Neginah. smitings. App-65.
Title. of David: i.e. relating to David and to the true David.
Hear my cry, O God - See the notes at Psalms 5:2 . The word rendered cry in this place sometimes denotes a joyful shout - a shout of triumph; bu...
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...
1. Hear my cry, O God! It is not exactly ascertained at what time this psalm was composed; but there seems to be some probability in the con...
To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. Hear my cry, O God - In the midst of a long and pa...
David fleeth to God upon his former experience: he voweth perpetual service unto him, because of his promises. To the chief musician upon Neginah...
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. Psalms 61:1-8 -Two strophes separated by Selah. Prayer in extreme distress; confidence of safety...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CONTENTS This Psalm is but short, though sweet. The heart is in heaviness in the opening of it, but finds comfort before it closeth. In using it wit...
Whither shall a soul in trouble go, but to the Lord? or to whom shall a soul cry, but to him that is able to save? It is blessed to be sometimes driv...
Hear my cry, O God ,.... Being in distress; and which was vocally expressed with great fervency and importunity; attend unto my prayer ; which psa...
Psalms 61:1 «To the chief Musician upon Neginah, [A Psalm] of David. » Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. To the chief Musician upon Neg...
Crying to God in Distress. To the chief musician upon Neginah. A psalm of...
PSALM 61 THE ARGUMENT The occasion of this Psalm was some great distress of David s, either by Saul or by Absalom, though it might be composed some...
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...
INTRODUCTION Superscription.— “ To the Chief Musician .” See Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ Upon Neginah .” Hebrew: Neginath . “The LXX. and Vulg....
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...
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....
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...
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer, the plea being all the more urgent since David at that time, probably on account of the rebellion of Absal...
A Confident Prayer for Divine Aid. To the chief musician upon Neginah, with the accompaniment upon stringed instruments, a psalm of David.
Philippians 4:6 ; Psalms 130:2 ; Psalms 17:1 ; Psalms 28:2 ; Psalms 4:1 ; Psalms 5:1-3 ; Psalms 54:1 ; Psalms 55:1 ; Psalms 55:2 ; Psalms 6...
1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.