Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 7:15
He made a pit and digged it, with the intention of destroying the righteous, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
He made a pit and digged it, with the intention of destroying the righteous, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Verse Psalms 7:15. _HE MADE A PIT_] He determined the destruction of David. He laid his plans with much artifice; he executed them with zeal and diligence; and when he had, as he supposed, the grave...
HE MADE A PIT - The allusion here is undoubtedly to a method of hunting wild beasts which was common in ancient times. It consists in digging a pit-fall, and covering it over with brush and grass so a...
Psalms 7 _ 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1)_ 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6) 4. God's dealings in governm
VII. A AND VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:12 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6 Israel personified asks f...
HE MADE A PIT, &C.— This is a proverbial mode of speech often used in Scripture: it is taken from pits which are digged and then covered with the leaves of trees, or some such unstable materials, eith...
PSALMS 7 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One Wrongfully Accused Commits his Vindication to the Righteous Judge of All the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 7:1-2, Appeal to Jehovah for Safety. Stanza II., Psalms...
_HE MADE A PIT, AND DIGGED IT, AND IS FALLEN INTO THE DITCH WHICH HE MADE._ A pit - such as is prepared with branches and foliage over it, to entrap wild beasts in. How striking the righteous retribu...
This Ps. is an appeal to God as the righteous Judge against an ungrateful and vindictive enemy. Nothing is known of Cush the Benjamite, but the case of Shimei affords a parallel to the circumstances h...
HE MADE] RV 'he hath made.' The evil he planned for others comes on himself....
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...
HE HATH MADE. — Better, _he digged a pit, and hollowed it out._ Milton: “He digged a pit, and delved it deep.” (15) PATE. — A word retained from Coverdale’s translation, and common in the Elizabethan...
_[Psalms 7:16]_ בֹּ֣ור כָּ֭רָֽה וַֽ יַּחְפְּרֵ֑הוּ וַ֝...
Psalms 7:1 THIS is the only psalm with the title "Shiggaion." The word occurs only here and in Habakkuk 3:1, where it stands in the plural, and with the preposition "upon," as if it designated instrum...
REFUGE IN GOD FROM EVIL MEN Psalms 7:1 This psalm should be compared with 1 Samuel 24:1; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 26:1. Cush,
This is a song of the singer's confidence and appeal in circumstances of the most trying description. He is persecuted by enemies, some among them being violent and cruel. The basis of their attack wo...
Iniquity. Hebrew, "a lie." All the labour of the wicked ends in smoke. See Micheas ii. 1., and Isaias lix. 4. (Haydock) --- The psalmist sometimes speaks of many enemies, and sometimes of one, who was...
If we read these verses with reference to David's history, how were these truths confirmed in the instance of the Benjamite Saul? And if we read them with reference to a greater than David, even David...
Here David says not only that their wicked devices were without success, but that, by the wonderful providence of God, the result was the very opposite of what had been contemplated. He sets this fort...
Psalms 7 appeals to Jehovah, on the ground of the righteous and more than righteous dealing of the godly with their enemies, that Jehovah may arise and awake to the judgment He has commanded, and that...
HE MADE A PIT AND DIGGED IT,.... That is, he digged a pit, and made it very large and capacious, to answer his purposes; AND IS FALLEN INTO THE DITCH [WHICH] HE MADE; so it is said of the Heathen, Ps...
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made. Ver. 15. _He made a pit, and digged it, &c._] This simile shows, that the wicked shall not only be frustrated, but undone b...
_He made a pit_, &c. This is a proverbial manner of speech often used in Scripture. It is taken from pits which are digged, and then covered with the leaves of trees, or some such unstable materials,...
HE MADE A PIT AND DIGGED IT: _ Heb._ he hath digged a pit...
10-17 David is confident that he shall find God his powerful Saviour. The destruction of sinners may be prevented by their conversion; for it is threatened, If he turn not from his evil way, let him...
Hath brought that evil upon himself which he intended against me; which may be understood either of Saul, who whilst he plotted against David's life ran into apparent hazard of losing his own, 1Sa 24$...
Psalms 7:15 made H3738 (H8804) pit H953 dug H2658 (H8799) fallen H5307 (H8799) ditch H7845 made...
HE DECLARES THAT THERE ARE EVEN NOW PRESENT CONSEQUENCES OF SIN (PSALMS 7:14). ‘Behold he exerts himself with iniquity (worthlessness), Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood....
CONTENTS: David prays for deliverance from persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When the believer is slandered he has the court of heaven to fly to and a righteous Judge who is the patro...
The title of this psalm is similar to that of Zechariah 3:1. It is called, not a psalm, but _Shiggaion_ or _Shigionoth_ of David; which he sung to the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite....
_Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end._ THE SELF-DESTROYING POWER OF WICKEDNESS The accents require Psalms 7:9 to be rendered, “Let wickedness make an end of the wicked,” but that introduc...
_Behold, he travaileth with iniquity._ THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH 1. That all the labour of wicked men against the Church is but labour in vain in respect of their own intent and expectation. 2. That...
_He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made._ SOCIAL SAPPERS There is much among men of the particular sin rebuked in this text. I. How this pit digging may be done. It...
_O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust._ AN APPEAL FROM THE SLANDERED I. The appeal (Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:6). A petition for freedom and deliverance from his persecutors, in which he desires God t...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 7:1. The title of this individual lament from David refers to an otherwise unknown incident in his life when a man of Benjamin (the tribe of Saul) slandered David. The psalm...
INTRODUCTION “From the matter of this psalm it appears that it was composed with reference to some calumny on the character of David; but commentators are not agreed as to when and by whom this injur...
EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its date the earlier portion of David's public life—that during...
The seventh psalm is Shiggaion. Which means the loud crying of David which he sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from al...
Ecclesiastes 10:8; Ecclesiastes 10:9; Esther 7:10; Jeremiah 18:20;...