Psalms 55:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. ”

Psalms 55:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My heart is sore pained within me - Heavy and sad; that is, I am deeply afflicted. The word rendered is “sore pained,” means properly to turn round; to twist; to dance in a circle; to be whirled...
Psalms 55:4 - 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 55:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sore pained... unto death. Compare the words ot the true David ( John 13:21 ) in reference to the Antitype ( Psalms 55:18 ; Matthew 26:38 ).
Psalms 55:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. My heart trembles within me (299) Here we have additional evidence of the extremity of David’s sufferings. He that uses these words was no soft or effeminate person, but one who had give...
Psalms 55:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. The terrors of death are fallen upon me - I am in hourly expectation of being massacred.
Psalms 55:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

My heart is sore pained.— Trembles.
Psalms 55:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. My heart is sore pained within me - literally, is agitated. The terrors of death are fallen upon me - as th...
Psalms 55:4 - 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 55:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

( 4 ) Is sore pained. — Better, writhes with pain. Terrors of death — i.e., terrors caused by death, a horror of death.
Psalms 55:4 - 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 55:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 55:4 - 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 55:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We shall have a lively apprehension of this history of David, if we connect with what is here said of him, his flight from Absalom, when he went up the hill of mount Olivet; 2 Samuel 15:14-30 . But...
Psalms 55:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My heart is sore pained within me ,.... At the civil war in his kingdom; at the battle likely to ensue between his forces and Absalom's, and at the issue of it; see Jeremiah 4:19 ; this was true of...
Psalms 55:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Ver. 4. My heart is sore pained within me ] No otherwise than a woman is pained in travail; cordicitus doleo. I am...
Psalms 55:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My heart is sore pained within me Hebrew, יחיל, jachil, trembles , or suffers pains like those of a travailing woman, as the word properly signifies. My heart, which hath generally supported me in...
Psalms 55:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A psalm of David. 1 Give ear to my...
Psalms 55:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My heart is sore pained within me; with pains like those of a travailing woman, as the word signifies. My heart, which hath commonly supported me in my distresses, is now ready to sink within me; t...
Psalms 55:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Describes His Inner Condition ( Psalms 55:4-5 ). He points out to God his deep distress of heart. The situation has become too much for him. Living under the constant threat of execution by a j...
Psalms 55:4 - 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 55:4 - 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 55:4 - 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 55:4 - 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 55:4 - 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 55:4 - 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 55:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 ; Hebrews 5:7 ; Isaiah 38:10-13 ; John 12:27 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mark 14:34 ; Matthew 26:37 ; Matthew 26:38 ; Psalms 102:3-5 ; Psalms 116:3 ; Psalms 18:4 ; Psalms 18:5 ;...
Psalms 55:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The terrors — Deadly terrors; such as seize upon men in the agonies of death.

Psalms 55:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 55:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 55:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 55:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 55:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 55:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 55:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 55:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 55:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 55:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 55:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 55:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes