Psalms 59:8
What meaning of the psalms 59:8 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 59:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision."
What does Psalms 59:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision."
Verse Psalms 59:8. _THOU, O LORD, SHALT LAUGH AT THEM_] They have mocked us; God will turn them and their schemes into ridicule and contempt: "Thou shalt have all these heathenish nations in derision....
BUT THOU, O LORD, SHALT LAUGH AT THEM - That is, God will hear them, and will have all their efforts in derision, or will treat them with contempt. See Psalms 2:4, note; Psalms 37:13, note. THOU SHAL...
Psalms 59 Gentile Enmity Against Israel _ 1. Surrounded by nations (Psalms 59:1)_ 2. Their judgment anticipated (Psalms 59:9) Another Michtam of David when he was persecuted by Saul. While in prev...
LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms 59:8 the...
LAUGH. Compare Psalms 2:4....
Be his enemies never so threatening and insolent, he can trust in God....
PSALMS 59 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Beleaguered Psalmist Prays for Rescue and Avenging. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 59:1-5, In Praying for Rescue, the Psalmist Describes the Character and Conduct of his...
_BUT THOU, O LORD, SHALT LAUGH AT THEM; THOU SHALT HAVE ALL THE HEATHEN IN DERISION._ But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them - (Psalms 2:4.) THOU SHALT HAVE ALL THE HEATHEN IN DERISION - (cf. note,...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; _set_ to Al-tashheth. _A Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57. The s...
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...
LAUGH. — Comp. Psalms 2:4, Note. Probably the same contrast is intended in these clauses as in Psalms 59:5....
_[Psalms 59:9]_ וְ אַתָּ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּשְׂחַק ־לָ֑מֹו תִּ֝לְעַ֗ג לְ כָל ־גֹּויִֽם׃...
Psalms 59:1 THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with the others of that group, but its closest affinitie...
“GOD IS MY HIGH TOWER” Psalms 59:1 This is the fifth of the _Michtams,_ or “Golden Psalms.” Compare Psalms 16:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms 57:1; Psalms 58:1. The contents correspond to the title and to 1...
Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is m...
_Holy one, Jesus Christ, (Eusebius) the prophet, (Menochius) the sanctuary, (Calmet) or oracle. (Worthington) --- He had promised that the captives should return in seventy years time, Jeremias xxv. 1...
Here was the grand resource of the Mediator: and here, he hath therefore taught, is to be the security of all his redeemed. Reader, it is blessed, yea, it is doubly blessed, so to do. Isaiah 26:3....
8._But thou, O Jehovah! shalt laugh at them. _In the face of all this opposition, David only rises to greater confidence. When he says that God would _laugh _at his enemies, he employs a figure which...
Psalms 59 gives more the external enemies. The same wickedness is found there, but the might of human power with it. But they also must be judged, that wickedness may be set aside. Nor was it the sin...
BUT THOU, O LORD, SHALL LAUGH AT THEM,.... Disappoint their counsels, hinder them from performing their enterprise; send them back with shame and confusion, and expose them to the laughter and derisio...
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. Ver. 8. _But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them_] _q.d._ Thou not only hearest, but jeerest, at their madness, and w...
_But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them_ Shalt disappoint their high confidence and hopeful designs, and then deride them, and make them ridiculous and contemptible to others. _Because of his strength_...
PRAYER OF AN INNOCENT PERSON AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK HIS SOUL. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, again according to the melody "Destroy not," Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David; when Sau...
8-17 It is our wisdom and duty, in times of danger and difficulty, to wait upon God; for he is our defence, in whom we shall be safe. It is very comfortable to us, in prayer, to look to God as the Go...
Disappoint their high confidences and hopeful designs, and then deride them, and make them ridiculous and contemptible to others....
Psalms 59:8 LORD H3068 laugh H7832 (H8799) nations H1471 derision H3932 (H8799) Thou - Psalms 2:4, Psalms 37:13; 1 Samuel 19:15-16; Proverbs 1:26 heathen - Psalms 59:5;...
DAVID EXPRESSES HIS CONFIDENCE THAT YHWH WILL PROTECT HIM (PSALMS 59:6). Describing his enemies as like a pack of stray dogs on the prowl (compare also Psalms 59:14) David is confident that YHWH will...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and comfort and confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who are for Christ's sake, harmless and innocent may expect to be hated of w...
Psalms 59:6. _They make a noise like a dog._ Mr. Jowett, in his christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day, and...
DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD. REVELATIONS OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN HUMAN NATURE I. The enmity of man towards man. 1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we learn that...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:1. This is an individual lament, seeking God’s protection from enemies who threaten the faithful person’s life. The title connects the psalm to 1 Samuel 19:11, where Davi...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—_“_To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. “_When Saul sent, and they watched the house...
EXPOSITION LIKE Psalms 56:1 and Psalms 57:1, this is a cry for deliverance out of great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17) that the deliverance will be granted. From the psal...
Psa 59:1-17 is another one of those "destroy not" prayers of David, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him. His wife, Michael, let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped. B...
1 Samuel 19:15; 1 Samuel 19:16; Matthew 18:17; Proverbs 1:26; Psalms 2:4; Psalms 37:13; Psalms 59:5...