Verse Psalms 55:6. O that I had wings like a dove!] He was so surrounded, so hemmed in on every side by his adversaries, that he could see no way for his escape unless he had wings, and could take flight. The dove is a bird of very rapid wing; and some oil them passing before his eyes at the time, might have suggested the idea expressed here.
And be at rest.] Get a habitation.
AND I SAID - That is, when I saw these calamities coming upon me, and knew not what the result was to be. OH, THAT I HAD WINGS LIKE A DOVE! - literally, “Who will give me wings like a dove?” or, Who w...
Psalms 55 In the Throes of the Great Tribulation _ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_ 2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4) 3. The great tribulation ...
LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12. A description of...
Weary of his life in the cruel city, he wishes he could be like the dove which he watches winging its flight swiftly to its nest in the clefts of some inaccessible precipice, far from the haunts of me...
He would fain escape to some solitary refuge. Cp. Jeremiah 9:2....
DISCOURSE: 594 THE AFFLICTED SOUL COMFORTED Psalms 55:6._ And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest._ TROUBLE is the portion of all, without exception; of...
AND I SAID, OH THAT I HAD WINGS! &C.— In the Hebrew, _Who will give me wings like a dove?_ The dove is remarkable for the swiftness of its flight; and therefore the Psalmist, who saw himself in the ex...
PSALMS 55 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend. ANALYSIS (Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.) Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous Exc...
_FEARFULNESS AND TREMBLING ARE COME UPON ME, AND HORROR HATH OVERWHELMED ME._ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me ... And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, an...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
A DOVE] the wild rock-dove, which can fly fast and far....
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...
OH THAT I HAD. — Literally, _who will give me?_ — The bird that was in the psalmist’s thought was doubtless the Rock Pigeon (_Columba livia_)_,_ which selects for its nesting the lofty cliffs and deep...
_[Psalms 55:7]_ וָ אֹמַ֗ר מִֽי ־יִתֶּן ־לִּ֣י...
Psalms 55:1 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
FLEEING THE CITY'S ILLS Psalms 55:1 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references which, in their full extent, are chiefly applicable to Judas...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I (e) fly away, and be at rest. (e) Fear had driven him to so great distress, that he wished to be hid in some wilderness, and to be bani...
Beautiful similitude of the dove's flight, to describe the soul's earnestness for quiet! Not to fly as a bird of prey, but as a bird of peace. Blessed Jesus! how suited is this to thee, thou meek and...
6_And I said, Who will give me wings like a dove? _(300) These words mean more than merely that he could find no mode of escape. They are meant to express the deplorableness of his situation, which ma...
Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
AND I SAID, OH THAT I HAD WINGS LIKE A DOVE,.... The psalmist pitches upon this creature, partly to suggest that his enemies pursuing him were like the ravenous hawk, and he like the harmless, innocen...
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest. Ver. 6. _And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!_] _Ut citissime et longissime fugerem,_ that I might sw...
_O that I had wings like a dove_ Hebrew, מי יתן לי, _mi jitten li, who will give me wings like a dove?_ “The dove is remarkable for the swiftness of its flight; therefore the psalmist, who saw himself...
A COMPLAINT OF FALSE FRIENDS. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship, Maschil, a psalm of David....
And I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! a figure of powerful and rapid flight, FOR THEN WOULD I FLY AWAY AND BE AT REST, find a haven of security somewhere far from the oppression and treachery...
1-8 In these verses we have, 1. David praying. Prayer is a salve for every sore, and a relief to the spirit under every burden. 2. David weeping. Griefs are thus, in some measure, lessened, while tho...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 55:6 said H559 (H8799) had H5414 (H8799) wings H83 dove H3123 away H5774 (H8799) rest...
HE LONGS TO ESCAPE INTO A SAFE PLACE WHERE HE WOULD FIND REST AND NO LONGER BE SUBJECTED TO HIS TRIALS (PSALMS 55:6). He longs to be able to escape from his present situation into a place where he can...
Psalms 55:6 I. This is the cry of the faithful soul overpressed by temptation. II. It is the sigh of the heart, weary of the strain of spiritual aspiration and effort. III. It is the cry of a man w...
Psalms 55:6 I. Don't spend your time in wishing for wings, or for anything else that is impossible. Not that there is anything wrong in a wish, unless we wish for what is wrong. Wishes will come flyi...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm up...
CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
Psalms 55:6. _Oh that I had wings like a dove,_ to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
_Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE CENSURABLE IN LIFE I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
_And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest._ DISSATISFACTION THE LAW OF LIFE I. It impels to all earthly and moral progress. Arts, sciences, literature, c...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments, this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:4 This section describes more fully the intensity of the singer: IN ANGUISH, TERRORS OF DEATH, FEAR, TREMBLING, and...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century B.C. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppre...
Psalms 11:1; Psalms 139:9; Revelation 12:14...