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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Psalms 71:14

But I, in spite of such wicked counsels, will hope continually and will yet praise Thee more and more, knowing that there will be further occasion for expressing his thanksgiving.

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See also Psalms 71:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 71:14. _I WILL HOPE CONTINUALLY_] I shall expect deliverance after deliverance, and blessing after blessing; and, in consequence, I will praise thee more and more. As thy blessings abound...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT I WILL HOPE CONTINUALLY - I will always cherish hope; I will not give up to despair. I will trust in God whatever may be the number, the power, and the confidence of my enemies. None of these thin...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 71 Israel's Song of Hope _ 1. Declaration of trust (Psalms 71:1)_ 2. Anticipations of faith (Psalms 71:12) 3. Revival and victory ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXXI. A PSALM OF GRATITUDE FOR GOD'S CONSTANT CARE OF HIS SERVANT FROM YOUTH TO OLD AGE. The Psalmist expresses himself in language borrowed from older sources. PSALMS 71:1. Quoted from Psalms 31. Us...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    But as for me, I will hope continually, And will praise thee yet more and more. He contrasts his own future with that of his enemies....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Vows of praise and thanksgiving....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Psalms 70, 71 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Not to be Forsaken in Old Age. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 70:1-3 (70), Prayer against Enemies. Stanza II., Psalms 70:4-5 (70), Prayer in behalf of Friends. Sta...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT I WILL HOPE CONTINUALLY, AND WILL YET PRAISE THEE MORE AND MORE._ Here hope succeeds to prayer. The hope is summarily stated in Psalms 71:14; and then in Psalms 71:15 is expressed, in a develope...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. of prayer (Psalms 71:1) and praise (Psalms 71:14) was apparently written by an old man (Psalms 71:9; Psalms 71:18) and in the time of the exile.

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ֭ אֲנִי תָּמִ֣יד אֲיַחֵ֑ל וְ֝ הֹוסַפְתִּ֗י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 71:1 ECHOES of former psalms make the staple of this one, and even those parts of it which are not quotations have little individuality. The themes are familiar, and the expression of them is s...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE GREATEST OF ALL WORKERS Psalms 71:13 The singer glances both backward and forward. He goes back in thought to the time when he was cast on God at birth, and acknowledges that God has taught him f...

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

    This is pre-eminently a song of the aged, and, like old age, it is reminiscent. The singer passes from memory to hope, and from experience to praise. No very definite division is possible. Generally s...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Usuries. Hebrew toc, (Haydock) means "fraud and usury." Eternal torment is the usury which God exacts for murder, &c., (St. Augustine) or a transient pleasure. (Haydock) --- From this Christ has redee...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I think it would be wrong to break the thread of this most beautiful address, and therefore I have preserved it entire. In any, and in every sense, whether we behold it as the words of Christ, or of D...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._But I will hope continually. _David again, as having obtained the victory, prepares himself for thanksgiving. There is, however, no doubt, that during the time when the wicked derided his simplici...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 71, founded, I suppose, as much of this book, upon the flight of David on the rebellion of Absalom, presents, I apprehend, the sum of all God's ways with Israel from the commencement of their h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT I WILL HOPE CONTINUALLY,.... For deliverance and salvation from present outward troubles, for; more grace here and glory hereafter: it is the excellency of the grace of hope to be exercised in tim...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. Ver. 14. _But I will hope continually_] I will lengthen out mine hope, as a line drawn out. Tremellius renders it, I am in expecta...

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

    _But I will hope continually_ Although in the greatest straits and difficulties; _and will yet praise thee more and more_ For which I know thou wilt yet give me abundant occasion. _My mouth shall show...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-24 The psalmist declares that the righteousness of Christ, and the great salvation obtained thereby, shall be the chosen subject of his discourse. Not on a sabbath only, but on every day of the we...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    For which I know thou wilt yet give me abundant occasion....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 71:14 hope H3176 (H8762) continually H8548 praise H8416 more H3254 (H8689) more H3254 (H8689)...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 71:1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteous, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habita...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This Psalm, written by an old man, is specially suitable for an old man. It is numbered seventy-one, and it may suit those who have reached that age; but it is also appropriate to us all in prospect o...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 71:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ There is his trust, and there is his fear; his trust he dares to avow, his fear he turns into a prayer. Psalms 71...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prayer that enemies might be put to shame. Joyful praise of God's goodness. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who live a life of confidence in God and continually resort to Him...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm, though destitute of title, has passed down to us as composed by David, during the rebellion of Absalom. He uses the same words in his present troubles, as when Saul pursued him. Psalms 71...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ A PICTURE OF A PIOUS OLD MAN I. The entreaties of a pious old man. 1. Against evil. (1) Moral failure (Psalms 70:1). (2) Gen...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But I.. . will yet praise Thee more and more._ MORE AND MORE When sin conquered the realm of manhood, it slew all the minstrels except those of the race of Hope. For humanity, amid all its sorrows...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 71:1. This is another individual lament, suited to a faithful person in danger from enemies who take advantage of any weakness or distress (vv. Psa

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 71:14 The singer promises to HOPE CONTINUALLY. He leaves to God the timing of the answer to his appeals for help (vv. Psalms 71:12). He also l

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Barnes, “is without a title. It is impossible to determine on what occasion it was composed. There is some plausibility in the supposition that Psalms 70 might have bee...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Psalms 71:1 is, like so many others, a psalm divided between complaint and praise. It is comparatively wanting in originality, being, to a very great extent, an echo of other psalms, especi...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 71:1-24. Psalms 71:1-24 is the psalm of the aged man. Probably David as he was getting up into years, and his reddish colored hair had turned gray. David's li...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:10; 2 Peter 3:18;...

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