Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 17:10
They are enclosed in their own fat, they are dead to all human feeling; with their mouth they speak proudly, they are insolent in their behavior, as though certain victory were near.
They are enclosed in their own fat, they are dead to all human feeling; with their mouth they speak proudly, they are insolent in their behavior, as though certain victory were near.
Verse Psalms 17:10. _THEY ARE ENCLOSED IN THEIR OWN FAT_] Dr. _Kennicott_, Bishop _Horsley, Houbigant_, and others, read the passage thus: עלי חבלמו סגרו _alai chablamo sageru_, "They have closed the...
THEY ARE ENCLOSED IN THEIR OWN FAT - The meaning here is, that they were prosperous, and that they were consequently self-confident and proud, and were regardless of others. The phrase occurs several...
Psalms 17 The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy _ 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1)_ 2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6) 3. The deliverance ...
XVII. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS FOES. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made in...
Prosperity has resulted in obtuse self-complacency and contemptuous arrogance. Cp. Psalms 73:7-8; Job 15:27. The right rendering of 10 _a_is however probably (cp. R.V. marg.) Their heart (lit. _midrif...
The character of his enemies....
THEY ARE INCLOSED IN THEIR OWN FAT— This is a poetical or proverbial speech, to signify haughtiness, as caused by wealth or great prosperity; together with that indulgence of the sensual appetites, an...
PSALMS 17 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One who is Righteous Prays, in Great Trouble, for Divine Deliverance and Manifestation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 17:1-2, The Prayer of Righteousness. Stanza II., vers,...
_THEY ARE INCLOSED IN THEIR OWN FAT: WITH THEIR MOUTH THEY SPEAK PROUDLY._ They are enclosed in their own fat - literally, 'their fat they have closed up;' they have wholly covered themselves with fa...
The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God (Psalms 17:1), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence (Psalms 17:3) and an account of the eager cruelty of his enemies ...
THEY ARE INCLOSED IN THEIR OWN FAT] better, 'they have shut up their heart,' a figure for arrogance....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
THEY ARE INCLOSED... — Literally, _Their fat have they shut up._ So LXX. and Vulgate, without indicating the meaning. But the “proudly” of the next clause suggests that “fat” is only a figure for the...
חֶלְבָּ֥מֹו סָּגְר֑וּ פִּ֝֗ימֹו דִּבְּר֥וּ בְ גֵאֽוּת׃...
Psalms 17:1 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definition; lat...
GOD'S TRUE SERVANTS SAFELY KEPT Psalms 17:1 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends with glad...
This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly me...
They are inclosed in their own (i) fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. (i) They are puffed up with pride, as the stomach that is choked with fat....
_Feet. A violent storm of rain. Hence the Pagans borrowed: Jupiter et læto descendit plurimus imbri. (Virgil, Eclogues 7.)_ --- The prophets Isaias (xxix. 6.) and Nahum (i. 3.) speak in the same lofty...
It is impossible to read these verses but with an eye to Christ. For though his people, as his people, do partake in the afflictions which the enemies of their salvation excite, yet eminently so in th...
10._They have inclosed themselves in their own fat _If the translation which is given by others is considered preferable, _They have inclosed their own fat, _the meaning will be quite the same. Some J...
The key to Psalms 16 was in the words, "In thee do I put my trust"; to Psalms 17, "Hear the right." In Psalms 16 we have seen the blessed path and working of that spirit of confidence. It is, though t...
THEY ARE ENCLOSED IN THEIR OWN FAT,.... Or "their fat has enclosed them"; either their eyes, that they can hardly see out of them, or their hearts, so that they are stupid and senseless, and devoid of...
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. Ver. 10. _They are inclosed in their own fat_] See Job 15:27, _See Trapp on "_ Job 15:27 _"_ They abound in all delights, and...
_They are enclosed in their own fat_ They live in great splendour and prosperity, while I am exercised with many sore troubles. A similar phrase occurs Job 15:27; Psalms 73:1. Dr. Dodd considers it as...
8-15 Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation,...
They live in great splendour and prosperity, whilst I am exercised with many and sore troubles. The like phrase we have JOB 15:27 PSALMS 73:7. THEY SPEAK PROUDLY; not only against us, whom they scorn,...
Psalms 17:10 closed H5462 (H8804) fat H2459 mouths H6310 speak H1696 (H8765) proudly H1348 They are -...
‘They are enclosed in their own fat (midriff?), With their mouth they speak proudly. They have now encompassed us in our steps, They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.' It may be that he...
Psalms 17:1. _Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips._ Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the first v...
CONTENTS: David prays for relief from the pressure of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we are abused and misrepresented, we have a righteous God to go to whose judgment is according t...
Psalms 17:3. _Thou hast tried me._ Vulgate, _Igne me examinâsti,_ Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalms 17:14. _Men which have their portion in this life,_ a...
_They are enclosed in their own fat._ A FIGURE FOR SELF-COMPLACENCY To be enclosed in one’s own fat means, to be wrapped up in pride and self-complacency, the effect upon weak and ignoble minds of wo...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:1. This is an individual lament, dealing especially with cases in which a person considers himself unjustly accused of wrong (compare Psalms 7:1
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:10 The singer cannot appeal to the attackers’ PITY or remorse, since they CLOSE THEIR HEARTS to such feelings. Instead, they SPEAK ARROGANTLY....
INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his life. We find in it his opinion of the character of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions (Psalms 17:1, Psalms 17:2, Psalms 17:6,...
The seventeenth psalm is another prayer of David. And it is, again, one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause, his own righteousness before the Lord. Hear the right, O LORD,...
1 Samuel 2:3; 2 Peter 2:18; Acts 28:27; Deuteronomy 32:15; Exodus 15:9
They — They live in splendor and prosperity....