Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 59:4
Verse Psalms 59:4. They run and prepare themselves] They leave no stone unturned that they may effect my destruction and prevent the building.
Verse Psalms 59:4. They run and prepare themselves] They leave no stone unturned that they may effect my destruction and prevent the building.
THEY RUN AND PREPARE THEMSELVES - That is, they “hasten” to accomplish this; they are quick to obey the command of Saul requiring them to slay me. The word “prepare” refers to whatever was deemed nece...
Psalms 59 Gentile Enmity Against Israel _ 1. Surrounded by nations (Psalms 59:1)_ 2. Their judgment anticipated (Psalms 59:9) Another Michtam of David when he was persecuted by Saul. While in prev...
LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms 59:8 the...
For, lo, strong ones have laid wait for my life, They gather themselves together against me, For no transgression or sin of mine, Jehovah. For no iniquity (of mine) they run and station themselves:...
The Psalmist prays for deliverance from the enemies who are bent on taking his life, pleading his innocence, and appealing to God to punish all injustice....
THEY RUN AND PREPARE THEMSELVES— i.e. Diligently and eagerly set about my destruction....
PSALMS 59 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Beleaguered Psalmist Prays for Rescue and Avenging. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 59:1-5, In Praying for Rescue, the Psalmist Describes the Character and Conduct of his...
_THEY RUN AND PREPARE THEMSELVES WITHOUT MY FAULT: AWAKE TO HELP ME, AND BEHOLD._ THEY RUN AND PREPARE THEMSELVES WITHOUT MY FAULT - "They run" as armed warriors rushing to the assault (Psalms 18:29)....
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; _set_ to Al-tashheth. _A Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57. The s...
AWAKE] cp. Psalms 44:23....
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...
THEY RUN AND PREPARE. — These words might both be taken in a military sense. For “run,” see Psalms 18:29; Job 15:26; Job 16:14. HELP ME. — Literally, as in margin, _meet._ It is found in a hostile sen...
_[Psalms 59:5]_ בְּֽלִי ־עָ֭וֹן יְרוּצ֣וּן וְ יִכֹּונָ֑נוּ...
Psalms 59:1 THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with the others of that group, but its closest affinitie...
“GOD IS MY HIGH TOWER” Psalms 59:1 This is the fifth of the _Michtams,_ or “Golden Psalms.” Compare Psalms 16:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms
Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is m...
_Moved. He personifies the earth, which had fallen into the hands of the Chaldeans, (Calmet) or had experienced various commotions under Saul, &c., (Haydock) which he denotes by the mention of an eart...
Observe, Reader, how determined the point is here to the immaculate holiness of the Lord Jesus! None but Christ could thus plead a faultless conduct....
4._Awake to hasten for my help, and behold. _In using this language, he glances at the eagerness with which his enemies, as he had already said, were pressing upon him, and states his desire that God...
Psalms 59 gives more the external enemies. The same wickedness is found there, but the might of human power with it. But they also must be judged, that wickedness may be set aside. Nor was it the sin...
THEY RUN AND PREPARE THEMSELVES WITHOUT [MY] FAULT,.... Or, "without sin [in me]"; or "without punishment [in them]"; so the same word is rendered, 1 Samuel 28:10. "They run", in an hostile manner, "a...
They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to help me, and behold. Ver. 4. _They run and prepare themselves_] At Saul's command, never inquiring into the cause, right or wrong; but tak...
_They run_ To and fro, first to receive Saul's commands, and then to execute them with all diligence; _and prepare themselves_ With the utmost speed and fury, to do me a mischief; or, _they dispose th...
They run and prepare themselves, setting themselves in readiness to capture him, WITHOUT MY FAULT; AWAKE TO HELP ME AND BEHOLD. Jehovah, who seems asleep at this time of great emergency, is urged to r...
PRAYER OF AN INNOCENT PERSON AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK HIS SOUL. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, again according to the melody "Destroy not," Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David; when Sau...
TO HELP ME: _ Heb._ to meet me...
1-7 In these words we hear the voice of David when a prisoner in his own house; the voice of Christ when surrounded by his merciless enemies; the voice of the church when under bondage in the world;...
THEY RUN to and fro, first to receive Saul's commands and then to execute them with all speed and diligence. PREPARE THEMSELVES; or, _dispose themselves_, here and there round about my house, that the...
Psalms 59:4 run H7323 (H8799) prepare H3559 (H8709) fault H5771 Awake H5782 (H8798) help H7125 ...
HEADING (PSALMS 59:1 A). ‘For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' Like the last two Psalms this is another Psa...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and comfort and confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who are for Christ's sake, harmless and innocent may expect to be hated of w...
Psalms 59:6. _They make a noise like a dog._ Mr. Jowett, in his christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day, and...
DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD. REVELATIONS OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN HUMAN NATURE I. The enmity of man towards man. 1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we learn that...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:1. This is an individual lament, seeking God’s protection from enemies who threaten the faithful person’s life. The title connects the psalm to...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—_“_To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. “_When Saul sent, and they watched the house...
EXPOSITION LIKE Psalms 56:1 and Psalms 57:1, this is a cry for deliverance out of great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17) that the deliverance will be granted. From the psal...
Psa 59:1-17 is another one of those "destroy not" prayers of David, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him. His wife, Michael, let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped. B...
1 Samuel 19:12; Acts 23:15; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 59:7; Proverbs 1:16;...
Run — To and fro, to receive Saul's commands, and to execute them with all speed....