Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 58:6
Break their (e) teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
(e) Take away all opportunity and means by which they hurt.
Break their (e) teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
(e) Take away all opportunity and means by which they hurt.
Verse Psalms 58:6. _BREAK THEIR TEETH_] He still compares Saul, his captains, and his courtiers, to _lions_; and as a lion's power of doing mischief is greatly lessened if all his teeth be broken, so...
BREAK THEIR TEETH, O GOD, IN THEIR MOUTH - The word here rendered “break” means properly “to tear out.” The allusion is to his enemies, represented as wild beasts; and the prayer is, that God would de...
Psalms 58 A Judgment Psalm __ 1. Why God must judge (Psalms 58:1) 2. The judgment executed (Psalms 58:6) “Do ye of a truth in silence speak righteousness?” (literal rendering of the first verse)....
LVIII. A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ON UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGES. This Ps. is closely allied to Psalms 82. The reproaches in Psalms 58:3, where the enemies of the Psalmist are said to have gone astray from the wom...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
The figure of the serpent, typical of insidious deadliness, is changed to that of the lion, typical of open ferocity. _Break … break out_ Render them powerless for harm. Two strong words, properly use...
Since they are thus obstinately and incurably evil, nothing remains but that they should be deprived of their power to hurt or altogether destroyed....
BREAK THEIR TEETH, O GOD— The mention of _teeth_ in this first place with the relative _their,_ most probably refers to the adder's or serpent's immediately foregoing, whose poison and noxious power i...
PSALMS 58 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Significant Warning to Corrupt Judges. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 58:1-5, Corrupt Judges Apostrophised, Described in their Evil Doings and Training, in the Harm they D...
_BREAK THEIR TEETH, O GOD, IN THEIR MOUTH: BREAK OUT THE GREAT TEETH OF THE YOUNG LIONS, O LORD._ -Petition rounded on the foregoing description of the malignity of the foe; confident anticipation of...
This Ps. denounces the wickedness of unjust and oppressive judges, and prays, in a series of powerful metaphors, for their destruction, in order that righteousness may be vindicated, and God exalted a...
Read with LXX 'God shall break,' etc., and in the following vv. 'They shall melt.. shall be.' This gives solemn prediction in the place of mere imprecation....
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...
BREAK THEIR TEETH. — The change is abrupt from the image of obstinacy deaf to all charms, to that of violence that must be tamed by force. GREAT TEETH. — Literally, _biters, grinders. _...
_[Psalms 58:7]_ אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים הֲרָס ־שִׁנֵּ֥ימֹו בְּ פִ֑ימֹו...
Psalms 58:1 THIS psalmist's fiery indignation against unjust judges and evil-doers generally is not kindled by personal wrongs. The psalm comes hot from a heart lacerated by the sight of widespread co...
“THERE IS A GOD THAT JUDGETH” Psalms 58:1 This psalm is launched against wicked rulers. It may have been occasioned by the attitude of Abner and others of Saul's party, who accounted David as a rebe...
This is a fine setting forth of the certainty of the judgment of God against wickedness. The psalmist declares its reason (verses Psa 58:1-5), its process (verses Psa 58:6-9), and its effect (verses t...
No mercy. Nehemias uses the like prophetic threats, 2 Esdras iv. 5. (Calmet) --- "Every sin must be punished, either by the penitent, or by an avenging God." The prophet supposes that his enemies died...
This appeal to God comes in very suitably after what was before observed. If we accept the expressions as prayers for grace, or the destruction of the irrecoverable foes of Christ, they are very stron...
_FAITH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS_ I. THE THRONE OF INIQUITY (Psalms 58:1). II. THE THRONE OF GOD (Psalms 58:6). III. THE SPECTACLE OF JUSTICE (Psalms 58:10). ILLUSTRATIONS (1) ‘Not
6._Break their teeth, O God! in their mouth _(354) From this part of the psalm he assumes the language of imprecation, and solicits the vengeance of God, whose peculiar prerogative it is to repel oppr...
Psalms 58. All righteousness was silent in Israel. The wicked were such and nought else. The godly man looks for judgment on them, for, let favor be shown to them, they will not learn uprightness. In...
BREAK THEIR TEETH, O GOD, IN THEIR MOUTH,.... From the description of the wicked, the psalmist passes to imprecations on his enemies; whom he represents as cruel and bloodthirsty, and as being stronge...
_Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD._ Ver. 6. _Break their teeth, O God_] Disarm and disable them from doing me mischief. See Psalms 3:7; P...
_Break their teeth, O God_ Their power and instruments of doing mischief. “The mention of _teeth_ here, with the relative _their_, most probably first refers to those of the adder or serpent, immediat...
A CRY FOR VENGEANCE UPON THE SUBVERTERS OF RIGHT. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, to be sung to the same melody as the preceding psalm, Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David....
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth, those which they use as instruments of violence. Psalms 57:4; BREAK OUT THE GREAT TEETH OF THE YOUNG LIONS, O LORD, of the enemies who desired to take his lif...
6-11 David prayed that the enemies of God's church and people might be disabled to do further mischief. We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the enemies of the church. He foretells their rui...
THEIR TEETH; their power and instruments of doing mischief. He mentions teeth, partly because the adder's poison lies in its teeth; and partly to make way for the following metaphor. THE GREAT TEETH,...
Psalms 58:6 Break H2040 (H8798) teeth H8127 mouth H6310 God H430 Break H5422 (H8800) fangs H4459 lions...
DAVID CALLS ON GOD TO DEAL WITH THE UNRIGHTEOUS AS THEY DESERVE (PSALMS 58:6). In five more vivid illustrations David calls on God to deal with the unrighteous, followed by a sixth by which he assures...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the defeat of ungodly men. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: However wicked people may prosper and bid defiance to divine justice, they will eventually learn that there is a G...
Psalms 58:4. _The deaf adder,_ which stops her ears by putting one ear to the ground, and forcing her tail into the other. Very many of the ancient Greek and Latin writers mention the practice of cert...
_Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?_ MAN IN MANY ASPECTS I. The character of depraved men portrayed. 1. Unrighteous in judgment. 2. Wrong in heart. 3. Violent in the treatment of m...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 58:1. This is a community lament that God’s people sing when they are confronted with injustice among their own rulers. Singing this in worship (1) helps the faithful to pra...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 58:6 TEETH IN THEIR MOUTHS, FANGS OF THE YOUNG LIONS. The verse is a prayer that these evildoers may no longer have their present power to do harm....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” see introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. Moll: “This complaint respecting domestic admin...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of condemnation on unrighteous judges. Some suppose the judges to be superhuman beings, entrusted with the government of the earth (Cheyne). Others suggest heathen rulers of Israel,...
Psa 58:1-11 is a prayer of David. I would not want to be one of David's enemies because of his prayers. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? Y...
Ezekiel 30:21; Hosea 5:14; Isaiah 31:4; Job 29:17; Job 4:10;...
Their teeth — Their powerful instruments of doing mischief....