“ Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; ”
Attend unto me, and hear me - This also is the language of earnest supplication, as if he was afraid that God would not regard his cry. These varied forms of speech show the intense earnestness o...
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 ....
hear . answer. make. noise. moan.
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; I mourn in my complaint - בשיחי besichi, in my sighing; a strong guttural sound, expressive of the natural accents of sorrow....
I mourn in my complaint— I bathe myself with tears in my complaint. Chandler. Compare Isaiah 16:2 .; Lamentations 1:16 . The next words are rendered by Chandler, and am in the greatest conster...
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Development of the prayer generally set forth in the introduction; two strophes ( Psalms 55:2-8 , and Psalms 55:9-15 )....
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...
I mourn. — A verb found in this form only in three other passages, always with the idea of restlessness — e.g., Genesis 27:40 , of the roving life of a Bedouin; Jeremiah 2:31 , of moral restl...
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...
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...
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...
This beautiful Psalm will be rendered exceedingly profitable to our souls in the reading, if the Holy Ghost, who hath given it by inspiration for the church's profit, shall, by his divine teaching, g...
Attend unto me, and hear me ,.... So as to answer, and that immediately and directly, his case requiring present help; I mourn in my complaint ; or "in my meditation" p; solitary thoughts, and mel...
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Ver. 2. Attend unto me, and hear me ] Heb. answer me, that is, grant me deliverance from this death which threateneth me. Th...
Hide not thyself from my supplication Either as one unconcerned and not regarding it, or as one displeased, and resolved not to hear nor help. I mourn and make a noise I cannot forbear such sighs...
Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A psalm of David. 1 Give ear to my...
For my misery is very great, and forceth tears and bitter cries from me.
A Desperate Plea For God To Hear Him In The Light Of The Terrible Oppression And Persecution That He Is Facing ( Psalms 55:1-3 ). David calls on God to hear his cries for help as he faces the thre...
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.
Isaiah 38:14 ; Psalms 102:10 ; Psalms 102:9 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 13:2 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 38:6 ; Psalms 43:2