Psalms 18:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly menb made me afraid. ”

• Psalms 18:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The sorrows of death compassed me - Surrounded me. That is, he was in imminent danger of death, or in the midst of such pangs and sorrows as are supposed commonly to attend on death. He refers pr...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (c) The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. (c) He speaks of the dangers and malice of his enemies from which God had delivered him.

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• Psalms 18:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sorrows . meshes, or snares (Hebrew. hebel). Not bodily pains. ungodly men . Belial.

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• Psalms 18:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. The cords (394) of death had compassed me about. David now begins to recount the undoubted and illustrious proofs by which he had experienced that the hand of God is sufficiently stro...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of death compassed me - חבלי מות chebley maveth, the cables or cords of death. He was almost taken in thos...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The sorrows of death, &c.— The whirlpools of death in heaps rolled over me. Chandler. In the parallel place of Samuel, it is, The waves of death compassed me. Dr. Delaney observes, that not...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows ... the sorrows - rather, 'the cords ... the cords,' as the parallel word, "the snares" ( Psalms 1...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The sorrows of death. — The Hebrew word may mean either birth pangs (LXX. and Acts 2:24 , where see Note, New Testament Commentary ) , or cords. The figure of the hunter in the next verse, “...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Wonderful Deliverance Psalms 18:1-26 There is another edition of this psalm in 2 Samuel 22:1-51 . Psalms 18:2 ; Psalms 18:2 and Psalms 18:49 are applied in the New Testament to the Lord...

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• Psalms 18:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  How beautifully Peter comments upon these sufferings of Jesus, Acts 2:24 . But, while we behold the holy nature of Christ, as incapable of corruption, and therefore incapable of being holden by the...

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• Psalms 18:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The sorrows of death compassed me ,.... These words and the following, in this verse and Psalms 18:5 , as they respect David, show the snares that were laid for his life, the danger of death he was...

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• Psalms 18:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. Ver. 4. The sorrows of death compass me ] Or, the pangs, pains, throes as of a travailing woman, these environed me...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The sorrows of death compassed me That is, dangerous and deadly troubles. Or, the bands , or cords , of death, as חבלי, cheblee , may be rendered, quæ hominem quasi fune arctissime constringunt,...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  David's Triumphs in God; Devout Confidence. To the chief musician, A psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unt...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The sorrows of death, i.e. dangerous and deadly troubles. Or, the bands or cords of death , which had almost seized me, and was putting its bands upon me. Compare Psalms 73:4 . The floods of u...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Troubles and Death Had Pressed In On Him ( Psalms 18:4-6 ). ‘The cords of death encompassed me, And the floods of ungodliness (literally ‘worthlessness' - belial) made me afraid. The cords of Sh...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 18:1 . I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. «I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind myself to thee for the future as well as the present.» Psalms 18:2 . The LO...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The sorrows of death compassed me. Estimating our sorrows No attempt is here made to diminish the severity of the crisis. Often when a great agony is overpast, the sufferer himself forgets its...

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• Psalms 18:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 1:9 ; 2 Samuel 22:5 ; 2 Samuel 22:6 ; Acts 21:30 ; Isaiah 13:8 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; Isaiah 53:4 ; Jonah 2:2-7 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mark 14:34 ; Matthew 26:38 ; Matthew 26:39 ; Matthew...

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• Psalms 18:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Death — Dangerous and deadly troubles. Floods — Their multitude, and strength, and violent assaults, breaking in upon me like a flood.

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