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Verse Psalms 18:21. _I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD_] I was neither
an _infidel_ nor a _profligate_; I trusted in God, and carefully
observed all the ordinances of his religion....
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FOR I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD - I have obeyed his laws. I have
not so violated the laws which God has given to regulate my conduct
with my fellow-men as to deserve to be treated by them as a gu...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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_FOR I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD, AND HAVE NOT WICKEDLY DEPARTED
FROM MY GOD._
For I ... have not wickedly departed from my God - literally, 'I was
not evil from my God.' All wickedness is vile...
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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...
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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...
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(20-23) for this protestation of innocence comp. Psalms 7:17 and Job,
_passim._ Self-righteous pride and vindication of one’s character
under calumny are very different things. If taken of the nation...
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_[Psalms 18:22]_ כִּֽי ־שָׁ֭מַרְתִּי
דַּרְכֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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If there was no other passage in this Psalm to imply that David
delivered this song of praise under the spirit of prophecy, in
reference to the Lord Jesus Christ, than what these verses contain,
what...
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21._For I have kept the ways of Jehovah. _He had spoken in the
preceding verse of the cleanness of his hands, but finding that men
judged of him perversely, and were very active in spreading evil
repo...
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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...
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FOR I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD,.... Not those which the Lord
himself walks in, his ways of providence, or of grace; though these
are and should be taken notice of and observed by good men, as th...
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For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.
Ver. 21. _For I have kept the ways of the Lord_] For the main, and for
the most part, though not without some particu...
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_The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness_ “Commentators
have been much perplexed,” says Dr. Horne, “to account for these
unlimited claims to righteousness made by David, and that long after...
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20-28 Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God.
But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not
be a wicked departure from our God. David kept his eye upon...
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I have observed and obeyed his precepts, and made mine own will, and
passions, and interest stoop to them. And I have not knowingly and
wilfully forsaken God, and broken his laws, as wicked men do; wh...
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Psalms 18:21 kept H8104 (H8804) ways H1870 LORD H3068 departed H7561
(H8804) God H430
For I -...
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DAVID'S GIVES THE EXPLANATION FOR HIS TRIUMPH (PSALMS 18:20).
David's explanation for YHWH's intervention on his behalf is simple.
His attitude had been right towards God. He had been faithful to YHWH...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord reward me according to my righteousness._
OF THE JUSTICE OF DAVID’S BEHAVIOUR
I. David’s righteousness. Righteousness consists in rendering to all
their due, and the revealed will of God is...
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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....
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:20 David claims that he has faithfully KEPT
THE WAYS OF THE LORD (v. Psalms 18:21), and thus God has...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 2:19; 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Acts 24:16;...