Psalms 71:7
What meaning of the psalms 71:7 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 71:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge."
What does Psalms 71:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge."
Verse Psalms 71:7. _I AM AS A WONDER UNTO MANY_] I am כמופת _kemopheth_, "as a portent," or "type:" I am a _typical person_; and many of the things that happen to _me_ are to be considered in referenc...
I AM AS A WONDER UNTO MANY - The word here rendered “wonder” - מופת _môphêth_ - means properly a miracle, a prodigy; then things that are suited to excite wonder or admiration; then, a sign, a token...
Psalms 71 Israel's Song of Hope _ 1. Declaration of trust (Psalms 71:1)_ 2. Anticipations of faith (Psalms 71:12) 3. Revival and victory (Psalms 71:19) This Psalm, which bears no inscription wha...
LXXI. A PSALM OF GRATITUDE FOR GOD'S CONSTANT CARE OF HIS SERVANT FROM YOUTH TO OLD AGE. The Psalmist expresses himself in language borrowed from older sources. PSALMS 71:1. Quoted from Psalms 31. U...
I AM. I have become. ART. Supply the _Ellipsis_, "hast been"....
The ground of the Psalmist's appeal for deliverance....
DISCOURSE: 616 THE KING’S ACCESSION Psalms 71:7. _I am as a wonder unto many: but thou art my strong refuge. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day. Cast me not off in...
I AM AS A WONDER— That is, "as a frightful spectacle to a great many, who were afraid to come near me;" _As a gazing stock to the multitude,_ Green renders it....
Psalms 70, 71 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Not to be Forsaken in Old Age. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 70:1-3 (70), Prayer against Enemies. Stanza II., Psalms 70:4-5 (70), Prayer in behalf of Friends. Sta...
_FOR THOU ART MY HOPE, O LORD GOD: THOU ART MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH._ -The prayer in Psalms 71:4 is followed, first, by the basis on which it rests (Psalms 71:5); then by an expanded form of it (Psalm...
This Ps. of prayer (Psalms 71:1) and praise (Psalms 71:14) was apparently written by an old man (Psalms 71:9; Psalms 71:18) and in the time of the exile. Some parts of it are undoubtedly national, but...
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...
A WONDER — _i.e.,_ not a miracle of preservation, but a _monster._ Though men point at him as something to be avoided or mocked, God is his refuge....
כְּ֭ מֹופֵת הָיִ֣יתִי לְ רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝ אַתָּ֗ה מַֽחֲסִי ־עֹֽז׃...
Psalms 71:1 ECHOES of former psalms make the staple of this one, and even those parts of it which are not quotations have little individuality. The themes are familiar, and the expression of them is s...
“MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH&RDQUO Psalms 71:1 Some commentators ascribe this psalm to Jeremiah. His pensive, plaintive tone is certainly present in it. But whoever the author, he must have written in his...
This is pre-eminently a song of the aged, and, like old age, it is reminiscent. The singer passes from memory to hope, and from experience to praise. No very definite division is possible. Generally s...
I am as a (f) wonder unto many; but thou [art] my strong refuge. (f) All the world wonders at me because of my miseries: both those in authority and the common people, yet being assured of your favou...
_Justice. Hebrew, "the just," who appear most under a good king, being animated by his example. (Haydock) --- Away. Chaldean, "till those who adore the moon be exterminated." This idolatry pervaded al...
There is a beautiful correspondence in this verse between the experience of the believer and his glorious Head. If David was made an outlaw, and hunted as a partridge upon the mountain; if David's Lor...
7._I have been as a prodigy to the great ones. _He now makes a transition to the language of complaint, declaring that he was held in almost universal abhorrence by reason of the great calamities with...
Psalms 71, founded, I suppose, as much of this book, upon the flight of David on the rebellion of Absalom, presents, I apprehend, the sum of all God's ways with Israel from the commencement of their h...
I AM AS A WONDER UNTO MANY,.... To the multitude, to the populace, or "to the great" u and mighty; and indeed to both: which respects not his wonderful preservation from the womb, he had before observ...
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou [art] my strong refuge. Ver. 7. _I am a wonder unto many_] Or, unto the great ones, a monster to the mighty, _quia credo quod non video,_ as Austin glosseth, beca...
_I am a wonder to many_ Hebrew, כמופת, _chemopeth, as a prodigy_, or _monster_, that is, as a _frightful spectacle_, which they are afraid to come near. Green renders it, as _a gazing-stock to the mul...
PRAYER OF AN AGED BELIEVER FOR GOD'S ASSISTANCE. Prayer for Deliverance...
1-13 David prays that he might never be made ashamed of dependence upon God. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace. The gracious care of Divine providence in ou...
A WONDER, or _prodigy_; either, 1. Of mercy, for the wonderful protections and deliverances which God hath given me. Or rather, 2. Of judgment, for my many and sore calamities, as appears from the ne...
Psalms 71:7 wonder H4159 many H7227 strong H5797 refuge H4268 as a wonder - Isaiah 8:18; Zechariah 3:6; Luke 2:34; Acts 4:13; 1 Corinthians 4:9; 2 Corinthians 4:8-12,...
Psalms 71:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ There is his trust, and there is his fear; his trust he dares to avow, his fear he turns into a prayer. Psalms 71...
CONTENTS: Prayer that enemies might be put to shame. Joyful praise of God's goodness. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who live a life of confidence in God and continually resort to Him...
This psalm, though destitute of title, has passed down to us as composed by David, during the rebellion of Absalom. He uses the same words in his present troubles, as when Saul pursued him. Psalms 71...
_In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ A PICTURE OF A PIOUS OLD MAN I. The entreaties of a pious old man. 1. Against evil. (1) Moral failure (Psalms 70:1). (2) Ge...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 71:1. This is another individual lament, suited to a faithful person in danger from enemies who take advantage of any weakness or distress (vv. Psalms 71:9). These enemies c...
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Barnes, “is without a title. It is impossible to determine on what occasion it was composed. There is some plausibility in the supposition that Psalms 70 might have bee...
EXPOSITION Psalms 71:1 is, like so many others, a psalm divided between complaint and praise. It is comparatively wanting in originality, being, to a very great extent, an echo of other psalms, especi...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 71:1-24. Psalms 71:1-24 is the psalm of the aged man. Probably David as he was getting up into years, and his reddish colored hair had turned gray. David's l...
1 Corinthians 4:9; 2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 6:8; Acts 4:13; Isaiah 8:18; Jeremiah 16:19; Luke 2:34; Psalms 142:4; Psalms 142:5;...
A wonder — For my many and sore calamities....