Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 7:5
Verse Psalms 7:5. Let the enemy persecute my soul] If I have been guilty of the things laid to my charge, let the worst evils fall upon me.
Verse Psalms 7:5. Let the enemy persecute my soul] If I have been guilty of the things laid to my charge, let the worst evils fall upon me.
LET THE ENEMY PERSECUTE MY SOUL - Persecute my “life,” for so the word rendered “soul,” נפשׁ _nephesh_, is evidently used here. He was willing, if he had been guilty of the thing charged upon him, tha...
Psalms 7 _ 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1)_ 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6) 4. God's dealings in governm
VII. A AND VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:12 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6 Israel personified asks f...
ENEMY. foe. Hebrew. _'oyeb._ PERSECUTE... TAKE... TREAD. Figure of speech _Anabasis._ App-6. IT. me. SELAH. Connecting the treading down of Psalms 7:5 with the rising up of Jehovah. See App-66....
PSALMS 7 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One Wrongfully Accused Commits his Vindication to the Righteous Judge of All the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 7:1-2, Appeal to Jehovah for Safety. Stanza II., Psalms...
_LET THE ENEMY PERSECUTE MY SOUL, AND TAKE IT; YEA, LET HIM TREAD DOWN MY LIFE UPON THE EARTH, AND LAY MINE HONOUR IN THE DUST. SELAH._ A consequence which he prays may follow IF he has done what his...
7:5 glory (a-24) Or 'cause mine honour to dwell.'...
This Ps. is an appeal to God as the righteous Judge against an ungrateful and vindictive enemy. Nothing is known of Cush the Benjamite, but the case of Shimei affords a parallel to the circumstances h...
TAKE] RV 'overtake.' MINE HONOUR] RV 'my glory,' an equivalent for 'soul' and 'life' in the previous parallel clauses. SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4....
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...
LET THE ENEMY. — Better, _let an enemy._ PERSECUTE. — Literally, _burn._ (See Note on Psalms 10:2.) TREAD. — Used of a potter treading the clay (Isaiah 41:25); of the trampling of horses (Ezekiel 26:...
_[Psalms 7:6]_ יִֽרַדֹּ֥ף אֹויֵ֨ב ׀ נַפְשִׁ֡י וְ יַשֵּׂ֗ג...
Psalms 7:1 THIS is the only psalm with the title "Shiggaion." The word occurs only here and in Habakkuk 3:1, where it stands in the plural, and with the preposition "upon," as if it designated instrum...
REFUGE IN GOD FROM EVIL MEN Psalms 7:1 This psalm should be compared with 1 Samuel 24:1; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 26:1. Cush,
This is a song of the singer's confidence and appeal in circumstances of the most trying description. He is persecuted by enemies, some among them being violent and cruel. The basis of their attack wo...
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine (d) honour in the dust. Selah. (d) Let me not only die, but be dishonoured forever....
That repaid. This seems better than "my peaceable one," as some translate the Hebrew, for it would be but a small commendation not to injure a friend: the pagans do as much. Duport therefore agrees wi...
While we keep our eye stedfastly on Christ, as the person here specially treated of, we may secondarily, and subordinately, look at David, king of Israel. We by no means lessen the importance of the f...
5_Let mine enemy pursue _It is a striking proof of the great confidence which David had in his own integrity, when he is willing to endure any kind of punishment, however dreadful, provided he should...
Psalms 7 appeals to Jehovah, on the ground of the righteous and more than righteous dealing of the godly with their enemies, that Jehovah may arise and awake to the judgment He has commanded, and that...
LET THE ENEMY PERSECUTE MY SOUL, AND TAKE [IT],.... That is, if the above things he was charged with could be proved against him; then he was content that Saul his enemy should pursue after him, and a...
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. Ver. 5. _Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it_] Thus he...
_Let the enemy persecute my soul_, &c. I am contented, and wish that Saul may so persecute my life as to overtake it, and take it away. _And lay mine honour in the dust_ Meaning either 1st, that honou...
let the enemy persecute my soul, in just retribution, AND TAKE IT; YEA, LET HIM TREAD DOWN MY LIFE UPON THE EARTH, trampling it into extinction, AND LAY MINE HONOR, his personal and official dignity,...
SUPPLICATION OF A BELIEVER AGAINST SLANDER. The Petition. Shiggaion of David, a plaintive song, or elegy, full of emotion, which is apparent it both in the structure and in the accompanying music, w...
1-9 David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heaven to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found noth...
I am contented, and wish that Saul may so persecute my life as to overtake it, and take it away. _Mine honour_; either, 1. That honourable and royal estate to which I am chosen and designed. Or, 2....
Psalms 7:5 enemy H341 (H8802) pursue H7291 (H8762) me H5315 overtake H5381 (H8686) trample H7429 ...
HE PLEADS HIS OWN INNOCENCE (PSALMS 7:3). O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, If there be iniquity in my hands, If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, Yes, I have delivered him...
CONTENTS: David prays for deliverance from persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When the believer is slandered he has the court of heaven to fly to and a righteous Judge who is the patro...
The title of this psalm is similar to that of Zechariah 3:1. It is called, not a psalm, but _Shiggaion_ or _Shigionoth_ of David; which he sung to the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite....
_O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands._ THE APPEAL OF CONSCIOUS INTEGRITY When near his end Mahomet made an effort to obtain himself the peace and pardon of the living...
_O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust._ AN APPEAL FROM THE SLANDERED I. The appeal (Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:6). A petition for freedom and deliverance from his persecutors, in which he desires God t...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 7:1. The title of this individual lament from David refers to an otherwise unknown incident in his life when a man of Benjamin (the tribe of Saul) slandered David. The psalm...
INTRODUCTION “From the matter of this psalm it appears that it was composed with reference to some calumny on the character of David; but commentators are not agreed as to when and by whom this injur...
EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its date the earlier portion of David's public life—that during...
The seventh psalm is Shiggaion. Which means the loud crying of David which he sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from al...
Habakkuk 3:13; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 63:3; Jeremiah 17:13; Job 16:15;...