“ Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.f ”
Arise, O Lord - See the note at Psalms 3:7 . This commences the second part of the psalm, in which the author calls on God to remember those who were oppressed and wronged by the wicked. By suff...
(f) Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. (f) He calls to God for help, because wickedness is so far overgrown that God must help now or never.
9 and 10. Yahweh the Refuge of His People. These two Pss., divided in MT, were originally one, This is proved by the fact that they are one in LXX. and Vulg., by the absence of title over Psalms 10...
Arise. Compare Psalms 9:19 . the humble . the humble ones. Compare Psalms 10:17 .
12. Arise, O Jehovah. It is a disease under which men in general labor, to imagine, according to the judgment of the flesh, that when God does not execute his judgments, he is sitting idle,...
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Arise, O Lord - Hear their reproaches see their guile, consider thy oppressed people. "Lift up thine hand," threaten them, that they m...
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Arise, O Lord. Here the second part of the psalm begins. The prayer that suggests itself to the believer as the only resource...
This Ps. has no title. Its relationship to Psalms 9 has been discussed in intro. to that Ps. It reflects a time of great social disorder, in which wickedness and violence are rampant, and the right...
Here the acrostic arrangement is resumed with koph.
Psalms 10:1-18 Psalms 9:1-20 ; Psalms 10:1-18 are alike in their imperfectly acrostic structure, the occurrence of certain phrases- e.g. , the very uncommon expression for "times of trouble,"...
God Will not Forget the Lowly Psalms 10:1-18 The malice of our foes, and especially of Satan, is powerfully described, Psalms 10:1-11 . Now it is the venom beneath the serpent's tongue, Psalm...
In the Septuagint and other versions, probably the ancient Hebrew, Psalms 9:1-20 ; Psa 10:1-18 appear as one. There is a clear connection between them, but it is that of contrast. In the former the...
Having taken a view of the enemies of God and of his Christ, and of their hatred to him and his people, in these verses a cry is put up, that God would, agreeably to his promise, for the oppression o...
Arise, O Lord ,.... See Psalms 3:7 ; O God, lift up thine hand ; either on the behalf of his people, to help and deliver them; his hand may be said to be let down when their enemies prevail, and...
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Ver. 12. Arise, O Lord ] Surge, age, summe Pater, said Mantuan to the pope, stirring him up against the Turks; may we better say...
Lift up thy hand To rescue the poor, and to smite their oppressors; forget not the humble Show, by thy appearing for their vindication, that thou dost remember and regard them. Wherefore doth th...
Prayer against Persecutors. 12 Arise, O L ORD ; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth t...
Lift up thine hand, to rescue the poor, and to smite their oppressors with a hand stretched out and lifted up, that the blow maybe the greater: compare Exodus 7:5 Isaiah 5:25 , Isaiah 9:12 ,...
‘Arise, O YHWH, O God, lift up your hand, Do not forget the needy. Why does the unrighteous man renounce God, And say in his heart, ‘You will not call to account'? You have seen, for you behold m...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm seems to belong to the time of the Captivity, or the return of the captives. It was probably made in reference to Sanballat, and the other enemies of the Jews. There is a gr...
Psalms 10:1 . Why standest thou afar off, oh Lord? This is the prayer of David against some very wicked and neighbouring prince, who through pride and thirst for gold, was lurking like a lion, and...
Why standest Thou afar off, O Lord? A theological difficulty, a haughty impiety, an earnest prayer I. A theological difficulty. “Why standest Thou afar off, O Lord?” Some great enormity was no...
EXPOSITION This psalm is to some extent connected with the preceding one, but not very closely. It has turns of expression which are identical, and not common elsewhere; e.g. "in times of trou...
Arise, O Lord, David's usual powerful and importunate appeal to Jehovah, the true God; O God, lift up Thine hand, namely, for the purpose of punishing the wicked; forget not the humble, forsaking...
Isaiah 26:11 ; Isaiah 33:10 ; Micah 5:9 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 3:7 ; Psalms 7:6 ; Psalms 77:9 ; Psalms 9:12 ; Psalms 9:19 ; Psalms 94:2