Psalms 55:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. ”

Psalms 55:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray - In another place Psalms 119:164 the psalmist says that he engaged in acts of devotion seven times in a day. Daniel prayed three times a day, Da...
Psalms 55:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, (m) and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. (m) Which signifies a servants mind and sure trust to obtain his portion, which made him earnest at all...
Psalms 55:17 - 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 55:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

pray . meditate. cry aloud. Hebrew. hamah . to make. noise. Onomatopoetic, like bees, or the cooing of. dove in Ezekiel 7:16 . See note on sub-scription.
Psalms 55:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray - This was the custom of the pious Hebrews. See Daniel 6:10...
Psalms 55:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. -Third strophe. His confident hope, resting upon the grounds stated in the previous prayer. Verse 16,17. As for me ... Evening,...
Psalms 55:17 - 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 55:17 - 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 55:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 55:17 - 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 55:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How precious are these words, whether considered as the language of our Lord in the days of his flesh, or of any of his believing people. They suit all. The evening, the morning, the noon; all season...
Psalms 55:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray ,.... These being the stated times of prayer with the Jews, and which continued to later ages, Daniel 6:10 . These times, they say b, were fixed by Ab...
Psalms 55:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. Ver. 17. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray ] So Daniel prayed three times a day, Daniel 6:1...
Psalms 55:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

As for me, I will call upon God Let them take what course they please to secure themselves; let violence and strife be their guards, prayer shall be mine. By this I have found deliverance, support,...
Psalms 55:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Confidence in God. 16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the L ORD shall save me. 17 Evening, and morning, and at...
Psalms 55:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The three stated times of prayer amongst the Jews. See Daniel 6:10 Acts 3:1 , Acts 10:3,9,30 .
Psalms 55:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

But He Is Not Afraid For He Expresses His Confidence That YHWH Will Save Him And Will Hear His Voice When He Calls On Him ( Psalms 55:16-17 ). But David knew where to turn in such situations. He k...
Psalms 55:17 - 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 55:17 - 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 55:17 - 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 55:17 - 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 55:17 - 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 55:17 - 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 55:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ; Acts 10:3 ; Acts 10:30 ; Acts 10:9 ; Acts 3:1 ; Daniel 6:10 ; Daniel 6:13 ; Ephesians 6:18 ; Hebrews 5:7 ; Job 19:7 ; Lamentations 3:8 ; Luke 18:1-7 ; Mark 1:35 ;...
Psalms 55:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Evening, &c. — The three stated times of prayer among the Jews.

Psalms 55:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 55:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 55:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 55:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 55:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 55:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 55:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 55:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 55:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 55:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 55:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 55:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes