paths. tracks, or ruts.
Hold up my goings in thy paths - He had been enabled before this to keep himself from the ways of the violent by the word of God Psalms 17:4 ; h...
XVII. The Prayer of a Godly Man for Deliverance from his Foes. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and in...
5. Uphold my steps. If we take God’s paths for the precepts of his law, the sense will be evident, namely, that although David had spoken...
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. Hold up my goings in thy paths - David walked in God's ways; but, without Divine assist...
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. Hold up my goings in thy paths, (that) my footsteps slip not - a beautiful supplem...
The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God ( Psalms 17:1-2 ), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence ( Psalms 17...
RV 'My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.'
Hold up. — Not, as in the Authorised Version, imperative, which is directly opposed to the context. The psalmist still asserts his innocence. Rende...
Psalms 17:1-15 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic,...
God's True Servants Safely Kept Psalms 17:1-15 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocenc...
This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer decl...
This is blessed, as it concerns our glorious Surety; for God engaged to carry him through his whole work; see Psalms 89:21-24 . And it is blessed al...
Hold up my goings in thy paths ,.... Which being spoken by David in his own person, and for himself, shows that he was conscious of his own weakness...
Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not. Ver. 5. Hold up my goings in thy paths, &c. ] Keep me within the circle of thy w...
Hold up my goings , &c. As by thy word and grace thou hast hitherto kept me from the paths of evil men, and led me into thy paths, so I pray the...
Sincere and Importunate Prayer. A prayer of David. 1 Hear the righ...
As by thy word and grace thou hast hitherto kept me from the paths of evil men, and led me into thy paths; so, I pray thee, enable me by the same mea...
‘As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent. My steps have held fast to your paths, My fee...
INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his...
Psalms 17:5 The prayer may be regarded as showing (1) the right spirit, (2) the right method, (3) the right purpose, of life. I. In pointing out...
Psalms 17:1 . Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Good men are often slander...
Psalms 17:3 . Thou hast tried me. Vulgate, Igne me examinâsti, Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalm...
Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. Slippery places The blessing of sanctified affliction is that we are made to see ou...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions ( Psalms 17:1 , Psalms...
The Believer Takes His Refuge in God. Every true believer is a poor sinner in the sight of God, knowing that his natural sinfulness will not permi...
Hold up my goings in Thy paths, his steps follow the ways outlined by God, that my footsteps slip not, he has not left the way of God's command on...
1 Samuel 2:9 ; Jeremiah 10:23 ; Psalms 18:36 ; Psalms 38:16 ; Psalms 94:18 ; Psalms 119:116 ; Psalms 119:117 ; Psalms 119:133 ; Psalms 121:3...
5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slipb not.