“ Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. ”
:Title Upon Nehiloth - The title of Psalms 4:1-8 is, “upon Neginoth.” As that refers to a musical instrument, so it is probable that this does, and that the idea here is that this psalm was i...
"To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David." Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my (a) meditation. (a) That is, my vehement prayer and secret complaint and sighings.
V. A Hymn for Morning Sacrifice in the Temple. Psalms 5:1-3 . Solemn invocation of Yahweh. The Psalmist sets in order ( Psalms 5:3 ), not perhaps his prayer (RV), but his sacrifice, the victim an...
Title. . Psalm. See App-65. Give ear... Consider... LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. meditation. Connecting this Psalm with Psalms 1:2 ; Psalms 2:1 .
I presume not positively to determine whether David, in this psalm, bewails the wrongs which he suffered from his enemies at some particular time, or whether he complains generally of the vario...
To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. Give ear to my words - This is properly a morning hymn, as the preceding was an evening hy...
David prayeth, and professeth his study in prayer. God favoureth not the wicked. David, professing his faith, prayeth unto God to guide him, to destroy his enemies, and to preserve the godly. To...
Give ear to my words O LORD consider my meditation Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. Title. - Upon Nehiloth , х 'el ( H413 ) hanªchiylowt ( H5155 ) 'on the fl...
My meditation ] the thoughtful desire of the heart which hardly finds expression in words. It is in contrast with the 'cry' of Psalms 5:2 .
Meditation. — From a root cognate with the word translated meditate in Psalms 1:2 , with primary sense of mutter or murmur. Here “whispered prayer,” in contrast to “words” in first clause, and...
Psalms 5:1-12 THE reference to the temple in Psalms 5:7 is not conclusive against the Davidic authorship of this psalm, since the same word is applied in 1 Samuel 1:9 ; 1 Samuel 3:3 to the ho...
Protection from the Wicked Psalms 5:1-12 The ordering of prayer is very necessary, Genesis 22:9 . Our Lord's prayer should be our model. Often our words need to be supplemented by our med...
This is another song of the morning. It opens with language which reveals the reason of the soul's assurance as it faces another day. First are petitions asking the attention of Jehovah. These are fo...
CONTENTS The Psalmist is here at his devotions. If David in the first instance of the petitions had an eye to his own personal persecutions, yet, there can be no doubt but that the Holy Ghost design...
Give ear to my words, O Lord ,.... Meaning not his words in common conversation, but in prayer; the words which came out of his mouth, and were audibly expressed by him at the throne of grace, and d...
Psalms 5:1 «To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. » Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. Ver. 1. To the chief Musician ] See Trapp on title for " Psa 4:1 "...
Consider my meditation That is, my prayer, as the foregoing and following words show. He calls his prayer his meditation, to signify that it was not the mere labour of his lips, but that it proceed...
Prayer for Guidance and Protection. To the chief musician upon Nehiloth. A psalm of David. 1 Give ear to my words, O...
PSALM 5 Nehiloth: this is no where else used in Scripture. It is generally and probably thought to be a term belonging to music, and to signify either some kind of tune, or rather an instrument, an...
‘Give ear to my words, O YHWH, Consider my meditation. Hearken to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, For to you do I pray. O YHWH in the morning you will hear my voice, In the morning I wi...
INTRODUCTION “A morning prayer of David, appealing to God as his king, against whose sovereignty his own enemies were really in rebellion.”— Kay . “This psalm must have been composed at Jerusalem, s...
Nehiloth Nehiloth is not a musical instrument, but means "inheritance," and indicates the character of the Psalm. The righteous are the Lord's inheritance.
Psalms 5 This Psalm is peculiar in setting forth the characteristics of prayer in general. I. In the first and second verses we have a suggestion of the variety of prayer. (1) "Give ear to my wo...
Psalms 5:1 . Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. Sometimes we pray right off, as David did when he cried to the Lord, «Hear me when I call.» At other times, we sit down to medit...
Psalms 5:6 . Leasing; a Gothic and primitive word equivalent to falsehood. They professed loyalty to the king, but were traitors in heart, as in Psalms 5:9 . Psalms 5:9 . Their throat is an op...
Give ear to my words, O Lord. The inward and outward sides of the Divine life The Psalm falls into two main parts-- Psalms 5:1-7 , and Psalms 5:8-12 . The inward comes first; for communion wi...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is assigned by some to the time of Manasseh, but contains nothing that is really opposed to the superscription—"A Psalm of David"—since, before the temple was built, the...
Give ear to my words, O Lord, for the purpose of answering his prayer speedily; consider my meditation, hearing his sighs, his gentle complaints.
1 John 5:14 ; 1 John 5:15 ; 1 Peter 3:12 ; 1 Samuel 1:13 ; 1 Samuel 1:16 ; Psalms 17:1 ; Psalms 19:14 ; Psalms 54:2 ; Psalms 55:1 ; Psalms 55:2 ; Psalms 64:1 ; Psalms 80:1 ; Psalms 86:1...
Meditation — My prayer accompanied with deep thoughts and fervent affections of soul.