“ Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. ”
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer - The use of the word voice here would seem to imply that this was audible prayer, or that, though alone, he gave utterance to his petitions aloud. We have this...
"To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David." Hear my (a) voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. (a) In that he calls to God with his voice, it is a sign that his prayer w...
LXIV. Prayer of a Righteous Man against Treacherous Foes. Psalms 64:6 . The text needs correction. We may read, They plan evil deeds: they have hidden a well-devised plot, for the inner man is in...
Title.. Psalm. Hebrew. mizmor. App-65. of David . relating to David and the true David. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. prayer . musing.
1. Hear my voice, O God! He begins by saying that he prayed earnestly, and with vehemence, stating, at the same time, what rendered this necessary. The voice is heard in prayer, proportional...
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hear my voice - The psalmist feared for his life, and the lives of his fellow-cap...
David prayeth for deliverance, complaining of his enemies: he promiseth himself to see such an evident destruction of them, that the righteous shall rejoice at it. To the chief musician, A Psalm...
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1-10 .-Two strophes. He prays for preservation from the secret counsels of the wicked ( Psalms 64:1-5 );...
This is a Ps. on a familiar theme. The Psalmist's life is in danger. He describes the injurious words and malicious plans of his enemies, and foretells how their overthrow will be a warning to all wh...
My prayer. — Rather, my cry, complaint, as in Psalms 55:2 .
Psalms 64:1-10 FAMILIAR notes are struck in this psalm, which has no very distinctive features. Complaint of secret slanderers, the comparison of their words to arrows and swords, their concealed...
Deliverance from Powerful Foes Psalms 64:1-10 Another of the psalms dating from Saul's persecution. There are two stanzas. Prayer for preservation, Psalms 64:1-6 Insult, sarcasm, and slan...
This is the cry of distress, and yet not of despair. The singer is beset by wily enemies who plan and plot against him with malicious and persistent determination. In great detail he describes their...
CONTENTS This Psalm is very similar to many that we meet with. It contains the cry of an awakened soul against the enemies of his salvation, in which is contained an assurance of deliverance, from t...
GOD THE DEFENCE OF THE PERSECUTED ‘Preserve my life.’ Psalms 64:1 I. This is the cry of distress, and yet not of despair. —The Psalmist is beset by wily enemies who plan and plot against him...
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer ,.... The prayer of the psalmist was vocal and expressed in a mournful manner, with groans and cries, as the word z used signifies, and with great ardour and ferve...
Psalms 64:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. » Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. A Psalm of David ] Of like argument with the former. The Arab...
Preserve my life from fear That is, from danger: the act or passion of fear being often put for its object, danger, as Psalms 14:5 ; 1 Peter 3:14 , and frequently elsewhere. Hide me from the sec...
Malice of David's Enemies. To the chief musician. A psalm of David. 1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve m...
PSALM 64 THE ARGUMENT The matter of this Psalm plainly declares that it was made in a time when David was greatly distressed and reproached; which he was both under Saul, and in the time of Absalom...
Heading. ‘For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.' Once again the Psalm is dedicated to the Chief Musician, but we are told nothing about it except that it is a Psalm of David. The Psalm can b...
INTRODUCTION Superscription . “ To the chief Musician: ” see Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Psalm of David ,” The structure and character of the psalm confirm the title as to its Davidic authorsh...
REFLECTIONS . This psalm describes at large the plots and insinuations of David's enemies for his destruction. They took secret counsel against him, and he cried and prayed, on the contrary, that Go...
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Man’s enmity towards man We see this enmity here in three aspects. I. Piously dreaded. David prays against it. He...
EXPOSITION AT a time of great danger from domestic enemies, who threaten insurrection ( Psalms 64:2 ), the psalmist first complains to God, and entreats his aid ( Psalms 64:1-19 ); after which...
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer, in his lamentation, in words of pain; preserve my life from fear of the enemy, from the danger producing this terror and from its evil effects upon his body and...
Acts 18:10 ; Acts 18:9 ; Acts 27:24 ; Lamentations 3:55 ; Lamentations 3:56 ; Psalms 130:1 ; Psalms 130:2 ; Psalms 141:1 ; Psalms 143:1-3 ; Psalms 17:8 ; Psalms 17:9 ; Psalms 27:7 ; Psal...