Psalms 142:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. ”

• Psalms 142:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Attend unto my cry - Give ear to me when I cry to thee. Do not turn away and refuse to hear me. For I am brought very low - I am reduced greatly; I am made very poor. The language would be ap...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  persecutors . pursuers.

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• Psalms 142:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. I am brought very low - Never was I so near total ruin before. Deliver me from my persecu...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I cried unto thee, O Lord, &c.— He applies himself to God to rescue him out of this prison, the cave wherein he was concealed. I have said, &c. "I have solemnly devoted myself to thee, as...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. Attend unto my cry - ( Psalms 17:1 ; Psalms 61:1 ). For I am brought very low...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  A prayer of a hunted soul: ascribed to David 'in the cave,' but not likely to be by him.

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• Psalms 142:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader! look once more to Jesus, to while reading this account. Call to min d how one disciple betrayed him, and another denied him, and all forsook him and fled! Hear the strong cries Jesus on the c...

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• Psalms 142:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Attend unto my cry ,.... His prayer and supplication for help in his distress, which he desires might be hearkened unto and answered; for I am brought very low ; in his spirit, in the exercise of...

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• Psalms 142:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. Ver. 6. For I am brought very low ] Exhausted and drawn dry; utterly wasted, and disabl...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Attend unto my cry , &c. O let my importunate cry prevail for some relief; which will come most seasonably in this exceeding great necessity; for I am brought very low And if thou do not help...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Complaints and Petitions.       4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Psalms 142:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  An instructive psalm of David, for we speak to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, and they are a means of instruction, as well as a means of utterance of praise. «A prayer when he...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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)....

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• Psalms 142:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Psalms 142:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 24:14 ; Psalms 116:6 ; Psalms 136:23 ; Psalms 143:3 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 3:1 ; Psalms 38:19 ; Psalms 44:24-26 ; Psalms 57:3 ; Psalms 57:4 ; Psalms 59:3 ; Psalms 79:8 ; Romans...

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