Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 71:2
Deliver me in thy (b) righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
(b) By declaring yourself true to your promises.
Deliver me in thy (b) righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
(b) By declaring yourself true to your promises.
DELIVER ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS - See the notes at Psalms 31:1. The first three verses of this psalm seem in fact to have been taken, with slight variations, from the first three verses of Psalms 31....
Psalms 71 Israel's Song of Hope _ 1. Declaration of trust (Psalms 71:1)_ 2. Anticipations of faith (Psalms 71:12) 3. Revival and victory ...
LXXI. A PSALM OF GRATITUDE FOR GOD'S CONSTANT CARE OF HIS SERVANT FROM YOUTH TO OLD AGE. The Psalmist expresses himself in language borrowed from older sources. PSALMS 71:1. Quoted from Psalms 31. Us...
EAR. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
_Deliver me_&c. In thy righteousness wilt thou deliver me and rescue me: an expansion of the simpler _rescue me_in Psalms 31:1. _In thy righteousness_stands emphatically at the beginning of the senten...
The prayer of faith in the midst of danger. These verses are taken, with but little change, from Psalms 31:1-3....
DELIVER ME, &C.— _Of thy clemency rescue me, and deliver me: Incline,_ &c....
Psalms 70, 71 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Not to be Forsaken in Old Age. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 70:1-3 (70), Prayer against Enemies. Stanza II., Psalms 70:4-5 (70), Prayer in behalf of Friends. Sta...
_DELIVER ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND CAUSE ME TO ESCAPE: INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO ME, AND SAVE ME._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
This Ps. of prayer (Psalms 71:1) and praise (Psalms 71:14) was apparently written by an old man (Psalms 71:9; Psalms 71:18) and in the time of the exile.
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...
(1-3) These verses are borrowed, with some verbal alterations, from Psalms 31:1, where see Note....
בְּ צִדְקָתְךָ֗ תַּצִּילֵ֥נִי וּֽ תְפַלְּטֵ֑נִי הַטֵּֽה...
Psalms 71:1 ECHOES of former psalms make the staple of this one, and even those parts of it which are not quotations have little individuality. The themes are familiar, and the expression of them is s...
“MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH&RDQUO Psalms 71:1 Some commentators ascribe this psalm to Jeremiah. His pensive, plaintive tone is certainly present in it. But whoever the author, he must have written in his...
This is pre-eminently a song of the aged, and, like old age, it is reminiscent. The singer passes from memory to hope, and from experience to praise. No very definite division is possible. Generally s...
Son. Solomon, (Berthier) or Cyrus, (Pr. disc.) or the Messias. Most blessed Trinity, enable the Son of man, or of David, to judge the world. (Worthington) (Isaias x. 3., and John v. 22.) --- Judgment....
If we are on the look-out for Christ while reading this precious Psalm, we shall not be long before we find him, if we are brought under the divine teaching. It is God the Holy Ghost who graciously ex...
Psalms 71, founded, I suppose, as much of this book, upon the flight of David on the rebellion of Absalom, presents, I apprehend, the sum of all God's ways with Israel from the commencement of their h...
DELIVER ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... By it, or "for the sake of [it]" q; Psalms 31:1; AND CAUSE ME TO ESCAPE; present danger, and out of the hands of enemies, as well as wrath to come, and eternal de...
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Ver. 2. _Deliver me in thy righteousness_] Let my deliverance be the fruit of thy promise and of my pr...
_In thee, O Lord_, &c. See notes on Psalms 31:1. _Thou hast given commandment to save me_ By which he understands God's purpose and promise, and his providence watching to execute them, all which are...
PRAYER OF AN AGED BELIEVER FOR GOD'S ASSISTANCE. Prayer for Deliverance...
Deliver me in Thy righteousness, by which Jehovah keeps the gracious promise made to those who believe in Him, AND CAUSE ME TO ESCAPE, granting him freedom from all harm; INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO ME, in...
1-13 David prays that he might never be made ashamed of dependence upon God. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace. The gracious care of Divine providence in o...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 71:2 Deliver H5337 (H8686) righteousness H6666 escape H6403 (H8762) Incline H5186 (H8685) ear H241 save...
Psalms 71:1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteous, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habita...
This Psalm, written by an old man, is specially suitable for an old man. It is numbered seventy-one, and it may suit those who have reached that age; but it is also appropriate to us all in prospect o...
Psalms 71:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ There is his trust, and there is his fear; his trust he dares to avow, his fear he turns into a prayer. Psalms 71...
CONTENTS: Prayer that enemies might be put to shame. Joyful praise of God's goodness. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who live a life of confidence in God and continually resort to Him...
This psalm, though destitute of title, has passed down to us as composed by David, during the rebellion of Absalom. He uses the same words in his present troubles, as when Saul pursued him. Psalms 71...
_In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ A PICTURE OF A PIOUS OLD MAN I. The entreaties of a pious old man. 1. Against evil. (1) Moral failure (Psalms 70:1). (2) Gen...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 71:1. This is another individual lament, suited to a faithful person in danger from enemies who take advantage of any weakness or distress (vv. Psa
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Barnes, “is without a title. It is impossible to determine on what occasion it was composed. There is some plausibility in the supposition that Psalms 70 might have bee...
EXPOSITION Psalms 71:1 is, like so many others, a psalm divided between complaint and praise. It is comparatively wanting in originality, being, to a very great extent, an echo of other psalms, especi...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 71:1-24. Psalms 71:1-24 is the psalm of the aged man. Probably David as he was getting up into years, and his reddish colored hair had turned gray. David's li...
1 Corinthians 10:13; Daniel 9:16; Psalms 10:17; Psalms 10:18;...