“ Let them wander up and down for meat,d and grudge if they be not satisfied. ”
Let them wander up and down for meat - Let them be like dogs that wander about for food, and find none. The idea is, that they would not find him, and would be then as dogs that had sought in vai...
LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms 59...
wander . prowl about. grudge: or, stay all night.
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. -Second part of the second division. David's anticipation of the enemy's doom, and of his own...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57 . Th...
Let them wander. — This verse is variously understood. The margin gives the rendering of most modern scholars; but what does it mean by “They will pass the night”? To say they will not go away unsa...
Psalms 59:1-17 THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with the others of that group, but its closest af...
“God Is My High Tower” Psalms 59:1-17 This is the fifth of the Michtams, or “Golden Psalms.” Compare Psalms 16:1-11 ; Psalms 56:1-13 ; Psalms 57:1-11 ; Psalms 58:1-11 . The contents corre...
Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is...
What strong figures are chosen in these verses to point out the restless, wretched, unsatisfying state of the wicked, whose mind is like the troubled sea! Isaiah 57:20-21 .
Let them wander up and down for meat ,.... Like hungry dogs; and grudge if they be not satisfied ; or murmur and howl as dogs when hungry, and can find nothing to eat; or "when they shall not be s...
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. Ver. 15. Let them wander up and down for meat ] Sicut mendici de ostio ad ostium faciunt, as beggars do from door to do...
And at evening let them return , &c. This is a repetition of the sixth verse, but is to be understood in a different sense. The sixth verse is a real complaint of their fury and diligence in pur...
Confidence in God. 8 But thou, O L ORD , shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. 9 Because...
Wander up and down for meat, to get a livelihood. And grudge if they be not satisfied : when their bodies are hungry, let their minds be discontented. Or, as others render the words, and lodge ,...
His Would Be Assassins Can Wander Up and Down Like Stray Dogs All Night If They Wish, But He Will Meanwhile Sing Of The Triumph And Protection Of His God ( Psalms 59:14-17 ). David concludes the P...
INTRODUCTION Superscription.— “ To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith .” See Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ Michtam of David .” See Introduction to Psalms 56 . “ When Saul sent, and they watched the...
Psalms 59:6 . They make a noise like a dog. Mr. Jowett, in his christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day,...
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God . Revelations of the good and bad in human nature I. The enmity of man towards man. 1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we lea...
EXPOSITION LIKE Psalms 56:1-19 and Psalms 57:1-19 , this is a cry for deliverance out of great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17) that the deliverance will be gran...
Prayer of an Innocent Person against Those who Seek His Soul. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, again according to the melody "Destroy not," Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David; when...
2 Kings 6:25-29 ; Deuteronomy 28:48 ; Deuteronomy 28:53-58 ; Isaiah 56:11 ; Isaiah 8:21 ; Job 15:23 ; Job 30:1-7 ; Lamentations 4:10 ; Lamentations 4:4 ; Lamentations 4:5 ; Lamentations 4:...