Psalms 55:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. ”

Psalms 55:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God shall hear and afflict them - That is, God will hear my prayer, and will afflict them, or bring upon them deserved judgments. As this looks to the future, it would seem to show that when in t...
Psalms 55:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they (o) have no changes, therefore they fear not God. (o) But their prosperous estate still continues.
Psalms 55:19 - 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 55:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. The mighty Creator. because in conflict with His creatures. hear . hear me. afflict them . answer them. Even, &c. Figure of speech Parenthesis. App-6. Selah....
Psalms 55:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

19 God shall hear, and afflict them As the verb ענה, anah, which I have rendered afflict, signifies, occasionally, to testify, some understand David to say that God would rise up a...
Psalms 55:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. Because they have no changes - At first Absalom, Ahithophel, and their...
Psalms 55:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Even he that abideth of old— Even he who reigns from everlasting. Chandler, after Cocceius. The introducing God as reigning of old, and holding the government of the world from before all ages, h...
Psalms 55:19 - 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 55:19 - 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 55:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

God shall hear. — Render this verse, God shall hear and afflict them, He abideth of old; One in whom are no changes, And yet they fear not God. (Comp. James 1:17 , “with whom is no variableness,...
Psalms 55:19 - 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 55:19 - 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 55:19 - 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 55:19 - 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 55:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

God shall hear and afflict them ,.... That is, either he shall hear the prayers of his servant, imprecating evils upon his enemies, Psalms 55:9 ; and shall bring them down upon them, in answer to...
Psalms 55:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. Ver. 19. God shall hear ] sc. My prayers which are on the file be...
Psalms 55:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

God shall hear My prayer against them, mentioned Psalms 55:15 , or their reproaches, Psalms 55:12 , their deceitful and treacherous speeches, Psalms 55:21 . He had said, God would hear his voic...
Psalms 55:19 - 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 55:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God shall hear; either, 1. My prayers against them, mentioned Psalms 55:15 . Or, 2. Their reproaches, Psalms 55:12 ; their deceitful and treacherous speeches, Psalms 55:21 . He said Go...
Psalms 55:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Stresses That God Has Already Redeemed Him Once ( Psalms 55:18-19 ). It would appear from this that an attempt had already been made to get rid of him by an armed assault. As one of Saul's comm...
Psalms 55:19 - 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 55:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:19 No changes! We must not take the expression in a hard and narrow literal sense, or it would be true of no man. The changes of which the Psalmist speaks mean changes that disturb, chan...
Psalms 55:19 - 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 55:19 - 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 55:19 - 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 55:19 - 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 55:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Colossians 1:17 ; Deuteronomy 33:27 ; Ecclesiastes 8:11 ; Isaiah 36:20 ; Jeremiah 48:11 ; Micah 5:2 ; Proverbs 1:32 ; Psalms 143:12 ; Psalms 6...
Psalms 55:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hear — My prayers. Eternity — Who is eternal, and therefore unchangeable, and almighty. Because — They meet with no crosses nor disappointments. Therefore — Their success makes them go on securely,...

Psalms 55:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 55:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 55:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 55:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 55:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 55:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 55:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 55:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 55:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 55:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 55:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes