Psalms 54:1
JUDGE ME] Do justice to me. BY THY STRENGTH] RV 'in thy might.' God's 'judgment' is a practical vindication of His people's cause.... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGE ME] Do justice to me. BY THY STRENGTH] RV 'in thy might.' God's 'judgment' is a practical vindication of His people's cause.... [ Continue Reading ]
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?' Whatever be the value of the title there is nothing in the Ps. to make us reject it, unless it be the allusion in Psalms 54:3 to the Ziphites... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGERS] In Psalms 86:14 this v. is repeated, with the substitution of 'the proud' for 'strangers,' and possibly we should read 'the proud' here. The difference depends on the interchange of two very similar Heb. letters. 'Strangers,' if not applicable to the Ziphites, may refer to the'men of Keil... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD] here 'Adonai,' not 'Jehovah.'... [ Continue Reading ]
REWARD EVIL] RV 'requite the evil' that they have done. THY TRUTH] thy faithfulness, or righteous self-consistency.... [ Continue Reading ]
FREELY] RV 'with a freewill offering' (Numbers 15:3); LXX 'with free will.' O LORD] the one occurrence of 'Jehovah' in this Elohistic Ps.... [ Continue Reading ]