Psalms 17:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. ”

• Psalms 17:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou hast proved mine heart - In this verse he refers to his own character and life in the matter under consideration, or the consciousness of his own innocence in respect to his fellow-men who a...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou hast (c) proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my (d) mouth shall not transgress. (c) When your Spirit exami...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  XVII. The Prayer of a Godly Man for Deliverance from his Foes. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  find nothing. None but Christ could say this. See John 14:30 .

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• Psalms 17:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  3. Thou hast proved my heart. Some are of opinion that in the three first verbs the past tense is put for the future. Others more correctly and more clearly resolve the words thus: If thou p...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Thou hast proved mine heart - Thou...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou hast visited me in the night— "Thou hast been present with me in my greatest privacies; to discover whether, in my retirement from the eyes of men, I was forming any evil designs, or indulging...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Thou hast proved ... tried me - a...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God ( Psalms 17:1-2 ), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence ( Psalms 17:3-5 ) and an account of the eager cruelty of his...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  In the night (as Psalms 16:7 ). — The time of calm reflection and self-examination. Some, however, taking this verse in connection with Psalms 17:15 , think the poem was composed at night. I am...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 17:1-15 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definiti...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  God's True Servants Safely Kept Psalms 17:1-15 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends...

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• Psalms 17:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly m...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  As none but Jesus could ever make appeal in the justice of his cause, so it is blessed to discover him in this sweet prayer. Reader, you and I may, in his righteousness, look up to that God, who is a...

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• Psalms 17:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou hast proved mine heart ,.... This properly belongs to God, who is the searcher of the heart and reins, and is desired by all good men; and though God has no need to make use of any means to kno...

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• Psalms 17:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress. Ver. 3. Thou hast proved my hear...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou hast proved mine heart Or searched , or tried it, by many temptations and afflictions; by which the sincerity or hypocrisy of men's hearts is discovered, and especially is manifest to thy a...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Sincere and Importunate Prayer. A prayer of David.       1 Hear the right, O L ORD , attend unto my cry, give ear unto my...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Proved, or searched , or tried it , by many and sore temptations and afflictions, whereby the sincerity or hypocrisy of men's hearts are easily and commonly discovered, and especially by thy all-...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘You have proved my heart, you have visited me in the night, You have tried me, and find nothing, I am determined that my mouth shall not transgress.' ‘You have proved my heart.' That is, have tri...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his life. We find in it his opinion of the character...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 17:3 The religious aspects of night are many. I. Viewed in its relations to the life of man, it strikes us, first of all and pre-eminently, as an interruption. It breaks in upon and suspen...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 17:1 . Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the firs...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Psalms 17:3 . Thou hast tried me. Vulgate, Igne me examinâsti, Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalms 17:14 . Men which have their portion in this li...

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• Psalms 17:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou hast visited me in the night. God’s visitations in the night God has two daily messengers of His love for men, bringing to them His gifts of love--Day and Night. Let us think of His visita...

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• Psalms 17:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions ( Psalms 17:1 , Psalms 17:2 , Psalms 17:6 , Psalms 17:7 , Psalms 17:8...

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• Psalms 17:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Believer Takes His Refuge in God. Every true believer is a poor sinner in the sight of God, knowing that his natural sinfulness will not permit justifying himself before the tribunal of divine...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 4:4 ; 1 Peter 1:7 ; 1 Samuel 24:10 ; 1 Samuel 24:12 ; 1 Samuel 26:11 ; 1 Samuel 26:23 ; 2 Corinthians 1:12 ; Acts 11:23 ; Acts 16:9 ; Acts 18:10 ; Acts 18:9 ; Hosea 7:6 ; J...

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• Psalms 17:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Proved — Or, searched or tried it, by many temptations and afflictions. Night — When mens minds being freed from the distraction of business, and from the society of men, they act more vigorously a...

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