“ Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. ”
Deliver my soul, O Lord - My soul is harassed and distressed. Perhaps the meaning also may be, My life is in danger. Or, if it refers to the soul as such, then it means that everything pertaining...
CXX. Prayer Against Calumniators. Here begin the Psalms of Ascents, i.e. Pss. intended to be sung by the pilgrims at the three great feasts on their way up to Jerusalem, which stood on a height....
Deliver . Pluck me. Hebrew. nazal. Same word as in Psalms 119:170 . The reference is to 2 Kings 18:30 ; 2 Kings 18:32 . my soul . me. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. lips. Hebrew. lip: i.e. Rab...
2. O Jehovah! deliver my soul from the lip of falsehood. David now points out the kind of his affliction, declaring that he was loaded with false accusations. In charging his enemies with ly...
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. Lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue - From a people without faith, without truth, without religion; who sought by lies and...
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. Deliver my soul ( Psalms 116:4 ), O Lord, from lying lips - from the Samaritans, who, by lying slanders, sought to dest...
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
Deliver... — This is the cry for help of which mention has just been made. The thought is one we have met frequently. Of all the elements of bitterness which made up the lot of Israel under foreign...
Psalms 120:1-7 THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association with uncongenial and hostile neighbours. The psalmist...
Where to Find Help Psalms 120:1-7 ; Psalms 121:1-8 This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested that they were pilgrim-songs to beguile the journeys from all parts of the...
The next fifteen psalms appear to have formed a book of themselves bearing the title, "The Songs of Ascents." That collection is incorporated by the editor at this point not without purpose. The tit...
If we read another Psalm to this effect, and which hath been always considered as referring to Jesus, we shall find how the holy sufferer complains of false witnesses rising up against him. Psalms 3...
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue. Not from such lips, and such a tongue of his own, which David abhorred; though every good man desires to be kept from speaki...
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue. Ver. 2. Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips ] This was David's distress, and it lay heavy upon his spirit; so it did u...
Deliver my soul from lying lips From the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies; and from a deceitful tongue Which covers mischievous designs under pretences of kindness. What sh...
Confession and Complaints. A song of degrees. 1 In my distress I cried unto the L ORD , and he heard me. 2 Deliver...
From lying lips; from the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies, who traduce me as an egregious hypocrite, as a rebel and traitor. From a deceitful tongue; which covereth mischie...
THE SONGS OF DEGREES Psalms 120-134 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of Degrees,” “Songs of Ascents,” “Pilgrim Psalms,” and to each of which great...
Psalms 120:1 . In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. Slander occasions distress of the most grievous kind. Those who have felt the edge of a cruel tongue know assuredly that it i...
This and the fourteen psalms which follow, are entitled, “Songs of Mahaloth, or degrees.” Kimchi, and some of the rabbins say, they were so called because they were sung on the steps of the second te...
In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me. The Songs of Degrees How came this and fourteen following psalms to be put together, and to receive their distinctive title? It has been s...
EXPOSITION THE SONGS OF ASCENTS . THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated "Songs of Degrees," "Songs of Ascents," or "Songs of Steps." They c...
Prayer for Deliverance from Slander and Deceit. A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen psalms designated by that name, the reference being either to the fact that these h...
Matthew 26:59-62 ; Psalms 109:1 ; Psalms 109:2 ; Psalms 140:1-3 ; Psalms 35:11 ; Psalms 52:2-4