Psalms 55:14
What meaning of the psalms 55:14 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 55:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company."
What does Psalms 55:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company."
Verse Psalms 55:14. _WALKED UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD IN COMPANY._] Or with haste; for the rabbins teach that we should walk _hastily_ TO the temple, but _slowly_ FROM it....
WE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL TOGETHER - Margin, “who sweetened counsel.” Literally, “We sweetened counsel together;” that is, We consulted together; we opened our minds and plans to each other; in other word...
Psalms 55 In the Throes of the Great Tribulation _ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_ 2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4) 3. The great tribulation (Psalms 55:9) 4. The comfort of hope (Psalms 55:...
LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12. A description o...
IN COMPANY. with the multitude. Hebrew. _regesh._ Occurs only here....
The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a fierce outburst of indignation....
FOR IT WAS NOT AN ENEMY, &C.— Among other persons who joined in this conspiracy against David, there was one from whom he expected a quite different conduct, and whose infidelity and treachery were ag...
PSALMS 55 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend. ANALYSIS (Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.) Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous Exc...
_WE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL TOGETHER, AND WALKED UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD IN COMPANY._ WE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL TOGETHER - literally, 'We who together made secret intimacy to sweeten.' Compare Psalms 64:2. The s...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
AND WALKED... — _i.e.,_ joined the great public processions to the temple. (Comp. Psalms 44:4.) The word rendered “company” occurs again (Psalms 64:2. Authorised Version, “insurrection.” Comp. the sam...
_[Psalms 55:15]_ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יַ֭חְדָּו נַמְתִּ֣יק סֹ֑וד בְּ בֵ֥ית אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים נְהַלֵּ֥ךְ בְּ רָֽגֶשׁ׃...
Psalms 55:1 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
FRIENDS MAY FORSAKE, BUT GOD ABIDETH Psalms 55:12 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, deceit, and oppression trampled the virtuous and helpless un...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
We must of necessity drop David's history in these verses, to attend to an infinitely greater; for surely what is here said by the Spirit of Christ, which was in the holy men of old, is said in prophe...
Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
WE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL TOGETHER,.... Not in religious matters; for in these the testimonies of the Lord were David's counsellors, Psalms 119:24; but in civil things: hearty counsel is one branch of fr...
We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of God in company. Ver. 14. _We took sweet counsel together_] It was my great delight to confer and consult with him, especially about the...
_It was not an enemy_ Not an open and professed enemy, or, not an old and inveterate enemy, (as appears from the following description to be his meaning,) _that reproached me_ That misrepresented me,...
A COMPLAINT OF FALSE FRIENDS. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship, Maschil, a psalm of David....
WE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL: _ Heb._ who sweetened counsel...
9-15 No wickedness so distresses the believer, as that which he witnesses in those who profess to be of the church of God. Let us not be surprised at the corruptions and disorders of the church on ear...
WE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL TOGETHER; I imparted my secret thoughts and designs to him with great delight and satisfaction. WE WALKED UNTO THE HOUSE OF GOD; we agreed no less in exercises of piety, than in...
Psalms 55:14 sweet H4985 (H8686) counsel H5475 together H3162 walked H1980 (H8762) house H1004 God H430 throng H7285 We took sweet counsel together - Psalms 42:4, Psalms 122:1; Isaiah 2:3; Ezekiel 33...
HE BEWAILS THE FACT THAT HE HAS BEEN BETRAYED BY A COMRADE-IN-ARMS (PSALMS 55:12). The description of the city has prepared the way for the story of his own betrayal. What hurt him most was that he h...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm up...
CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
Psalms 55:6. _Oh that I had wings like a dove,_ to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
_Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE CENSURABLE IN LIFE I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments, this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century B.C. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppre...
Ezekiel 33:31; Isaiah 2:3; Psalms 122:1; Psalms 42:4...