Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 5:12
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour (i) wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.
(i) So that he will be safe from all dangers.
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour (i) wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.
(i) So that he will be safe from all dangers.
Verse Psalms 5:12. _FOR THOU, LORD, WILT BLESS THE RIGHTEOUS_] A righteous soul is a peculiar object of God's affectionate regards; and therefore will be a subject of continual blessing. _WITH FAVOU...
:Title UPON NEHILOTH - The title of Psalms 4:1 is, “upon Neginoth.” As that refers to a musical instrument, so it is probable that this does, and that the idea here is that this psalm was intended par...
FOR THOU, LORD, WILT BLESS THE RIGHTEOUS - It is one of the characteristics of God that, while he will punish the wicked, he will show favor to the righteous; while he brings deserved punishment upon...
Psalms 5 _ 1.The cry to God the King (Psalms 5:1)_ 2. Hating iniquity and trusting in mercy (Psalms 5:4) 3. Prayer for guidance and judgment (Psalms 5:8
V. A HYMN FOR MORNING SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE. Psalms 5:1. Solemn invocation of Yahweh. The Psalmist sets in order (Psalms 5:3), not perhaps his prayer (RV), but his sacrifice, the victim and the kind...
BLESS THE RIGHTEOUS. bless the justified one. Compare Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:12; Psalms 3:8. FAVOUR. This is the "shield". In His favour is "life" (Psalms 30
FOR THOU, LORD, WILT BLESS— _Yes, thou, Lord, wilt bless;_ Mudge: who observes, that David seems here to receive the signal that he had been looking for. The word צנה _tsinnah,_ rendered _a shield,_ a...
PSALMS 5 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Morning Prayer for Deliverance from Conspirators. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 5:1-3, Petitions Pleaded to which an Answer is Awaited. Stanza II., Psalms 5:4-6, Jehovah's...
_FOR THOU, LORD, WILT BLESS THE RIGHTEOUS; WITH FAVOUR WILT THOU COMPASS HIM AS WITH A SHIELD._ For - the ground of his hope expressed in Psalms 5:7; Psalms 5:11. It is thy way, founded upon thy natu...
5:12 shield. (f-18) Here the larger shield, one which screened the whole body. 'buckler,' Psalms 35:2 ; Psalms 91:4 ....
This is a morning prayer before going to the sanctuary. The chief difficulty in ascribing it to David lies in the reference (Psalms 5:7) to 'thy holy temple.' The word means a 'palace,' and is not str...
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...
_[Psalms 5:13]_ כִּֽי ־אַתָּה֮ תְּבָרֵ֪ךְ צַ֫דִּ֥יק יְהוָ֑ה...
Psalms 5:1 THE reference to the temple in Psalms 5:7 is not conclusive against the Davidic authorship of this psalm, since the same word is applied in 1 Samuel 1:9; 1
PROTECTION FROM THE WICKED Psalms 5:1 The _ordering_ of prayer is very necessary, Genesis 22:9. Our Lord's prayer should be our model. Often our _words_ need to be supplemented by our _meditations;_...
This is another song of the morning. It opens with language which reveals the reason of the soul's assurance as it faces another day. First are petitions asking the attention of Jehovah. These are fol...
_Dwell. Hebrew, "protect," (St. Jerome) "or shade them." (Calmet) --- The just will rejoice under thy protection, (Haydock) and at the conversion of the sinner. (St. Chrysostom)_...
Let the Reader observe in the close, as in the opening of the Psalm, that the sacred writer speaks of one identical person. It is the righteous one Jehovah will bless: it is him that is to be compasse...
REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS Jesus! how blessed to thy people art thou in every view; and in those views most eminently in which we behold thee going before thy church, as our great High Priest and Representa...
12._For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous. _The Psalmist here confirms the concluding sentence of the preceding verse, namely, that all the servants of God in common will take support to their f...
In Psalms 5 the cry of the godly is presented, and the character of God, as necessarily responding to that of the godly, is appealed to as necessitating His hearing him and judging the wicked. If the...
FOR THOU, LORD, WILT BLESS THE RIGHTEOUS. As he has blessed him with a righteousness, even the righteousness of God imputed to him, by which he is denominated righteous, and with the forgiveness of hi...
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield. Ver. 12. _For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous_] Yea, the righteous man shall abound with blessings...
_But let those that put their trust in thee_ That dare rely on thy word and promise when all human hopes and refuges fail; _rejoice _ Let them have cause of great joy from thy love and care of them; _...
For Thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous, with such spiritual blessings as make for eternal happiness; WITH FAVOR WILT THOU COMPASS HIM, surround him on all sides, AS WITH A SHIELD, the large buckler...
MORNING PRAYER BEFORE WORSHIP. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical service, upon Nehiloth, flutes or wind instruments of the Temple-orchestra, a psalm of David. David was at this time in...
COMPASS HIM: _ Heb._ crown him...
7-12 David prayed often alone, yet was very constant in attendance on public worship. The mercy of God should ever be the foundation both of our hope and of our joy, in every thing wherein we have to...
i.e. Thou art resolved, and hast engaged thyself by promise and covenant, to bless them; and therefore my prayer for them is agreeable to thy will. WITH FAVOUR; with thy love and gracious providence....
Psalms 5:12 LORD H3068 bless H1288 (H8762) righteous H6662 favor H7522 surround H5849 (H8799) shield H6793...
‘But let all those who put their trust in you rejoice, Let them shout for joy because you defend them, Let those also who love your name be joyful in you, For you will bless the righteous, O Yahwe...
Psalms 5 This Psalm is peculiar in setting forth the characteristics of prayer in general. I. In the first and second verses we have a suggestion of the variety of prayer. (1) "Give ear to my _words...
Psalms 5:1. _Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation._ Sometimes we pray right off, as David did when he cried to the Lord, «Hear me when I call.» At other times, we sit down to meditate...
CONTENTS: David's prayer in which he extols God's holiness and asks judgment upon the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Prayer should be both the key of the morning and the bolt of the eve...
Psalms 5:6. _Leasing;_ a Gothic and primitive word equivalent to falsehood. They professed loyalty to the king, but were traitors in heart, as in Psalms 5:9. Psalms 5:9. _Their throat is an open sepu...
_Give ear to my words, O Lord._ THE INWARD AND OUTWARD SIDES OF THE DIVINE LIFE The Psalm falls into two main parts-- Psalms 5:1, and Psalms 5:8. The inward comes first; for communion with God in the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:1. This individual lament from David is the first psalm that prays for the downfall of one’s enemies. Such Psalms relate to situations where one is faced with bloodthirsty...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:11 The psalm closes by expressing the assurance enjoyed by the faithful. ⇐ ⇔...
INTRODUCTION “A morning prayer of David, appealing to God as his king, against whose sovereignty his own enemies were really in rebellion.”—_Kay_. “This psalm must have been composed at Jerusalem, sin...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is assigned by some to the time of Manasseh, but contains nothing that is really opposed to the superscription—"A Psalm of David"—since, before the temple was built, the tabernac...
Psa 5:1-12 is a prayer of the morning. Psalms 4:1-8 was the prayer of the evening, and now for the morning. Give ear unto my words, O LORD; consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my...
Psalms 1:1; Psalms 112:1; Psalms 115:13; Psalms 29:11; Psalms 3:3;...