“ We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. ”
We took sweet counsel together - Margin, “who sweetened counsel.” Literally, “We sweetened counsel together;” that is, We consulted together; we opened our minds and plans to each other; in other...
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 ....
in company . with the multitude. Hebrew. regesh. Occurs only here.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Walked unto the house of God in company - Or with haste; for the rabbins teach that we should walk hastily To the temple...
For it was not an enemy, &c.— Among other persons who joined in this conspiracy against David, there was one from whom he expected a quite different conduct, and whose infidelity and treachery...
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. We took sweet counsel together - literally, 'We who together made secret intimacy to sweeten.' Compare Psalms 64:2...
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...
And walked... — i.e., joined the great public processions to the temple. (Comp. Psalms 44:4 .) The word rendered “company” occurs again ( Psalms 64:2 . Authorised Version, “insurrection.” Comp....
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...
Friends May Forsake, but God Abideth Psalms 55:12-23 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, deceit, and oppression trampled the virtuous and he...
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...
We must of necessity drop David's history in these verses, to attend to an infinitely greater; for surely what is here said by the Spirit of Christ, which was in the holy men of old, is said in proph...
We took sweet counsel together ,.... Not in religious matters; for in these the testimonies of the Lord were David's counsellors, Psalms 119:24 ; but in civil things: hearty counsel is one branch...
We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of God in company. Ver. 14. We took sweet counsel together ] It was my great delight to confer and consult with him, especially about th...
It was not an enemy Not an open and professed enemy, or, not an old and inveterate enemy, (as appears from the following description to be his meaning,) that reproached me That misrepresented me,...
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city....
We took sweet counsel together; I imparted my secret thoughts and designs to him with great delight and satisfaction. We walked unto the house of God; we agreed no less in exercises of piety, tha...
He Bewails The Fact That He Has Been Betrayed By A Comrade-In-Arms ( Psalms 55:12-14 ). The description of the city has prepared the way for the story of his own betrayal. What hurt him most was t...
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...
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.
Ezekiel 33:31 ; Isaiah 2:3 ; Psalms 122:1 ; Psalms 42:4