Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 56:5
Wrest. — Properly, afflict; and so some, “injure my cause.” But “torture my words” is intelligible.
Wrest. — Properly, afflict; and so some, “injure my cause.” But “torture my words” is intelligible.
Verse Psalms 56:5. _EVERY DAY THEY WREST MY WORDS_] They have been spies on my conduct continually; they collected all my sayings, and wrested my words out of their proper sense and meaning, to make t...
EVERY DAY THEY WREST MY WORDS - The word here rendered “wrest,” means literally to give pain, to grieve, to afflict; and it is used here in the sense of “wresting,” as if force were applied to words;...
Psalms 56 The Faithfulness of God, the Comfort of His People _ 1. Trust and Comfort (Psalms 56:1)_ 2. Praise for anticipated deliverance (Psalms 56:10) These five Psalms which are grouped together...
LVI. A PRAYER AGAINST STRONG, NUMEROUS, AND CRAFTY FOES. Psalms 56:2. For enemies read they that lie in wait for me (_mg.),_ PROUDLY: read bitterly. Psalms 56:4. Will praise his word, _i.e._ the fulf...
EVERY DAY. all the day. See Psalms 56:5. EVIL. App-44....
From the heights of faith he returns to the urgent reality of present distress. Cp. Psalms 42:6. _Every day_ R.V., all the day long. _they wrest my words_ Distorting and perverting them. Calumniators...
The second division of the Psalm is similar to the first: a description of present distress, and prayer for help, followed by an expression of perfect confidence in God's protection....
THEY WREST MY WORDS— _They pervert, torture,_ &c. Chandler, &c. That is, they endeavour to squeeze from my words, as it were by torture, any sense that they please, contrary to the intention of the sp...
PSALMS 56 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song by David in Captivity. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 56:1-3, In a few words, David Describes his Captive Condition, and Composes a _Refrain_ of Praise, Stanza II., P...
_EVERY DAY THEY WREST MY WORDS: ALL THEIR THOUGHTS ARE AGAINST ME FOR EVIL._ Every day they wrest my words. "Wrest" - literally, vex my protestations of innocence. Saul and mine enemies, instead of r...
56:5 wrest (p-6) Or 'torture.'...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A _Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.' For Michtam see on Psalms 16. JONATH ELEM REHOKIM ('the dove of th...
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...
_[Psalms 56:6]_ כָּל ־הַ֭ יֹּום דְּבָרַ֣י יְעַצֵּ֑בוּ...
Psalms 56:1 THE superscription dates this psalm from the time of David's being in Gath. Probably his first stay there is meant, during which he had recourse to feigned insanity in order to secure his...
“WHAT CAN MAN DO UNTO ME?” Psalms 56:1 This psalm was composed under the same circumstances as Psalms 34:1. See 1 Samuel 21:1. What a strange medley is here shown-David feigning madness and composing...
The keynote of this psalm is the concluding declaration of the previous one, "I will trust in Thee." Here again are evident the same circumstances of oppression (verses Psa 56:5-7). The song opens and...
Every day they wrest my (d) words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil. (d) All my counsels have evil success, and turn to my own sorrow....
Lions. Poetry gives life to all things. It represents mercy and truth as God's messengers; and Saul as a young lion. He might have entered the cave with his men, and destroyed David: but Providence ca...
Surely we must see Christ here eminently set forth. Not only at his trial, but upon many occasions, we are told they sought to catch him in his words. Matthew 26:59, etc. Luke 20:20, etc....
5_Every day my words vex me _The first part of this verse has been variously rendered. Some understand _my words _to be the nominative in the sentence, and with these I agree in opinion. Others suppos...
Psalms 56 expresses the sense of the bitter and relentless enmity of the wicked, but the tears of the godly are put in God's bottle. God is owned as the Most High, the title of promise but not of cove...
EVERY DAY THEY WREST MY WORDS,.... Form, fashion, and shape them at their pleasure; construe them, and put what sense upon them they think fit. The word u is used of the formation of the human body, i...
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil. Ver. 5. _Every day they wrest my words_] Or, my matters; they distort and pervert everything I say, or do, from the true i...
_They wrest my words_ They misconstrue and pervert my most innocent expressions, and turn them into matter of calumny, in order that they may incense Saul against me. Hebrew, יעצבו, _jegnatzeebu, they...
COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF PERSECUTION. To the chief musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, the word not only denoting the melody according to which the hymn was to be sung, "The dove of silence of distant p...
Every day they wrest my words, vexing his affairs, interfering with their proper care, harming his business; ALL THEIR THOUGHTS ARE AGAINST ME FOR EVIL, their entire conduct being full of malice....
1-7 Be merciful unto me, O God. This petition includes all the good for which we come to throne of grace. If we obtain mercy there, we need no more to make us happy. It implies likewise our best plea...
THEY WREST MY WORDS; they misconstrue and pervert my most innocent expressions, and turn them into matter of calumny, wherewith they may incense Saul against me. Or, _they perplex my affairs_. All the...
Psalms 56:5 day H3117 twist H6087 (H8762) words H1697 thoughts H4284 evil H7451 they -...
A DESCRIPTION OF HIS ENEMIES TACTICS AS THEY CLOSE IN ON HIM (PSALMS 56:5). These words could still refer to his enemies in Israel, but it seems more likely that they have his current situation in min...
‘All day long they wrest my words, All their thoughts are against me for evil.' So now that he is in Philistine territory David finds that he has not escaped from trouble. It still dogs him ‘all day...
To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam (a golden Psalm) of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up: he figh...
Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me._ «Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a whil...
CONTENTS: David pours out complaint about enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we are surrounded on all sides with difficulties and dangers because of enemies, we have but one retreat t...
The title of this psalm, which relates to the manner of singing and playing, is upon the remote and silent dove. To which _michtam_ is added, the golden ode of David. In the LXX, the title of this and...
_Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up._ THE DEPRECABLE AND THE DESIRABLE I. The deprecable in relation to man. 1. Craven-heartedness. A man whose heart is morally sound is bold a...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:1. Many take this to be an individual lament, but it could also be a psalm of anticipated thanksgiving. The description of troubles and prayer changes into gratitude that...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician upon Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.” The phrase “_Jonath-Elem-Rechokim_” occurs nowhere else in the Bible; and Biblical critics are by no means agreed as t...
EXPOSITION THIS and the following have been called "twin psalms." They begin with the same words, are nearly of the same length, and have each a refrain which divides them into two portions. Formally,...
Psa 56:1-13. This is the prayer of David when he heard a mourning dove. That is, a mourning: m-o-u-r-n-i-n-g dove, out in the distant terebinth trees. He no doubt heard these doves cooing off in the d...
1 Samuel 18:17; 1 Samuel 18:21; 1 Samuel 18:29; 1 Samuel 20:33;...