Verse Psalms 27:12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies] To their soul benephesh; their whole soul thirsts for my destruction. Let them not be gratified. They have suborned witnesses against me, but they are false witnesses: unmask their wickedness, and confound their counsels.
DELIVER ME NOT OVER UNTO THE WILL OF MINE ENEMIES - Let them not accomplish their desires in regard to me; let them not be able to carry out their purposes. The word here rendered “will” means properl...
Psalms 27 Holy Longings and Anticipations _ 1. Confidence in the Lord (Psalms 27:1)_ 2. Longings and anticipations (Psalms 27:4) 3. Earnest prayer in trial and trust in the Lord ...
XXVII. Many scholars hold that we have here two Pss., and not without reason. Psalms 27:1 is the expression of childlike trust under favourable circumstances: in Psalms 27:7 the poet is in grievous af...
WILL. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. ENEMIES. adversaries....
The tone of the Psalm changes abruptly to plaintive and anxious supplication. God seems to be on the point of hiding His face....
_enemies_ R.V., adversaries, as in Psalms 27:2. _false witnesses_ Slanderous calumniators are meant, rather than actual witnesses in court. Cp. Psalms 35:11; Proverbs 6:19. _such as breathe out cruel...
PSALMS 27 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Trust and Prayer in the Hour of Danger. ANALYSIS Part I., Two pentameter hexastichs: Stanza I., Psalms 27:1-3, That which Jehovah Is Now he Has Been in the Past, and Wil...
_DELIVER ME NOT OVER UNTO THE WILL OF MINE ENEMIES: FOR FALSE WITNESSES ARE RISEN UP AGAINST ME, AND SUCH AS BREATHE OUT CRUELTY._ The will (literally, the soul) of mine enemies - implying that misch...
This Ps. falls naturally into two parts, Psalms 27:1 and Psalms 27:7, which are in such marked contrast as to make it probable that here, as in Psalms 19, two independent poems have been combined. The...
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...
By slightly changing a letter, we avoid the awkward ellipse in Psalms 27:13, and get “Such as breathe out cruelty _against me,_ So that I did not believe to see,” &c...
אַֽל ־תִּ֭תְּנֵנִי בְּ נֶ֣פֶשׁ צָרָ֑י כִּ֥י ק
Psalms 27:1 THE hypothesis that two originally distinct psalms or fragments are here blended has much in its favour. The rhythm and style of the latter half (Psalms 27:7) are strikingly unlike those o...
THE SONG OF FEARLESS TRUST IN GOD Psalms 27:1 This psalm probably dates from the time when the exiled king, surrounded by unscrupulous foes, looked from his hiding-place beyond the Jordan to the Holy...
The real significance of this psalm is that of the experience of worship. It is somewhat strange that the remarkable contrast between the first (vv. Psa 27:1-6) and second (vv. Psa 27:7-14) parts has...
Deliver me not over unto the (g) will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. (g) But either pacify their wrath, or bridle their rage....
Here again, if it had been needed by way of confirmation, that this whole Psalm primarily belongs to, and is speaking of the blessed Jesus, this verse most plainly testifies. Mark 14:55....
12._Give me not up to the desire of mine oppressors. _The Hebrew noun נפש, _nephesh, _signifies _lust, will, _or _desire; _and the language of David implies, Deliver me not up to the pleasure or lust...
In Psalms 27 we have two distinct parts, and, I apprehend, then in the last two Verses (Psa 27:21-22) the result for the mind of the saint as taught of God. The first part, Verses 1-6 (Psalms 27:1-6),...
DELIVER ME NOT OVER UNTO THE WILL OF MINE ENEMIES,.... It is a dreadful thing for a man to be given up to his own heart's lusts, and to be delivered up into the hands of Satan; who would fain have eve...
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. Ver. 12. _Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies_] Heb. unt...
_Teach me thy way_ What course I shall take to please thee, and to discharge my duty, and to save myself from ruin; _and lead me in a plain path_ Of which see the note on Psalms 26:12; where the Hebre...
THE BELIEVER'S TRUST IN GOD AND HIS WORD. A psalm of David, written probably about the same time as the preceding one, picturing the state of mind of one who is persecuted 'Without cause and longs fo...
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies, to the destruction which they had planned against him; FOR FALSE WITNESSES ARE RISEN UP AGAINST ME, such being the methods employed by the enemies in...
7-14 Wherever the believer is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. God calls us by his Spirit, by his word, by his worship, and by special providences, merciful and afflicting. When w...
THE WILL, or _lust_, or _desire_, Heb. _soul_; which is so taken, PSALMS 41:2, PSALMS 78:18 EZEKIEL 16:27. SUCH AS BREATHE OUT CRUELTY; he presseth his request upon the quality of his enemies, who wer...
Psalms 27:12 deliver H5414 (H8799) will H5315 adversaries H6862 false H8267 witnesses H5707 risen H6965 (H8804) out
Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries, For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty. So with his confidence somewhat restored he asks that his life might...
Very much of the language of David used here, I trust, we can make our own. May the Spirit of God lead us to understand, by experience, what he has written. Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my light and my...
Psalms 27:1. _The Lord is my light and my salvation;_ First comes light, and then salvation. We are not saved in ignorance; the knowledge of our sinfulness is revealed to us, we discover our true con...
David is in the darkness of sorrow, his enemies are many and mighty, and they make a dead set against him, and seek utterly to destroy him; but he finds his comfort where every true believer must ever...
CONTENTS: David glories in Jehovah's name and expresses triumphant faith. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God is the believer's light and strength by whom and in whom he lives. We should therefo...
REFLECTIONS. This Psalm professes to have been written in mature age, and after David's head was lifted up above his enemies. The Lord was become his light and salvation; whom in future was he to fear...
_The Lord is my light and my salvation._ IMPLICIT TRUST This psalm was written by a man who was at the moment far down in the depths of spiritual conflict, and yet was holding a steady front against...
_Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice._ A PRAYER OF DESIRE AND DEPENDENCE David here expresses-- I. his desire towards God. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, h...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 27:1. In singing Psalms 27:1, God’s people have a way to express confidence in him and to respond to challenging life situations. The psalm de
INTRODUCTION This psalm has been referred by some to the period of David’s waiting for the kingdom; by others, to the time of Absalom’s rebellion. _Hengstenberg_ says: “All attempts to find out any oc...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of those which have been called "composite"; and certainly it falls into two parts which offer the strongest possible contrast the one to the other. Part 1. (Psalms 27:1)...
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