Psalms 55:12

For. — The ellipse must be supplied from Psalms 55:9, I invoke destruction for, &c

Then I could... — Better, then (or else) I might bear it.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For it was not an enemy that reproached me - The word “reproached” here refers to slander; calumny; abuse. It is not necessarily implied that it...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For [it was] not an (i) enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] agai...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LV. A Prayer for Deliverance from Treacherous Foes. Psalms 55:1-11 . The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from J...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12 Of a truth, it was not an enemy that cast reproach upon me He informs us of one circumstance which added bitterness to the injuries under...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it : neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For it was not an enemy, &c.— Among other persons who joined in this conspiracy against David, there was one from whom he expected a quite diff...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he compla...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:1-23 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identif...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Friends May Forsake, but God Abideth Psalms 55:12-23 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, d...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his sou...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We must of necessity drop David's history in these verses, to attend to an infinitely greater; for surely what is here said by the Spirit of Christ,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me ,.... An open and avowed one; a Moabite or a Philistine; such an one as Goliath, who cursed him by hi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

It was not an enemy Not an open and professed enemy, or, not an old and inveterate enemy, (as appears from the following description to be his mean...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Not an enemy; either, 1. Not an open and professed enemy; or rather, 2. Not an old and inveterate enemy, as may be gathered from the following...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Bewails The Fact That He Has Been Betrayed By A Comrade-In-Arms ( Psalms 55:12-14 ). The description of the city has prepared the way for the s...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:6 . Oh that I had wings like a dove, to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But th...
The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication. The compassionable, the commendable, and the censurable in life I. The...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century b.c. But no solid g...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For it was not an enemy that reproached me, since in the case of an open adversary the situation would not have been so serious ; then I could have b...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 10:15 ; John 13:18 ; John 18:2 ; John 18:3 ; Matthew 26:21-23 ; Psalms 35:26 ; Psalms 38:16 ; Psalms 41:9
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hated — With a manifest or old hatred.

¹² For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 55:12