Psalms 14:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. ”

Psalms 14:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Oh that the salvation of Israel - Margin, “Who will give,” etc. The Hebrew literally is, “Who will give out of Zion salvation to Israel?” The word “Israel” refers primarily to the Hebrew people,...
Psalms 14:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Oh that the salvation of (f) Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad. (f) He prays for the whole Chur...
Psalms 14:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psa 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text p...
Psalms 14:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Oh..! Figure of speech Epiphonema. App-6. Zion. See App-68. bringeth back the captivity. Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). See note on Deuteronomy 30:3 . Jacob... Israel. On these...
Psalms 14:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

David, after having laid down the doctrine of consolation, again returns to prayers and groanings. By this he teaches us, that although God may leave us for a long time to languish, yet we ough...
Psalms 14:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. O that the salvation - Or, more lite...
Psalms 14:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. Oh that the salvation of Israel...
Psalms 14:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps., like Psalms 12 , gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7 , which...
Psalms 14:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Oh that. — The thoughts of the exiles turn to the Holy City as the one source of deliverance, as if Jehovah’s power would only manifest itself from His hallowed abode. So Daniel looked towards Je...
Psalms 14:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 14:1-7 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1-18 ; Psalms 12:1-8 . It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the former in its attribution to "the fool" o...
Psalms 14:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Bounty of God and the Folly of Men Psalms 13:1-6 ; Psalms 14:1-7 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1 . Four times the persecuted soul cr...
Psalms 14:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is...
Psalms 14:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a blessed relief, views of Jesus and hopes in his salvation afford, to bear up the mind under the sad and heart-breaking prospect of universal corruption. Reader, what but this can relieve your...
Psalms 14:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion !.... By whom is meant the Messiah, the Saviour of Israel, of all the elect of God, whether Jews or Gentiles; and who is so called, because the...
Psalms 14:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad. Ver. 7. Oh that the salvation of...
Psalms 14:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion These words, considered in connection with the context, do not appear to be intended of any mere temporal salvation of Israel, whether from the...
Psalms 14:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the L ORD . 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of t...
Psalms 14:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! These words directly and immediately concern the deliverance of the people of Israel out of that sinful and deplorable estate in which they no...
Psalms 14:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When YHWH restores the fortunes (or ‘brings back the captivity) of his people, Then will Jacob rejoice, Israel will be glad.' The psalmist...
Psalms 14:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may...
Psalms 14:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 14:1 . The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of la...
Psalms 14:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 14:1 . The fool, the Nabal, devoid of foresight, says, there is no God; no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification...
Psalms 14:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. The practical denial of God the root of all evil The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and starts a train of thought...
Psalms 14:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7 , that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by Da...
Psalms 14:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Corruption of Natural Man and the Lord's Salvation. This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the oppres...
Psalms 14:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Psalms 14:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

O that — These words immediately concern the deliverance of Israel out of that sinful state, in which they now were; which having described, he concludes, with a prayer to God to help them out of Z...

Psalms 14:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 14:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 14:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 14:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 14:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 14:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 14:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 14:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 14:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 14:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 14:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 14:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 14:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 14:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 14:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 14:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes