Over and above all covenant promises we are commanded to seek divine favor. And the apostle tells the Ephesians, by way of encouragement so to do, that God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think. Ephesians 3:20. These mercies may well be called marvellous!
Verse Psalms 17:7. _SHOW THY MARVELLOUS LOVINGKINDNESS_] David was now exposed to imminent danger; common interpositions of Providence could not save him; if God did not work _miracles_ for him, he mu...
SHOW THY MARVELOUS LOVING-KINDNESS - The literal translation of the original here would be, “distinguish thy favors.” The Hebrew word used means properly “to separate; to distinguish;” then, “to make...
Psalms 17 The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy _ 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1)_ 2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6) 3. The deliverance ...
XVII. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS FOES. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made in...
PUT THEIR TRUST. flee for refuge. Hebrew. _hasah._ App-69....
After protesting his integrity he resumes his prayer....
_Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness_ Lit., _Make marvellous thy lovingkindnesses_: Vulg. _mirifica misericordias tuas_. Cp. Psalms 31:21, and note on Psalms 9:1. The word implies a signal intervention...
SHEW, &C.— _Magnify thy mercies, O thou,_ &c....
PSALMS 17 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One who is Righteous Prays, in Great Trouble, for Divine Deliverance and Manifestation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 17:1-2, The Prayer of Righteousness. Stanza II., vers,...
_SHEW THY MARVELLOUS LOVINGKINDNESS, O THOU THAT SAVEST BY THY RIGHT HAND THEM WHICH PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEE FROM THOSE THAT RISE UP AGAINST THEM._ Show thy marvelous loving-kindness - `Signalize thy...
17:7 loving-kindnesses, (f-4) _ Chesed_ . see 2 Chronicles 6:42 ....
The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God (Psalms 17:1), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence (Psalms 17:3) and an account of the eager cruelty of his enemies ...
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...
SHEW. — Literally, _Separate;_ but (comp. Psalms 4:3), from its use to express God’s providential care of Israel in distinction to other nations, acquires in addition the idea of wonder and miracle (E...
הַפְלֵ֣ה חֲ֭סָדֶיךָ מֹושִׁ֣יעַ חֹוסִ֑ים מִ֝ מִּתְקֹומְמִ֗ים...
Psalms 17:1 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definition; lat...
GOD'S TRUE SERVANTS SAFELY KEPT Psalms 17:1 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends with glad...
This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly me...
Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that (g) rise up [against them]. (g) For all rebel against you, who trouble yo...
Called. All these words are in the future, 2 Kings and Hebrews. (Haydock) --- But as they relate to an event that was past, they seem to be as well expressed here as they are in Duport's Greek Psalms....
7._Make marvellous thy mercies. _As the word הפלה,_haphleh, _signifies sometimes _to make wonderful, _or _remarkable, _and sometimes _to separate and set apart, _both these senses will be very suitabl...
The key to Psalms 16 was in the words, "In thee do I put my trust"; to Psalms 17, "Hear the right." In Psalms 16 we have seen the blessed path and working of that spirit of confidence. It is, though t...
SHOW THY MARVELLOUS LOVING KINDNESS,.... Such is the lovingkindness of God to his people in Christ; which is sovereign, free, special, distinguishing, everlasting, and unchangeable; it is better than...
Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them]. Ver. 7. _Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, &c_]...
_Show thy marvellous loving-kindness_ Namely, in preserving and delivering me: which, if thou dost, I must ever acknowledge it to be an act of _kindness_, or free grace and mercy, yea, and of _marvell...
DAVID CALLS UPON GOD FOR HELP...
Show Thy marvelous loving-kindness, giving him a proof, an exhibition, of His grace, O THOU THAT SAVEST BY THY RIGHT HAND THEM WHICH PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEE FROM THOSE THAT RISE UP AGAINST THEM, this...
THAT SAVEST BY THY RIGHT HAND, THEM WHICH PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEE, FROM THOSE THAT RISE UP AGAINST THEM: Or, that savest them which trust in thee from these that rise up against thy right hand...
1-7 This psalm is a prayer. Feigned prayers are fruitless; but if our hearts lead our prayers, God will meet them with his favour. The psalmist had been used to pray, so that it was not his distress...
THY MARVELLOUS LOVING-KINDNESS, to wit, in preserving and delivering me; which, if thou dost, I must ever acknowledge it to be an act of kindness, or free grace, or undeserved bounty, yea, and of marv...
Psalms 17:7 marvelous H6395 (H8685) lovingkindness H2617 hand H3225 save H3467 (H8688) trust H2620 (H8802) up...
‘I have called on you, for you will answer me, O God, Incline your ear to me, and hear my speech. Show your marvellous covenant love, O you who save by your right hand, Those who take refuge in yo...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
Psalms 17:1. _Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips._ Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the first v...
CONTENTS: David prays for relief from the pressure of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we are abused and misrepresented, we have a righteous God to go to whose judgment is according t...
Psalms 17:3. _Thou hast tried me._ Vulgate, _Igne me examinâsti,_ Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalms 17:14. _Men which have their portion in this life,_ a...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:1. This is an individual lament, dealing especially with cases in which a person considers himself unjustly accused of wrong (compare Psalms 7:1
INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his life. We find in it his opinion of the character of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions (Psalms 17:1, Psalms 17:2, Psalms 17:6,...
The seventeenth psalm is another prayer of David. And it is, again, one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause, his own righteousness before the Lord. Hear the right, O LORD,...
1 Samuel 17:45; 1 Samuel 25:28; 1 Samuel 25:29; 2 Chronicles 16:9;...
By — By thy great power....