Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 35:12
Verse Psalms 35:12. To the spoiling of my soul] To destroy my life; so נפש nephesh should be translated in a multitude of places, where our translators have used the word soul.
Verse Psalms 35:12. To the spoiling of my soul] To destroy my life; so נפש nephesh should be translated in a multitude of places, where our translators have used the word soul.
THEY REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD - They recompensed, or returned evil instead of good. The manner in which they did it he states in the following verses. TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL - Margin, “depriving...
Psalms 35 The Cry for Justice and Divine Help _ 1. The cry of distress (Psalms 35:1)_ 2. The contrast? (Psalms 35:11) 3. Prayer for vindication and victory ...
XXXV. PRAYER AGAINST TREACHEROUS FOES BY ONE WHO IS QUIET IN THE LAND. Psalms 35:6_ b_ should replace Psalms 35:5_ b_. Chaff driven before the wind may well suggest the image of the angel pursuing th...
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44. SPOILING. bereaving....
The causelessness of the Psalmist's persecution and the ingratitude of his persecutors are urged as reasons for God's interference on his behalf....
_They rewarded_&c. Better, as R.V., they reward. As in the preceding verse he speaks of what is still going on. His enemies are guilty of the basest ingratitude. Cp. Psalms 38:20; Psalms 109:5; Prover...
TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL— _And attempt to rob me of my life._ Green. The Hebrew שׁכול _shekol,_ is _abortion,_ or _bereavement to my soul:_ "That I may be bereft of my soul, as a woman of an abortiv...
PSALMS 35 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayers against Open and Concealed Enemies, followed by Promises of Praise. ANALYSIS Three irregular stanzas. Stanza I., Psalms 35:1-10, An Indignant Imprecatory prayer...
_THEY REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL._ They ... the spoiling of my soul - literally, '(to) the bereavement of my soul;' they bereaved me of all the consolations and necessaries...
This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungrateful cruelty. The circumstances are partly similar to...
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...
TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL. — Literally, _desolation to my soul._ We may paraphrase, “They rewarded me evil for good, Which to me was desolation.”...
יְשַׁלְּמ֣וּנִי רָ֭עָה תַּ֥חַת טֹובָ֗ה שְׁכֹ֣ול לְ...
Psalms 35:1 THE psalmist's life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are brought against him. He professes innocence, and appeals t...
RESCUING THE POOR AND NEEDY Psalms 35:1 This psalm dates from the Sauline persecution, or else from the disturbed condition of the kingdom in David's later years. Each of the three divisions into whi...
There is agony in this song. The singer is sore beset with enemies. They are striving with him, fighting against him. They are plotting against him, treacherously spreading a net for his feet. He crie...
They rewarded me evil for good [to] the (k) spoiling of my soul. (k) To have taken from me all comfort and brought me into despair....
_Sinner. Hebrew and Septuagint, "sinners," who are always striving to supplant the just by pride and evil example. (Berthier) --- Let me not listen to their wicked advice. (St. Augustine) --- Let not...
I do not think it enough to prove that these words were spoken in a spirit of prophecy, wholly referring to Christ; but I would desire the Reader to remark, with me, the gracious love of the Holy Ghos...
12._They render me evil for good. _David again shows that the malice of his enemies was of a very aggravated character, because they not only oppressed him wrongfully, seeing he was innocent, and had...
Psalms 35 is an urgent appeal for the judgment of Jehovah against relentless and insidious persecutors who seek after the soul of the righteous. Insult, craft, violence, all were used against him. The...
THEY REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD,.... For the good David did in killing Goliath, and slaying his ten thousands of the Philistines, and thereby saving his king and country, Saul and his courtiers envied...
They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul. Ver. 12. _They rewarded me evil for good_] To render good for evil is divine, good for good is human, evil for evil is brutish; but evil f...
_They laid to my charge things I knew not_ They accused me to Saul of treacherous designs against his crown and life, and of other crimes of which I was wholly innocent and ignorant. _They rewarded me...
They rewarded me evil for good, which he, on his part, was trying to show them, TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL, to make his soul bereaved, to make him friendless, to isolate him....
THE HYPOCRISY AND MALICE OF THE WICKED...
SPOILING: _ Heb._ depriving...
11-16 Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was the character of David's enemies. Herein he was a type of Christ. David shows how tenderly he had behaved towards them in afflictio...
FOR GOOD; for the good offices which did to divers of them when I had favour and power in Saul's court and camp. TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL, i.e. to the stripping of my person of all my comforts and h...
Psalms 35:12 reward H7999 (H8762) evil H7451 good H2896 sorrow H7908 soul H5315 They - Psal
BROUGHT BEFORE THE JUDGES HE IS QUESTIONED ABOUT CRIMES OF WHICH HE KNOWS NOTHING, AND THAT BY THOSE TO WHOM HE HAD SHOWN NOTHING BUT KINDNESS WHO ARE NOW DETERMINED TO BRING HIM DOWN (PSALMS 35:11)....
CONTENTS: An appeal to heaven for the confusion of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The most righteous men and the most righteous causes may expect to meet with many mighty and malicious...
Psalms 35:1. _Fight against them._ This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fight against him, and for confusion to those about the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 35:1. This psalm shows how the faithful should pray when they know that hateful people are seeking to harm them. It explains the persecutors’ evil schemes and asks God to fi...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or during the revolt of Absalom. It is usual to connect i...
EXPOSITION A PSALM ascribed to David by the title, and with many characteristics of his early style—abrupt, impassioned, full of lively and graphic images, and full of transitions The picture which th...
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, stand up for my help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way agains...
1 Samuel 19:15; 1 Samuel 19:4; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 20:31;...