Psalms 142:7

Related Commentaries of Psalms 142:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bring my soul out of prison - Bring me out of my present condition which is like a prison. I am as it were shut up; I am encompassed with foes; I...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Bring my soul out of (c) prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall (d) compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. (c)...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXLII. The Psalmist prays for help to God who knows his distress. His enemies are stronger than he, and there is none to help him, save God. The ri...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 737 LIBERTY DESIRED Psalms 142:7 . Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name! GREAT are the changes which, from time...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. Bring my soul...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I cried unto thee, O Lord, &c.— He applies himself to God to rescue him out of this prison, the cave wherein he was concealed. I have said, &...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The righteous shall encompass me, &c.— From me the righteous shall their hopes confirm, When I the object of thy care appear. FENWICK. Dr. C...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. Bring...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A prayer of a hunted soul: ascribed to David 'in the cave,' but not likely to be by him.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Prison ] metaphorical: cp. Psalms 107:10 . Compass me about] RM 'crown themselves because of me.' The meaning is, that they will rejoice with him...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Out of prison. — This expression, which must certainly be figurative of distress (comp. Psalms 143:11 ), probably led to the inscription. Compas...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 142:1-7 THE superscription not only calls this a psalm of David's, but specifies the circumstances of its composition. It breathes the same...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“No Man Cared for My Soul” Psalms 142:1-7 The cave was dark and shared by rough and lawless men with whom David had little sympathy. His gentle...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this psalm human need is yet more vividly set forth. Here is seen the consciousness resulting from the difficulties described in the previous psal...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! look once more to Jesus, to while reading this account. Call to min d how one disciple betrayed him, and another denied him, and all forsook...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS Pause, my soul, over this sweet Psalm, and take from it, for thy constant meditation, the many precious instructions it holds forth unto...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE VICTORY OF FAITH ‘Thou shalt deal bountifully with me.’ Psalms 142:7 I. These words honoured God. —David was in the cave, praying and po...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bring my soul out of prison ,.... Not out of purgatory, to which some Popish writers wrest these words very absurdly; nor out of the prison of his b...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. Ver. 7. Br...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Attend unto my cry , &c. O let my importunate cry prevail for some relief; which will come most seasonably in this exceeding great necessity; f...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Complaints and Petitions. 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld,...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bring my soul out of prison; bring me safe out of this cave, wherein I am imprisoned, and set me at perfect liberty. Shall compass me about; shal...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “A maschil of David,” ie ., an instruction or a didactic poem by David. “A prayer when he was in the cave;” “That is,” says Barnes, “e...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 142:7 I. Consider what is to be understood by "the soul in prison." The ideas suggested by the word "prison" are such as these: deprivation...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave. This «Maschil of David» is instructive to us, for the experience of one believer is very edifying...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The title of this psalm seems undisputed; and it therefore fixes the author and the occasion of its composition. Maschil, or an instruction, of Da...
The Biblical Illustrator

I cried unto the Lord with my voice. Religion in the trials of life: - I. The trials here represented. He speaks of himself as-- 1. Overwhel...
The Biblical Illustrator

Bring my soul out of prison. The soul in prison I. The prison into which so many souls are cast. David said, “In the way wherein I walked, the...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION DAVID once more cries to God for protection and deliverance. The "title" says that the prayer was composed by him "when he was in t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Cry for Help in Great Extremity. Maschil, a didactic poem, one teaching an important lesson, of David; a prayer when he was in the cave, either in...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bring my soul out of prison, out of this extremity of sorrows in which he found himself, that I may praise Thy name, in grateful appreciation of wh...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Prison — Set me at liberty. Compass — Shall flock to me from all parts, to rejoice and bless God with me and for me.

⁷ Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 142:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 142:7