Psalms 7:13

_HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH; HE ORDAINETH HIS ARROWS AGAINST THE PERSECUTORS._ Ordaineth-`maketh.' against the persecutors. Gesenius translates, 'He maketh his arrows burning,' like the fiery darts hurled against wooden towers, in order to set them on fire. The Hebrew, _ LªDOLªQIYM_ (H1814). may be rendered either 'for burning' - i:e., so as to be burning. Better, as the English version, 'against the burning' - i:e., the fiery persecutors. As fire-darts were more used in the case of besieged towns, they seem less appropriate here....

10-17 David is confident that he shall find God his powerful Saviour. The destruction of sinners may be prevented by their conversion; for it is threatened, If he turn not from his evil way, let him expect it will be his ruin. But amidst the threatenings of wrath, we have a gracious offer of mercy. God gives sinners warning of their danger, and space to repent, and prevent it. He is slow to punish, and long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish. The sinner is described, ver. Psalms 7:14, as taking more pains to ruin his soul than, if directed aright, would save it. This is true, in a sense, of all sinners. Let us look to the Saviour under all our trials. Blessed Lord, give us grace to look to thee in the path of tribulation, going before thy church and people, and marking the way by thine own spotless example. Under all the persecutions which in our lesser trials mark...

Verse Psalms 7:13. _HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM THE INSTRUMENTS OF_ _DEATH_] This appears to be all a prophecy of the tragical death of _Saul_. He was wounded by the _arrows_ of the _Philistines_; and his own _keen sword_, on which he fell, terminated his woful days!...

HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM - The instruments of punishment are already prepared, and God can use them when he pleases. They are not to be made ready, and, therefore, there is no necessity for delay when he shall have occasion to use them. The idea is, that arrangements are made for the destruction of the wicked, and that the destruction must come upon them. The world is full of these arrangements, and it is impossible that the sinner should escape. THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH - The means of putting them to death; that is, of punishing them. The particular means referred to here are arrows, as being what God has prepared for the wicked. “Death” here is designed simply to denote punishment, as death would be inflicted by arrows. HE ORDAINETH HIS ARROWS AGAINST THE PERSECUTORS - Or rather, as the Hebrew is, “He makes his arrows for burning,” that is, “for burning

EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its date the earlier portion of David's public life—that during which he suffered persecution at the hands of Saul. There are two considerable difficulties connected with the title: (1) the meaning of "Shiggaion of David;" and (2) the determination of the identity of "Cush the Benjamite." "Shiggaion" is connected by some with the "Shigioneth" of Habakkuk 3:1, which is commonly explained to be a particular kind of tune or tunes. But the identity of the two words is uncertain, and the identity of their meaning, at an interval of nearly six centuries, is still more open to question. The meaning of "Shiggaion" has really to be _guessed _from the context; and the most proba

HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH,.... The weapons of his indignation, Isaiah 13:5; which, will issue both in the first and second death, corporeal and eternal; the instruments of the former are diseases of various kinds, and judgments, as famine, pestilence, c. and of the latter not only the law is an instrument of it, that being the letter which kills, and is the ministration of condemnation and death, but even the Gospel itself to wicked men is the savour of death unto death and devils will be the executioners of it; HE ORDAINETH HIS ARROWS AGAINST THE PERSECUTORS: the word for persecutors signifies "hot" or "burning" h, and designs such persons who burn in malice and wrath, In rage and fury, against the saints, and hotly pursue after them, as Laban did after Jacob, Gen

Psalms 7 _ 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1)_ 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6) 4. God's dealings in government (Psalms 7:11) 5. Thanksgiving (Psalms 7:17) Psalms 7:1. It has been suggested that over this Psalm should be written the sentence, “Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” David appealed to God to judge His cause, that a rig

VII. A AND VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:12 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6 Israel personified asks for justice at God's hands and begs Him to summon all nations to the great assize, that they may attest the Divine sentence which declares Israel innocent. A. PSALMS 7:1; PSALMS 7:12. The parenthesis in Psalms 7:4 is difficult. Read with slight change of MT and with support of

ORDAINETH. will ordain....

HE ORDAINETH HIS ARROWS, &C.— _He will make his_ {_arrows to pursue._ / _pursuing arrows._}...