Psalms 54:7

_FOR HE HATH DELIVERED ME OUT OF ALL TROUBLE: AND MINE EYE HATH SEEN HIS DESIRE UPON MINE ENEMIES._ For he hath delivered me out of all trouble. In faith he sees the deliverance already accomplished, and 'praises' God by anticipation for it (Psalms 54:6). AND MINE EYE HATH SEEN HIS DESIRE UPON MINE ENEMIES - not that he would feast his eyes on the sufferings of his foes, out of private revenge, but he rejoices in the vindication of God's justice....

4-7 Behold, God is mine Helper. If we are for him, he is for us; and if he is for us, we need not fear. Every creature is that to us, and no more, which God makes it to be. The Lord will in due time save his people, and in the mean time he sustains them, and bears them up, so that the spirit he has made shall not fail. There is truth in God's threatenings, as well as in his promises; sinners that repent not, will find it so to their cost. David's present deliverance was an earnest of further deliverance. He speaks of the completion of his deliverance as a thing done, though he had as yet many troubles before him; because, having God's promise for it, he was as sure of it as if it was done already. The Lord would deliver him out of all his troubles. May he help us to bear our cross without repining, and at length bring us to share his victories and glory. Christians never should suffer th...

Verse Psalms 54:7. _FOR HE HATH DELIVERED ME_] Saul had now decamped; and was returned to save his territories; and David in the meanwhile escaped to En-gedi. God was most evidently the author of this deliverance. _MINE EYE HATH SEEN_ HIS DESIRE _UPON MINE ENEMIES._] It is not likely that this Psalm was written after the _death of Saul_; and therefore David could not say that _he had seen his desire_. But there is nothing in the text for _his desire_; and the words might be translated, _My eye hath seen my enemies_-they have been so near that I could plainly discover them. Thus almost all the _Versions_ have understood the text. _I have seen them_, and yet they were not permitted to approach me. God has been my Deliverer. ANALYSIS OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH PSALM T

FOR HE HATH DELIVERED ME OUT OF ALL TROUBLE - This is spoken either in confident expectation of what would be, or as the statement of a general truth that God did deliver him from all trouble. It was what he had experienced in his past life; it was what he confidently expected in all time to come. AND MINE EYE HATH SEEN HIS DESIRE UPON MINE ENEMIES - The words “his desire” are not in the original. A literal translation would be, “And on my enemies hath my eye looked.” The meaning is, that they had been overthrown; they had been unsuccessful in their malignant attempts against him; and he had had the satisfaction of “seeing” them thus discomfited. Their overthrow had not merely been reported to him, but he had had ocular demonstration of its reality. This is not the expression of malice, but of certainty. The fact on which the eye of the psalmist rested was his own safety. Of that he was...

EXPOSITION THIS is a short psalm, written in a time of great trouble, and containing, first, an earnest prayer for deliverance (Psalms 54:1); and then an expression of confidence in God's aid, and of thankfulness for the deliverance, which is counted as absolutely certain (Psalms 54:4). The "title," which assigns the psalm to David, and makes the occasion his betrayal to Saul by the Ziphites, appears to be trustworthy. PSALMS 54:1 SAVE ME, O GOD, BY THY NAME; _i.e. _by the qualities of which thy "Name" is significant—power, goodness, and truth. AND JUDGE ME; _i.e. _"vindicate me," or "judge my cause." By thy strength;

FOR HE HATH DELIVERED ME OUT OF ALL TROUBLE,.... As he desired, 1 Samuel 26:24; that is, out of all his present trouble; not that he had no more afterwards; for as soon as one trouble is gone, generally speaking, another comes; but as God delivered him out of his present distress, so he believed he would deliver him out of all his afflictions in future times; AND MINE EYE HATH SEEN [HIS DESIRE] UPON MINE ENEMIES: or revenge, as the Targum supplies it; not that he delighted in the destruction of his enemies, but in the justice of God glorified thereby, and in the goodness of God to him, in delivering him from them; see Revelation 18:20....

Psalms 54 The Prayer of the Godly _ 1. The prayer for salvation (Psalms 54:1)_ 2. The assurance of faith (Psalms 54:4) During that final apostasy when the man of sin is revealed, the saints among the Jews will suffer persecution as the prophetic Word elsewhere reveals. Here is another prophetic record of their prayers, with a believing anticipation of deliverance....

LIV. THE PSALMIST PRAYS FOR DELIVERANCE FROM POWERFUL AND BITTER FOES. He trusts in God who will destroy his enemies. When that is done, he will offer sacrifice in thanksgiving. His enemies are Jews for who would expect heathen to set God before their eyes (Psalms 54:3)? True, we are told expressly in Psalms 54:3 that the adversaries are strangers, _i.e._ foreigners, but we should read insolent men. _Cf._ also Psalms 86:14. PSALMS 54:1. The name sums up all the attributes of God, but especially His power. See on Psalms 5 and _cf._ Psalms

DELIVERED . rescued. SEEN HIS DESIRE: or, looked upon, and thus seen Jehovah's deliverance. To the chief Musician. See App-64. ON . relating to. NEGINOTH . smitings: i.e. the great smitings of my enemies by Jehovah. App-65....

A confident expectation of deliverance and vow of thanksgiving....