Psalms 54:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. ”

Psalms 54:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For strangers are risen up against me - That is, foreigners; those of another nation or land. Saul and his friends who sought the life of David were his own countrymen; these persons who sought g...
Psalms 54:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For (b) strangers are risen up against me, and (c) oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. (b) That is, the Ziphims. (c) Saul and his army who were like cruel beast...
Psalms 54:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LIV. The Psalmist Prays for Deliverance from Powerful and Bitter Foes. He trusts in God who will destroy his enemies. When that is done, he will offer sacrifice in thanksgiving. His enemies are Jew...
Psalms 54:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

strangers . aliens: the Ziphites, or the men of Keilah ( 1 Samuel 23:12 ). Some codices, with two early printed editions and Arm., read "insolent men". Compare Psalms 86:14 . my soul . me, or my...
Psalms 54:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. Strangers are risen up against me - The Ziphites. And oppressors - Saul, his court...
Psalms 54:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Strangers are risen up against me— The inhabitants of Ziph, and of the wilderness and mountains near it, might very probably, as some think, be chiefly aliens and foreigners, under the dominion of...
Psalms 54:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. For strangers are risen up against me. The Ziphites, who ought, by the ties...
Psalms 54:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Title.—( RV ) 'For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David: when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?' Whatever be the value of the title the...
Psalms 54:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For strangers. — This verse, with some variations, occurs again ( Psalms 86:14 ); some MSS. even reading here “proud,” instead of “strangers.” With the received reading we must understand by the wo...
Psalms 54:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 54:1-7 THE tone and language of this psalm have nothing special. The situation of the psalmist is the familiar one of being encompassed by enemies. His mood is the familiar one of discourag...
Psalms 54:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sinners All-God Alone Can Help Psalms 53:1-6 ; Psalms 54:1-7 That Psalms 53:1-6 should be a repetition of Psalms 14:1-7 , with very few variations, suggests, as does the “verily, verily” of...
Psalms 54:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The burden of the psalm is expressed in the first two verses. Its reason is described in verse Psalms 54:3 , while assurance is the song of what remains. Taking the second and third sections first,...
Psalms 54:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The enemies of Christ were both friends and strangers. When he came to his own, his own received him not: and, as the apostles expressed it, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the p...
Psalms 54:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For strangers are risen up against me ,.... Meaning such as Doeg the Edomite, or Heathen soldiers, that Saul had hired and took into his army, who were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel; and su...
Psalms 54:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. Ver. 3. For strangers are risen up against me ] He meaneth not foreigners, but...
Psalms 54:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Save me by thy name That is, by thy own strength, as the next words explain it, because I have no other refuge. Or, for thy name , for thy own glory, which is concerned in my deliverance. And jud...
Psalms 54:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Complaints. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A psalm of David, when the Ziphim came and said to Saul, Doth not Da...
Psalms 54:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Strangers; the Ziphites, whom, though Israelites, he calls strangers , in regard of their barbarous and perfidious disposition and carriage towards him, by which they showed themselves to be estra...
Psalms 54:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

David Prays To Be Delivered From The Hands Of Saul ( Psalms 54:1-3 ). Psalms 54:1-2 ‘Save me, O God, by your name, And judge me in your might. Hear my prayer, O God, Give ear to the words of...
Psalms 54:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the Chief Musician on Neginoth.” There is very little doubt that “ Neginoth ” is “the general term denoting all stringed instruments whatsoever, whether played wit...
Psalms 54:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 54:1 . By thy name. See note on Proverbs 18:10 . Psalms 54:7 . Mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. The words, his desire, are not in the Hebrew. David says merely that...
Psalms 54:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Save me, O God, by Thy name, and judge me by Thy strength. Phases of piety I. Piety praying. The prayer has respect to-- 1. The character of God ( Psalms 54:1 ). 2. The entreatability of...
Psalms 54:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS is a short psalm, written in a time of great trouble, and containing, first, an earnest prayer for deliverance ( Psalms 54:1-19 ); and then an expression of confidence in God's...
Psalms 54:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer and Consolation at the Time of Persecution. To the chief musician on Neginoth, the music to be played on stringed instruments as the psalm was rendered in the liturgical service, Maschil, a...
Psalms 54:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:13-15 ; John 16:3 ; Matthew 27:20-23 ; Psalms 16:8 ; Psalms 22:16 ; Psalms 36:1 ; Psalms 53:4 ; Psalms 59:3-5 ; Psalms 69:8 ; Psalms 8:1
Psalms 54:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Strangers — The Zephites, whom, though Israelites, he calls strangers in regard of their barbarous and perfidious carriage.

Psalms 54:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 54:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 54:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 54:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 54:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 54:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 54:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 54:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 54:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 54:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 54:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 54:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 54:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 54:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 54:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 54:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes