He: i.e. Ahithophel.
broken his covenant: by his disloyalty.
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him - Against those who were his friends, or who had given him no occasion for war....
He (p) hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. (p) I did not provoke him but was as at peace wit...
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...
20. He hath sent his hands against those that were at peace with him He afterwards speaks in verse 23d in the plural number, but here it is...
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. He hath put forth his hands - A farther description of...
He hath broken his covenant— He hath profaned, and violated his covenant; namely, of allegiance and friendship.
As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. -Third strophe. His confident hope, resting upon the grounds stated in the previo...
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...
He hath. — As in Psalms 55:12 , the individual specially prominent in the traitorous crew is here singled out, and his treachery exposed. He hat...
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...
Friends May Forsake, but God Abideth Psalms 55:12-23 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, d...
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...
Here is another view of the enemies of David; and still more so of the enemies of David's Lord. How smooth were the words of Judas when he said, Hail...
He hath put forth his hands ,.... The psalmist returns and describes, in this verse Psalms 55:3 , the cruelty, perfidy, and hypocrisy of his false...
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. Ver. 20. He hath put forth his hands, &c. ] Tha...
He , &c. I speak especially of “that perfidious person, who hath not only violated all the laws of friendship, but profanely broken his promise...
Confidence in God. 16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the L ORD...
He, i.e. they, the persons last mentioned. Before the singular number, Psalms 55:13,14 , was suddenly changed into the plural, Psalms 55:15 ,...
David Draws Out The Evil And Hypocrisy Of His Enemy ( Psalms 55:20-21 ). David here defines what type of enemy he is up against. This may refer to...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
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...
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,...
He, the treacherous friend described above, hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him, profaning the solemn covenant of intimat...
1 Samuel 22:17 ; 1 Samuel 24:10 ; 2 Samuel 14:32 ; 2 Samuel 14:33 ; 2 Samuel 15:10-12 ; 2 Samuel 18:12 ; 2 Samuel 2:4 ; 2 Samuel 5:3 ; Acts...
He — They, the persons last mentioned.
20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath brokend his covenant.