Psalms 14:5

were they in great fear. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6. Hebrew they feared. fear.

generation. circle. Hebrew. dor, company, or class.

righteous. righteous man.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 14:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There were they in great fear - Margin, as in Hebrew, “they feared a fear.” The idea is, that they were in great terror or consternation. They we...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(d) There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous. (d) Where they think themselves most sure.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psa 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it th...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. There did they tremble with fear, The prophet now encourages himself and all the faithful with the best of all consolations, namely, that...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. There were they in great fear - This is a manifest allusion to the hi...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Have all the workers &c.— Do they not observe, all the dealers in vanity, devourers of my people? They eat bread, they called not upon the Lor...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. There - in the very place of their sin, their punishment overta...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps., like Psalms 12 , gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship i...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

There were they in great fear ] a sudden mention of God's interference. Some historical event, like the destruction of Pharaoh's host, seems to be i...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There were they. — Literally, there they feared a fear, i.e., terror overtook them. Psalms 53 adds, “which was no fear.” The local “there” brin...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 14:1-7 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1-18 ; Psalms 12:1-8 . It has several points of likeness to both. It resem...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Bounty of God and the Folly of Men Psalms 13:1-6 ; Psalms 14:1-7 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions,...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perve...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The sad blindness of men's minds in their denying the existence of God, is here very strongly described; and the contradiction of such unbelief, as s...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

There were they in great fear ,.... This, shows that they had some knowledge of God, and consciousness of guilt, which they endeavoured to banish ou...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous. Ver. 5. There were they in great fear ] There? and they? and in gr...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

There were they in great fear In the place, or upon the spot where they practised these insolences: or, then , that is, in the height of their tyr...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the L ORD . 5 There were they...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There, i.e. in the place, or upon the spot, where they practised these insolences, God struck them with a panic fear. Or, then , i.e. in the heigh...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who devour my people as they eat bread, And call not on YHWH? There were they in great fear, For...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitche...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 14:1 . The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in h...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 14:1 . The fool, the Nabal, devoid of foresight, says, there is no God; no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, lik...
The Biblical Illustrator

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. The practical denial of God the root of all evil The heavy fact of widespread corruption pres...
The Biblical Illustrator

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Conscience I. Conscience informed. It is quite true that the workers of iniquity seem like brute...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7 , that this psalm was written duri...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Corruption of Natural Man and the Lord's Salvation. This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was specially impressed w...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

There were they in great fear, namely, at the time when the thunder of Jehovah's wrath hurls them down, they cringe and cower in terror when His judg...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:9 ; Esther 8:7 ; Exodus 15:16 ; Isaiah 12:6 ; Isaiah 41:10 ; Isaiah 43:1 ; Isaiah 43:2 ; Isaiah 8:10 ; Matthew 1:23 ; Proverbs 1:...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

There — Upon the spot, where they practised these insolences, God struck them with a panick fear. For — God is on their side, and therefore their e...

⁵ There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 14:5

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

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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 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

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