Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 56:7
Escape — Shall they secure themselves by injurious and malicious practices. The people — These who are mine enemies.
Escape — Shall they secure themselves by injurious and malicious practices. The people — These who are mine enemies.
Verse Psalms 56:7. _SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY?_] Shall such conduct go unpunished? Shall their address, their dexterity in working iniquity, be the means of their escape? No. "In anger, O God, wil...
SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY? - This expression in the original is very obscure. There is in the Hebrew no mark of interrogation; and a literal rendering would be, “By iniquity (there is) escape to t...
Psalms 56 The Faithfulness of God, the Comfort of His People _ 1. Trust and Comfort (Psalms 56:1)_ 2. Praise for anticipated deliverance (Psalms 56:10) These five Psalms which are grouped together...
LVI. A PRAYER AGAINST STRONG, NUMEROUS, AND CRAFTY FOES. Psalms 56:2. For enemies read they that lie in wait for me (_mg.),_ PROUDLY: read bitterly. Psalms 56:4. Will praise his word, _i.e._ the fulf...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven._ PEOPLE. peoples. (No Art.)...
The second division of the Psalm is similar to the first: a description of present distress, and prayer for help, followed by an expression of perfect confidence in God's protection....
Shall _they escape by iniquity?_ Or, _In spite of iniquity shall they escape?_When their conduct is so inhuman, shall they escape the judgement? Less probable is the rendering of R.V. marg. (for the t...
SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY?— As much as to say, by way of admiration: "Strange! that their iniquity should deliver them." He adds therefore, _In anger bring down, O Lord, this people:_ "Shew [or, t...
PSALMS 56 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song by David in Captivity. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 56:1-3, In a few words, David Describes his Captive Condition, and Composes a _Refrain_ of Praise, Stanza II., P...
_SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY? IN THINE ANGER CAST DOWN THE PEOPLE, O GOD._ Shall they escape by iniquity? - literally, 'upon (the ground of) their iniquity (there is) to them (the hope of) escape'...
56:7 by (a-4) Or 'through.'...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A _Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.' For Michtam see on Psalms 16. JONATH ELEM REHOKIM ('the dove of th...
SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY?] A slight change of reading would give, 'Requite them according to their iniquity.' PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' This prayer would become more intelligible if national rather t...
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...
SHALL THEY... — Literally, _upon iniquity escape to them_; the meaning of which is by no means clear. The ancient versions do not help us. If we adopt a slight change of reading, viz., _palles_ for _p...
_[Psalms 56:8]_ עַל ־אָ֥וֶן פַּלֶּט ־לָ֑מֹו בְּ֝...
Psalms 56:1 THE superscription dates this psalm from the time of David's being in Gath. Probably his first stay there is meant, during which he had recourse to feigned insanity in order to secure his...
“WHAT CAN MAN DO UNTO ME?” Psalms 56:1 This psalm was composed under the same circumstances as Psalms 34:1. See 1 Samuel 21:1. What a strange medley is here shown-David feigning madness and composing...
The keynote of this psalm is the concluding declaration of the previous one, "I will trust in Thee." Here again are evident the same circumstances of oppression (verses Psa 56:5-7). The song opens and...
Shall (f) they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God. (f) They not only think to escape punishment, but the more wicked they are, the more impudent they grow....
_Down. Hebrew, "my soul was bowed down," (Berthier) or "to bow down my soul." (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- Saul strove many ways to destroy his rival, sending him to fight the Philistines, who, neverthe...
Surely we must see Christ here eminently set forth. Not only at his trial, but upon many occasions, we are told they sought to catch him in his words. Matthew 26:59, etc. Luke 20:20, etc....
7._After their mischief they think to escape. _The beginning of this verse is read by some interrogatively, _Shall they escape in their iniquity? _(333) But there is no necessity for having recourse t...
Psalms 56 expresses the sense of the bitter and relentless enmity of the wicked, but the tears of the godly are put in God's bottle. God is owned as the Most High, the title of promise but not of cove...
SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY?.... Shall such iniquity as this, or persons guilty of it, go unpunished, or escape righteous judgment, and the vengeance of God? No; and much less shall they escape by m...
Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God. Ver. 7. _Shall they escape by iniquity?_] _q.d._ No, let them never think it, their sin will surely find them out, as cunn...
_Shall they escape by iniquity_ Shall they secure themselves by such injurious and malicious practices, whereby they do not only vex me, but provoke and despise thee? Shall they have success instead o...
COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF PERSECUTION. To the chief musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, the word not only denoting the melody according to which the hymn was to be sung, "The dove of silence of distant p...
Shall they escape by iniquity? literally, "By iniquity deliverance to them?" Will the ways of wickedness really bring lasting success? IN THINE ANGER CAST DOWN THE PEOPLE, O GOD, namely, all the natio...
1-7 Be merciful unto me, O God. This petition includes all the good for which we come to throne of grace. If we obtain mercy there, we need no more to make us happy. It implies likewise our best plea...
SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY? shall they secure themselves by such injurious and malicious practices, whereby they do not only vex me, but provoke and despise thee? Shall they have success instead of...
Psalms 56:7 escape H6405 iniquity H205 anger H639 down H3381 (H8685) peoples H5971 God H430 escape -...
A DESCRIPTION OF HIS ENEMIES TACTICS AS THEY CLOSE IN ON HIM (PSALMS 56:5). These words could still refer to his enemies in Israel, but it seems more likely that they have his current situation in min...
To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam (a golden Psalm) of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up: he figh...
Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me._ «Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a whil...
CONTENTS: David pours out complaint about enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we are surrounded on all sides with difficulties and dangers because of enemies, we have but one retreat t...
The title of this psalm, which relates to the manner of singing and playing, is upon the remote and silent dove. To which _michtam_ is added, the golden ode of David. In the LXX, the title of this and...
_Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up._ THE DEPRECABLE AND THE DESIRABLE I. The deprecable in relation to man. 1. Craven-heartedness. A man whose heart is morally sound is bold a...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:1. Many take this to be an individual lament, but it could also be a psalm of anticipated thanksgiving. The description of troubles and prayer changes into gratitude that...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician upon Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.” The phrase “_Jonath-Elem-Rechokim_” occurs nowhere else in the Bible; and Biblical critics are by no means agreed as t...
EXPOSITION THIS and the following have been called "twin psalms." They begin with the same words, are nearly of the same length, and have each a refrain which divides them into two portions. Formally,...
Psa 56:1-13. This is the prayer of David when he heard a mourning dove. That is, a mourning: m-o-u-r-n-i-n-g dove, out in the distant terebinth trees. He no doubt heard these doves cooing off in the d...
Ecclesiastes 8:8; Habakkuk 1:13; Isaiah 28:15; Jeremiah 10:25;...