Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in (o) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
(o) The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his death.
With hypocritical mockers in (o) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
(o) The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his death.
Verse Psalms 35:16. _WITH HYPOCRITICAL MOCKERS IN FEASTS_] These verses seem to be prophetic of the treatment of Christ. _They did tear me, and_ _I knew it not_. They blindfolded and buffeted him; th...
WITH HYPOCRITICAL MOCKERS IN FEASTS - The word rendered hypocritical here - חנף _chânêph_ - properly means people “profane, impious, abandoned.” It refers to such persons as are commonly found in sc...
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...
HYPOCRITICAL MOCKERS IN FEASTS. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (of Repetition). "hypocrites [at feasts] mocking at the feast". App-6....
The causelessness of the Psalmist's persecution and the ingratitude of his persecutors are urged as reasons for God's interference on his behalf....
Like (less probably, _among_) the profanest of mocking parasites they gnash &c.; a gesture of rage, as though they would devour their victim (Psalms 35:25). The obscure phrase in the first line is gen...
BUT IN MINE ADVERSITY THEY REJOICED, &C.— _But in my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together; they gathered about me, crouching, when I did not know it; they rent me without ceasing:_ Psalms 35:1...
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...
_WITH HYPOCRITICAL MOCKERS IN FEASTS, THEY GNASHED UPON ME WITH THEIR TEETH._ With hypocritical mockers in feasts - rather, 'with hypocritical (or profane) mockers for a cake' х_ MAA`OWG _ (H4580)];...
35:16 profane (e-2) Or 'hypocritical.'...
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...
WITH HYPOCRITICAL MOCKERS, etc.] RV 'like the profane mockers in feasts'—buffoons and parasites, who get a place at table in return for entertaining the guests with scurrilous jokes....
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...
WITH HYPOCRITICAL MOCKERS IN FEASTS. — This clause is full of difficulty. The LXX. and Vulg. have, “they tempted me, they mocked me with a mocking”; Symmachus, “in hypocrisy, with feigned words”; Chal...
בְּ֭ חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָעֹ֑וג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י ש
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...
RESCUING THE POOR AND NEEDY Psalms 35:1 This psalm dates from the Sauline persecution, or else from the disturbed condition of the kingdom in David's later years. Each of the three divisions into whi...
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...
Look at the cross, and behold this most strikingly fulfilled. Where indeed shall we look for it in the affliction of any other? Matthew 27:39....
16._Among perfidious jesters. _Others translate it, _With hypocrites, _but in my opinion David simply relates the combination of his enemies. And the meaning of the expression is to this effect, That...
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...
WITH HYPOCRITICAL MOCKERS IN FEASTS,.... That is, the abjects gathered, themselves together with such; these may design Saul's courtiers, his parasites and flatterers, and who were hypocrites in relig...
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. Ver. 16. _With hypocritical mockers in feasts_] _Cum sannionibus placentae vel cibi,_ with hypocritical mockers for a cake...
_But in mine adversity_ Hebrew, בצלעי, _betzalgni, in my halting_, that is, when I was in great danger of falling into mischief. When I had any sickness or ill success in my affairs, and was almost lo...
with hypocritical mockers in feasts, those who love to make sport of a poor sufferer by cracking biting jokes at his expense, THEY GNASHED UPON ME WITH THEIR TEETH, in a gesture of sneering contempt,...
THE HYPOCRISY AND MALICE OF THE WICKED...
11-16 Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was the character of David's enemies. Herein he was a type of Christ. David shows how tenderly he had behaved towards them in afflictio...
HYPOCRITICAL, or _profane_, as this word signifies, JOB 8:13, JOB 13:16 15:34 17:8, and, as some add, in all other places. MOCKERS; whose common practice it is to scoff at and deride others, and me in...
Psalms 35:16 ungodly H2611 mockers H3934 feasts H4580 gnashed H2786 (H8800) teeth H8127 hypocritical -...
BROUGHT BEFORE THE JUDGES HE IS QUESTIONED ABOUT CRIMES OF WHICH HE KNOWS NOTHING, AND THAT BY THOSE TO WHOM HE HAD SHOWN NOTHING BUT KINDNESS WHO ARE NOW DETERMINED TO BRING HIM DOWN (PSALMS 35:11)....
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...
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...
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, stand up for my help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way agains...
1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Samuel 20:24; Acts 7:54; Isaiah 1:14; Isaiah 1:15
Mockers — They made themselves buffoons and jesters, and accustomed themselves to mock and deride David, that thereby they might gain admittance to the tables of great men, which was all they sought f...