Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Psalms 55:9-15
The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a fierce outburst of indignation.
The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a fierce outburst of indignation.
Verse Psalms 55:9. _DESTROY, O LORD_] _Swallow them up_-confound them. _DIVIDE THEIR TONGUES_] Let his counsellors give opposite advice. Let them never agree, and let their devices be confounded. An...
DESTROY, O LORD - The word rendered “destroy,” properly means to “swallow up;” to “devour” with the idea of greediness. Isaiah 28:4; Exodus 7:12; Jonah 1:17;...
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...
LORD *. One of the 134 alterations of Jehovah to Adonai by the _Sopherim._ App-32. DIVIDE THEIR TONGUES. cleave (as in Genesis 10:25; Genesis 11:1) their counsels; "tongues" being put by Figure of spe...
DESTROY, O LORD, &C.— _Confound,_ or _overwhelm them, O Lord, and disunite their counsels._ Chandler. Praying that God would destroy their consultations by dividing them, was the prayer of a wise man,...
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...
_DESTROY, O LORD, AND DIVIDE THEIR TONGUES: FOR I HAVE SEEN VIOLENCE AND STRIFE IN THE CITY._ Destroy, O Lord - literally, devour, namely, the enemies; not, as the English version, their tongues; cf....
DIVIDE THEIR TONGUES] with a confusion like that of Babel....
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...
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...
DESTROY. — Literally, _swallow up._ So the LXX., forcibly, “drown in the sea.” The object _them_ must be supplied. This sudden change from plaintive sadness to violent invective is one of the marked...
_[Psalms 55:10]_ בַּלַּ֣ע אֲ֭דֹנָי פַּלַּ֣ג לְשֹׁונָ֑ם כִּֽי...
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...
FLEEING THE CITY'S ILLS Psalms 55:1 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references which, in their full extent, are chiefly applicable to Judas...
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...
Destroy, O Lord, [and] (g) divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. (g) As in the confusion of Babylon when the wicked conspired against God....
_I have. Protestants, "thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are the not in thy book?" St. Jerome, "thou hast numbered my most secret things: place my tears in thy sight," &c....
If we look at David in these verses, we see how the distressed monarch pleaded with God to prosper the plan he had laid with his friend Hushai, to defeat the counsel of his foes. He had sent back this...
9._Destroy, _(303) _O Lord; and divide their tongue _Having now composed, as it were, his mind, he resumes the exercise of prayer. Had he indulged longer in the strain of complaint, he might have give...
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...
DESTROY, O LORD,.... Or "swallow up" s, as Pharaoh and his host were swallowed up in the Red sea; or as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swallowed up in the earth; so all the enemies of Christ and his...
Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Ver. 9. _Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues_] Heb. Swallow them up, O Lord, and divide their tongu...
_Destroy, O Lord, and divide_ Destroy them by dividing _their tongues_ Their speech, as thou didst at Babel, (Genesis 11.,) their votes, and opinions, and counsels. Which was eminently done among Absa...
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....
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, swallowing them up and confounding their speech and therefore also their counsels; FOR I HAVE SEEN VIOLENCE AND STRIFE IN THE CITY, Jerusalem having become a...
9-15 No wickedness so distresses the believer, as that which he witnesses in those who profess to be of the church of God. Let us not be surprised at the corruptions and disorders of the church on ea...
DIVIDE THEIR TONGUES, i.e. destroy them by dividing. THEIR TONGUES, i.e. their speech, as thou didst at Babel, GE 11; their votes, and opinions, and counsels; which was eminently done among Absalom's...
Psalms 55:9 Destroy H1104 (H8761) Lord H136 divide H6385 (H8761) tongues H3956 seen H7200 (H8804) violence...
HE DESCRIBES THE CITY FROM WHICH HE HAS ESCAPED AS, FOR HIM AT LEAST, A PLACE OF VIOLENCE, STRIFE AND WICKEDNESS (PSALMS 55:9). He describes the city in which he has been dwelling as a place of conti...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm up...
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 55:9 The singer seems to expect that the enemies will not repent of their evil (see v. Psalms 55:19)....
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...
2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 17:1; Acts 23:6; Genesis 11:7; Jeremia
Destroy — Destroy them by dividing. Tongues — Their speech, as thou didst at Babel, Genesis 11:9, their votes, and opinions, and counsels. Which was eminently done among Absalom's followers, 2 Samuel...