Psalms 55:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. ”

Psalms 55:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Day and night they go about it, upon the walls thereof - That is, continually. The word “they” in this place probably refers to the violence and strife mentioned in the preceding verse. They are...
Psalms 55:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: (h) mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it. (h) All laws and good orders are broken and only vice and dissolution reigns under Saul....
Psalms 55:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 ....
Psalms 55:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Mischief. Hebrew. 'aven. App-44.
Psalms 55:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. Day and night they go about - This and the following verse show the state of Jerusalem at thi...
Psalms 55:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Sorrow— Injury.
Psalms 55:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. Day and night they go about it - at all times. Upon the walls thereof ... in the mid...
Psalms 55:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 55:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They go. — It is quite in keeping with the Hebrew style to suppose mischief and strife personified here as the ancient versions do, and not only occupying the city as inhabitants, but prowlin...
Psalms 55:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Psalms 55:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 55:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 55:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we look at David in these verses, we see how the distressed monarch pleaded with God to prosper the plan he had laid with his friend Hushai, to defeat the counsel of his foes. He had sent back thi...
Psalms 55:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Day and night they go about it, upon the walls thereof ,.... That is, "violence" and "strife" go about the walls of it continually; men of violence and contention are the only watchmen of it: a city...
Psalms 55:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it. Ver. 10. Day and night they go about it, upon the walls thereof ] The ruffian soldiers do,...
Psalms 55:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Day and night they That is, the violence and strife, last mentioned; go about Do encompass it, as it were a garrison. Upon the walls thereof In the outward parts, as also in the very midst o...
Psalms 55:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city....
Psalms 55:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They, i.e. the violence and strife last mentioned, Psalms 55:9 , go about it; do encompass it, and are as it were the garrison by which they design to defend it. Upon the walls thereof; in the...
Psalms 55:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Describes The City From Which He Has Escaped As, For Him At Least, A Place Of Violence, Strife And Wickedness ( Psalms 55:9-11 ). He describes the city in which he has been dwelling as a place...
Psalms 55:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Psalms 55:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 55:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 55:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 55:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 55:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship, Maschil, a psalm of David.
Psalms 55:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 19:11 ; 2 Samuel 16:21 ; 2 Samuel 16:22 ; 2 Samuel 17:1 ; 2 Samuel 17:2 ; Acts 9:24 ; Ezekiel 9:4 ; Hosea 7:6 ; Isaiah 59:6-15 ; John 18:28 ; John 18:3 ; Micah 2:1 ; Micah 2:2 ;...
Psalms 55:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — Violence and strife. Go about — Do encompass it, as it were a garrison. Walls — In the outward parts, as also in the very midst of it. So that all parts were horribly corrupted.

Psalms 55:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 55:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 55:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 55:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 55:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 55:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 55:10 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 55:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 55:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 55:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 55:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 55:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes