Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 17:2
Let my (b) sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
(b) The vengeance that you will show against my enemies.
Let my (b) sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
(b) The vengeance that you will show against my enemies.
Verse Psalms 17:2. _MY SENTENCE COME FORTH FROM THY PRESENCE_] Thou knowest my heart, and my ways; judge me as thou shalt find; let me not fall under the judgment of man. _LET THINE EYES BEHOLD THE...
LET MY SENTENCE - Hebrew, “my judgment.” The allusion is to a judgment or sentence as coming from God in regard to the matter referred to in the psalm, to wit, the injuries which he had received from...
Psalms 17 The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy _ 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1)_ 2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6) 3. The deliverance ...
XVII. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS FOES. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made in...
LET MY SENTENCE, &C.. From thy presence my judgment will come: Thine eyes will discern upright ones....
An appeal for justice....
The petition. _Let_my judgement _come forth from thy presence_. Cp. Psalms 37:6; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:3-4; Habakkuk 1:4. Pronounce sentence for me
PSALMS 17 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One who is Righteous Prays, in Great Trouble, for Divine Deliverance and Manifestation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 17:1-2, The Prayer of Righteousness. Stanza II., vers,...
_LET MY SENTENCE COME FORTH FROM THY PRESENCE; LET THINE EYES BEHOLD THE THINGS THAT ARE EQUAL._ Let my sentence come forth from thy presence - i:e., Let thy sentence, in vindication of my righteous...
17:2 judgment (b-3) Or 'right.'...
The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God (Psalms 17:1), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence (Psalms 17:3) and an account of the eager cruelty of his enemies ...
MY SENTENCE] my judgment, in the favourable sense of 'vindication.' LET THINE EYES, etc.] better, 'thine eyes look upon equity,' a confident assertion of God's justice....
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 MY SENTENCE — _i.e._, let my cause be tried before Thy tribunal, where it is sure of success, since I am innocent and Thou art just. The second clause is better in the present, “Thine eyes behold,...
מִ֭ לְּ פָנֶיךָ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י יֵצֵ֑א עֵ֝ינֶ֗יךָ...
Psalms 17:1 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definition; lat...
GOD'S TRUE SERVANTS SAFELY KEPT Psalms 17:1 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends with glad...
This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly me...
_I will love thee, as a mother does her son. He that loves has fulfilled the law. This word is omitted [in] 2 Kings. xxii. 2. (Calmet) --- Strength. Ibid. --- Rock. (Haydock) --- The Septuagint have i...
As none but Jesus could ever make appeal in the justice of his cause, so it is blessed to discover him in this sweet prayer. Reader, you and I may, in his righteousness, look up to that God, who is an...
2._From the presence of thy countenance. _Literally it is, _from before thy face, _or, _before thy face. _By these words David intimates that if God does not rise up as the vindicator of his cause, he...
The key to Psalms 16 was in the words, "In thee do I put my trust"; to Psalms 17, "Hear the right." In Psalms 16 we have seen the blessed path and working of that spirit of confidence. It is, though t...
LET MY SENTENCE COME FORTH FROM THY PRESENCE,.... Not of condemnation, such as came forth from God and passed on Adam and all his posterity, Romans 5:12; though such an one was executed on Christ, as...
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. Ver. 2. _Let my sentence come forth from thy presence_] Let it be both pronounced and executed forthwith...
_Let my sentence_ Hebrew, משׁפשׂי, _mishpati_, my _judgment_, that is, judgment in my cause, or on my behalf: _come forth from thy presence_ From thee, and from thy tribunal, to which I bring my cause...
Let my sentence come forth from Thy presence, that acquitting him of wrong-doing, God Himself stating that David was not guilty before Him; LET THINE EYES BEHOLD THE THINGS THAT ARE EQUAL, God sees an...
THE BELIEVER TAKES HIS REFUGE IN GOD. Every true believer is a poor sinner in the sight of God, knowing that his natural sinfulness will not permit justifying himself before the tribunal of divine jus...
1-7 This psalm is a prayer. Feigned prayers are fruitless; but if our hearts lead our prayers, God will meet them with his favour. The psalmist had been used to pray, so that it was not his distress...
MY SENTENCE, Heb. _my right_ or _judgment_, i.e. judgment in my cause, or on my behalf. FROM THY PRESENCE, i.e. from thee, and from thy tribunal, to which I bring my cause. Do not suspend or delay it,...
Psalms 17:2 vindication H4941 come H3318 (H8799) presence H6440 eyes H5869 look H2372 (H8799) upright H4339...
‘A Prayer of David.' A further psalm from the Davidic psalms. Psalms 17:1 ‘Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend to my cry, Give ear to my prayer, which goes not out of deceitful lips. Let my verdi...
Psalms 17:1. _Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips._ Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the first v...
CONTENTS: David prays for relief from the pressure of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we are abused and misrepresented, we have a righteous God to go to whose judgment is according t...
Psalms 17:3. _Thou hast tried me._ Vulgate, _Igne me examinâsti,_ Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalms 17:14. _Men which have their portion in this life,_ a...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:1. This is an individual lament, dealing especially with cases in which a person considers himself unjustly accused of wrong (compare Psalms 7:1
INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his life. We find in it his opinion of the character of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions (Psalms 17:1, Psalms 17:2, Psalms 17:6,...
The seventeenth psalm is another prayer of David. And it is, again, one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause, his own righteousness before the Lord. Hear the right, O LORD,...
2 Thessalonians 1:6; Ezekiel 18:25; Ezekiel 18:29; Ezekiel 33:17;...
Sentence — Judgment on my behalf. Come — From thy tribunal....