Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Psalms 60:5-8
A prayer for deliverance and victory, based upon God's promise to give Israel the possession of Canaan, and supremacy over the neighbouring nations.
A prayer for deliverance and victory, based upon God's promise to give Israel the possession of Canaan, and supremacy over the neighbouring nations.
THAT THY BELOVED MAY BE DELIVERED - The word beloved is in the plural number, and might be rendered beloved ones. It refers not merely to David as his servant and friend, but to those associated with...
Psalms 60 The Lord with His People _ 1. Confessions and prayer (Psalms 60:1)_ 2. The inheritance anticipated (Psalms 60:6) 3. Faith's certainty ...
LX. This Ps. really consists of two bound together in an abrupt style. In A, _i.e._ in Psalms 60:1; Psalms 60:10_ b_, Psalms 60:11 f. we have a lament over the desperate condition of Israel, though th...
HEAR. answer. ME. Hebrew text reads "us"; but some codices, with four early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "me"....
PSALMS 60 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Outcry of Anguish, Expostulation and Entreaty, under a Severe Reverse. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 60:1-4, Lamentation over a Defeat. Stanza II., Psalms 60:5-8, Prayer...
_THAT THY BELOVED MAY BE DELIVERED; SAVE WITH THY RIGHT HAND, AND HEAR ME._ That thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand - prayer for the completion of the deliverance already begun. G...
60:5 me. (e-15) Or 'us.'...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth: Michtam of David, to teach: when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt...
THY BELOVED] better, 'thy beloved ones.' 6F. The Psalmist gives the grounds of his confidence in God. All the nations are His, and He deals with them as He sees good....
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...
From this verse onward the psalm appears again, with some variations noticed there, in Psalms 108:6. (6, 7, 8) These three verses, forming the centre of the poem, are, plainly by their style, of diffe...
_[Psalms 60:7]_ לְ֭מַעַן יֵחָלְצ֣וּן יְדִידֶ֑יךָ הֹושִׁ֖יעָה יְמִֽינְךָ֣
Psalms 60:1 THIS psalm has evidently a definite historical background. Israel has been worsted in fight, but still continues its campaign against Edom. Meditating on God's promises, the psalmist antic...
PRAYER FOR HELP AGAINST FOES Psalms 60:1 This was a national psalm to be _taught_ the people. See title; also Deuteronomy 31:19. A strong coalition had been formed against David at that time. See 2 S...
This is a song out of defeat. It may be divided into three parts. The first is a recognition of the cause of defeat, ending with a prayer (verses Psa 60:1-5). The second expresses the answer of God in...
_Tabernacle. The words for ever seem to confine this to heaven, as the Fathers explain them, though they may also allude to a temporal protection (Berthier) in the temple. (Calmet) --- Wings. Chaldean...
Jesus is the beloved of the Father, full of grace and truth. But it should seem that Christ had an eye in this prayer to the church which is his beloved, and in him also the beloved of the Father. Rea...
In Psalms 60 the remnant acknowledge God's having cast them off. Their only hope is, that He will turn to them again. This is exactly the point of Israel's righteousness as a nation: no going for help...
THAT THY BELOVED MAY BE DELIVERED,.... Some think that these words express the effect or end of the banner being displayed; but because of the word "Selah" at the end of Psalms 60:4, which makes so fu...
That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right hand, and hear me. Ver. 5. _That thy beloved may be delivered_] Heb. thy darlings, those that fear thee, Psalms 60:4, for, for their sakes it...
_Thou hast given a banner_, &c. But now thou hast granted the desires of those that devoutly worship and serve thee, and given an ensign to which all the tribes may repair. David, says Dr. Delaney, wa...
That Thy beloved, the children of God's love, the people of Israel, MAY BE DELIVERED, SAVE WITH THY RIGHT HAND, the symbol of His almighty power, AND HEAR ME. The plea having been made, David now cont...
A HYMN OF WAR AND VICTORY. To the chief musician upon Shushaneduth, to be chanted in public worship according to the melody "The Lily of Testimony," this tune indicating also the contents of the psalm...
1-5 David owns God's displeasure to be the cause of all the hardships he had undergone. And when God is turning his hand in our favour, it is good to remember our former troubles. In God's displeasur...
Thy beloved people, last mentioned....
Psalms 60:5 beloved H3039 delivered H2502 (H8735) Save H3467 (H8685) hand H3225 hear H6030 (H8798
DAVID CALLS ON GOD TO SAVE THEM BY HIS MIGHTY RIGHT HAND SO THAT THE PEOPLE WHOM HE LOVES MIGHT BE DELIVERED, AND DECLARES THE CERTAINTY OF YHWH'S VICTORY BECAUSE THE SURROUNDING NATIONS ARE SUBJECT T...
VS. 5-12) Verses 5-12 (Psalms 50:5) are identical with (Psalms 108:6)....
CONTENTS: Prayer for the deliverance of God's people from enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God often gives His own people a hard course in this world that they may not take up their rest...
Psalms 60:1. _Oh God thou hast cast us off;_ or interrogatively, Why hast thou cast us off? At this juncture all the surrounding nations, named here, in the eighty third psalm, and in 2 Samuel 8., see...
_O God, Thou hast cast us off; Thou hast scattered us._ A PSALM OF DEFEAT In our own language we possess many fine songs of patriotism. It would be impossible to overestimate the value of such a song...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 60:1. This is a lament for the whole community of Israel at a time when their continued life in the land is being threatened by Gentile neighbors. The title says it is “for...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—_“To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Upon Shushaneduth_,” is probably a musical direction to the leader of the choir. In the superscription to Psa...
EXPOSITION IN the case of this psalm, the "title" is again our best guide, both with respect to the author and to the occasion of the composition. The title is unusually full, and contains such a numb...
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. For thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; fo...
Deuteronomy 33:3; Deuteronomy 7:7; Deuteronomy 7:8; Exodus 15:6;...
Beloved — Thy beloved people....