Psalms 7:5

Habakkuk 3:13; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 63:3; Jeremiah 17:13; Job 16:15; Job 31:38-40; Job 31:5-10; Job 40:12; Job 40:13; Malachi 4:3; Psalms 3:2; Psalms 44:5; Psalms 49:12; Psalms 60:12; Zechariah 10:5

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let the enemy persecute my soul - Persecute my “life,” for so the word rendered “soul,” נפשׁ nephesh , is evidently used here. He was willing,...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine (d) honour in the dust. Selah. (d) Let...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

VII. A and VII. B . Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1-5 ; Psalms 7:12-17 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

enemy . foe. Hebrew. 'oyeb. persecute... take... tread. Figure of speech Anabasis. App-6. it . me. Selah. Connecting the treading down o...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5 Let mine enemy pursue It is a striking proof of the great confidence which David had in his own integrity, when he is willing to endure an...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it ; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. Let the enemy...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. A conseq...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. is an appeal to God as the righteous Judge against an ungrateful and vindictive enemy. Nothing is known of Cush the Benjamite, but the case...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Take] RV 'overtake.' Mine honour] RV 'my glory,' an equivalent for 'soul' and 'life' in the previous parallel clauses. Selah ] see on Psalms 3:...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Let the enemy. — Better, let an enemy. Persecute. — Literally, burn. (See Note on Psalms 10:2 .) Tread. — Used of a potter treading the...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 7:1-17 THIS is the only psalm with the title "Shiggaion." The word occurs only here and in Habakkuk 3:1 , where it stands in the plural, a...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Refuge in God from Evil Men Psalms 7:1-17 This psalm should be compared with 1 Samuel 24:1-22 ; 1 Samuel 25:1-44 ; 1 Samuel 26:1-25 . Cush,...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song of the singer's confidence and appeal in circumstances of the most trying description. He is persecuted by enemies, some among them be...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

While we keep our eye stedfastly on Christ, as the person here specially treated of, we may secondarily, and subordinately, look at David, king of Is...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it] ,.... That is, if the above things he was charged with could be proved against him; then he was conte...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. Ver. 5. Le...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let the enemy persecute my soul , &c. I am contented, and wish that Saul may so persecute my life as to overtake it, and take it away. And lay...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

David Prays Against His Enemies; Prayer for Sinners and Saints. Shiggaion o...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am contented, and wish that Saul may so persecute my life as to overtake it, and take it away. Mine honour ; either, 1. That honourable and roya...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Pleads His Own Innocence ( Psalms 7:3-5 ). O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, If there be iniquity in my hands, If I have rewarded evil to...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “From the matter of this psalm it appears that it was composed with reference to some calumny on the character of David; but commentato...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The title of this psalm is similar to that of Zechariah 3:1 . It is called, not a psalm, but Shiggaion or Shigionoth of David; which he sung to...
The Biblical Illustrator

O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust. An appeal from the slandered I. The appeal ( Psalms 7:1-2 ; Psalms 7:6 ). A petition for freedom and...
The Biblical Illustrator

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands. The appeal of conscious integrity When near his end Mahomet made an effor...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its da...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Supplication of a Believer against Slander. The Petition. Shiggaion of David, a plaintive song, or elegy, full of emotion, which is apparent it...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

let the enemy persecute my soul, in just retribution, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, trampling it into extinction, a...

⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 7:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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

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