Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 54:3
Strangers — The Zephites, whom, though Israelites, he calls strangers in regard of their barbarous and perfidious carriage.
Strangers — The Zephites, whom, though Israelites, he calls strangers in regard of their barbarous and perfidious carriage.
Verse Psalms 54:3. _STRANGERS ARE RISEN UP AGAINST ME_] The _Ziphites_. _AND OPPRESSORS_] Saul, his courtiers, and his army. _THEY HAVE NOT SET GOD BEFORE THEM._] It is on _no religious_ _account_,...
FOR STRANGERS ARE RISEN UP AGAINST ME - That is, foreigners; those of another nation or land. Saul and his friends who sought the life of David were his own countrymen; these persons who sought go bet...
Psalms 54 The Prayer of the Godly _ 1. The prayer for salvation (Psalms 54:1)_ 2. The assurance of faith (Psalms 54:4) During that final apostasy when the man of sin is revealed, the saints among...
LIV. THE PSALMIST PRAYS FOR DELIVERANCE FROM POWERFUL AND BITTER FOES. He trusts in God who will destroy his enemies. When that is done, he will offer sacrifice in thanksgiving. His enemies are Jews f...
STRANGERS. aliens: the Ziphites, or the men of Keilah (1 Samuel 23:12). Some codices, with two early printed editions and Arm., read "insolent men". Compare Psalms 86:14. MY SOUL. me, or my life. Heb...
This verse is repeated almost verbatim in Psalms 86:14 (a mosaic constructed of fragments of other Psalms), with the change, accidental or intentional, of _strangers_into _proud_. The consonants of th...
STRANGERS ARE RISEN UP AGAINST ME— The inhabitants of Ziph, and of the wilderness and mountains near it, might very probably, as some think, be chiefly aliens and foreigners, under the dominion of the...
PSALMS 54 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Prayer Prompted by the Hostile Action of the Zephites. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 54:1-2, Prayer for Salvation and Vindication; supported by a _Refrain, vet._ 3, descr...
_FOR STRANGERS ARE RISEN UP AGAINST ME, AND OPPRESSORS SEEK AFTER MY SOUL: THEY HAVE NOT SET GOD BEFORE THEM. SELAH._ For strangers are risen up against me. The Ziphites, who ought, by the ties of co...
54:3 life. (e-14) As Psalms 35:4 ....
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?' Whatever be the value of the title there...
STRANGERS] In Psalms 86:14 this v. is repeated, with the substitution of 'the proud' for 'strangers,' and possibly we should read 'the proud' here. The difference depends on the interchange of two ver...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
FOR STRANGERS. — This verse, with some variations, occurs again (Psalms 86:14); some MSS. even reading here “proud,” instead of “strangers.” With the received reading we must understand by the word “f...
_[Psalms 54:5]_ כִּ֤י זָרִ֨ים ׀ קָ֤מוּ עָלַ֗י וְֽ֭...
Psalms 54:1 THE tone and language of this psalm have nothing special. The situation of the psalmist is the familiar one of being encompassed by enemies. His mood is the familiar one of discouragement...
SINNERS ALL-GOD ALONE CAN HELP Psalms 53:1; Psalms 54:1 That Psalms 53:1 should be a repetition of Psalms 14:1, with very few variations,
The burden of the psalm is expressed in the first two verses. Its reason is described in verse Psalms 54:3, while assurance is the song of what remains. Taking the second and third sections first, the...
For (b) strangers are risen up against me, and (c) oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. (b) That is, the Ziphims. (c) Saul and his army who were like cruel beasts...
Hear me. He repeats the same petition four times, (Haydock) to testify his fervour, and humility, Ecclesiasticus xxxv. 21. --- Exercise, among the wicked, (St. Augustine) or while I consider the suffe...
The enemies of Christ were both friends and strangers. When he came to his own, his own received him not: and, as the apostles expressed it, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the pe...
Psalms 54 is the cry to God to deliver according to the value of His name, the subject of trust. The double character of the enemies is spoken ofstrangers, enemies from without; and oppressors, the pr...
FOR STRANGERS ARE RISEN UP AGAINST ME,.... Meaning such as Doeg the Edomite, or Heathen soldiers, that Saul had hired and took into his army, who were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel; and such...
_For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah._ Ver. 3. _For strangers are risen up against me_] He meaneth not foreigners, but h...
_Save me by thy name_ That is, by thy own strength, as the next words explain it, because I have no other refuge. Or, _for thy name_, for thy own glory, which is concerned in my deliverance. _And judg...
For strangers are risen up against me, the reference being chiefly to the Ziphites, AND OPPRESSORS SEEK AFTER MY SOUL, their object being to bring about his death; THEY HAVE NOT SET GOD BEFORE THEM. S...
PRAYER AND CONSOLATION AT THE TIME OF PERSECUTION. To the chief musician on Neginoth, the music to be played on stringed instruments as the psalm was rendered in the liturgical service, Maschil, a did...
1-3 God is faithful, though men are not to be trusted, and it is well for us it is so. David has no other plea to depend upon than God's name, no other power to depend upon than God's strength, and t...
STRANGERS; the Ziphites, whom, though Israelites, he calls _strangers_, in regard of their barbarous and perfidious disposition and carriage towards him, by which they showed themselves to be estrange...
Psalms 54:3 strangers H2114 (H8801) up H6965 (H8804) oppressors H6184 sought H1245 (H8765) life H5315 set...
DAVID PRAYS TO BE DELIVERED FROM THE HANDS OF SAUL (PSALMS 54:1). Psalms 54:1 ‘Save me, O God, by your name, And judge me in your might. Hear my prayer, O God, Give ear to the words of my mouth.'...
CONTENTS: Prayer for rescue from oppressors. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we are for God, we may be assured God will be for us and that we will have such care from Him that we need never s...
Psalms 54:1. _By thy name._ See note on Proverbs 18:10. Psalms 54:7. _Mine eye hath seen_ his desire upon _mine enemies._ The words, _his desire,_ are not in the Hebrew. David says merely that his ene...
_Save me, O God, by Thy name, and judge me by Thy strength._ PHASES OF PIETY I. Piety praying. The prayer has respect to-- 1. The character of God (Psalms 54:1). 2. The entreatability of God (Psal...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 54:1. This is an individual lament, asking for God’s help against those who threaten the lives of the faithful. The title connects the song to the events of...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 54:3 STRANGERS. The Ziphites, who belong to Judah, are acting like Gentiles in opposing God’s faithful. ⇐...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician on Neginoth.” There is very little doubt that “_Neginoth_” is “the general term denoting all stringed instruments whatsoever, whether played with...
EXPOSITION THIS is a short psalm, written in a time of great trouble, and containing, first, an earnest prayer for deliverance (Psalms 54:1); and then an expression of confidence in God's aid, and of...
Psa 54:1-7 is to the chief musician on a stringed instrument. A prayer of David. When the Ziphims came and said to Saul, "David is hiding down in the wilderness of Ziph." And so, even as he didn't car...
Job 19:13; John 16:3; Matthew 27:20; Psalms 16:8; Psalms 22:16;...