“ I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. ”
I poured out my complaint before him - literally, my meditation; that is, What so much occupied my thoughts at the time I expressed aloud. The word “complaint” does not express the idea. The mean...
CXLII. The Psalmist prays for help to God who knows his distress. His enemies are stronger than he, and there is none to help him, save God. The righteous will welcome his deliverance from the snar...
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
I cried unto the Lord— I will cry; and so the following verbs would be rendered more properly in the future.
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. I poured out my complaint before him - ( Psalms 102:1-28 , Title; 62:8; Isaiah 26:16 .)
A prayer of a hunted soul: ascribed to David 'in the cave,' but not likely to be by him.
I poured out. — See the same verb used in similar sense, Psalms 42:4 ; Psalms 62:8 ; and with the second clause comp. Psalms 107:6 .
Psalms 142:1-7 THE superscription not only calls this a psalm of David's, but specifies the circumstances of its composition. It breathes the same spirit of mingled fear and faith which characteri...
“No Man Cared for My Soul” Psalms 142:1-7 The cave was dark and shared by rough and lawless men with whom David had little sympathy. His gentle and devout spirit must often have craved for more...
In this psalm human need is yet more vividly set forth. Here is seen the consciousness resulting from the difficulties described in the previous psalm. Here there is a combination of fighting and fea...
If the Reader wish to see the part David, king of Israel, bore personally in this Psalm, he will find the explanation in David's history. It is more than likely, that the cave here spoken of was that...
I poured out my complaint before him ,.... Not a complaint of the Lord and of his providences, but of himself; of his sins, and particularly his unbelief; and also of them that persecuted and afflic...
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. Ver. 2. I poured out my complaint ] Heb. my mussitation. I showed before him ] Plainly and plentifully, how my danger incre...
I cried unto the Lord , &c. Hebrew, אזעק, I will cry unto the Lord The words express the resolution he formed, when all human help failed, to have recourse again, as he often had had before, u...
David's Complaints. Maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave. 1 I cried unto the L ORD with my voice; wit...
I poured out; I did it fully, and fervently, and confidently.
INTRODUCTION “A maschil of David,” ie ., an instruction or a didactic poem by David. “A prayer when he was in the cave;” “That is,” says Barnes, “either a prayer which he composed while there, or w...
Psalms 142:1 . I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. Silent prayers are often true prayers, but there are times when, in extremity of suffer...
The title of this psalm seems undisputed; and it therefore fixes the author and the occasion of its composition. Maschil, or an instruction, of David; a prayer when he was in the cave. 1 Samuel 2...
I cried unto the Lord with my voice. Religion in the trials of life: - I. The trials here represented. He speaks of himself as-- 1. Overwhelmed (verse 3). 2. Walking in snares (verse 3)....
EXPOSITION DAVID once more cries to God for protection and deliverance. The "title" says that the prayer was composed by him "when he was in the cave," by which we must understand "the cave of...
Cry for Help in Great Extremity. Maschil, a didactic poem, one teaching an important lesson, of David; a prayer when he was in the cave, either in that of Adullam, 1 Samuel 22, or in that of Enged...
1 Samuel 1:15 ; 1 Samuel 1:16 ; Hebrews 5:7 ; Isaiah 26:16 ; Philippians 4:6 ; Philippians 4:7 ; Psalms 102:1 ; Psalms 18:4-6 ; Psalms 42:4 ; Psalms 62:8 ; Romans 8:26