“ And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. ”
And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord - That is, I shall be joyful, or will rejoice. This is said in anticipation of the interposition of God in destroying his enemies, and in delivering him fr...
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...
9. And my soul is joyful in Jehovah. Others read this in the optative mood, May my soul rejoice in Jehovah, and may it be glad in his salvation But instead of continuing to express his de...
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. My soul - My life, thus saved: - Shall be joyful in the Lord - I am so circumstanced at present as to be in the utmost da...
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. My soul shall be joyful. In anticipation of the gracious answer to his prayer, and in order to give additional weig...
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 35:1-28 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...
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...
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...
Is there not an allusion here to the whole body of Christ, who will all rejoice at length in his great salvation?
And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord ,.... Not in the destruction of his enemies, but in the God of his salvation; the Targum is, "in the Word of the Lord"; the essential Word of God, the promise...
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. Ver. 9. And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord ] This was what he aimed at in his foregoing imprecations, viz. the glor...
Let destruction come upon him Upon each of thine and mine implacable enemies, of whom he had hitherto spoken. Or, rather, by this change of the plural number into the singular, he points at Saul, h...
Prayer for Divine Protection. A psalm of David. 1 Plead my cause, O L ORD , with them that strive with me: fight a...
In the Lord; in and for his glory and service, which shall be advanced by this means, and for his favour to me, otherwise I am far from rejoicing in their calamities.
He Asks That Those Who Are Hunting For Him Might Fall Into The Trap That They Themselves Have Set So That Once More He Can Rejoice in YHWH's Salvation ( Psalms 35:7-10 ). This movement from the ba...
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 35:1 . 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...
My soul shall he joyful in the Lord. Life’s joy It is not often that we meet with a truly joyous face. We see many a brow curved with humour, and lips with their wreath of mirth, but the eyes s...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 2:1 ; Galatians 5:22 ; Habakkuk 3:18 ; Isaiah 61:10 ; Luke 1:46 ; Luke 1:47 ; Philippians 3:1-3 ; Psalms 13:5 ; Psalms 21:1 ; Psalms 33:21 ; Psalms 48:11 ; Psalms 58:10 ; Psalms...