Verse Psalms 35:26. Let them be ashamed] This may be a prophetic declaration against Saul and his courtiers. They were ashamed, confounded, clothed with shame, and dishonoured. All these took place in Saul's last battle with the Philistines, where he lost his crown and his life, and came to a most dishonourable end.
LET THEM BE ASHAMED ... - See the notes at Psalms 35:4. THAT MAGNIFY THEMSELVES AGAINST ME - Who seek to exalt themselves over me; to make themselves great by humbling and destroying me. They hope to...
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...
CLOTHED WITH SHAME. Compare Psalms 109:29; Psalms 132:18....
A repetition of Psalms 35:4, with some variations, occurring again in Psalms 40:14....
Renewed prayer in a somewhat calmer tone....
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...
_LET THEM BE ASHAMED AND BROUGHT TO CONFUSION TOGETHER THAT REJOICE AT MINE HURT: LET THEM BE CLOTHED WITH_ _ SHAME AND DISHONOUR THAT MAGNIFY THEMSELVES AGAINST ME._ Clothed with shame - (Psalms 109...
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...
יֵ֘בֹ֤שׁוּ וְ יַחְפְּר֨וּ ׀ יַחְדָּו֮ שְׂמֵחֵ֪י רָעָ֫תִ֥י...
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...
AN APPEAL TO THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE Psalms 35:18 Psalms 35:20 : “The Quiet in the Land” was the title adopted by holy men and women in Germany, during long dark days when religion was under an eclipse....
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...
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion (t) together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed (u) with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me. (t) That is, at once, were...
Christ is frequently in scripture represented as longing for the year of his redeemed, before his coming; and both Christ and the Church longing also for his second coming to be glorified in his saint...
26._Let those who rejoice at thy hurt be ashamed and confounded together. _This imprecation has already been expounded; and it is only necessary to remark, that there is peculiar force in the expressi...
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...
LET THEM BE ASHAMED AND BROUGHT TO CONFUSION TOGETHER,.... In a body, as one man; as they gathered together against him, Psalms 35:15; so he entreats they might together be brought to shame and confus...
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me. Ver. 26. _Let them be ashamed, &c._...
_Let them not say, Ah! so would we have it_ Hebrew, _Aha, our soul;_ an expression of mirth, as before, Psalms 35:21, or, _Aha_, we have _our wish_, or _desire. We have swallowed him up_ David is now...
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Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together, with all their evil intentions utterly frustrated, that rejoice at mine hurt. LET THEM BE CLOTHED WITH SHAME AND DISHONOR THAT MAGNIFY THEMSELVES...
17-28 Though the people of God are, and study to be, quiet, yet it has been common for their enemies to devise deceitful matters against them. David prays, My soul is in danger, Lord, rescue it; it b...
As they gathered themselves together to deride and oppose me, so do thou gather them together to destroy them. Or, _in like manner_, one as well as another; let the proud and great ones of them be dis...
Psalms 35:26 ashamed H954 (H8799) mutual H3162 confusion H2659 (H8799) rejoice H8056 hurt H7451 clothed H3847 ...
HE CALLS ON GOD TO VINDICATE HIM, BY PUNISHING THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST HIM, AND BY REWARDING THOSE WHO TAKE UP HIS CAUSE, AT WHICH POINT HE WILL MAKE KNOWN TO ALL WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR HIM (PSALMS 35:22...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 35:22 Asking God to BE NOT SILENT (as if he were indifferent toward evil) but AWAKE AND ROUSE YOURSELF (as if he were asleep) shows how urgent the singer feels the situation to be...
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...
1 Peter 5:5; Daniel 11:36; Isaiah 41:11; Isaiah 65:13; Jeremiah 48:2