Psalms 35:2
What meaning of the psalms 35:2 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 35:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help."
What does Psalms 35:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help."
Verse Psalms 35:2. _TAKE HOLD OF SHIELD AND BUCKLER_] Let them be discomfited in battle who are striving to destroy my life. It is by the _shield_ and _buckler_ of _others_, not any of his _own_, that...
TAKE HOLD OF SHIELD AND BUCKLER - That is, Arm thyself as if for the contest. It is a prayer, in a new form, that God would interpose, and that he would go forth as a warrior against the enemies of th...
Psalms 35 The Cry for Justice and Divine Help _ 1. The cry of distress (Psalms 35:1)_ 2. The contrast? (Psalms 35:11) 3. Prayer for vindication and victory (Psalms 35:19) This Psalm introduces us...
XXXV. PRAYER AGAINST TREACHEROUS FOES BY ONE WHO IS QUIET IN THE LAND. Psalms 35:6_ b_ should replace Psalms 35:5_ b_. Chaff driven before the wind may well suggest the image of the angel pursuing th...
SHIELD, &C. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._...
Appeal to Jehovah to arm himself as the Psalmist's champion....
PSALMS 35 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayers against Open and Concealed Enemies, followed by Promises of Praise. ANALYSIS Three irregular stanzas. Stanza I., Psalms 35:1-10, An Indignant Imprecatory prayer...
_TAKE HOLD OF SHIELD AND BUCKLER, AND STAND UP FOR MINE HELP._ Shield and buckler. The Hebrew means 'the small shield' х_ MAAGEEN_ (H4043)] and the 'large shield' respectively х_ TSINAAH_ (H6793)] (c...
This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungrateful cruelty. The circumstances are partly similar to...
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...
SHIELD AND BUCKLER. — Better, _buckler and shield,_ as the first (Heb., _magen_) suggests a small, the latter (_tsinnah_) a large shield covering the whole body. Greek, θυρεός (see Note, Psalms 5:12.)...
הַחֲזֵ֣ק מָגֵ֣ן וְ צִנָּ֑ה וְ֝ ק֗וּמָה בְּ עֶזְרָתִֽי׃...
Psalms 35:1 THE psalmist's life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are brought against him. He professes innocence, and appeals t...
RESCUING THE POOR AND NEEDY Psalms 35:1 This psalm dates from the Sauline persecution, or else from the disturbed condition of the kingdom in David's later years. Each of the three divisions into wh...
There is agony in this song. The singer is sore beset with enemies. They are striving with him, fighting against him. They are plotting against him, treacherously spreading a net for his feet. He crie...
(b) Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. (b) Even though God can with his breath destroy all his enemies, yet the Holy Spirit attributes to him these outward weapons to assure...
_Himself. Hebrew libbi, "in my heart." But this is visibly incorrect, and we should substitute lobu, as St. Jerome, Chaldean, Syriac, &c., have done. (Calmet) --- Yet Symmachus translates, "concerning...
The last clause in these verses shows the blessedness in what goeth before. If the Lord speak pardon and peace to my soul, he will speak ruin and slaughter unto all mine enemies. Reader! what a precio...
2._Take the shield. _These words certainly cannot be applied, in the strict and proper sense, to God, who has no need of the spear or buckler: for by the breath of his mouth alone, or merely with his...
Psalms 35 is an urgent appeal for the judgment of Jehovah against relentless and insidious persecutors who seek after the soul of the righteous. Insult, craft, violence, all were used against him. The...
TAKE HOLD OF SHIELD AND BUCKLER,.... Defensive weapons; not that the Lord stands in need of any of these to defend himself with: but the sense is, that he would be as these to David; as he was to him,...
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. Ver. 2. _Take hold of shield and buckler_] Jehovah is a man of war, Exodus 15:3, and so he is here stirred up to harness himself; not that...
_Plead my cause, O Lord_, &c. Take my part, and maintain my cause against those that contend with me, and have raised war against me; for I am not able to defend myself, and have none else to appear f...
PRAYER AGAINST THE GODLESS. A psalm of David, invoking God's aid against the ungodly, contrasting the hypocrisy, cunning, and malice of the wicked with the integrity and generosity of the righteous,...
1-10 It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the Seed of the woman. Dav...
TAKE HOLD OF SHIELD AND BUCKLER; therewith to cover and defend me. Compare PSALMS 91:4 PROVERBS 2:7....
Psalms 35:2 hold H2388 (H8685) shield H4043 buckler H6793 up H6965 (H8798) help H5833 Psalms 7:12-13; Exodus 15:3; Deuteronomy 32:41-42; Isaiah 13:5, Isaiah 42:13...
THE PSALMIST ASKS THAT GOD WILL PROTECT HIM AND STAND FIRM IN HIS DEFENCE (PSALMS 35:1). In these first three verses we have a vivid picture drawn of God dressed in heavenly armour, and fully armed. H...
CONTENTS: An appeal to heaven for the confusion of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The most righteous men and the most righteous causes may expect to meet with many mighty and malicious...
Psalms 35:1. _Fight against them._ This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fight against him, and for confusion to those about the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 35:1. This psalm shows how the faithful should pray when they know that hateful people are seeking to harm them. It explains the persecutors’ evil schemes and asks God to fi...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or during the revolt of Absalom. It is usual to connect i...
EXPOSITION A PSALM ascribed to David by the title, and with many characteristics of his early style—abrupt, impassioned, full of lively and graphic images, and full of transitions The picture which th...
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, stand up for my help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way agains...
Deuteronomy 32:41; Deuteronomy 32:42; Exodus 15:3; Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 42:13; Psalms 7:12; Psalms 7:13...