Psalms 35:5
What meaning of the psalms 35:5 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 35:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them."
What does Psalms 35:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them."
Verse Psalms 35:5. _LET THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CHASE_ THEM.] By _angel_ we may either understand one of those _spirits_, whether good or bad, commonly thus denominated, or _any thing_ used by God himse...
LET THEM BE AS CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND - As chaff is driven away in winnowing grain. See the notes at Psalms 1:4. AND LET THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CHASE THEM - Drive them away, or scatter them. Angels are...
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...
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ THE ANGEL OF THE LORD. See note on Psalms 34:7....
Prayer for the repulse and rout of his enemies. No doubt the language might be entirely figurative, but it is more naturally explained if a literal fulfilment was at least a possibility....
AND LET THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CHASE THEM— _And an angel of the Lord driving: i.e._ a very violent wind. _He maketh his angels wind,_ &c. Mudge....
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...
_LET THEM BE AS CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND: AND LET THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CHASE THEM._ Let them be as chaff - (Psalms 1:4.) ANGEL ... The same Divine Angel who "encampeth round about them that fear Him...
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...
AS CHAFF. — Comp. Psalms 1:4, and see Note. There can be little doubt that the “angel of Jehovah” in this and the following verse is (comp. Psalms 104:4) a personification of the “hurricane” itself, w...
יִֽהְי֗וּ כְּ מֹ֥ץ לִ פְנֵי ־ר֑וּחַ וּ מַלְאַ֖ךְ יְהוָ֣ה דֹּוחֶֽה׃...
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...
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD (d) chase [them]. (d) Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward....
_Set himself, "persevering" in wickedness. (St. Augustine)_...
When the prayer is thus expressed in faith, let the opposers of Christ and his church be confounded, and ashamed, and turned back; it is in other words, they shall be so brought to ruin and confusion....
The same thing he expresses more clearly in the following verse, praying that the angel of the Lord would drive them through dark and slippery places, so that reason and understanding might fail them,...
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...
LET THEM BE AS CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND,.... As they are; see Psalms 1:4; AND LET THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CHASE [THEM]; either a good angel, who is the Lord's, his creature that ministers unto him, and is...
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them]. Ver. 5. _Let them be as chaff_] _Facti sint a corde suo fugitivi,_ let them fly before their own consciences, restles...
_Let them be_ Or, _They shall be; as chaff before the wind_ That is, dispersed and chased from place to place, finding rest and safety nowhere. _And let the angel of the Lord_ Whom God employs to defe...
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...
AS CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND, i.e. dispersed and chased from place to place, finding rest and safety no where. THE ANGEL OF THE LORD; whom God useth to defend his people, and to destroy their enemies....
Psalms 35:5 chaff H4671 before H6440 wind H7307 angel H4397 LORD H3068 chase H1760 (H8802) as chaff - Psalms 1:4, Psalms 83:13-17; Job 21:18; Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 29:5;...
HE CALLS ON GOD BY HIS ANGEL TO DRIVE HIS ENEMIES BACK AND PUT THEM TO FLIGHT (PSALMS 35:4). Not content with the fact that YHWH will stand with him to protect him, he calls on Him to pursue his enem...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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...
Acts 12:23; Exodus 14:19; Hebrews 11:28; Hosea 13:3; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 37:36; Job 21:18; Psalms 1:4; Psalms 83:13...