“ The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. ”
: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...
(d) The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. (d) Who run blindly after their carnal desires.
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...
foolish . boasters. iniquity . Hebrew. 'aven. App-44.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. The foolish shall not stand - He is a fool and a madman who is running himself out of breath for no prize, who is fighti...
The foolish shall not stand— Or, The mad shall not stand before thine eyes.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. The foolish, х howlªliym ( H1984 ), 'the boastful']. Folly is the designation of boasting ( 2 Corinthians 11...
This is a morning prayer before going to the sanctuary. The chief difficulty in ascribing it to David lies in the reference ( Psalms 5:7 ) to 'thy holy temple.' The word means a 'palace,' and is not...
Foolish. — Literally, shiners — i.e., displayers of self; or, perhaps, self-praisers, boasters. Shall not stand. — As distinguished men before kings ( Proverbs 22:29 ); as angels in the co...
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...
How beautiful and appropriate are all the things here said, if read with an eye to the great Redeemer, as putting up the several pleas, because of those evils he came to destroy. He came to destroy t...
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight ,.... By the "foolish" are meant not such who are so in a natural, but in a moral sense, wicked and ungodly men. The Septuagint render the word, "transgresso...
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Ver. 5. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight ] Heb. before thine eyes, as thy favourites and attendants. Those fu...
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight Literally, The mad shall not stand before thine eyes; shall not be admitted to attend upon thee, nor shall they be acquitted at the judgment of the great...
Prayer for Guidance and Protection. To the chief musician upon Nehiloth. A psalm of David. 1 Give ear to my words, O...
The foolish; or, the madmen , as the word properly signifies, as Ecclesiastes 2:2,12 Ecclesiastes 7:7 10:13 Isaiah 44:25 , i.e. wicked men, as the next words explain it; who are indeed mora...
‘For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness, Evil will not sojourn with you, The arrogant will not stand in your sight, You hate all workers of iniquity, You will destroy him who speaks...
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...
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...
Morning Prayer before Worship. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical service, upon Nehiloth, flutes or wind instruments of the Temple-orchestra, a psalm of David. David was at this time...
Ecclesiastes 5:4 ; Habakkuk 1:13 ; Hosea 9:15 ; Leviticus 20:23 ; Matthew 25:41 ; Matthew 7:23 ; Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 1:7 ; Proverbs 6:16-19 ; Proverbs 8:5 ; Psalms 1:5 ; Psalms 10:3...