Isaiah 53:10; Psalms 21:4; Psalms 21:6; Psalms 72:15-17; Psalms 89:3; Psalms 89:36
Thou wilt prolong the king’s life - literally, “Days upon the days of the king thou wilt add;” that is, Thou wilt add days to those which thou ha...
Thou wilt prolong the king's (d) life: [and] his years as many generations. (d) This chiefly refers to Christ, who lives eternally not only in himse...
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...
many generations . from generation to generation.
6. Thou shalt add days upon days to the king etc. (407) David cannot be considered as using these words of gratulation with an exclusive re...
Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations. Thou wilt prolong the king's life - The words are very emphatic, and can refe...
Thou wilt prolong the king's life— Thou wilt add days to the king's days; and to his years generation upon generation. The Chaldee paraphrase add...
For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. -Ground of his confidence-namely, the prophe...
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...
If David is the writer he speaks of himself here in the third person: cp. Zedekiah's words in Jeremiah 38:5 . The v. is an assurance rather than a p...
See margin, and render as a prayer.
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...
We must wholly drop all thoughts of David king of Israel in this precious portion of the Psalm; for of none could the Holy Ghost speak in language li...
Thou wilt prolong the King's life ,.... Or "add days to the days of the King" a. Meaning either himself, who, though his life was in danger by fight...
Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many generations. Ver. 6. Thou wilt prolong the king's life] The King Christ, saith the Chald...
Thou wilt prolong the king's life My life. He calls himself king, either, 1st, Because, if this Psalm was composed before Saul's death, yet even th...
Mercies Recollected. 5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast...
The king's life, i.e. my life. He calls himself king, either, 1. Because he was actually king, though Absalom usurped the throne; or, 2. Becaus...
He Expresses His Confidence That God Who Has Called Him To Be A Believer Will Prolong His Life And Extend It Into The Future, Promising In Return Th...
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....
Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations. The perpetuity of Christ’s kingdom He prophesieth not simply of the stabi...
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.
Thou wilt prolong the king's life, adding to the days of his own life, and his years as many generations, or, "May his years be as generation and g...
Prolong — The years of my life and reign. Thus he speaks because his kingdom was not like Saul's, but established to him and his heirs; and because...
6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.