“ What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. ”
What time I am afraid - literally, “the day I am afraid.” David did not hesitate to admit that there were times when he was afraid. He saw himself to be in danger, and he had apprehensions as to...
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....
trust . confide. Hebrew. batah. App-69.
3. In the day that I was afraid, etc. In the Hebrew, the words run in the future tense, but they must be resolved into the praeterite. He acknowledges his weakness, in so far as he was sensi...
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. What, time I am afraid, I will trust in thee - literally, 'what, day.' As 'man daily oppresseth me' ( Psalms 56:1 ), so 'everyday, when I am afrai...
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...
What time. — Heb., yôm, apparently with same meaning as beyôm in Psalms 56:10 , “in the day.” I am afraid... — No doubt the right reading: is, “I cry.”
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...
Reader, do remark how suited this case is to every exercised soul. It corresponds to the case of the Redeemer, and to his church upon all occasions.
What time I am afraid ,.... It was a time of fear with him now; he was afraid of Achish king of Gath, 1 Samuel 21:12 ; so believers have their times of fear; about their interest in the love, and g...
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. Ver. 3. What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee ] This was bravely resolved: Quid timet hominem homo in sinu Dei positus? Faith quelleth and kill...
What time I am afraid , &c. When I have the greatest cause of fear I will rely on thy providence and promise for deliverance. In God will I praise his word I will praise, or boast, in the Lord...
Prayer for Help under Oppression; Confidence in God. To the chief musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, whe...
When I have the greater cause of fear, I will rely upon thy providence and promise for my deliverance.
The Heading ( Psalms 56:1 a). ‘For the Chief Musician; set to Yonath elem rehokim (‘the silent dove of far off places (or ‘men')'). A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gat...
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...
trust ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
Psalms 56:3-4 I. Notice how beautifully there comes out here the occasion of trust. "What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee." That goes deep down into the realities of life. It is when we are...
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...
1 Samuel 21:10 ; 1 Samuel 21:12 ; 1 Samuel 30:6 ; 2 Chronicles 20:3 ; 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 ; 2 Corinthians 7:5 ; 2 Corinthians 7:6 ; Psalms 34:4 ; Psalms 55:4 ; Psalms 55:5