Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 58:7
Melt away — As waters arising from melted snow, which at first run with great force, but are suddenly gone.
Melt away — As waters arising from melted snow, which at first run with great force, but are suddenly gone.
Verse Psalms 58:7. _LET THEM MELT AWAY AS WATERS_] Let them be minished away like the waters which sometimes run in the desert, but are soon evaporated by the _sun_, or absorbed by the _sand_. WHEN...
LET THEM MELT AWAY AS WATERS WHICH RUN CONTINUALLY - Let them vanish or disappear as waters that flow off, or floods that run by, and are no more seen. “Perhaps” the allusion here may be to the waters...
Psalms 58 A Judgment Psalm __ 1. Why God must judge (Psalms 58:1) 2. The judgment executed (Psalms 58:6) “Do ye of a truth in silence speak righteousness?” (literal rendering of the first verse)....
LVIII. A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ON UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGES. This Ps. is closely allied to Psalms 82. The reproaches in Psalms 58:3, where the enemies of the Psalmist are said to have gone astray from the wom...
CUT IN PIECES. cut down [like grass]....
Since they are thus obstinately and incurably evil, nothing remains but that they should be deprived of their power to hurt or altogether destroyed....
_as waters_which _run continually_) R.V., restoring P.B.V., as water that runneth apace: like some torrent that rages wildly for a while when swollen by a sudden storm, and then vanishes entirely (Job...
WHEN HE BENDETH HIS BOW, &C.— _When they would shoot their arrows, let them be as it were without arms._ Mudge. See Psalms 64:3....
PSALMS 58 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Significant Warning to Corrupt Judges. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 58:1-5, Corrupt Judges Apostrophised, Described in their Evil Doings and Training, in the Harm they D...
_BREAK THEIR TEETH, O GOD, IN THEIR MOUTH: BREAK OUT THE GREAT TEETH OF THE YOUNG LIONS, O LORD._ -Petition rounded on the foregoing description of the malignity of the foe; confident anticipation of...
58:7 blunted. (a-19) Lit. '[the point] cut off.'...
This Ps. denounces the wickedness of unjust and oppressive judges, and prays, in a series of powerful metaphors, for their destruction, in order that righteousness may be vindicated, and God exalted a...
CUT in PIECES] RV 'cut off,' blunted....
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...
After the types of obstinate and fierce malignity, come four striking images of the fatuity of the wicked man’s projects, and his own imminent ruin. The first of these compares him to water, which, sp...
_[Psalms 58:8]_ יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמֹו ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ ־לָ֑מֹו...
Psalms 58:1 THIS psalmist's fiery indignation against unjust judges and evil-doers generally is not kindled by personal wrongs. The psalm comes hot from a heart lacerated by the sight of widespread co...
“THERE IS A GOD THAT JUDGETH” Psalms 58:1 This psalm is launched against wicked rulers. It may have been occasioned by the attitude of Abner and others of Saul's party, who accounted David as a rebe...
This is a fine setting forth of the certainty of the judgment of God against wickedness. The psalmist declares its reason (verses Psa 58:1-5), its process (verses Psa 58:6-9), and its effect (verses t...
Let them (f) melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. (f) Considering God's divine power, he shows that God in a mom...
Evening, when they came to take David. But, out of regard for Michol, they providentially waited till he had escaped, 2 Kings xix. (Haydock) --- Nehemias was obliged to watch continually, 2 Esdras iv....
This appeal to God comes in very suitably after what was before observed. If we accept the expressions as prayers for grace, or the destruction of the irrecoverable foes of Christ, they are very stron...
_FAITH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS_ I. THE THRONE OF INIQUITY (Psalms 58:1). II. THE THRONE OF GOD (Psalms 58:6). III. THE SPECTACLE OF JUSTICE (Psalms 58:10). ILLUSTRATIONS (1) ‘Not
Psalms 58. All righteousness was silent in Israel. The wicked were such and nought else. The godly man looks for judgment on them, for, let favor be shown to them, they will not learn uprightness. In...
LET THEM MELT AWAY AS WATERS [WHICH] RUN CONTINUALLY,.... Let them be disheartened, and their courage fail them, and let there be no spirit left in them, Joshua 7:5; or let them be unstable as water t...
Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. Ver. 7. _Let them melt away as waters_] As snowwaters before the s...
_Let them melt away as waters_, &c. As waters arising from melted snow, or great showers, or some other extraordinary cause, which at first run with great force and noise, and throw down all that stan...
Let them melt away as waters which run continually, of which not even a trace remains; WHEN HE BENDETH HIS BOW TO SHOOT HIS ARROWS, the enemy being thought of as stepping on the bow to bend it and to...
A CRY FOR VENGEANCE UPON THE SUBVERTERS OF RIGHT. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, to be sung to the same melody as the preceding psalm, Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David....
6-11 David prayed that the enemies of God's church and people might be disabled to do further mischief. We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the enemies of the church. He foretells their rui...
AS WATERS WHICH RUN CONTINUALLY; as waters arising from melted snow, or great showers, or some other extraordinary cause, which at first run with great force and noise, and throw down all that stands...
Psalms 58:7 away H3988 (H8735) waters H4325 continually H1980 (H8691) bends H1869 (H8799) arrows H2671 pieces...
DAVID CALLS ON GOD TO DEAL WITH THE UNRIGHTEOUS AS THEY DESERVE (PSALMS 58:6). In five more vivid illustrations David calls on God to deal with the unrighteous, followed by a sixth by which he assures...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the defeat of ungodly men. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: However wicked people may prosper and bid defiance to divine justice, they will eventually learn that there is a G...
Psalms 58:4. _The deaf adder,_ which stops her ears by putting one ear to the ground, and forcing her tail into the other. Very many of the ancient Greek and Latin writers mention the practice of cert...
_Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?_ MAN IN MANY ASPECTS I. The character of depraved men portrayed. 1. Unrighteous in judgment. 2. Wrong in heart. 3. Violent in the treatment of m...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 58:1. This is a community lament that God’s people sing when they are confronted with injustice among their own rulers. Singing this in worship (1) helps the faithful to pra...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” see introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. Moll: “This complaint respecting domestic admin...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of condemnation on unrighteous judges. Some suppose the judges to be superhuman beings, entrusted with the government of the earth (Cheyne). Others suggest heathen rulers of Israel,...
Psa 58:1-11 is a prayer of David. I would not want to be one of David's enemies because of his prayers. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? Y...
2 Samuel 17:10; Exodus 15:15; Isaiah 13:7; Joshua 2:9; Joshua 7:5;...