“ For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? ”
For who is God save the Lord? - Who is God except Yahweh? The idea is, that no other being has evinced the power, the wisdom, and the goodness which properly belong to the true God; or, that the...
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...
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4. rock. Hebrew. zur. See notes on Exodus 17:6 ; Exodus 32:13 . save . except.
31. For who is God besides Jehovah? David here, deriding the foolish inventions of men, who, according to their own fancy, make for themselves tutelary gods, (426) confirms what I have said...
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? For who is God save the Lord? - "For who is Eloah, except Jehovah?" None is worthy of adoration but the self-existent, eternal, infini...
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. Here follows the fourth section of the psalm. The aid which God had given the Psalmist against foreign enemies, after...
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...
Comp. Deuteronomy 32:31 , where we see that “rock” was a common term among the tribes of Canaan for their divinities. Notice some trifling variations in Samuel.
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...
Reader, while we contemplate the Lord Jesus, as here celebrating the ways and works of Jehovah in redemption, as altogether finished and complete, it will be a sweet note in this song, if you and I c...
For who [is] God save the Lord ?.... Or Jehovah: there is but one God, and Jehovah is he; there is none besides him, nor any like him: there are many that are called gods, nominal deities, who are n...
For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God? Ver. 31. For who is God save the Lord? ] Fictitios Deos et vanas spes prosternit, saith Vatablus. Here he striketh down to the gr...
Thou wilt light , or, thou dost light , or, hast lighted, my candle That is, given me safety, and comfort, and glory, and posterity also: all which particulars are often signified by a candle ,...
Grateful Remembrance of Past Deliverances; Confidence in the Divine Goodness. 29 For by thee I have run through a tr...
It must needs be as I have said, because our Lord is the only God, and therefore there is none, neither God nor creature, that can hinder him from accomplishing his own word and work, or from defendi...
David Gives A Summary of What God Is And Of All God's Blessings to Him ( Psalms 18:30-36 ). Psalms 18:30 ‘As for God, his way is perfect, The word of YHWH is tried (tested and proved true), 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...
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...
Giving all Glory to God Alone
1 Samuel 2:2 ; 2 Samuel 22:32 ; Deuteronomy 32:31 ; Deuteronomy 32:39 ; Isaiah 45:21 ; Isaiah 45:22 ; Isaiah 45:5 ; Psalms 86:8
Who — Our Lord is the only God, and therefore there is none, that can hinder him from accomplishing his own work.