Psalms 55:5
What meaning of the psalms 55:5 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 55:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmeda me."
What does Psalms 55:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmeda me."
Verse Psalms 55:5. _FEARFULNESS_] How natural is this description! He is in _distress_; - he _mourns_; - _makes a noise_; - _sobs_ and _sighs_; - his _heart is wounded _- he expects nothing but _death...
FEARFULNESS AND TREMBLING - Fear so great as to produce trembling. Compare the notes at Job 4:14. He knew not when these things would end. How far the spirit of rebellion had spread he knew not, and h...
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...
_horror hath overwhelmed me_ The same phrase as in Ezekiel 7:18, "horror shall cover them." The word occurs besides only in Job 21:6; Isaiah 21:4....
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...
_FEARFULNESS AND TREMBLING ARE COME UPON ME, AND HORROR HATH OVERWHELMED ME._ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me ... And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, an...
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...
_[Psalms 55:6]_ יִרְאָ֣ה וָ֭ רַעַד יָ֣בֹא בִ֑י וַ֝ תְּכַסֵּ֗נִי פַּלָּצֽוּת׃...
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...
FLEEING THE CITY'S ILLS Psalms 55:1 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references which, in their full extent, are chiefly applicable to Juda...
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...
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath (d) overwhelmed me. (d) There was no part of him that was not astonished with extreme fear....
_My words. The words or promises God has made in my favour. (Challoner) --- Praising God (Haydock) removed the dejection of David. (Eusebius) --- Detested. Protestants, "wrest." They put an evil const...
We shall have a lively apprehension of this history of David, if we connect with what is here said of him, his flight from Absalom, when he went up the hill of mount Olivet; 2 Samuel 15:14. But who th...
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...
FEARFULNESS AND TREMBLING ARE COME UPON ME,.... Fear and dread of mind, and trembling of body; AND HORROR HATH OVERWHELMED ME; or "covered me"; he was in the utmost consternation and surprise at what...
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Ver. 5. _Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me_] Fearfulness of heart, and trembling of body, _Timor cordis, tremor co...
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....
OVERWHELMED ME: _ Heb._ covered me...
1-8 In these verses we have, 1. David praying. Prayer is a salve for every sore, and a relief to the spirit under every burden. 2. David weeping. Griefs are thus, in some measure, lessened, while tho...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 55:5 Fearfulness H3374 trembling H7461 come H935 (H8799) horror H6427 overwhelmed H3680 (H8762) Fearfulness - Psalms 119:120; 2 Samuel 15:14; Job 6:4, Job 23:15-16 horror - Psalms 42:6,...
HE DESCRIBES HIS INNER CONDITION (PSALMS 55:4). He points out to God his deep distress of heart. The situation has become too much for him. Living under the constant threat of execution by a jealous...
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...
2 Samuel 15:14; Job 23:15; Job 23:16; Job 6:4; Luke 22:44; Psalms 42:6; Psalms 61:2; Psalms 88:15; Psalms 88:16; Psalms 119:120...