shelter. refuge.
For thou hast been a shelter for me - A place of refuge; a place where I have found safety. He refers here to what had occurred in former times....
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...
3. For thou hast been my hope Here we may suppose, either that he calls to his remembrance such benefits as he had formerly received, or tha...
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Those hast been a shelter for me - During the whole duration of the captivi...
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. For thou hast been a shelter for me - and always art so. And a str...
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...
A strong tower. — Comp. Proverbs 18:10 .
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...
Are not all these well known (and may I not add, Reader, well proved, in your soul's experience) characters of the Lord Jesus? Is not Jesus the hidin...
For thou hast been a shelter for me ,.... Or "refuge" y, from avenging justice; a hiding place and covert from the storms and tempests of divine wra...
For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy. Ver. 3. For thou hast been a shelter for me ] Thou hast, and therefore t...
From the end of the earth Or rather, of the land , to which, it seems, David had been driven by the violence of his enemies; will I cry unto thee...
Crying to God in Distress. To the chief musician upon Neginah. A psalm of...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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....
Psalms 61:2-4 Consider: I. In what sense David could say, "Thou hast been a shelter to me," and then that he was fully justified in concluding, "...
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....
For Thou hast been a shelter to me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Past mercies earnests of future ones The psalmist had good ground for th...
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...
A Confident Prayer for Divine Aid. To the chief musician upon Neginah, with the accompaniment upon stringed instruments, a psalm of David.
For Thou hast been a Shelter for me, a Refuge in the midst of dangers, and a strong Tower from the enemy, affording that absolute safety which only...
2 Corinthians 1:10 ; Isaiah 46:3 ; Isaiah 46:4 ; Proverbs 18:10 ; Psalms 116:2 ; Psalms 140:7 ; Psalms 18:2 ; Psalms 4:6 ; Psalms 4:7
3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.