Psalms 7:14

_BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY, AND HATH CONCEIVED MISCHIEF, AND BROUGHT FORTH FALSEHOOD._ He traveleth ... and hath conceived mischief ... falsehood. Describing the sinner's laborious course of evil, from its first conception to its maturity, under the image of a woman in labour-pangs (cf. James 1:14). His toilsome plotting of mischief shall not be without effect, but the effect shall be against himself. His evil shall all recoil on himself (Psalms 7:15). Hengstenberg makes this result to himself begin in this 5:, and translates, 'He is big with misery (hamal), and bringeth forth falsehood - i:e., the falsifying of his expectation, and reversal of his plot....

14_Behold, he shall travail _David has hitherto shown how great and formidable the danger was which was near him. In this verse, laughing to scorn the presumptuous and foolish attempts of Saul, and his magnificent preparations, he declares that they had failed of accomplishing their object. (121) By the demonstrative adverb _Behold, _he enhances the wonder, inasmuch as such a result fell out, on his part altogether unlooked for. _Behold, _says he, _after he has travailed to bring forth wickedness, like as he had conceived mischief, _at length there comes forth only empty wind and vanity, because God frustrated his expectations, and destroyed all these wicked attempts. (122) Iniquity and mischief are here put for every kind of violence and outrage (123) which Saul intended to inflict upon David. Some interpreters think that th

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 7:14. _HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY_] All these terms show the pitch of envy, wrath, and malevolence, to which Saul had carried his opposition against David. He _conceived mischief_; he _travailed_ with _iniquity_; he _brought forth falsehood_-all his expectations were blasted....

BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY - The wicked man does. The allusion here is to the pains and throes of child-birth; and the idea is, that the wicked man labors or struggles, even with great pain, to accomplish his purposes of iniquity. All his efforts, purposes, plans, are for the promotion of evil. AND HATH CONCEIVED MISCHIEF - That is, he hath formed a scheme of mischief. The allusion here is common when speaking of forming a plan of evil. AND BROUGHT FORTH FALSEHOOD - The birth is falsehood; that is, self-deception, or disappointment. It does not mean that falsehood was his aim or purpose, or that he had merely accomplished a lie; but the idea is, that after all his efforts and pains, after having formed his scheme, and labored hard (as if in the pangs of child-birth) to bring it forth, it was abortive. He would be disappointed, and would fail at last.

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

BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY,.... Is full of it, and big with it, as a woman with child, and eagerly desires to bring it forth, and is in pain till he commits it; AND HATH CONCEIVED MISCHIEF; that which is injurious to God and the perfections of his nature, a transgression of his law, and an affront to his justice and holiness, is doing wrong to fellow creatures, and harm to themselves, either to their name and credit, or to their substance and estates, or to their bodies and souls, and it may be to them all; and yet this they conceive, they devise it in their hearts, and form schemes how to bring it to pass, and which they do with great freedom, deliberation, and pleasure; AND BROUGHT FORTH FALSEHOOD; or "vanity" k, or a vain thing, as the same word is rendered in Job 15:35; no fruit at all, but wind, or stubble,...

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

BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6. TRAVAILETH... CONCEIVED... BROUGHT FORTH. Figure of speech Anabasis. App-6. TRAVAILETH. will travail. INIQUITY. Hebrew 'aven App-44. i, not same word as Psalms 7:3. MISCHIEF. Hebrew. _'amal._ App-44....