Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 59:15
Grudge] RV 'tarry all night.' 15, 16, Read, 'As for them they shall wander.. But I will sing.'
Grudge] RV 'tarry all night.' 15, 16, Read, 'As for them they shall wander.. But I will sing.'
LET THEM WANDER UP AND DOWN FOR MEAT - Let them be like dogs that wander about for food, and find none. The idea is, that they would not find him, and would be then as dogs that had sought in vain for...
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...
WANDER. prowl about. GRUDGE: or, stay all night....
The Psalmist contrasts the baffled rage of his persecutors with his own calm trust in God....
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...
_AND AT EVENING LET THEM RETURN; AND LET THEM MAKE A NOISE LIKE A DOG, AND GO ROUND ABOUT THE CITY._ -Second part of the second division. David's anticipation of the enemy's doom, and of his own joyfu...
59:15 night (e-10) Or 'murmur.'...
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...
LET THEM WANDER. — This verse is variously understood. The margin gives the rendering of most modern scholars; but what does it mean by “They will pass the night”? To say they will not go away unsatis...
_[Psalms 59:16]_ הֵ֭מָּה _יְנִיע֣וּן_† לֶ אֱכֹ֑ל אִם...
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...
What strong figures are chosen in these verses to point out the restless, wretched, unsatisfying state of the wicked, whose mind is like the troubled sea! Isaiah 57:20....
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...
LET THEM WANDER UP AND DOWN FOR MEAT,.... Like hungry dogs; AND GRUDGE IF THEY BE NOT SATISFIED; or murmur and howl as dogs when hungry, and can find nothing to eat; or "when they shall not be satisf...
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. Ver. 15. _Let them wander up and down for meat_] _Sicut mendici de ostio ad ostium faciunt,_ as beggars do from door to door...
_And at evening let them return_, &c. This is a repetition of the sixth verse, but is to be understood in a different sense. The sixth verse is a real complaint of their fury and diligence in pursuing...
Let them wander up and down for meat, full of disquiet and pain on account of unsatisfied hunger, AND GRUDGE IF THEY BE NOT SATISFIED, remaining all night and watching greedily for food which is not f...
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...
FOR MEAT: _ Heb._ to eat AND GRUDGE IF THEY BE NOT SATISFIED: Or, if they be not satisfied, then they will stay all night...
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...
WANDER UP AND DOWN FOR MEAT, to get a livelihood. _And grudge if they be not satisfied_: when their bodies are hungry, let their minds be discontented. Or, as others render the words, _and lodge_, or...
Psalms 59:15 down H5128 (H8686) (H8675) H5128 (H8799) food H398 (H8800) howl H3885 ...
HIS WOULD BE ASSASSINS CAN WANDER UP AND DOWN LIKE STRAY DOGS ALL NIGHT IF THEY WISH, BUT HE WILL MEANWHILE SING OF THE TRIUMPH AND PROTECTION OF HIS GOD (PSALMS 59:14). David concludes the Psalm by t...
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...
2 Kings 6:25; Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:53; Isaiah 56:11;...