“ In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word. ”
In God will I praise his word - Luther renders this, “I will praise the word of God.” The phrase “in God” means probably “in respect to God;” or, “in what pertains to God.” That which he would “p...
LVI. A Prayer against Strong, Numerous, and Crafty Foes. Psalms 56:2 . For enemies read they that lie in wait for me ( mg.), proudly: read bitterly. Psalms 56:4 . Will praise his word, i....
In God, &c. Figure of speech Cycloides. App-6. See Psalms 56:4 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
10 In God will I praise his word In the original the pronoun is not expressed, but we are left to infer, from the parallel verse which went before, that it is understood. The repetition adds...
In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word. See on Psalms 56:4 (note), where the same words occur.
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. -The turning point of the psalm. The Psalmist is now assured of being heard. Verse 9. When I cry unt...
Title.—( RV ) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.' For Michtam see on Psalms 16 . Jonath elem rehokim ('the dov...
Psalms 56:1-13 THE superscription dates this psalm from the time of David's being in Gath. Probably his first stay there is meant, during which he had recourse to feigned insanity in order to secu...
“What Can Man Do unto Me?” Psalms 56:1-13 This psalm was composed under the same circumstances as Psalms 34:1-22 . See 1 Samuel 21:1-15 . What a strange medley is here shown-David feigning ma...
The keynote of this psalm is the concluding declaration of the previous one, "I will trust in Thee." Here again are evident the same circumstances of oppression (verses Psa 56:5-7). The song opens an...
What a sweet thought is here suggested of God's remembrance of his people's affliction! It is an interesting figure of speech, of bottling their tears: but the sense is, they are remembered. And woe...
In God will I praise [his] word ,.... These words are repeated from Psalms 56:4 ; and for the greater certainty of the thing, and to show his fixed resolution to do it, and his strong affection for...
In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise [his] word. Ver. 10. In God will I praise his word ] The Jewish doctors observe that Elohim, God, is a name importing justice; and that J...
Comfort under Affliction; Confidence in God. 8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they...
What I have already engaged to do, Psalms 56:4 , that I do again and again promise to do, and I cannot sufficiently praise thy goodness in making promises, and thy faithfulness in keeping them.
An Expression Of His Trust In God In The Face Of His Enemies ( Psalms 56:8-11 ). His confidence lies in the fact that he knows that he is the chosen of YHWH, that God is keeping count of his wande...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the Chief Musician upon Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.” The phrase “ Jonath-Elem-Rechokim ” occurs nowhere else in the Bible; and Biblical critics are by no means agreed as...
Psalms 56:1 . Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. «Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a w...
The title of this psalm, which relates to the manner of singing and playing, is upon the remote and silent dove. To which michtam is added, the golden ode of David. In the LXX, the title of this an...
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up. The deprecable and the desirable I. The deprecable in relation to man. 1. Craven-heartedness. A man whose heart is morally sound is b...
EXPOSITION THIS and the following have been called "twin psalms." They begin with the same words, are nearly of the same length, and have each a refrain which divides them into two portions. F...
Comfort in the Midst of Persecution. To the chief musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, the word not only denoting the melody according to which the hymn was to be sung, "The dove of silence of dista...
2 Peter 1:4 ; Genesis 32:11 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Matthew 24:35 ; Psalms 56:4 ; Psalms 60:6