Psalms 35:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let their way be darka and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. ”

Psalms 35:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let their way be dark - Margin, as in Hebrew: “darkness.” That is, let them not be able to see where they go; what danger they incur; what is before them. The idea is that of persons who wander i...
Psalms 35:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XXXV. Prayer against Treacherous Foes by One who is quiet in the land . Psalms 35:6 b should replace Psalms 35:5 b . Chaff driven before the wind may well suggest the image of the angel pu...
Psalms 35:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. Let their way be dark - Let them lose their way, be entangled in morasses and thickets, and be confounded in all thei...
Psalms 35:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. Way be dark and slippery. image from one upon a dark and slippery path, which retards his flight, and makes h...
Psalms 35:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungrateful cruelty. The circumstances are partly similar to...
Psalms 35:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Dark and slippery. — See margin. Delitzsch supposes an allusion to the passage of the Red Sea, but the picture suggests rather the passage of some dangerous mountain pass in a raging storm. “The tr...
Psalms 35:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 35:1-28 THE psalmist's life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are brought against him. He professes innocence, and ap...
Psalms 35:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Rescuing the Poor and Needy Psalms 35:1-17 This psalm dates from the Sauline persecution, or else from the disturbed condition of the kingdom in David's later years. Each of the three divisions...
Psalms 35:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

There is agony in this song. The singer is sore beset with enemies. They are striving with him, fighting against him. They are plotting against him, treacherously spreading a net for his feet. He cri...
Psalms 35:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

When the prayer is thus expressed in faith, let the opposers of Christ and his church be confounded, and ashamed, and turned back; it is in other words, they shall be so brought to ruin and confusion...
Psalms 35:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let their way be dark and slippery ,.... In which they run before the angel, chasing and pursuing them; so that they know not where they are, at what they stumble, whither to flee, nor how to stand;...
Psalms 35:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. Ver. 6. Let their way be dark and slippery ] Heb. Darkness and slipperiness. If a man have neither light nor firm...
Psalms 35:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let their way By which they flee, being chased, as was now said; be dark and slippery So as that they can neither discern the right path, nor be able to stand in it, and much less to escape, espe...
Psalms 35:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prayer for Divine Protection. A psalm of David. 1 Plead my cause, O L ORD , with them that strive with me: fight a...
Psalms 35:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Their way, by which they flee, being chased, as was now said. Dark and slippery; so as they can neither discern the right path, nor be able to stand in it, and much less to run away, especially f...
Psalms 35:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Calls on God By His Angel to Drive His Enemies Back and Put Them to Flight ( Psalms 35:4-6 ). Not content with the fact that YHWH will stand with him to protect him, he calls on Him to pursue h...
Psalms 35:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or during the revolt of Absalom. It is usual to connect...
Psalms 35:6 - Scofield Reference Notes

angel ( See Scofield) - ( Hebrews 1:4 ).
Psalms 35:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 35:1 . Fight against them. This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fight against him, and for confusion to those about...
Psalms 35:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM ascribed to David by the title, and with many characteristics of his early style—abrupt, impassioned, full of lively and graphic images, and full of transitions The picture...
Psalms 35:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer against the Godless. A psalm of David, invoking God's aid against the ungodly, contrasting the hypocrisy, cunning, and malice of the wicked with the integrity and generosity of the righteou...
Psalms 35:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 13:16 ; Jeremiah 23:12 ; Proverbs 4:19 ; Psalms 73:18
Psalms 35:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Their way — By which they flee, being chased.

Psalms 35:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 35:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 35:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 35:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 35:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 35:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 35:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 35:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 35:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 35:6 - Scofield Reference Notes

Psalms 35:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 35:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 35:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 35:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 35:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes