADFAST LOVE comes from Exodus 34:6, the basic confession of OT faith....
INTRODUCTION “A morning prayer of David, appealing to God as his king, against whose sovereignty his own enemies were really in rebellion.”—_Kay_. “This psalm must have been composed at Jerusalem, sin...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is assigned by some to the time of Manasseh, but contains nothing that is really opposed to the superscription—"A Psalm of David"—since, before the temple was built, the tabernac...
Psa 5:1-12 is a prayer of the morning. Psalms 4:1-8 was the prayer of the evening, and now for the morning. Give ear unto my words, O LORD; consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my...
1 Kings 8:29; 1 Kings 8:30; 1 Kings 8:35; 1 Kings 8:38; 1 Peter 1:17;