Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 5:9
Throat — Wide opened ready to devour all that come within their reach. A metaphor from wild beasts gaping for the prey.
Throat — Wide opened ready to devour all that come within their reach. A metaphor from wild beasts gaping for the prey.
Verse Psalms 5:9. _NO FAITHFULNESS IN THEIR MOUTH_] They make professions of friendship; but all is hollow and deceitful: "They flatter with their tongue." _VERY WICKEDNESS_] Their _heart_ is full of...
: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...
FOR THERE IS NO FAITHFULNESS IN THEIR MOUTH - There is nothing in them which can be confided in; nothing in their promises and declarations. They are false and treacherous, and I can, therefore, only...
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...
FAITHFULNESS. steadfastness, or stability. THEIR. his. Referring to the man of Psalms 5:6. THEIR. Three times repeated; refers to the "foolish" and "workers" of Psalms 5:6. TONGUE. Put by Figure of...
VERY WICKEDNESS— The word rendered _wickedness,_ seems to have a meaning derived from the sound; הוה _hovah;_ any thing upon which we pronounce woe; evil of any kind, natural or moral. "Their inward p...
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...
_FOR THERE IS NO FAITHFULNESS IN THEIR MOUTH; THEIR INWARD PART IS VERY WICKEDNESS; THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE; THEY FLATTER WITH THEIR TONGUE._ Parallel to Psalms 5:4; as Psalms 5:10 is to Psa...
5:9 perversion, (d-13) 'Corrupt, depraved desires,' 'wickedness;' 'mischievous things,' Psalms 38:12 . the word is plural. with (e-22) Lit. 'make smooth.'...
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 heart and the speech of the wicked are alike corrupt. See Romans 3:13, where this v. is quoted. The throat of the flatterer is compared to an open grave, ever clamouring for fresh victims—a very s...
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...
IN THEIR MOUTH. — See margin. WICKEDNESS. — Properly, _an abyss,_ from root “to fall,” hence in parallelism with “open sepulcher” in next clause. This is an instance of introverted parallelism, “mout...
_[Psalms 5:10]_ כִּ֤י אֵ֪ין בְּ פִ֡יהוּ נְכֹונָה֮...
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...
_Enemies. Hebrew, "observers." They are always on the watch to discover any fault. Grant me thy preventing grace. (Berthier) --- Let me not stumble, (Haydock) but cause me to walk cheerfully in thy pa...
What an awful view doth this unfold of the lurkings of wickedness. The apostle was struck with it, and gave the same picture to the church. Romans 3:13....
9._For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. _He still repeats the same complaints which he made before, in order thereby to render his enemies the more odious in the sight of God, and to call fort...
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...
FOR [THERE IS] NO FAITHFULNESS IN THEIR MOUTH,.... In the mouth of the ungodly, as the Chaldee paraphrase; in the mouth of every one of them, as Aben Ezra interprets it: that is, in the mouth of every...
For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. Ver. 9. _Nor there is no faithfulness in th...
_There is no faithfulness in their mouth_ They speak one thing and mean another, and under a pretence of kindness seek my destruction; which renders it difficult for me to know how I ought to carry my...
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...
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth, they are not steadfast and of one mind in their speech, they cannot be depended upon in what they say; THEIR INWARD PART, their entire heart and mind, IS V...
FAITHFULNESS: Or, steadfastness IN THEIR MOUTH: _ Heb._ in his mouth i. in the mouth of any of them VERY WICKEDNESS: _ Heb._ wickedness...
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...
They speak one thing, and mean another, and under a pretence of kindness they seek my destruction; which makes it difficult for me to know how I should carry myself to them; wherein therefore I have b...
Psalms 5:9 faithfulness H3559 (H8737) mouth H6310 inward H7130 destruction H1942 throat H1627 open H6605 (H8803) tomb...
‘For there is no faithfulness (steadfastness) in their mouth, Their inward part is destructions (or ‘a yawning gulf'), Their throat is an open sepulchre, They flatter with their tongue.' He describ...
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...
_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 5:9 Paul refers to this verse in Romans 3:13 as he explains that both Jews and Gentiles are under the power of sin....
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 Thessalonians 2:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Jeremiah 4:14; Jeremiah 9:3;...