“ For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. ”
For thou wilt save the afflicted people - From the particular tokens of divine favor toward himself in affliction and trouble, the psalmist now draws the general inference that this was the chara...
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt (u) bring down high looks. (u) When their sin is come to the full measure.
XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additio...
27. For thou wilt save the afflicted people. This verse contains the correction of a mistake into which we are very ready to fall. As experience shows that the merciful are often severely af...
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. For thou wilt save the afflicted - The afflicted are the humble; and those thou hast ever befriended.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. For thou wilt save the afflicted people - those whom he had before called 'merciful (benignant), upright, and pure,' h...
Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel 22 , and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1 . It c...
(25-27) It is better to change all the futures into our present. We cannot explain this description of God’s attitude to man, as if the poet were merely dealing with the conception of the Divine form...
Psalms 18:1-50 THE description of the theophany ( Psalms 18:7-19 ) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories ( Psalms 18:32-46 ) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former ca...
Girded with Strength for Service Psalms 18:27-50 God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads him th...
This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
All these verses become doubly precious and blessed to the people of Christ, from their personal concern in all that is his. The promise of Jehovah is to the seed of Christ, in Christ as well as to C...
For thou wilt save the afflicted people ,.... As the people of God commonly are; they are afflicted with sin, and the corruption of their own hearts, and with Satan and his temptations, and with the...
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. Ver. 27. For thou wilt save the afflicted people ] Even the same whom before he had called merciful, or godly, upright, pur...
In these verses David lays down the general method of the procedure of God's providence and moral government, which, in the issue, will be according to the moral character and conduct of men themselv...
Devout Thanksgivings; Devout Confidence 20 The L ORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the clean...
The afflicted people; such as I and my poor followers were. High looks, i.e. proud persons, who discover the pride of their hearts by their haughty looks and carriages, Psalms 101:5 Proverbs...
He Declares That What A Man Sows He Will Reap ( Psalms 18:25-27 ). David was confident that righteousness must triumph simply because of what God is. Like him we too can know that He is and that H...
INTRODUCTION “This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commen...
Psalms 18:1 . I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he must do s...
David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his...
The Lord reward me according to my righteousness. Of the justice of David’s behaviour I. David’s righteousness. Righteousness consists in rendering to all their due, and the revealed will of Go...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those which are assigned to David by their titles...
A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Deliverance and Victory. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, H...
2 Corinthians 8:9 ; 2 Samuel 22:28 ; Isaiah 10:12 ; Isaiah 3:9 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 66:2 ; James 2:5 ; Luke 1:52 ; Luke 1:53 ; Luke 18:14 ; Proverbs 30:12 ; Proverbs 6:16 ; Proverbs 6...