“ Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.b ”
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee - literally, “His strength - I will wait upon thee.” The reference here is not to the strength or power of God, as if the fact that “He” was powerful...
(g) [Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my defence. (g) Though Saul has great power, yet I know that you bridle him: therefore I will patiently hope in you.
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...
Because of his strength: or,. my strength, as in Psalms 59:17 .
9 I will intrust his strength to thee The obscurity of this passage has led to a variety of opinions amongst commentators. The most forced interpretation which has been proposed is that whic...
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence. Because of his strength will I wait upon thee - With this reading, I can make no sense of the passage. But instead of עזו uzz...
Because of his strength, &c.— Cocceius in his Lexicon gives the expression this turn; I, whose strength is in Thee, will observe, namely, how my God will act; or I will observe, and expect h...
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence. Because of his strength will I wait upon thee - literally, 'I will keep watch to thee,' alluding to the title, "when Saul...
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...
His strength. — This gives no intelligible meaning, and Psalms 59:17 shows that the ancient versions (and some MSS.) are right in reading “my strength” (vocative). The first two words of the next...
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...
Here was the grand resource of the Mediator: and here, he hath therefore taught, is to be the security of all his redeemed. Reader, it is blessed, yea, it is doubly blessed, so to do. Isaiah 26:3 .
[Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee ,.... Either because of the strength of Saul, who was stronger than David, he determined to wait upon the Lord for salvation and deliverance from him;...
[Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my defence. Ver. 9. Because of his strength will I wait on thee ] The stronger Saul is the more will I adhere to thee. Or thus, His st...
But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them Shalt disappoint their high confidence and hopeful designs, and then deride them, and make them ridiculous and contemptible to others. Because of his strength...
Confidence in God. 8 But thou, O L ORD , shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. 9 Because...
His strength, i.e. Saul's strength; because he is too strong for me. Or rather, O my strength , as it is Psalms 59:17 . And all those ancient and venerable translators, the LXX., and Chaldee, a...
David Expresses His Confidence That YHWH Will Protect Him ( Psalms 59:6-10 ). Describing his enemies as like a pack of stray dogs on the prowl (compare also Psalms 59:14 ) David is confident that...
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 59:9 , Psalms 59:17 These two parallel verses are a kind of refrain coming in at the close of each division of the Psalm. The first stands at the end of a picture of the Psalmist's trou...
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...
Habakkuk 3:19 ; Isaiah 12:2 ; Isaiah 26:3 ; Isaiah 26:4 ; Isaiah 40:31 ; Isaiah 58:14 ; Matthew 6:13 ; Psalms 18:1 ; Psalms 18:2 ; Psalms 20:1 ; Psalms 27:1 ; Psalms 27:14 ; Psalms 46:1...