Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 55:20
He (p) hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
(p) I did not provoke him but was as at peace with him, yet he made war against me.
He (p) hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
(p) I did not provoke him but was as at peace with him, yet he made war against me.
Verse Psalms 55:20. _HE HATH PUT FORTH HIS HANDS_] A farther description of Ahithophel. He betrayed his friends, and he broke his covenant with his king. He had agreed to serve David for his own emolu...
HE HATH PUT FORTH HIS HANDS AGAINST SUCH AS BE AT PEACE WITH HIM - Against those who were his friends, or who had given him no occasion for war. The Septuagint and Vulgate render this, “He hath put fo...
Psalms 55 In the Throes of the Great Tribulation _ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_ 2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4) 3. The great tribulation ...
LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12. A description of...
HE: i.e. Ahithophel. BROKEN HIS COVENANT: by his disloyalty....
In this division of the Psalm the storm of indignation dies away, and the Psalmist's trustful confidence revives....
_He hath put forth his hands_ The arch-traitor is certainly meant, not (though the Heb. idiom would allow of this explanation) each of the evildoers mentioned in Psalms 55:19. For the phrase cp. 1 Sam...
Once more the Psalmist reverts to the treachery of his former friend. It is quite natural that he should do so again, abrupt as is the transition from the great mass of his enemies to the one individu...
HE HATH BROKEN HIS COVENANT— _He hath profaned,_ and _violated his covenant;_ namely, of allegiance and friendship....
PSALMS 55 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend. ANALYSIS (Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.) Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous Exc...
_AS FOR ME, I WILL CALL UPON GOD; AND THE LORD SHALL SAVE ME._ -Third strophe. His confident hope, resting upon the grounds stated in the previous prayer. Verse 16,17. AS FOR ME ... EVENING, AND MORN...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
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...
HE HATH. — As in Psalms 55:12, the individual specially prominent in the traitorous crew is here singled out, and his treachery exposed. HE HATH BROKEN... — Literally, _he perforated._ In a note in hi...
_[Psalms 55:21]_ שָׁלַ֣ח יָ֭דָיו בִּ שְׁלֹמָ֗יו חִלֵּ֥ל...
Psalms 55:1 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
FRIENDS MAY FORSAKE, BUT GOD ABIDETH Psalms 55:12 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, deceit, and oppression trampled the virtuous and helpless un...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
Here is another view of the enemies of David; and still more so of the enemies of David's Lord. How smooth were the words of Judas when he said, Hail, Master! and kissed him. But how was the prophecy...
20._He hath sent his hands against those that were at peace with him _He afterwards speaks in verse 23d in the plural number, but here it is probable that he begins by addressing the leader and head o...
Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
HE HATH PUT FORTH HIS HANDS,.... The psalmist returns and describes, in this verse Psalms 55:3, the cruelty, perfidy, and hypocrisy of his false friend; who had stretched forth his hands AGAINST SUCH...
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. Ver. 20. _He hath put forth his hands, &c._] That wicked Ahithophel hath. The Fathers understand it of G...
_He_, &c. I speak especially of “that perfidious person, who hath not only violated all the laws of friendship, but profanely broken his promise and oath of fidelity, wherein he was engaged to me.” Bi...
He, the treacherous friend described above, HATH PUT FORTH HIS HANDS AGAINST SUCH AS BE AT PEACE WITH HIM, profaning the solemn covenant of intimate friendship; HE HATH BROKEN HIS COVENANT, that of mu...
A COMPLAINT OF FALSE FRIENDS. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship, Maschil, a psalm of David....
HE HATH BROKEN: _ Heb._ he hath profaned...
16-23 In every trial let us call upon the Lord, and he will save us. He shall hear us, and not blame us for coming too often; the oftener the more welcome. David had thought all were against him; but...
HE, i.e. they, the persons last mentioned. Before the singular number, PSALMS 55:13,14, was suddenly changed into the plural, PSALMS 55:15, that the punishment might reach not him only, but his partne...
Psalms 55:20 forth H7971 (H8804) hands H3027 peace H7965 broken H2490 (H8765) covenant H1285 put -...
DAVID DRAWS OUT THE EVIL AND HYPOCRISY OF HIS ENEMY (PSALMS 55:20). David here defines what type of enemy he is up against. This may refer to Saul, but more probably it refers to his treacherous one...
CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
Psalms 55:6. _Oh that I had wings like a dove,_ to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
_Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE CENSURABLE IN LIFE I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments, this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:20 COVENANT. His treacherous friend had sealed his seeming friendship with a solemn obligation; see 1 Samuel 18:3....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century B.C. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppre...
1 Samuel 22:17; 1 Samuel 24:10; 2 Samuel 14:32; 2 Samuel 14:33;...
He — They, the persons last mentioned....