“ My heart is fixed,a O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. ”
My heart is fixed, O God - Margin, as in Hebrew, “prepared.” Compare the notes at Psalms 51:10 . The word “suited” or “prepared” accurately expresses the sense of the Hebrew, and it is so render...
My heart is (h) fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: (i) I will sing and give praise. (h) That is, wholly bent to give you praise for my deliverance. (i) He shows that both his heart will praise God, a...
LVII. Here two Pss. are united: A containing Psalms 57:1-6 , B, Psalms 57:7-11 . Psalms 57:1-6 . The Ps. is closely allied to the preceding, also a michtam Ps. (p. 373). The author flees to...
My heart. my heart. Figure of speech Epizeuxis (App-6), as in Psalms 57:1 . (See the Structure, above; also the Figure of speech Ecphonesis. ) fixed . steadfast. Contrast Psalms 78:37 .
7. My heart is prepared, O God! (344) Some read fixed, or confirmed, and the Hebrew word נכון, nacon, bears that signification as well as the other. If we adopt it, we must underst...
DISCOURSE: 596 DAVID’S LOVE TO GOD Psalms 57:7-11 . My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake ea...
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. My heart is fixed - My heart is prepared to do and suffer thy will. It is fixed - it has made the firmest purpose through his...
My heart is fixed— Or, prepared, as in the Margin of our Bibles. He says, in the conclusion of the foregoing verse, that his enemies had fallen into the pit which they had prepared for him; as...
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. -Determination to praise God. Verse 7. My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed - literally, prepared, establish...
Fixed. — Better, steadfast (See Psalms 51:10 , Note.)
Psalms 57:1-11 THIS psalm resembles the preceding in the singer's circumstances of peril and in his bold faith. It has also points of contact in the cry, "Be gracious," and in the remarkable expre...
“In the Shadow of Thy Wings” Psalms 57:1-11 This is one of the choicest psalms. It dates from Adullam or Engedi. It consists of two sections, each of which ends with the same refrain, Psalms 5...
Yet again the theme is the same, but the triumph of trust is even more conspicuous. Compare the opening here with that of the previous song. The cry is the same, but the reason is different. There it...
Reader! do not fail to observe how the Psalm ends. It began in sorrow, and closeth in joy. Yes! whatever is founded in faith and prayer, must end in praise. This holds good to all the seed of Christ....
MY HEART IS FIXED ‘My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed.’ Psalms 57:7 The earnestness with which these words are spoken shows that he who said them knew what it was to have an ‘ unfixe...
My heart is fixed, O God ,.... Firm and sure, trusting in the Lord, believing that he should be saved by him out of his troubles; see Psalms 101:1 . So, in a spiritual sense, a heart fixed and est...
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Ver. 7. My heart is fixed, O God ] I am both ready and resolute; I doubt not about deliverance, and am well prepared to pr...
My heart is fixed Hebrew, נכון, nachon, prepared , or, established; namely, in a full assurance of obtaining thy merciful help. It was ready to sink with fear, but now I have, through thy grace,...
Prayer Turned to Praise. 7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. 8 Awake up, my g...
Fixed, or established , in a full assurance of thy merciful help. It was ready to sink with fear, or bowed down , Psalms 57:6 ; but now I have through thy grace conquered my fears, and am fixe...
An Expression Of Praise And Thanksgiving For God's Intervention On His Behalf ( Psalms 57:7-11 ). Even in the midst of his trials David was able to sing and compose Psalms, for his delight was in...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the Chief Musician.” The chief musician was the director of the music in public worship. And the Psalms which were addressed to him were intended for use in the Te...
Psalms 57:1 . Be merciful unto me, O God He begins with the same note as in the last Psalm; it is a note that cannot be too often on the believer's tongue: «Be merciful unto me, O God,» Psalms...
This was anciently called the golden psalm, for it is the touchstone of illustration with regard to the cares of providence. While David was in the cave of Adullam, in the wilderness of Engedi, hid...
Be merciful unto me, O God. Spiritual experimentalism I. A blessed religious exercise. 1. Praying. “Be merciful unto me,” etc. An epitome of all true prayer. Mercy is what we need; to remove...
EXPOSITION This psalm—the "twin psalm" with the last—has also an elaborate "title," which runs thus: "To the precentor (or chief musician): destroy not; David's; Michtam; when he fled from Saul;...
The True Confidence of Faith. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, to be chanted according to the melody "Destroy not," which also referred to the critical circumstances connected with the event wh...
Ephesians 5:20 ; Isaiah 24:15 ; Psalms 34:4 ; Psalms 108:1 ; Psalms 108:2 ; Psalms 112:7 ; Romans 5:3
Fixed — In a stedfast belief of thy promises.