Psalms 57:7

_MY HEART IS FIXED, O GOD, MY HEART IS FIXED: I WILL SING AND GIVE PRAISE._ -Determination to praise God. Verse 7. MY HEART IS FIXED, O GOD, MY HEART IS FIXED - literally, prepared, established. The repetition emphasizes the steadfastness of his confidence of deliverance and the fixity of his resolution to praise (cf. Psalms 112:7). Verse 8. AWAKE UP, MY GLORY - i:e., my soul (Psalms 16:9; Genesis 49:6). AWAKE, PSALTERY AND HARP. These had slept in silence until David received the assurance of deliverance. I MYSELF WILL AWAKE EARLY - literally, more poetically, 'I will stir up the morning dawn.' I will waken it up, not it me. I will anticipate the sun in rising

7._My heart is prepared, O God! _(344) Some read _fixed, _or _confirmed, _and the Hebrew word נכון,_nacon, _bears that signification as well as the other. If we adopt it, we must understand David as saying that he had well and duly meditated upon the praises which he was about to offer; that he did not rush into a hurried and perfunctory discharge of this service, as too many are apt to do, but addressed himself to it with steadfast purpose of heart. I prefer, however, the other translation, which bears that he was ready to enter upon the service with all cheerfulness and cordiality. And although, wherever this spirit is really felt, it will lead to steadfastness of religious exercise, it is not without importance that the reader should be apprised of the force of the word which is here employed in the Hebrew. The ready heart is here opposed by David to the me

7-11 By lively faith, David's prayers and complaints are at once turned into praises. His heart is fixed; it is prepared for every event, being stayed upon God. If by the grace of God we are brought into this even, composed frame of mind, we have great reason to be thankful. Nothing is done to purpose, in religion, unless it is done with the heart. The heart must be fixed for the duty, put in frame for it; fixed in the duty by close attention. Our tongue is our glory, and never more so than when praising God; dull and sleepy devotions will never be acceptable to God. Let us awake early in the morning, to begin the day with God; early in the beginning of a mercy. When God comes toward us with his favours, let us go forth to meet him with our praises. David desired to bring others to join in praising God; and in his psalms, he is still praising God among the people, singing to Him among t...

Verse Psalms 57:7. _MY HEART IS FIXED_] My heart is _prepared_ to do and suffer thy will. It is _fixed _- it has made the _firmest purpose_ through his strength by which I can do all things....

MY HEART IS FIXED, O GOD - Margin, as in Hebrew, “prepared.” Compare the notes at Psalms 51:10. The word “suited” or “prepared” accurately expresses the sense of the Hebrew, and it is so rendered in the Septuagint, (ἑτοίμη _hetoimē_); in the Vulgate, _“paratum;”_ and by Luther, “bereit.” The word is used, however, in the sense of “standing erect,” Psalms 9:7; to “establish” or “strengthen,” Psalms 89:4; Psalms 10:17; and hence, to be erect; to be firm, steady, constant, fixed. This seems to be the meaning here, as it is expressed in our common version

EXPOSITION This psalm—the "twin psalm" with the last—has also an elaborate "title," which runs thus: "To the precentor (or chief musician): destroy not; David's; Michtam; when he fled from Saul; in the cave." The meaning of the second and fourth headings is doubtful Some explain the second as "musical;" others as an allusion to David's words when he bade Abishai not to kill Saul. The last two clauses give the place and occasion of the composition. It was written "in the cave"—probably the cave of Adullam (1 Samuel 22:1)—when David was flying from Saul. No valid reason can be urged against these statements. The psalm is divided by its refrain (Psalms 57:5, Psalms 57:11) into two parts, which are further s

MY HEART IS FIXED, O GOD,.... Firm and sure, trusting in the Lord, believing that he should be saved by him out of his troubles; see Psalms 101:1. So, in a spiritual sense, a heart fixed and established, or that is firm and sure, is one that is assured of its salvation by Christ, rooted and grounded in the love of God, firmly built on the foundation, Christ, and has its affections set on him; and is unmoved, from the hope of the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, by whatsoever it meets with in the world. It may be rendered, "my heart is prepared", or "ready" r; that is, according to some, to receive good or evil, prosperity or adversity, at the hand of God; to which sense is Jarchi's note, "my heart is faithful with thee in the measure of judgment, and it is faithful with thee in the measure of mercy.'' That is, whether I am chastised with judgments, or f

Psalms 57:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God_ He begins with the same note as in the last Psalm; it is a note that cannot be too often on the believer's tongue: «Be merciful unto me, O God,» Psalms 57:1. _Be merciful unto me:_ As an old writer says, «The tongue of the bell strikes on both sides, and the note is the same in each case, ‘Be merciful unto me, be merciful unto me.» You cannot have that petition offered too often. David feels his deep need of mercy, and the great value of mercy, and therefore he prays again and again, «Be merciful unto me, be merciful unto me.» Psalms 57:1. For my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until t

Psalms 57 Perfect Trust in God _ 1. Sheltered until the trouble is past (Psalms 57:1)_ 2. Deliverance and praise (Psalms 57:6) The inscription is Al-taschith, which means “destroy not”; it is the Michtam of David when he fled from Saul. It shows us once more the exercise of faith in the godly of Israel. In the shadow of His wings they take refuge till these calamities are overpast. They look for intervention from above, from where it will surely come at the close of the days of tribulation. “He shall send from heaven, and save me.” Then they know they will be delivered in anticipation of which the voice of praise is heard. “Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, let Thy glory cover all the earth.”

LVII. HERE TWO PSS. ARE UNITED: A containing Psalms 57:1, B, Psalms 57:7. PSALMS 57:1. The Ps. is closely allied to the preceding, also a michtam Ps. (p. 373). The author flees to God's protection against his foes and is confident in his own safety and their overthrow. PSALMS 57:1. WILL I TAKE REFUGE: read, I will hide. Psalms 57:2. performeth all things for me: read, will requite me. Psalms 57:3. save me. reproacheth: read, pe