Psalms 55:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. ”

• Psalms 55:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wickedness is in the midst thereof - That is, the wickedness connected with rebellion and revolt. Deceit and guile depart not from her streets - They are everywhere. They are found in every s...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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 ....

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• Psalms 55:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Wickedness . pravities (plural) Hebrew. havah = cupidity. Deceit . Oppression, or violence.

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• Psalms 55:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

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• Psalms 55:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Wickedness is in the midst thereof— The deepest corruptions and distresses are within it.

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• Psalms 55:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. Wickedness is in the midst thereof in contrast to deceit and guile depart not from her streets Wickedness...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Deceit. — Rather, oppression, or violence. Streets. — Rather, squares, the open space at the gate of an Oriental city where public business was conducted. It is a miserable picture of mis...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof ,.... All manner of wickedness; abominable wickedness; wickedness as arrived to its highest pitch, and as having filled up its measure; see Ezekiel 9:4 ; dece...

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• Psalms 55:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. Ver. 11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof ] As if it were no longer, as once, Theopolis, but Poneropolls, for...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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....

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• Psalms 55:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The places of buying and selling, and of public and common conversation. So their sins were both universal and impudent.

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:11 - 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.

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• Psalms 55:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 7:51 ; Acts 7:52 ; Ezekiel 22:1-12 ; Isaiah 59:7 ; Jeremiah 5:26 ; Jeremiah 5:27 ; Jeremiah 9:3-5 ; Matthew 26:4 ; Psalms 109:2 ; Psalms 109:3

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• Psalms 55:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Streets — The places of buying and selling, and of public commerce.

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