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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Psalms 7:8

The Lord, the great Judge of all men, shall judge the people, David at that time confidently expecting a decision in his favor. Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness; for he was sure of being acquitted of deliberate wrong-doing if the record of his life were tested, and according to mine integrity that is in me, according to which David always led his life.

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See also Psalms 7:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 7:8. _THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE_] He will execute justice and maintain truth among them. They shall not be as sheep without a shepherd. _JUDGE ME, O LORD_] Let my innocence be brou...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE - Expressing his confident belief that God would interpose, and that his judgment would not much longer be delayed. The proposition is a general one - that God would se...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS— i.e. Referring to David, _"Mine innocence,_ with respect to him, who _persecutes me without cause."_ See the 3rd and 4th verses. In the same sense David calls himself th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE: JUDGE ME, O LORD, ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ACCORDING TO MINE INTEGRITY THAT IS IN ME._ The people - Hebrew, 'peoples' х_ `AMIYM_ (H5971): different from _...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:8 peoples. (c-7) _ Ammim_ , the peoples in connection with Israel, brought into relationship with Israel. me. (d-23) Or 'be it unto me.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHALL JUDGE] RV 'ministereth judgment to.'...

  • 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

    THE LORD SHALL. — Better, _Jehovah judgeth the nations._ Everything is complete, and the work of judgment begins. The poet prays that his sentence may be according to his own consciousness of righteou...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 7:9]_ יְהוָה֮ יָדִ֪ין עַ֫מִּ֥ים שָׁפְטֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֑ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my (g) righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me. (g) As concerning my behaviour towards Saul and my enemies....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _High, on thy tribunal, to decide this dispute. The Fathers apply this to the ascension of Jesus Christ, who will judge the world. (St. Augustine; Theodoret) (Calmet) (2 Corinthians x. 11.) --- The in...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is there not in these words, concerning the judgment Jehovah hath commanded, a reference to the very judgment seat of Christ, to which the Lord our Mediator is appointed supreme judge, because he is t...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8_Jehovah shall judge the nations _This sentence is closely connected with the preceding verse. David had prayed God to show himself as judge to the nations; and now he takes it for a certain and admi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE,.... The inhabitants of the world in general; for God is the Judge of all the earth, and he judges the world in righteousness daily, and ministers judgment in uprightne...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me. Ver. 8. _The Lord shall judge the people_] The Ethiopian judges leav...

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

    _The Lord shall judge the people_ The Sovereign of the world will not fail to dispense equal justice unto all, according to their works. Assured of which, I say, _Judge me, O Lord, according to my rig...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heaven to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found noth...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It belongs to thee to judge all persons and people, and to give sentence between them, especially when they appeal unto thee; which I now do. If I be guilty of those evil designs towards him, wherewit...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 7:8 LORD H3068 judge H1777 (H8799) peoples H5971 Judge H8199 (H8798) LORD H3068 righteousness H6664 integrity...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE CALLS ON GOD TO SET UP A COURT OF JUSTICE AND PUT ALL ON TRIAL SO THAT THE WORLD CAN BEGIN AGAIN (PSALMS 7:6). His plight has moved David to a consciousness of the way sin triumphs and the righteo...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 7:8 I. Notice: (1) How the Scriptures speak of integrity, how manifold and bold the forms in which they commend it, and how freely the good men of the Scripture times testify their consciousnes...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me._ INTEGRITY AND PEACE A truly noble confidence! and yet many of our time would call the language very d...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 7:6 The singers see their requests as part of the larger picture: God is a RIGHTEOUS JUDGE (v. Psalms 7:11), to whom all the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Chronicles 20:12;...

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