Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 64:8
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall (h) flee away.
(h) To see God's heavy judgments against them, and how he has caught them in their own snares.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall (h) flee away.
(h) To see God's heavy judgments against them, and how he has caught them in their own snares.
Verse Psalms 64:8. _THEIR OWN TONGUE TO FALL UPON THEM-SELVES_] All the plottings, counsels, and curses, they have formed against me, shall come upon themselves....
SO THEY SHALL MAKE THEIR OWN TONGUE TO FALL UPON THEMSELVES - In Psalms 64:3, their tongue is represented as a sword; and here, keeping up the figure, the tongue, as a sword, is represented as falling...
Psalms 64 The Wicked and their End _ 1. The power of the wicked displaced (Psalms 64:1)_ 2. Their sudden end (Psalms 64:7) This Psalm stands in contrast with the preceding ones. The outward circum...
LXIV. PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AGAINST TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 64:6. The text needs correction. We may read, They plan evil deeds: they have hidden a well-devised plot, for the inner man is incurab...
MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. SHALL FEAR. Some codices, with six early printed editions, read "will see"....
They may scheme, but in the midst of their schemes the arrow of divine judgement pierces them: by this exhibition of God's justice all men are warned, and the righteous are encouraged....
_So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves_ An untenable rendering of an obscure sentence. It is best to render, substantially as R.V., And they are made to stumble, their own tongue...
SO THEY SHALL MAKE THEIR OWN TONGUE, &C.— _And their own tongue shall cause it to fall upon them: all that see,_ &c....
PSALMS 64 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Prayer against the Evil Tongues of Conspirators, who are Destroyed by Their Own Weapon. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 64:1-4 a, Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies, whose...
_THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES; THEY ACCOMPLISH A DILIGENT SEARCH: BOTH THE INWARD THOUGHT OF EVERY ONE OF THEM, AND THE HEART, IS DEEP._ -When all the plot is ripe, then ensues sudden destruction of th...
RV 'So shall they be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them,' their evil words coming back upon themselves. See them] 'see their desire upon them': cp. Psalms 54:7. FLEE AWAY] RV 'wag th...
This is a Ps. on a familiar theme. The Psalmist's life is in danger. He describes the injurious words and malicious plans of his enemies, and foretells how their overthrow will be a warning to all who...
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...
The meaning of these verses is clear. In the moment of their imagined success, their deeply-laid schemes just on the point of ripening, a sudden Divine retribution overtakes the wicked, and all their...
_[Psalms 64:9]_ וַ יַּכְשִׁיל֣וּהוּ עָלֵ֣ימֹו לְשֹׁונָ֑ם יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ
Psalms 64:1 FAMILIAR notes are struck in this psalm, which has no very distinctive features. Complaint of secret slanderers, the comparison of their words to arrows and swords, their concealed snares,...
DELIVERANCE FROM POWERFUL FOES Psalms 64:1 Another of the psalms dating from Saul's persecution. There are two stanzas. PRAYER FOR PRESERVATION, PSALMS 64:1 Insult, sarcasm, and slander still fall...
This is the cry of distress, and yet not of despair. The singer is beset by wily enemies who plan and plot against him with malicious and persistent determination. In great detail he describes their m...
_Troublest. Protestants, "stillest the noise." (Haydock) --- Troubled. The most obdurate are converted from all countries. (Worthington)_...
I have not interrupted the progress of these verses, in order that the Reader, after having finished the perusal of the whole, may mark their connection. There is a beautiful climax of order in the re...
8_And they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves _Pursuing the same subject, he remarks, that the poison concocted in their secret counsels, and which they revealed with their tongues, w...
Psalms 64 chiefly speaks of the unceasing crafty hatred of the enemy and cries to God: God will shoot at them suddenly. The result of this judgment will be that all shall fear and declare the work of...
SO SHALL THEY MAKE THEIR OWN TONGUE TO FALL UPON THEMSELVES,.... The evil things they have wished for, threatened unto, and imprecated on others, shall come upon themselves; the curses they have curse...
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. Ver. 8. _So they shall make their own tongue, &c._] According to Pro 12:13 Psalms 59:12. _See Trapp on...
_They shall make their own tongue_, &c. The mischief of their hard speeches, and threats, and crafty counsels against me, shall be turned against themselves. _All that see them shall flee away_ Partly...
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves, they are made to fall, their own tongue overcomes them, the organ of their bodies with which they sought to harm others becomes the instrum...
INVOCATION OF GOD AGAINST THE DECEIT OF MEN. To the chief musician, a psalm of David, composed at one of the periods of his life when he was annoyed above the ordinary by the trickery of men who prof...
7-10 When God brings upon men the mischiefs they have desired on others, it is weight enough to sink a man to the lowest hell. Those who love cursing, it shall come upon them. Those who behold this s...
The mischief of their hard speeches, and threats, and crafty counsels against me shall be turned against themselves. SHALL FLEE AWAY; partly through abhorrency of them, and partly through fear of bein...
Psalms 64:8 stumble H3782 (H8686) tongue H3956 see H7200 (H8802) away H5074 (H8709) tongue -...
BUT GOD HAS TAKEN NOTE AND WILL TURN THEIR SCHEMES BACK ON THEIR OWN HEADS SO THAT ALL WILL SEE THEIR FOLLY AND RECOGNISE IN THEIR DEMISE THE HAND OF GOD (PSALMS 64:7). His adversaries thought that no...
CONTENTS: David prays for deliverance from the malicious designs of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God will turn the tables on the adversaries of His people and defeat them at their ow...
REFLECTIONS. This psalm describes at large the plots and insinuations of David's enemies for his destruction. They took secret counsel against him, and he cried and prayed, on the contrary, that God w...
_Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy._ MAN’S ENMITY TOWARDS MAN We see this enmity here in three aspects. I. Piously dreaded. David prays against it. He pray...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 64:1. This individual lament shares with Psalms 63:1 a confidence in God’s victory over those who bring troubles on the righteous. The psalm h
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 64:7 Those who shoot their bitter words like arrows aimed at the innocent (vv. Psalms 64:3) will find that GOD SHOOTS HIS ARROW AT THEM. God brings
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_. “_To the chief Musician:_” see Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm of David_,” The structure and character of the psalm confirm the title as to its Davidic authorship....
EXPOSITION AT a time of great danger from domestic enemies, who threaten insurrection (Psalms 64:2), the psalmist first complains to God, and entreats his aid (Psalms 64:1); after which he boldly deno...
Psa 64:1-10, another psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from the fear of the enemy (Psalms 64:1). You know, fear is a horrible thing. And fear can actually get hold...
1 Samuel 31:3; Job 15:6; Luke 19:22; Matthew 21:41; Nahum 3:7;...
Flee — Through fear of being involved in their destruction....