Psalms 7:8

_THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE: JUDGE ME, O LORD, ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ACCORDING TO MINE INTEGRITY THAT IS IN ME._ The people - Hebrew, 'peoples' х_ `AMIYM_ (H5971): different from _ `AM_ (H5971) in Psalms 7:7, "tribes"]. The _ Lª'UMIYM_ (H3816) are primarily the peoples sprung from the same mother (amam); the hamiym are those collected from various, nations. JUDGE ME. 'give sentence concerning me' х_ SHAAPªTEENIY_ (H8199)]: a distinct word from "The Lord shall judge," etc. х_ YAADIYN_ (H1777)] ACCORDING TO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Not absolutely, for his cry is,...

8_Jehovah shall judge the nations _This sentence is closely connected with the preceding verse. David had prayed God to show himself as judge to the nations; and now he takes it for a certain and admitted truth, that it is the peculiar office of God to judge the nations: for the word put in the future tense, and rendered _shall judge, _denotes here a continued act; and this is the signification of the future tense in general sentences. Besides, he does not here speak of one nation only, but comprehends all nations. As he acknowledges God to be the judge of the whole world, he concludes a little after from this, that he will maintain his cause and right. And as often as we seem to be forsaken and oppressed, we should recall this truth to our remembrance, that as God is the governor of the world, it is as utterly impossible for him to abdicate his office as to deny himself. From this sourc...

1-9 David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heaven to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found nothing whereof justly to accuse him. Yet for our sakes, submitting to be charged as guilty, he suffered all evils, but, being innocent, he triumphed over them all. The plea is, "For the righteous God trieth the hearts and the reins." He knows the secret wickedness of the wicked, and how to bring it to an end; he is witness to the secret sincerity of the just, and has ways of establishing it. When a man has made peace with God about all his sins, upon the terms of grace and mercy, through the sacrifice of the Mediator, he may, in comparison with his enemies, appeal to God's justice to decide....

Verse Psalms 7:8. _THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE_] He will execute justice and maintain truth among them. They shall not be as sheep without a shepherd. _JUDGE ME, O LORD_] Let my innocence be brought to the light, and my just dealing made clear as the noonday....

THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE - Expressing his confident belief that God would interpose, and that his judgment would not much longer be delayed. The proposition is a general one - that God would see that justice would be done to all people; and on this ground the psalmist pleads that He would now interpose and defend him from his enemies. JUDGE ME, O LORD - That is, in my present circumstances. Interpose to do justice to my cause, and to vindicate me from these false accusations. ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS - In this particular case, for to that the proper laws of interpretation require us to confine this. He does not say that he wished his own righteousness to be made the basis of judgment in determining his eternal welfare, or that he depended on his own righteousness for salvation - for that is not the point in question; but he felt that his was, in th

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

THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE,.... The inhabitants of the world in general; for God is the Judge of all the earth, and he judges the world in righteousness daily, and ministers judgment in uprightness, though it is not always manifest; or his own people in particular, whose cause he pleads, whose injuries and wrongs he avenges, whose persons he protects and defends; this the psalmist expresses with confidence, and therefore, suitable to his character as a Judge, he entreats him as follows: JUDGE ME, O LORD, ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS; he speaks not of his justification before God, in whose sight he well knew no flesh living could be justified by their own righteousness, Psalms 143:2; nor of the righteousness of his person, either imputed or inherent; but of the righteousness of his cause,...

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

ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS— i.e. Referring to David, _"Mine innocence,_ with respect to him, who _persecutes me without cause."_ See the 3rd and 4th verses. In the same sense David calls himself the _just_ or _righteous,_ in the next verse; where the _reins_ signify the same thing with the _heart;_ but the sacred writers usually join these two words together, in describing the knowledge which God has of our inward motions and thoughts, in order to express themselves with the greater force, and the better to denote that God penetrates into our most secret sentiments....