Psalms 55:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Cast thy burdene upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. ”

• Psalms 55:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Cast thy burden upon the Lord - This may be regarded as an address of the psalmist to himself, or to his own soul - an exhortation to himself to roll all his care upon the Lord, and to be calm. I...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall (q) never suffer the righteous to be moved. (q) Though for their bettering and trial, he permits them to slip for a time.

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• Psalms 55:22 - 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 55:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Cast, &c. . Commit unto. Quoted in 1 Peter 5:7 . burden . gift, or lot. Here. those very words of Psalms 55:21 . sustain thee . hold thee up. the righteous . the righteous one (singular)...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  22 Cast thy giving upon Jehovah. The Hebrew verb יהב, yahab, signifies to give, so that יהבע, yehobcha, according to the ordinary rules of grammar, should be rendered thy giving...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Cast thy burden upon the Lord - Whatever cares, afflictions, trials, etc., they may be with...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Cast thy burthen upon the Lord— Cast thou thy cares and projects upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee, and bring them to perfection: He will not permit the righteous to be moved for ever. Cha...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. The Psalmist's confidence in the Lord suggests the encouraging self-exhortation to ca...

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• Psalms 55:22 - 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 55:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Burden. — A word peculiar to this passage, probably meaning “gift,” hence “lot” or “condition.” The Talmud, however, uses the word as meaning “burden” and the LXX. by rendering “care” have prepared...

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• Psalms 55:22 - 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 55:22 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:22 - 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 55:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here is another view of the enemies of David; and still more so of the enemies of David's Lord. How smooth were the words of Judas when he said, Hail, Master! and kissed him. But how was the prophecy...

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• Psalms 55:22 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  A BURDEN-BEARING GOD ‘Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.’ Psalms 55:22 A great part of the burden of daily life is the sin that is in it. Take out the sin, and there wil...

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• Psalms 55:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Cast thy burden upon the Lord ,.... These are either the words of the Holy Ghost to David, according to Jarchi; or of David to his own soul in distress, and may be directed to any good man in like c...

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• Psalms 55:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Ver. 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord ] Dare tuum, vel donum tuum, that is, whatsoev...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Cast thy burden upon the Lord Whoever thou art that art burdened, and whatever the burden is; whatever affliction God sendeth to thee; all thy trials and troubles, thy crosses and distresses, thy c...

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• Psalms 55:22 - 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...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thy burden, or portion , Heb. gift ; whatsoever affliction God giveth or sendeth to thee; for even the sufferings of good men are called God's gifts in Scripture, Philippians 1:29 1 Thessalon...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  David Now Exhorts All Who Hear These Words To Do What He Does, By Casting Their Burden On YHWH, With The Assurance That He Can Be Trusted And Will Certainly Sustain The Righteous ( Psalms 55:22-23 )...

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• Psalms 55:22 - 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 55:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 55:22 A great part of the burden of daily life is the sin that is in it. Take out the sin, and there will not be much burden left. I. As regards those common burdens which every one bears,...

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• Psalms 55:22 - 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 55:22 - 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 55:22 - 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 55:22 - 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 55:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:5 ; 1 Peter 5:7 ; 1 Samuel 2:9 ; Isaiah 50:10 ; John 10:27-30 ; Luke 12:22 ; Matthew 11:28 ; Matthew 6:25 ; Matthew 6:31-34 ; Philippians 4:6 ; Philippians 4:7 ; Psalms 121:3 ;...

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• Psalms 55:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Burden — All thy crosses, and cares, and fears, lay them upon the Almighty, by faith and prayer. He directs this speech to his own soul, and to all good men in like circumstances. Suffer — As he do...

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