Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 55:23
Them — The wicked. Not live — But shall be cut off by an untimely and violent death. Trust in thee — And in this confidence I will quietly wait for deliverance.
Them — The wicked. Not live — But shall be cut off by an untimely and violent death. Trust in thee — And in this confidence I will quietly wait for deliverance.
Verse Psalms 55:23. _BUT THOU, O GOD, SHALT BRING THEM DOWN INTO THE PIT OF_ _DESTRUCTION_] The _Chaldee_ is emphatic: "And thou, O Lord, by thy WORD (במימרך _bemeymerach_) shalt thrust them into the...
BUT THOU, O GOD, SHALT BRING THEM DOWN INTO THE PIT OF DESTRUCTION - The word “them,” here evidently refers to the enemies of the psalmist; the wicked people who were arrayed against him, and who soug...
Psalms 55 In the Throes of the Great Tribulation _ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_ 2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4) 3. The great tribulation ...
LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12. A description of...
BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MEN. men of bloods and deceit. Genitive of Character. Hebrew bloods. great bloodshed. HALF THEIR DAYS. Referring to Absalom's untimely death. TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _batah._ Ap...
_shalt bring them down_ Namely, the foes, who are still in the Psalmist's mind: their end is the pit of the grave: a premature death awaits bloodthirsty and deceitful men, whom God abhors (Psalms 5:6)...
In this division of the Psalm the storm of indignation dies away, and the Psalmist's trustful confidence revives....
Conclusion. The Psalmist's exhortation to himself and everyone in like case, assuring himself and them that God will uphold the righteous and judge the wicked. It has been suggested that in the liturg...
PSALMS 55 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend. ANALYSIS (Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.) Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous Exc...
_BUT THOU, O GOD, SHALT BRING THEM DOWN INTO THE PIT OF DESTRUCTION: BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MEN SHALL NOT LIVE OUT HALF THEIR DAYS; BUT I WILL TRUST IN THEE._ Bloody and deceitful men shall not live ou...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
BLOODY] RV 'bloodthirsty.'...
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...
_[Psalms 55:24]_ וְ אַתָּ֤ה אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ תֹּורִדֵ֬ם ׀ לִ...
Psalms 55:1 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
FRIENDS MAY FORSAKE, BUT GOD ABIDETH Psalms 55:12 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, deceit, and oppression trampled the virtuous and helpless un...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out (r) half their days; but I will trust in thee. (r) Though they sometimes live longer, y...
Here is another view of the enemies of David; and still more so of the enemies of David's Lord. How smooth were the words of Judas when he said, Hail, Master! and kissed him. But how was the prophecy...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! leave every other subject, and every other consideration, in the perusal of this Psalm, to ponder over the several parts of it, and to contemplate thy God and Saviour as here typi...
23_Thou, O God! shalt cast them into the pit of corruption. _He returns to speak of his enemies, designing to show the very different end which awaits them, from that which may be expected by the righ...
Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
BUT THOU, O GOD, SHALL BRING THEM DOWN,.... Ahithophel and his accomplices in the conspiracy against David, Judas and the wicked Jews concerned in Christ's death; and did not believe in him; INTO THE...
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. Ver. 23. _But thou, O God, shalt bring them...
_Thou shalt bring them_ My wicked enemies, of whom I have hitherto spoken; _down into the pit of destruction_ Not only to the dust, but to hell, called _destruction, Job 26:6_. God afflicted them, Psa...
A COMPLAINT OF FALSE FRIENDS. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship, Maschil, a psalm of David....
But Thou, O God, shalt bring them, the false friends, DOWN INTO THE PIT OF DESTRUCTION, to the pit or depth of the grave, a prey of an unwelcome death; BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MEN, who delight in treache...
BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MEN: _ Heb._ men of bloods and deceit SHALL NOT LIVE OUT HALF THEIR DAYS: _ Heb._ shall not half their days...
16-23 In every trial let us call upon the Lord, and he will save us. He shall hear us, and not blame us for coming too often; the oftener the more welcome. David had thought all were against him; but...
SHALT BRING THEM DOWN; my wicked enemies, of whom I have hitherto spoken. BLOODY and DECEITFUL MEN; that colour their cruel intentions with specious and deceitful pretences; which are most hateful to...
Psalms 55:23 God H430 down H3381 (H8686) pit H875 destruction H7845 Bloodthirsty H1818 deceitful H4820 men H582 half...
DAVID NOW EXHORTS ALL WHO HEAR THESE WORDS TO DO WHAT HE DOES, BY CASTING THEIR BURDEN ON YHWH, WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT HE CAN BE TRUSTED AND WILL CERTAINLY SUSTAIN THE RIGHTEOUS (PSALMS 55:22) As so...
CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
Psalms 55:6. _Oh that I had wings like a dove,_ to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
_Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE CENSURABLE IN LIFE I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments, this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:22 The singer addresses each of his fellow singers (YOUR), and then God (YOU, O GOD). The reason the faithful can CAST their burd
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century B.C. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppre...
1 Kings 2:5; 1 Kings 2:6; 2 Samuel 20:10; 2 Samuel 20:9; 2 Samuel 3:27