Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 59:12
Pride — For their proud and insolent speeches against thee. Lying — For their execrations and lying reports, which they have spread concerning me.
Pride — For their proud and insolent speeches against thee. Lying — For their execrations and lying reports, which they have spread concerning me.
Verse Psalms 59:12. FOR _THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH_] This verse has puzzled all the commentators. If we take חטאת _chattath_ for _sin-offering_ instead of _sin_, we shall get a better sense. Some of Neh...
FOR THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH ... - That is, in belching out words of reproach and malice, Psalms 59:7. LET THEM EVEN BE TAKEN IN THEIR PRIDE - In the very midst of their schemes, or while confidently re...
Psalms 59 Gentile Enmity Against Israel _ 1. Surrounded by nations (Psalms 59:1)_ 2. Their judgment anticipated (Psalms 59:9) Another Michtam of David when he was persecuted by Saul. While in prev...
LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms 59:8 the...
SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44....
His enemies will be punished: yet let them not be utterly destroyed forthwith, but kept awhile for a warning, till they perish through their own iniquity, an evidence of the sovereignty of God....
The A.V. gives the sense, though the precise construction is doubtful. Perhaps, _The word of their lips is the sin of their mouth_, i.e. every word they utter is sin: or, _O the sin of their mouth! O...
FOR THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH, &C.— _The sin of their mouth is the word of their lips; and they shall be taken in their pride, and for perjury and lying which they speak._...
PSALMS 59 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Beleaguered Psalmist Prays for Rescue and Avenging. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 59:1-5, In Praying for Rescue, the Psalmist Describes the Character and Conduct of his...
_FOR THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE WORDS OF THEIR LIPS LET THEM EVEN BE TAKEN IN THEIR PRIDE: AND FOR CURSING AND LYING WHICH THEY SPEAK._ (For) the sin of their mouth (and) the words of their lips...
59:12 lips, (d-12) Or '[Because] the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips.'...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; _set_ to Al-tashheth. _A Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57. The s...
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 THE SIN... — As the text stands, it runs: _Sin of their mouth, word of their lips, and they are taken in their pride, and cursing and lying they say_; where some would supply a copula, “The sin of...
_[Psalms 59:13]_ חַטַּאת ־פִּ֗ימֹו דְּֽבַר ־שְׂפָ֫תֵ֥ימֹו וְ...
Psalms 59:1 THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with the others of that group, but its closest affinitie...
“GOD IS MY HIGH TOWER” Psalms 59:1 This is the fifth of the _Michtams,_ or “Golden Psalms.” Compare Psalms 16:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms
Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is m...
[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be (k) taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak. (k) That in their misery and shame they may be as g...
_Off? God punishes and rewards. (Worthington) --- And wilt; or, "yet thou wilt not," &c. (Haydock) --- Thou wilt not depend on our efforts for victory. (Bellarmine) (Menochius) --- How can we expect t...
The perilous state of the wicked, and the safety of the righteous, is finely contrasted in the view of the ruin of the one, and the everlasting security of the other. But let not the Reader overlook t...
12_The sin of their mouth, the words of their lips _Some interpreters read, _for, _or, _on account of the sin of their mouth, _(369) supplying the causal particle, that the words may be the better con...
Psalms 59 gives more the external enemies. The same wickedness is found there, but the might of human power with it. But they also must be judged, that wickedness may be set aside. Nor was it the sin...
[FOR] THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH, [AND] THE WORDS OF THEIR LIPS,.... The words may be read as one proposition, "the words of their lips [are] the sin of their mouth" y; they speak nothing but evil; whatev...
[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak. Ver. 12. _For the sin of their mouth, &c._] The Arabian...
_For the sin of their mouth_, &c. For their ungodly, injurious, and pernicious speeches, of which he spoke Psalms 59:7. _Let them even be taken_ Hebrew, וילכדו, _vejillachedu, they shall be taken as i...
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, everything they say being sin, blasphemy and slander, LET THEM EVEN BE TAKEN IN THEIR PRIDE; AND FOR CURSING, against God, and lying, against Da...
PRAYER OF AN INNOCENT PERSON AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK HIS SOUL. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, again according to the melody "Destroy not," Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David; when Sau...
8-17 It is our wisdom and duty, in times of danger and difficulty, to wait upon God; for he is our defence, in whom we shall be safe. It is very comfortable to us, in prayer, to look to God as the Go...
FOR THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE WORDS OF THEIR LIP; for their ungodly, and injurious, and pernicious speeches, of which he speaks PSALMS 59:7, and in many other places. LET THEM BE TAKEN, AS IN A S...
Psalms 59:12 sin H2403 mouth H6310 words H1697 lips H8193 taken H3920 (H8735) pride H1347 cursing H423 lying...
DAVID POINTS OUT TO GOD THAT HE IS A VICTIM OF SLANDER, LIES AND CURSING AND ASKS HIM TO DEAL WITH THEM ACCORDINGLY (PSALMS 59:11). We should note that what David majors on is not the power of a great...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and comfort and confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who are for Christ's sake, harmless and innocent may expect to be hated of w...
Psalms 59:6. _They make a noise like a dog._ Mr. Jowett, in his christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day, and...
DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD. REVELATIONS OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN HUMAN NATURE I. The enmity of man towards man. 1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we learn that...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:1. This is an individual lament, seeking God’s protection from enemies who threaten the faithful person’s life. The title connects the psalm to...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:11 The basic request is that God will bring judgment on these people in such a way that all people, both in Israel (MY PEOPLE, v. Psalms 59:11
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—_“_To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. “_When Saul sent, and they watched the house...
EXPOSITION LIKE Psalms 56:1 and Psalms 57:1, this is a cry for deliverance out of great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17) that the deliverance will be granted. From the psal...
Psa 59:1-17 is another one of those "destroy not" prayers of David, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him. His wife, Michael, let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped. B...
Hosea 4:2; Luke 23:5; Matthew 12:36; Matthew 12:37; Matthew 27:25;...