Psalms 7:16

_HIS MISCHIEF SHALL RETURN UPON HIS OWN HEAD, AND HIS VIOLENT DEALING SHALL COME DOWN UPON HIS OWN PATE._ His mischief - the mischief which be devised against me, but which justly belongs to himself, and falls on him. SHALL RETURN UPON HIS OWN HEAD - like a stone falling on him who threw it up, or an arrow recoiling and hitting him who shot it....

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 7:16. _SHALL COME DOWN UPON HIS OWN PATE._] Upon his _scalp_, קדקד kodkod, the top of the head. It may refer to _knocking the_ _criminal on the head_, in order to deprive him of life. Had _scalping_ been known in those days, I should have thought the reference might be to that barbarous custom....

HIS MISCHIEF - The mischief which he had designed for others. SHALL RETURN UPON HIS OWN HEAD - Shall come upon himself. The blow which he aimed at others shall recoil on himself. This is but stating in another form the sentiment which had been expressed in the two previous verses. The language used here has something of a proverbial cast, and perhaps was common in the time of the writer to express this idea. AND HIS VIOLENT DEALING - Which he shows to others. The word rendered violent dealing means violence, injustice, oppression, wrong. SHALL ALL COME DOWN UPON HIS OWN PATE - The word here rendered “pate” means properly vertex, top, or crown - as of the head. The idea is that it would come upon himself. He would be treated as he had designed to treat others. The sentiment here expressed is found also in...

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

HIS MISCHIEF SHALL RETURN UPON HIS OWN HEAD,.... That which he conceived and devised in his mind, and attempted to bring upon others, shall fall upon himself, as a just judgment from heaven upon him; AND HIS VIOLENT DEALING SHALL COME DOWN UPON HIS OWN PATE; referring to the violence with which Saul pursued David, which would be requited to him, and of which he prophesied, 1 Samuel 26:10....

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

PATE. head; especially the smooth skull. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for the whole person, for emphasis. From "plate". the smooth top of the head (Skeat)....

PSALMS 7 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One Wrongfully Accused Commits his Vindication to the Righteous Judge of All the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 7:1-2, Appeal to Jehovah for Safety. Stanza II., Psalms 7:3-5, False Accusations Indignantly Denied. Stanza III., Psalms 7:6-11, The Interposition of Jehovah as Judge Invoked. Stanza IV., Psalms 7:12-13, The Divine Pursuer Lying in Wait for the Human Pursuer. Stanza V., Psalms 7:14-16, The Author