“ Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. ”
Give ear to my prayer - See the notes at Psalms 5:1 ; Psalms 17:6 . This is the language of earnestness. The psalmist was in deep affliction, and he pleaded, therefore, that God would not turn...
"To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David." Give ear to (a) my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. (a) The earnestness of his prayer declares the vehemenc...
LV. A Prayer for Deliverance from Treacherous Foes. Psalms 55:1-11 . The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12-15 ....
Title. Maschil . Instruction. The eighth of thirteen so named. See note on Title, Psalms 32:1 , and App-65. The occasion of this Psalm is seen in 2 Samuel 15 . Hence 934BC. God. Hebrew Eloh...
1. Give ear to my prayer, O God! From the language with which the psalm opens, we may conclude that David at this time was laboring under heavy distress. It could be no ordinary amount of it...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Give ear to my prayer - The frequency of such petitions shows...
David in his prayer complaineth of his fearful case: he prayeth against his enemies, of whose wickedness and treachery he complaineth: he comforteth himself in God's preservation of him, and confusi...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Psalms 55:1-23 .-Introduction ( Psalms 55:1 ); prayer grounded on his deaperate condition ( Psalms 55:2-8 ); such is t...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is rea...
Psalms 55:1-23 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel i...
Fleeing the City's Ills Psalms 55:1-11 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references which, in their full extent, are chiefly applicable...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fr...
CONTENTS The Psalmist is still at the mercy-seat, praying for strength against his enemies; and for strength and grace in his own soul. Here are some sweet things in this Psalm, typically considered...
Give ear to my prayer, O God ,.... Which was for that which is just and right, and equitable to be given, as the word n used signifies; being promised in the covenant of grace, ratified and confirme...
Psalms 55:1 «To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. » Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. A Psalm of David ] Whether made upon occas...
Hide not thyself from my supplication Either as one unconcerned and not regarding it, or as one displeased, and resolved not to hear nor help. I mourn and make a noise I cannot forbear such sighs...
Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A psalm of David. 1 Give ear to my...
PSALM 55 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was certainly composed by David, when he was greatly distressed and persecuted, either by Saul, or rather by Absalom, and betrayed by some pretended or former frien...
Heading ( Psalms 55:1 a). ‘For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David.' As with Psalms 54 we have a Psalm dedicated to the Choirmaster, or chief musician, which was to b...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm u...
Psalms 55:6 . Oh that I had wings like a dove, to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart bef...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication. The compassionable, the commendable, and the censurable in life I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century b.c. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the tradi...
Give ear to my prayer, O God, as usual, a strong expression for listening attentively; and hide not Thyself from my supplication, pretending to withhold His answer to David's earnest and importunat...
1 Peter 3:12 ; Lamentations 3:8 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 17:1 ; Psalms 28:1 ; Psalms 5:1 ; Psalms 54:1 ; Psalms 6:1 ; Psalms 64:1 ; Psalms 80:1 ; Psalms 80:4 ; Psalms 84:8