poor . an oppressed one. Compare Psalms 9 and Psalms 10.
Ye have shamed - The address here is made directly to the wicked themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and, perhaps, in con...
Ye have (e) shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge. (e) You mock them who put their trust in God.
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...
6. Ye deride the counsel of the poor. He inveighs against those giants who mock at the faithful for their simplicity, in calmly expecting, i...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - Instead of תבישו tabishu, "Ye have...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor— Will ye shame the counsel of the afflicted? —"Will ye now shame, or laugh at the poor oppressed people, fo...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - understand, to accord with t...
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...
RM 'Ye put to shame the counsel (i.e. the righteous thoughts) of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.' 'The poor' are the afflicted righteous: see...
Counsel. — This confidence, this piety, this appeal addressed to the supreme Protector, is in this verse called the “counsel,” the “plan” of the su...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
You have shamed the counsel of the poor ,.... The poor saints, the Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the poor of thi...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge. Ver. 6. You have shamed the counsel of the poor ] And thought to mock hi...
You have shamed the counsel of the poor Ye have desired and endeavoured to bring to shame, or to disappoint, the course which the godly poor man ta...
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...
Shamed, i.e. desired and endeavoured to bring it to shame, or disappoint it. Compare Psalms 6:10 . Or, ye have reproached or derided it, as a...
‘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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? Conscience I. Conscience informed. It is quite true that the workers of iniquity seem like brute...
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...
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...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, the wicked may do so, but in vain, the Lord cries out to them through the poet, because the Lord is his Refu...
Daniel 3:15 ; Ezekiel 35:10 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Isaiah 37:10 ; Isaiah 37:11 ; Matthew 27:40-43 ; Nehemiah 4:2-4 ; Psalms 22:7 ; Psalms 22:8 ;...
Because — This was the ground of their contempt, that he lived by faith in God's promise and providence.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.