Ezekiel 33:31; Isaiah 2:3; Psalms 122:1; Psalms 42:4
We took sweet counsel together - Margin, “who sweetened counsel.” Literally, “We sweetened counsel together;” that is, We consulted together; we...
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...
in company . with the multitude. Hebrew. regesh. Occurs only here.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Walked unto the house of God in company - Or with haste; for the rabbi...
For it was not an enemy, &c.— Among other persons who joined in this conspiracy against David, there was one from whom he expected a quite diff...
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. We took sweet counsel together - literally, 'We who together made...
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...
Unto.. company] RV 'in the house of God with the throng.'
And walked... — i.e., joined the great public processions to the temple. (Comp. Psalms 44:4 .) The word rendered “company” occurs again ( Psalms...
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...
We must of necessity drop David's history in these verses, to attend to an infinitely greater; for surely what is here said by the Spirit of Christ,...
We took sweet counsel together ,.... Not in religious matters; for in these the testimonies of the Lord were David's counsellors, Psalms 119:24 ;...
We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of God in company. Ver. 14. We took sweet counsel together ] It was my great delight t...
It was not an enemy Not an open and professed enemy, or, not an old and inveterate enemy, (as appears from the following description to be his mean...
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues...
We took sweet counsel together; I imparted my secret thoughts and designs to him with great delight and satisfaction. We walked unto the house of...
He Bewails The Fact That He Has Been Betrayed By A Comrade-In-Arms ( Psalms 55:12-14 ). The description of the city has prepared the way for the s...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and...
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...
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. The union of religion with friendship recommended I. Religion will...
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,...
We took sweet counsel, enjoying the intimacy of friendship, together and walked into the house of God in company, associating also in public, at th...
14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.