Psalms 55:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. ”

Psalms 55:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Destroy, O Lord - The word rendered “destroy,” properly means to “swallow up;” to “devour” with the idea of greediness. Isaiah 28:4 ; Exodus 7:12 ; Jonah 1:17 ; Jeremiah 51:34 . Then it is us...
Psalms 55:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Destroy, O Lord, [and] (g) divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. (g) As in the confusion of Babylon when the wicked conspired against God.
Psalms 55:9 - 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 55:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

LORD *. One of the 134 alterations of Jehovah to Adonai by the Sopherim. App-32. divide their tongues . cleave (as in Genesis 10:25 ; Genesis 11:1-9 ) their counsels; "tongues" being put by F...
Psalms 55:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. Destroy, (303) O Lord; and divide their tongue Having now composed, as it were, his mind, he resumes the exercise of prayer. Had he indulged longer in the strain of complaint, he migh...
Psalms 55:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Destroy, O lord - Swallow them up - confound them. Divide their tongues - Let his counsellors give oppos...
Psalms 55:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Destroy, O Lord, &c.— Confound, or overwhelm them, O Lord, and disunite their counsels. Chandler. Praying that God would destroy their consultations by dividing them, was the prayer of a wi...
Psalms 55:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Destroy, O Lord - literally, devour, namely, the enemies; not, as the English version, their tongue...
Psalms 55:9 - 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 55:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Destroy. — Literally, swallow up. So the LXX., forcibly, “drown in the sea.” The object them must be supplied. This sudden change from plaintive sadness to violent invective is one of the mark...
Psalms 55:9 - 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 55:9 - 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 55:9 - 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 55:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we look at David in these verses, we see how the distressed monarch pleaded with God to prosper the plan he had laid with his friend Hushai, to defeat the counsel of his foes. He had sent back thi...
Psalms 55:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Destroy, O Lord ,.... Or "swallow up" s, as Pharaoh and his host were swallowed up in the Red sea; or as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swallowed up in the earth; so all the enemies of Christ and h...
Psalms 55:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Ver. 9. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues ] Heb. Swallow them up, O Lord, and divide their ton...
Psalms 55:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Destroy, O Lord, and divide Destroy them by dividing their tongues Their speech, as thou didst at Babel, ( Genesis 11 .,) their votes, and opinions, and counsels. Which was eminently done among A...
Psalms 55:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city....
Psalms 55:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Divide their tongues, i.e. destroy them by dividing. Their tongues, i.e. their speech, as thou didst at Babel, Ge 11 ; their votes, and opinions, and counsels; which was eminently done among Abs...
Psalms 55:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Describes The City From Which He Has Escaped As, For Him At Least, A Place Of Violence, Strife And Wickedness ( Psalms 55:9-11 ). He describes the city in which he has been dwelling as a place...
Psalms 55:9 - 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 55:9 - 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 55:9 - 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 55:9 - 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 55:9 - 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 55:9 - 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 55:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 15:31 ; 2 Samuel 17:1-14 ; Acts 23:6-10 ; Genesis 11:7-9 ; Jeremiah 23:14 ; Jeremiah 6:7 ; John 7:45-53 ; Matthew 23:37 ; Matthew 23:38
Psalms 55:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Destroy — Destroy them by dividing. Tongues — Their speech, as thou didst at Babel, Genesis 11:9 , their votes, and opinions, and counsels. Which was eminently done among Absalom's followers, 2 S...

Psalms 55:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 55:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 55:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 55:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 55:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 55:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 55:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 55:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 55:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 55:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 55:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 55:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 55:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes