Psalms 61:3

A strong tower. — Comp. Proverbs 18:10.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 61:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou hast been a shelter for me - A place of refuge; a place where I have found safety. He refers here to what had occurred in former times....
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXI. The Psalmist prays from the end of the earth in the confidence that God will protect him. He expresses his desire to dwell in the Temple and e...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

shelter . refuge.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. For thou hast been my hope Here we may suppose, either that he calls to his remembrance such benefits as he had formerly received, or tha...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Those hast been a shelter for me - During the whole duration of the captivi...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. For thou hast been a shelter for me - and always art so. And a str...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. was written at a distance from Jerusalem, and is either the prayer of a king for himself, or the prayer of a subject for himself and the kin...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 61:1-8 THE situation of the singer in this psalm is the same as in Psalms 63:1-11 . In both he is an exile longing for the sanctuary, and...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Safe under God's Protection Psalms 61:1-8 This psalm was probably composed at the time of Absalom's rebellion, when David was a fugitive from t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this song there is the same undertone of confidence as in the preceding one. Here, however, it is rather the voice of one man than that of the peo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Are not all these well known (and may I not add, Reader, well proved, in your soul's experience) characters of the Lord Jesus? Is not Jesus the hidin...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thou hast been a shelter for me ,.... Or "refuge" y, from avenging justice; a hiding place and covert from the storms and tempests of divine wra...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy. Ver. 3. For thou hast been a shelter for me ] Thou hast, and therefore t...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

From the end of the earth Or rather, of the land , to which, it seems, David had been driven by the violence of his enemies; will I cry unto thee...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Crying to God in Distress. To the chief musician upon Neginah. A psalm of...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Heading. ‘For the Chief Musician, on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.' This Psalm is also dedicated to the Chief Musician and is to be ac...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription.— “ To the Chief Musician .” See Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ Upon Neginah .” Hebrew: Neginath . “The LXX. and Vulg....
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 61:2-4 Consider: I. In what sense David could say, "Thou hast been a shelter to me," and then that he was fully justified in concluding, "...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. A psalm of David, written during his northern expedition, as it would seem from the second verse. Psalms 61:2 . From the end of the earth...
The Biblical Illustrator

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. A meditation on the sixty-first psalm In the first verse it is not the Jew but the man that speaks....
The Biblical Illustrator

For Thou hast been a shelter to me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Past mercies earnests of future ones The psalmist had good ground for th...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This short psalm is one of much beauty, and was sung daily at Matins in the earliest ages of the Church. It is, however, somewhat obs...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Confident Prayer for Divine Aid. To the chief musician upon Neginah, with the accompaniment upon stringed instruments, a psalm of David.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For Thou hast been a Shelter for me, a Refuge in the midst of dangers, and a strong Tower from the enemy, affording that absolute safety which only...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:10 ; Isaiah 46:3 ; Isaiah 46:4 ; Proverbs 18:10 ; Psalms 116:2 ; Psalms 140:7 ; Psalms 18:2 ; Psalms 4:6 ; Psalms 4:7

³ For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 61:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

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

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