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Psalms 18:2

The Lord is my Rock, his safe place of concealment, and my Fortress, his Stronghold, affording refuge and safety, and my Deliverer; my God, my Strength, his Rock of Ages, firm, immovable, in whom I will trust; my Buckler, the large shield which protected the whole body against injury, and the Horn of my salvation, the horn of the altar being the figure of protective strength and victorious deliverance, and my high Tower, inaccessible to the enemies. Having thus given the reason for his firm trust, the psalmist gives a recital of some of the occasions when his confidence was justified.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 18:2. _THE LORD_ IS _MY ROCK_] 2. I stand on him as my _foundation_, and derive every good from him who is the source of good. The word סלע _sela_ signifies those craggy precipices which...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD IS MY ROCK - The idea in this expression, and in the subsequent parts of the description, is that he owed his safety entirely to God. He had been unto him as a rock, a tower, a buckler, etc....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 18 The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ _ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_ 2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7) 3. God gave Him glory ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ROCK. fortress. Hebrew. _sela'._ See notes on Deuteronomy 32:13, and Exodus 17:6. Note the Figures of speech _Anthropopatheia_ and _Exergasia._ App-6. FORTRESS. mountain stronghold. Hebrew. _mezad._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Introductory prelude, in which one title is heaped upon another to express all that experience had proved Jehovah to be to David....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The imagery which David uses is derived from the features of a country abounding in cliffs and caves and natural strongholds, with which he had become familiar in his flight from Saul. _The rock_, or...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 516 GOD THE ALL-SUFFICIENT PORTION OF HIS PEOPLE Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE LORD IS MY ROCK, &C.— These words, by which David expresses his security under the protection of God's providence, will appear to be well chosen, if we consider that under Saul, when he was driven...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 18 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE David's Song of Deliverance. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE LORD IS MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER; MY GOD, MY STRENGTH, IN WHOM I WILL TRUST; MY BUCKLER, AND THE HORN OF MY SALVATION, AND MY HIGH TOWER._ My God, my strength - Hebrew, 'my str...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    18:2 rock, (r-4) _ Sela_ , 'a high rock,' see Isaiah 16:1 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Notice the succession of figures drawn from the experiences of a warrior's life in a country where natural strongholds as well as artificial fortresses were common. STRENGTH] RV 'strong rock.' BUCKLER...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel 22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...

  • 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

    ROCK. — Better here, _cliff,_ keeping “rock” for the next clause. In the first figure the ideas of height and shelter, in the second of broad-based and enduring strength, are predominant. FORTRESS. —...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 18:3]_ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ סַֽלְעִ֥י וּ מְצוּדָתִ֗י וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 18:1 THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout imag...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE Psalms 18:1 There is another edition of this psalm in 2 Samuel 22:1.Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:2 and...

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

    This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (a) The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower. (a) He uses this diversity of n...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Firmament. Hebrew, "expansion," or region of the stars, far above our atmosphere. (Berthier) --- These two sentences express the same idea, unless the former may denote what we behold, and the firmame...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How very sweet and gracious the Psalm opens! Jesus in his manhood had an eye to the Father, and his covenant promises, for help and strength, through all his great undertaking. And having found God fa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Jehovah is my rock, etc. _When David thus heaps together many titles by which to honor God, it is no useless or unnecessary accumulation of words. We know how difficult it is for men to keep their...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD [IS] MY ROCK,.... To whom the saints have recourse for shelter and safety, for supply, support, and divine refreshment; and in whom they are secure, and on whom they build their hopes of eter...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower. Ver. 2. _The Lord is my rock, and m...

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

    _I will love thee_ Hebrew, ארחמךְ, _erchamecha_, I will love thee most affectionately, and with my whole soul. I can make thee no better return for all thy favours than my love, which I pray thee to a...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MY STRENGTH: _ Heb._ my rock...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-19 The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MY ROCK; to which I flee for refuge, as the Israelites did to their rocks. See JUDGES 6:2 1 SAMUEL 13:6. THE HORN; by which I have both defended myself, and subdued mine enemies. It is a metaphor from...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 18:2 LORD H3068 rock H5553 fortress H4686 deliverer H6403 (H8764) God H410 strength H6697 trust H2620 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID EXPRESSES HIS TRUST IN YHWH (PSALMS 18:1). Psalms 18:1 ‘I love you, O YHWH, my strength.' These words are added to the beginning of the original Psalm. They are not found in the parallel Psalm...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I will trust; my buckler, and my horn of my salvation, and my hi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._ What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he must do so,...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 18:1. _To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength._ «I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind myself to thee for the future as well as the present.» Psalms 18:2. The LORD is...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his c...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength._ THE TALE OF A LIFE In this magnificent hymn the royal poet sketches, in a few grand outlines, the tale of his life--the record of his marvellous deliverances,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commenta...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician. It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 22:3; Hebrews 2:13; Isaiah 32:2; Jeremiah 16:19; Proverbs

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Rock — To which I flee for refuge, as the Israelites did to their rocks. Horn — It is a metaphor from those beasts whose strength lies in their horns....

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