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Psalms 17:5

Hold up my goings in Thy paths, his steps follow the ways outlined by God, that my footsteps slip not, he has not left the way of God's command on either side, he can in all sincerity urge his righteousness before the tribunal of God. This is an example to all believers and at the same time a warning against hypocrisy; for only he who has a good conscience is able to pray in this manner.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 17:5. _HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS_] David walked in God's ways; but, without Divine assistance, he could not walk _steadily_, even in them. The _words of God's lips_ had shown him th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS - He had been enabled before this to keep himself from the ways of the violent by the word of God Psalms 17:4; he felt his dependence on God still to enable him, in the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PATHS. tracks, or ruts....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The bold language of a good conscience. See Introd. p. lxxxvii. Cp. Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    My steps have held fast to thy tracks, My feet have not slipped. The A.V. is grammatically untenable. He describes his conduct positively. _Paths_, a different word from that in Psalms 17:4, denotes...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS, THAT MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT._ HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS, (THAT) MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT - a beautiful supplement to Psalms 17:4, "I have kept me from the paths of th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    17:5 paths, (d-8) Or 'Hold my goings in thy paths, that my ...'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HOLD UP. — Not, as in the Authorised Version, imperative, which is directly opposed to the context. The psalmist still asserts his innocence. Render: — My course kept close in thy tracks, My footstep...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תָּמֹ֣ךְ אֲ֭שֻׁרַי בְּ מַעְגְּלֹותֶ֑יךָ בַּל ־נָמֹ֥וטּוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sorrows...iniquity. Hebrew, "cables....Belial." By these figurative expressions, David declares to what dangers he had been exposed. They seem to be more applicable to our Saviour's agony. (Berthier)...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This is blessed, as it concerns our glorious Surety; for God engaged to carry him through his whole work; see Psalms 89:21. And it is blessed also, as it concerns his redeemed in him. The Redeemer com...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._Uphold my steps. _If we take _God’s paths _for the precepts of his law, the sense will be evident, namely, that although David had spoken according to truth, in boasting of having, in the midst of...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS,.... Which being spoken by David in his own person, and for himself, shows that he was conscious of his own weakness to keep himself in the ways of God, and to direct hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not. Ver. 5. _Hold up my goings in thy paths, &c._] Keep me within the circle of thy word, as thou hitherto hast done; make me to walk exactly...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Hold up my goings_, &c. As by thy word and grace thou hast hitherto kept me from the paths of evil men, and led me into thy paths, so I pray thee enable me, by the same means, to persevere therein, a...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SLIP NOT: _ Heb._ be not moved...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 This psalm is a prayer. Feigned prayers are fruitless; but if our hearts lead our prayers, God will meet them with his favour. The psalmist had been used to pray, so that it was not his distress...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    As by thy word and grace thou hast hitherto kept me from the paths of evil men, and led me into thy paths; so, I pray thee, enable me by the same means to persevere in thy ways, and in mine abhorrency...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 17:5 Uphold H8551 (H8800) steps H838 paths H4570 footsteps H6471 slip H4131 (H8738) Hold -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent. My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.' When he compares his behaviour...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 17:5 The prayer may be regarded as showing (1) the right spirit, (2) the right method, (3) the right purpose, of life. I. In pointing out the right spirit of life, we see humility, dependence...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not._ SLIPPERY PLACES The blessing of sanctified affliction is that we are made to see our weakness. David here seems as a little child, ready...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:3 The singer proclaims his innocence (TRIED, VISITED, TESTED), and he recounts his efforts to stay pure....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:9; Jeremiah 10:23; Psalms 18:36; Psalms 38:16; Psalms 94:18

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