Psalms 142:7

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON, THAT I MAY PRAISE THY NAME - answering to "bring my soul out of trouble" (Psalms 143:11; Psalms 25:17). The Lord will hear this prayer, because "The Lord looseth the prisoners" (Psalms 146:7). The prison is an image of 'overwhelming trouble' and "affliction" (Psalms 142:2; Psalms 107:10). Joseph is the type of Israel in trouble. A...

Verse Psalms 142:7. _BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON_] Bring נפשי _naphshi_, my _life_, out of this _cave_ in which it is now _imprisoned_; Saul and his men being in possession of the entrance. _THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL COMPASS ME ABOUT_] יכתרו _yachtiru_, they _shall crown me_; perhaps meaning that the pious Jews, on the death of Saul, would cheerfully join together to make him king, being convinced that God, by his _bountiful dealings with him_, intended that it should be so. The _old Psalter_, which is imperfect from the _twenty-first_ verse of Psalm cxix. (Psalms 119:21) to the end of Psalm cxli. (Psalms 141:10), concludes this Psalm thus: "Le

BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON - Bring me out of my present condition which is like a prison. I am as it were shut up; I am encompassed with foes; I do not know how to escape. Compare Psalms 25:17. THAT I MAY PRAISE THY NAME - Not merely for my own sake, but that I may have occasion more abundantly to praise thee; that thus “thou” mayest be honored; an object at all times much more important than our own welfare - even than our salvation. THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL COMPASS ME ABOUT - They shall come to me with congratulations and with expressions of rejoicing. They will desire my society, my friendship, my influence, and will regard it as a privilege and an honor to be associated with me. David looked to this as an object to be desired. He wished to be associated with the righteous; to

EXPOSITION DAVID once more cries to God for protection and deliverance. The "title" says that the prayer was composed by him "when he was in the cave," by which we must understand "the cave of Adullam" (see 1 Samuel 22:1, 1 Samuel 22:2; and comp. Psalms 57:1; "title"). The contents and style of the psalm are thoroughly Davidical. PSALMS 142:1 I CRIED UNTO THE LORD WITH MY VOICE; WITH MY VOICE UNTO THE LORD DID I MAKE MY SUPPLICATION. "With my voice" means aloud, and therefore earnestly and pressingly (comp....

BRING MY SOUL OUT OF PRISON,.... Not out of purgatory, to which some Popish writers wrest these words very absurdly; nor out of the prison of his body, as Joseph Ben Gorion p; knowing that none but God had a power of removing it from thence; but out of the cave, where he was detained as in a prison, while Saul and his men were about the mouth of it; or rather out of all his straits, distresses, and difficulties, which surrounded and pressed him on all sides, as if he was in a prison; THAT I MAY PRAISE THY NAME; this release he desired not so much for his own sake, that he might be at ease and liberty, but that he might have fresh occasion to praise the Lord, and an opportunity of doing it publicly, in the assembly and congregation of the people; THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL COMPASS ME ABOUT; in a circle, like a crown, as the word q signifies; when delivered, they should flock to him and come ab...

Maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave. This «Maschil of David» is instructive to us, for the experience of one believer is very edifying to another. We are so much alike that, as in water face answereth to face, so the heart of men answereth to man, and what one believer has felt awakens sympathy in the rest of God's people. Psalms 142:1. _I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble._ David mentions that he prayed with his voice. This is an unimportant matter compared with praying with the heart; but when the heart is full of prayer, it is often very helpful to be able to use the voice to give expression to the emotions of the soul. To have a room in which, without disturbing others, and without ostentatiously revealing your private exp

PSALM 140-142 These three Psalms are Psalms of David. The third one in this series, 142 is another Maschil, the last Maschil Psalm, being a prayer when David was in the cave. In these Psalms the distress of Israel, the godly remnant of Israel, is again remembered. In Psalms 140:1 we see prophetically the evil and violent man, that man of sin of the last days. And therefore have we one more imprecatory prayer for the destruction of the wicked (verse 10). The last verses look forward to the overthrow of the wicked and the exaltation of the righteous. In Psalms 141:1 the righteous are seen in separation from the wicked, and the prayer for preservation. Psalms 142:1 contains continued prayer for deliverance

CXLII. The Psalmist prays for help to God who knows his distress. His enemies are stronger than he, and there is none to help him, save God. The righteous will welcome his deliverance from the snares around him as a triumph of their own. In Psalms 142:4 follow _mg._ In Psalms 142:7 the prison need not be taken in a literal sense. For compass me about, render shall triumph because of me. The ascription of the Ps. in the title to David in the cave or rather fortress of Adullam has no support in the Ps. itself. There is no means of fixing the date even approximately....

Reminding God of his devotion in past times, he prays for a speedy answer to his prayer....

DISCOURSE: 737 LIBERTY DESIRED Psalms 142:7. _Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name!_ GREAT are the changes which, from time to time, we observe in the material world; namely, from darkness to light, from barrenness to fertility, from death to life. Such likewise take place in the spiritual world; for men, by the Gospel, are “turned from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.” Nor is this spiritual change less visible than the other. There are signs whereby we may “know that we have passed from death unto life,” and been “translated from the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of God’s dear Son.” When David penned the psalm before us, he was hid in a cave, and was every moment in danger of being discovered and destroyed by his potent enemy, King Saul. But there was also a spiritual bondage to which he was reduced by means of the persecuti