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Verse Psalms 18:11. _HE MADE DARKNESS HIS SECRET PLACE_] God is
represented as dwelling in the _thick darkness_, Deuteronomy 4:11;
Psalms 97:2. This representation in the place before us is peculiarl...
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HE MADE DARKNESS HIS SECRET PLACE - Herder has beautifully rendered
this verse,
“Now he wrapped himself in darkness;
Clouds on clouds enclosed him round.”
The word rendered “secret place” - סתר _sê...
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Psalms 18
The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ
_ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_
2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7)
3. God gave Him glory ...
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XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe
this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that
he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...
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DARKNESS... DARK. Hebrew. _hashak._ See notes on Job 3:6....
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Forthwith David's prayer is answered by the Advent of Jehovah for the
discomfiture of his enemies. He manifests Himself in earthquake and
storm. The majestic though terrible phenomena of nature are th...
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R.V. He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him;
Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
The darkness of the rain-charged storm-cloud is the tent in which
Jehovah shrouds...
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PSALMS 18
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
David's Song of Deliverance.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist
proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...
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_HE MADE DARKNESS HIS SECRET PLACE; HIS PAVILION ROUND ABOUT HIM WERE
DARK WATERS AND THICK CLOUDS OF THE SKIES._
He made darkness his secret place. This verse expands (Psalms 18:9)
"darkness was und...
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Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest
confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel
22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...
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Psalms 1:41
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the *
before a word to show an explanation.
The translated Bible tex...
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_(_11_)_ SECRET PLACE. — Better, _veil._ Comp. Job 22:14;
Lamentations 3:44. A better arrangement of the members of this verse
is, _He made darkness His veil round about Him; His tent He made of
dark...
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_[Psalms 18:12]_ יָ֤שֶׁת חֹ֨שֶׁךְ ׀ סִתְרֹ֗ו
סְבִֽיבֹותָ֥יו סֻכָּתֹ֑ו
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Psalms 18:1
THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the
psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the
same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout imag...
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A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE
Psalms 18:1
There is another edition of this psalm in 2 Samuel 22:1.Psalms 18:2;
Psalms 18:2 and...
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This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms.
It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great
revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
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He made darkness his (h) secret place; his pavilion round about him
[were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
(h) As a king angry with the people, will not show himself to them....
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Stones. So St. Jerome renders the Hebrew. Protestants, "than gold;
yea, than much fine gold." Paz (Haydock) denotes the finest gold of
Uphan, or of the Phison; which is probably the river Phasis, Gene...
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Is here not (for I do not presume to decide) an allusion to the
descent of the Holy Ghost, after the return of Jesus to glory? And may
we not without violence to the several expressions here set forth...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19.
Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of
His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His)
entering into t...
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HE MADE DARKNESS HIS SECRET PLACE,.... Which, and the dark waters in
the next clause, are the same with the thick clouds in the last, in
which Jehovah is represented as wrapping himself, and in which...
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He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him [were]
dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
Ver. 11. _He made darkness his secret place_] As a king, that, being
angry, withdra...
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_He made darkness his secret place_ Or, _his hiding place: his
covert_, says Dr. Waterland; _his tent_, says Chandler. He covered
himself with dark clouds. God is frequently represented as surrounded...
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A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY.
To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of
the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the
Lord, His p...
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He made darkness His secret place, to veil and to hide Him; HIS
PAVILION ROUND ABOUT HIM, the tent of His dwelling, WERE DARK WATERS
AND THICK CLOUDS OF THE SKIES, heavy with vapor, ready to shed the...
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1-19 The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are
the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may
triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence...
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HIS SECRET PLACE; or, _his hiding-place_; i.e. he covered himself with
dark clouds, from hence he secretly shot at his enemies, as it
follows. DARK WATERS, i.e. watery vapours and thick clouds, as the...
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Psalms 18:11 made H7896 (H8799) darkness H2822 place H5643 canopy
H5521 around H5439 dark H2824 waters H4325 clouds
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GOD HAD INTERVENED ON HIS BEHALF (PSALMS 18:7).
David's description of God's intervention portrays the situation from
Heaven's point of view. Little was necessarily seen on earth, but
David was aware...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength._
«I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind
myself to thee for the future as well as the present.»
Psalms 18:2. The LORD is...
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Psalms 18:1. _To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of
the Lord, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day
that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my
rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I
will trust; my buckler, and my horn of my salvation, and my hi...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._
What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the
Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he
must do so,...
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CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their
difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...
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David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial,
when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all
his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his
c...
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_His pavilions round about Him were. .. thick clouds of the skies._
THE MINISTRY OF THE CLOUD
His pavilions are thick clouds! Then the cloud is not a destructive
libertine, some stray, haphazard, law...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way
God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic
monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v....
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:7 God in his heavenly fortress suddenly
takes notice of David’s need and quickly comes to his aid.
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INTRODUCTION
“This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in
celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of
the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commenta...
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EXPOSITION
THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only
from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those
which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...
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The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician.
It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah
the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...
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Deuteronomy 4:11; Joel 2:2; Psalms 27:5; Psalms 81:7; Psalms 91:1;...
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Darkness — He covered himself with dark clouds. Waters — Watery
vapours....