Remain. — Better, lodge.
Lo, then would I wander far off - literally, “Lo, I would make the distance far by wandering;” I would separate myself far from these troubles....
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...
remain . lodge. The Septuagint renders it by aulizomai, the word used in Matthew 21:17 . Compare Luke 21:37 . See also Jeremiah 9:2 . wildern...
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. Would I wander far off - He did escape; and yet his enemies were so near, a...
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. Lo, (then) would I wander far off - literally, 'be distant in fleeing.'...
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...
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...
Fleeing the City's Ills Psalms 55:1-11 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references w...
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...
Beautiful similitude of the dove's flight, to describe the soul's earnestness for quiet! Not to fly as a bird of prey, but as a bird of peace. Blesse...
Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness ,.... So David did when he fled from Absalom, 2 Samuel 15:23 ; so gracious souls...
Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. Selah. Ver. 7. Lo, then would I wander far off ] Far from the force and fury of...
O that I had wings like a dove Hebrew, מי יתן לי, mi jitten li, who will give me wings like a dove? “The dove is remarkable for the swiftness of...
Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Masc...
Like a dove ; which being fearful, and pursued by birds of prey, flies away, and that very swiftly and far, and into solitary places, where it hide...
He Longs To Escape Into A Safe Place Where He Would Find Rest And No Longer be Subjected To His Trials ( Psalms 55:6-8 ). He longs to be able to e...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Psalms 55:6-8 I. This is the cry of the faithful soul overpressed by temptation. II. It is the sigh of the heart, weary of the strain of spiritua...
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...
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...
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...
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. Dissatisfaction the law of life I. It impels to all ear...
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...
A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
Lo, then would I wander far off, flee to a great distance, and remain in the wilderness, the usual place of refuge for the persecuted and oppressed...
1 Samuel 27:1 ; 2 Samuel 15:14 ; 2 Samuel 17:21 ; 2 Samuel 17:22 ; Jeremiah 37:12 ; Jeremiah 9:2 ; Proverbs 6:4 ; Proverbs 6:5
7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.