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Verse Psalms 55:17. _EVENING, AND MORNING, AND AT NOON, WILL I PRAY_]
This was the custom of the pious Hebrews. See Daniel 6:10. The Hebrews
began their day in the _evening_, and hence David mentions...
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EVENING, AND MORNING, AND AT NOON, WILL I PRAY - In another place
Psalms 119:164 the psalmist says that he engaged in acts of devotion
seven times in a day. Daniel prayed three times a day, Daniel 6:1...
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Psalms 55
In the Throes of the Great Tribulation
_ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_
2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4)
3. The great tribulation ...
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LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES.
Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His
desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness.
Psalms 55:12. A description of...
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PRAY. meditate.
CRY ALOUD. Hebrew. _hamah_. to make. noise. Onomatopoetic, like bees,
or the cooing of. dove in Ezekiel 7:16. See note on sub-scription....
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In this division of the Psalm the storm of indignation dies away, and
the Psalmist's trustful confidence revives....
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The Psalmist's assurance that his prayer will be answered....
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_Evening, and morning, and at noon Evening_stands first because the
day began at sunset. A reference to stated hours of prayer (cp. Daniel
6:10; Acts 10:9; Acts 10:30) is hardly to be found in so natu...
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PSALMS 55
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend.
ANALYSIS
(Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.)
Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous
Exc...
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_AS FOR ME, I WILL CALL UPON GOD; AND THE LORD SHALL SAVE ME._
-Third strophe. His confident hope, resting upon the grounds stated in
the previous prayer.
Verse 16,17. AS FOR ME ... EVENING, AND MORN...
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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 complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
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PSALMS 42:72
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end.
The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
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_[Psalms 55:18]_ עֶ֤רֶב וָ בֹ֣קֶר וְ֭
צָהֳרַיִם...
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Psalms 55:1
THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that
of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification
of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
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FRIENDS MAY FORSAKE, BUT GOD ABIDETH
Psalms 55:12
The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators.
Violence, strife, deceit, and oppression trampled the virtuous and
helpless un...
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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 soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
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Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, (m) and cry aloud: and
he shall hear my voice.
(m) Which signifies a servants mind and sure trust to obtain his
portion, which made him earnest at all...
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How precious are these words, whether considered as the language of
our Lord in the days of his flesh, or of any of his believing people.
They suit all. The evening, the morning, the noon; all seasons...
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Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The
speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the
treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
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EVENING, AND MORNING, AND AT NOON, WILL I PRAY,.... These being the
stated times of prayer with the Jews, and which continued to later
ages, Daniel 6:10. These times, they say b, were fixed by Abraham...
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Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he
shall hear my voice.
Ver. 17. _Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray_] So Daniel
prayed three times a day, Daniel 6:10;...
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_As for me, I will call upon God_ Let them take what course they
please to secure themselves; let violence and strife be their guards,
prayer shall be mine. By this I have found deliverance, support,...
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16-23 In every trial let us call upon the Lord, and he will save us.
He shall hear us, and not blame us for coming too often; the oftener
the more welcome. David had thought all were against him; but...
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The three stated times of prayer amongst the Jews. See DANIEL 6:10
ACTS 3:1, ACTS 10:3,9,30....
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Psalms 55:17 Evening H6153 morning H1242 noon H6672 pray H7878 (H8799)
aloud H1993 (H8799) hear H8085 ...
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BUT HE IS NOT AFRAID FOR HE EXPRESSES HIS CONFIDENCE THAT YHWH WILL
SAVE HIM AND WILL HEAR HIS VOICE WHEN HE CALLS ON HIM (PSALMS 55:16).
But David knew where to turn in such situations. He knew that...
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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 yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm up...
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CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the
greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
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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 the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
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_Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He
shall hear my voice._
PRAYER
I. The nature of our prayer. Prayer is the humble expression of our
wants and of our desires to Al...
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_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 compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments,
this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is
a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:16 The psalmist describes both desperation
(v. Psalms 55:17) and confidence (vv. Psalms 55:1
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See
introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction.
Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation
of...
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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 grounds
have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
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Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint,
and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the
oppre...
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1 Thessalonians 5:17; Acts 10:3; Acts 10:30; Acts 10:9; Acts 3:1;...
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Evening, &c. — The three stated times of prayer among the Jews....