“ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmeda me. ”
Fearfulness and trembling - Fear so great as to produce trembling. Compare the notes at Job 4:14 . He knew not when these things would end. How far the spirit of rebellion had spread he knew not...
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath (d) overwhelmed me. (d) There was no part of him that was not astonished with extreme fear.
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 ....
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Fearfulness - How natural is this description! He is in distress; - he mourns; - makes a noise; - sobs and sighs; - his hea...
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me ... And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly aw...
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 55:1-23 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...
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...
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me ,.... Fear and dread of mind, and trembling of body; and horror hath overwhelmed me ; or "covered me"; he was in the utmost consternation and surprise at...
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Ver. 5. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me ] Fearfulness of heart, and trembling of body, Timor cordis, tremor...
Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A psalm of David. 1 Give ear to my...
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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...
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.
2 Samuel 15:14 ; Job 23:15 ; Job 23:16 ; Job 6:4 ; Luke 22:44 ; Psalms 42:6 ; Psalms 61:2 ; Psalms 88:15 ; Psalms 88:16 ; Psalms 119:120