Psalms 11:1; Psalms 139:9; Revelation 12:14
And I said - That is, when I saw these calamities coming upon me, and knew not what the result was to be. Oh, that I had wings like a dove! -...
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I (e) fly away, and be at rest. (e) Fear had driven him to so great distress, that he...
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...
6 And I said, Who will give me wings like a dove? (300) These words mean more than merely that he could find no mode of escape. They are me...
DISCOURSE: 594 THE AFFLICTED SOUL COMFORTED Psalms 55:6 . And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest....
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. O that I had wings like a dove! - He was so surrounded, so...
And I said, Oh that I had wings! &c.— In the Hebrew, Who will give me wings like a dove? The dove is remarkable for the swiftness of its flig...
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me ... And I said, Oh tha...
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...
A dove ] the wild rock-dove, which can fly fast and far.
Oh that I had. — Literally, who will give me? — The bird that was in the psalmist’s thought was doubtless the Rock Pigeon ( Columba livia ) , wh...
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...
Fleeing the City's Ills Psalms 55:1-11 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references w...
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...
Beautiful similitude of the dove's flight, to describe the soul's earnestness for quiet! Not to fly as a bird of prey, but as a bird of peace. Blesse...
And I said, oh that I had wings like a dove ,.... The psalmist pitches upon this creature, partly to suggest that his enemies pursuing him were like...
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest. Ver. 6. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! ]...
O that I had wings like a dove Hebrew, מי יתן לי, mi jitten li, who will give me wings like a dove? “The dove is remarkable for the swiftness of...
Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Masc...
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He Longs To Escape Into A Safe Place Where He Would Find Rest And No Longer be Subjected To His Trials ( Psalms 55:6-8 ). He longs to be able to e...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Psalms 55:6 I. Don't spend your time in wishing for wings, or for anything else that is impossible. Not that there is anything wrong in a wish, un...
Psalms 55:6-8 I. This is the cry of the faithful soul overpressed by temptation. II. It is the sigh of the heart, weary of the strain of spiritua...
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...
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. Dissatisfaction the law of life I. It impels to all ear...
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,...
And I said, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! a figure of powerful and rapid flight, for then would I fly away and be at rest, find a haven of secu...
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.