Psalms 55:4

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

My heart is sore pained within me - literally, is agitated.

The terrors of death are fallen upon me - as the enemy threatens my life.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My heart is sore pained within me - Heavy and sad; that is, I am deeply afflicted. The word rendered is “sore pained,” means properly to turn rou...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sore pained... unto death. Compare the words ot the true David ( John 13:21 ) in reference to the Antitype ( Psalms 55:18 ; Matthew 26:38 ).
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. My heart trembles within me (299) Here we have additional evidence of the extremity of David’s sufferings. He that uses these words was...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. The terrors of death are fallen upon me - I am in hourly expectation...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

My heart is sore pained.— Trembles.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

( 4 ) Is sore pained. — Better, writhes with pain. Terrors of death — i.e., terrors caused by death, a horror of death.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We shall have a lively apprehension of this history of David, if we connect with what is here said of him, his flight from Absalom, when he went up t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My heart is sore pained within me ,.... At the civil war in his kingdom; at the battle likely to ensue between his forces and Absalom's, and at the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Ver. 4. My heart is sore pained within me ] No otherwise than a wo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My heart is sore pained within me Hebrew, יחיל, jachil, trembles , or suffers pains like those of a travailing woman, as the word properly signifi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Supplications of David in Distress. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Masc...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My heart is sore pained within me; with pains like those of a travailing woman, as the word signifies. My heart, which hath commonly supported me i...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Describes His Inner Condition ( Psalms 55:4-5 ). He points out to God his deep distress of heart. The situation has become too much for him. Li...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

The terrors of death are fallen upon me. On the fear of death I. The nature of the fear of death. It appears to arise from an instinct of natur...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

My heart is sore pained within me, his inmost soul writhing with the agony laid upon him; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me, such as thre...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 ; Hebrews 5:7 ; Isaiah 38:10-13 ; John 12:27 ; Mark 14:33 ; Mark 14:34 ; Matthew 26:37 ; Matthew 26:38 ; Psalms 102:3-5...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The terrors — Deadly terrors; such as seize upon men in the agonies of death.

⁴ My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the 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

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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