“ Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. ”
Behold, God is mine helper - That is, God alone can aid me in these circumstances, and to him I confidently look. The Lord is with them that uphold my soul - My friends; those who have rallie...
Behold, God [is] mine helper: the Lord [is] with (d) them that uphold my soul. (d) No matter how few, as he was with Jonathan.
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...
LORD *. One of the 134 alterations of Jehovah to Adonai by the Sopherim. App-32.
4. Behold! God is my helper Such language as this may show us that David did not direct his prayers at random into the air, but offered them in the exercise of a lively faith. There is much...
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. Behold, God is mine helper - This would naturally occur to him when he saw that Saul was obliged to leave the pursuit, and g...
The Lord is with them that uphold my soul— These words are capable of a double sense, each applicable to the context. Either "God is with them who uphold me, as their friend and helper, to assist a...
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. Behold. He already, with the eye of faith, sees God advancing as his "helper," though to the eye of sense nothing presen...
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...
With them... — Better, is a supporter of my life. So LXX. and Vulgate.
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...
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...
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,...
Reader, do observe how Christ, in the days of his flesh, found support and confidence in resting himself wholly upon his Father; so have the faithful done, so must the faithful do, in all ages. The c...
Behold, God [is] mine helper ,.... This being a matter of wonder to be helped in so extraordinary a manner, and a sure and certain case, and what was deserving the attention of others; for the encou...
Behold, God [is] mine helper: the Lord [is] with them that uphold my soul. Ver. 4. Behold, God is mine helper ] And that mine enemies might have seen, had they set God before them. The Dutch have...
Behold, God is my helper Consider it, and see the vanity of all your wicked practices against me. The Lord is with them that uphold my soul He fights for them, and on my behalf, and therefore aga...
Consolations. 4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evil unto m...
Behold; consider it, and see the vanity of all your wicked practices against me. The Lord is with them that uphold my soul; he fights for them, and on my behalf, and therefore against all mine en...
David Expresses His Confidence In God's Protection And Deliverance And Assures Him That He Will Not Be Short On Gratitude ( Psalms 54:4-6 ). Psalms 54:4-5 ‘Behold, God is my helper, The Sovere...
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 54:1 . 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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 12:18 ; Hebrews 13:6 ; Isaiah 41:10 ; Isaiah 42:1 ; Isaiah 50:7-9 ; Psalms 118:13 ; Psalms 118:6 ; Psalms 118:7 ; Romans 8:31