“ O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. ”
O my God, make them like a wheel ... - Or rather, like a rolling thing - something that the wind rolls along. The word גלגל galgal - means properly a wheel, as of a chariot, Ezekiel 10:2 ,...
O my God, make them like a (l) wheel; as the stubble before the wind. (l) Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prays that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable and led by all...
LXXXIII. The date can be fixed with a near approach to certainty. The clue is furnished by 1 Maccabees 5. The victories of Judas Maccabæ us and the cleansing of the Temple in 165 B.C. (p. 607) were...
wheel. Hebrew. galgal, . rolling thing. Probably the wild artichoke, which throws out branches of equal length, and, when ripe and dry, breaks off at the root, and is carried by the wind, rolling...
13. O my God! make them like a whirling ball. As the ungodly, when they gird and prepare themselves for destroying the Church, are usually inflated with intolerable pride, the inspired bard...
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. O may God, make them like a wheel - Alluding to the manner of threshing corn in the east. A large broad wheel was rolled over the gra...
O my God, make them like a wheel— This and the following verse seem to allude to the manner of threshing in Judea; which was generally performed on a mountain, where the corn was threshed by means...
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. -Second part of the second main division. Prayer inspired by God for the extinction of the foe by the fiery storm of God. Ver...
This Ps. describes a confederacy of God's enemies, the object of which is to attack and exterminate Israel ( Psalms 83:2-5 ). A list of the allies is given ( Psalms 83:6-8 ). The Psalmist appeals to...
A wheel. — Heb., galgal. (See Note, Psalms 77:18 , and comp. Isaiah 17:13 , where the Authorised Ver sion has literally rolling thing, the margin “thistle down,” and the LXX., “dust of a whee...
Psalms 83:1-18 THIS psalm is a cry for help against a world in arms. The failure of all attempts to point to a period when all the allies here represented as confederate against Israel were or cou...
“The Most High over All the Earth” Psalms 83:1-18 This psalm was composed on the occasion described in 2 Chronicles 20:1-37 , where we learn that at a great crisis the Spirit of God came on Ja...
The psalmist has a vision of the confederacy of all the enemies of the people of God. This he describes as to its process, it constitution, and its purpose. They have taken counsel together with the...
There is not only a great beauty in this appeal and prayer of the church, against all her enemies, but also a great exercise of faith, in divine dependence. We give God credit for all that is to come...
O my God, make them like a wheel ,.... Which, as the Targum adds, is rolled, and goes on, and rests not in a declivity; let them be as fickle and inconstant as a wheel; being in high, let them be in...
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. Ver. 13. O my God, make them like a wheel ] Heb. Like a rolling thing, such as is thistle down, saith R. Solomon, Capita carduoru...
O my God, make them like a wheel Whereas they promise themselves a sure possession, let them be like a wheel , or a round ball , which is very unstable, and soon removed, and which, when once tum...
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:...
Whereas they promise to themselves a sure and firm possession in our land, let them be like a wheel, or a round ball , which being once tumbled down from the top of a hill, runs down with great fo...
INTRODUCTION This is the last of the Psalms of Asaph. If the Psalm refers to the times of Jehoshaphat, the author was probably “Jahaziel, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,” upon whom “came the Spirit o...
This is a Psalm that is not often read, and very seldom expounded, I should think. According to the title, it is «A Song or Psalm of Asaph.» Asaph is one of a little group of poets who flourished sid...
This psalm bears the style and character of Asaph's composition. It has been referred to the time of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib came up against Judea; but he came equally against Egypt, and all the n...
Keep not Thou silence, O God: hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God. An appeal to Heaven I. A lamentable social scene ( Psalms 83:2-8 ). The scene is that of men in tumultuous hostility b...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist makes a passionate appeal to God on behalf of Israel at a time of great danger. A confederacy has been formed among the surrounding nations, having for its object the d...
A Prayer for Help against the Enemies of the Church. A song or psalm of Asaph, the last of his twelve hymns in the psalter, picturing the craft and rage of the enemies and invoking God's speedy de...
Exodus 15:7 ; Isaiah 17:12-14 ; Isaiah 40:24 ; Isaiah 41:2 ; Jeremiah 13:24 ; Job 13:25 ; Job 21:18 ; Matthew 3:12 ; Psalms 22:1 ; Psalms 35:5 ; Psalms 44:4 ; Psalms 68:1 ; Psalms 68:2 ;...
A wheel — Whereas they promise to themselves a sure possession, let them be like a wheel, which is very unstable, and soon removed.