“ He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. ”
He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet - So Habakkuk 3:19 , “He will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.” The hind is the female deer, remarkable for fl...
He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my (a) high places. (a) As towers and forts, which he took out of the hands of God's enemies.
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...
my. Ginsburg thinks this should be omitted.
David, having taken many strongholds which, on account of their steep and difficult access, were believed to be impregnable, extols the grace of God in this particular. When he says that God ha...
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet , and setteth me upon my high places. My feet like hinds' feet - Swiftness, or speed of foot, was a necessary qualification of an ancient hero. This was of great a...
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, &c.— i.e. "Hath endowed me with agility and vigour, and made me swift to run, so that I can easily ascend the highest hills." This was reckoned a very honour...
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...
This verse is borrowed in Habakkuk 3:19 . For swiftness as an essential of a warrior in Oriental esteem comp. 2 Samuel 1:23 , and the invariable epithet in Homer’s Iliad, “swift-footed Achilles...
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...
These are all glorious triumphs of our risen and exalted Saviour. And He who hath thus conquered for us, can and will conquer sin in us. Like another Joshua, our Almighty Leader and Commander, which...
He maketh my feet like hind's [feet] ,.... As light and swift as theirs, as the Targum; that is, either to flee, when there was a necessity for it, as Kimchi observes; or rather to pursue after the...
He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places. Ver. 33. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet] Heb. He matcheth my feet, like hinds' feet; that is, not only swift, if I have...
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet That is, most swift and nimble. As he makes me wise in counsel and contrivance, Psalms 18:32 ; so he makes me speedy and expeditious in execution; which are the...
Grateful Remembrance of Past Deliverances; Confidence in the Divine Goodness. 29 For by thee I have run through a tr...
Like hinds feet, i.e. most swift and nimble. As he made me wise in counsel and contrivance, (which he elsewhere saith,) so he made me speedy and expeditious in the execution; which are the two grea...
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...
By Thee have I run through a troop. Surmounting impossible difficulties This is a poetical way of representing the fact that impossibilities have often been made possible in our own experience....
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
2 Samuel 2:18 ; 2 Samuel 22:14 ; Deuteronomy 32:13 ; Deuteronomy 33:29 ; Habakkuk 3:19
High — places — Confirms me in that high estate into which he hath advanced me.