“ Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. ”
Every day they wrest my words - The word here rendered “wrest,” means literally to give pain, to grieve, to afflict; and it is used here in the sense of “wresting,” as if force were applied to wo...
Every day they wrest my (d) words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil. (d) All my counsels have evil success, and turn to my own sorrow.
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....
Every day . all the day. See Psalms 56:5 . evil. App-44.
5 Every day my words vex me The first part of this verse has been variously rendered. Some understand my words to be the nominative in the sentence, and with these I agree in opinion. Oth...
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. Every day they wrest my words - They have been spies on my conduct continually; they collected all my sayings, and wrested...
They wrest my words— They pervert, torture, &c. Chandler, &c. That is, they endeavour to squeeze from my words, as it were by torture, any sense that they please, contrary to the intentio...
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. Every day they wrest my words. "Wrest" - literally, vex my protestations of innocence. Saul and mine enemies, instea...
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...
Wrest. — Properly, afflict; and so some, “injure my cause.” But “torture my words” is intelligible.
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...
Surely we must see Christ here eminently set forth. Not only at his trial, but upon many occasions, we are told they sought to catch him in his words. Matthew 26:59 , etc. Luke 20:20 , etc.
Every day they wrest my words ,.... Form, fashion, and shape them at their pleasure; construe them, and put what sense upon them they think fit. The word u is used of the formation of the human body...
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil. Ver. 5. Every day they wrest my words ] Or, my matters; they distort and pervert everything I say, or do, from the true...
They wrest my words They misconstrue and pervert my most innocent expressions, and turn them into matter of calumny, in order that they may incense Saul against me. Hebrew, יעצבו, jegnatzeebu, the...
Prayer for Help under Oppression; Confidence in God. To the chief musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, whe...
They wrest my words; they misconstrue and pervert my most innocent expressions, and turn them into matter of calumny, wherewith they may incense Saul against me. Or, they perplex my affairs . All...
‘All day long they wrest my words, All their thoughts are against me for evil.' So now that he is in Philistine territory David finds that he has not escaped from trouble. It still dogs him ‘all da...
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...
1 Samuel 18:17 ; 1 Samuel 18:21 ; 1 Samuel 18:29 ; 1 Samuel 20:33 ; 1 Samuel 20:7 ; 2 Peter 3:16 ; Isaiah 29:20 ; Isaiah 29:21 ; Jeremiah 18:18 ; John 2:19 ; Luke 11:54 ; Luke 22:3-6 ; M...