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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 142:1-7

CXLII. The Psalmist prays for help to God who knows his distress. His enemies are stronger than he, and there is none to help him, save God. The righteous will welcome his deliverance from the snares around him as a triumph of their own. In Psalms 142:4 follow mg. In Psalms 142:7 the prison need not be taken in a literal sense. For compass me about, render shall triumph because of me. The ascription of the Ps. in the title to David in the cave or rather fortress of Adullam has no support in the Ps. itself. There is no means of fixing the date even approximately.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    PSALM CXLII _The psalmist, in great distress and difficulty, calls upon_ _God_, 1-7. NOTES ON PSALM CXLII The title says, "An Instruction of David," or a Psalm of David giving instruction; "A Pray...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I CRIED UNTO THE LORD WITH MY VOICE - See the notes at Psalms 3:4, where the language is the same. He uttered a loud and audible prayer, though he was alone. It was not a mental ejaculation, but he ga...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 140-142 These three Psalms are Psalms of David. The third one in this series, 142 is another Maschil, the last Maschil Psalm, being a prayer when David was in the cave. In these Psalms the distr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TITLE. MASCHIL. Instruction. See App-65. OF DAVID. by David. WHEN... CAVE. Adullam (1 Samuel 22:1) or En-gedi (1 Samuel 24:3). The last of eight Psalms referring to this subject. THE LORD. Hebrew....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Aloud to Jehovah will I cry; Aloud to Jehovah will I make supplication:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Psalmist's resolve to seek relief by laying his distress before Jehovah....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _David sheweth that, in his trouble, all his comfort was in prayer unto God._ Maschil of David; A prayer when he was in the cave. _TITLE._ לדוד משׂכיל _MASKIIL LEDAVID._— This psalm was composed by D...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I CRIED UNTO THE LORD— _I will cry;_ and so the following verbs would be rendered more properly in the future....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 142 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Loud Outcries in a Cave Succeed Guarded Petitions at Court. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 142:1-2, A Loud-Voiced Prelude. Stanzas II. and III., Psalms 142:3-4, Severity

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. Psalms 142:1.-The Psalmist's overwhelmed state (Psalms 142:1); he promises praise to God in the event of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A prayer of a hunted soul: ascribed to David 'in the cave,' but not likely to be by him....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ NOBODY *CARES ABOUT ME PSALMS 142 Jesus said, "Your Father in *heaven feeds the birds (that fly) in the air. You are much better than they are!" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I CRIED... — See Psalms 3:4, &c....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַשְׂכִּ֥יל לְ דָוִ֑ד בִּ הְיֹותֹ֖ו בַ †...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 142:1 THE superscription not only calls this a psalm of David's, but specifies the circumstances of its composition. It breathes the same spirit of mingled fear and faith which characterises ma...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      “NO MAN CARED FOR MY SOUL” Psalms 142:1-7 The cave was dark and shared by rough and lawless men with whom David had little sympathy. His gentle and devout spirit must often have craved for more co...

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

    In this psalm human need is yet more vividly set forth. Here is seen the consciousness resulting from the difficulties described in the previous psalm. Here there is a combination of fighting and fear...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    "Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave." I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I (a) make my supplication. (a) David's patience and constant prayer to God...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Absalom is not specified in Roman Septuagint, &c., (Calmet) though it be in other copies. (Haydock) --- The latter part of the title has been added by the Greeks. (St. Hilary) --- If David composed th...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS The title of this Psalm best explains its contents. In the cave David pours out his soul before God. Here also, as Maschil means instruction, we shall find words leading us to Christ. Masch...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If the Reader wish to see the part David, king of Israel, bore personally in this Psalm, he will find the explanation in David's history. It is more than likely, that the cave here spoken of was that...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._I cried _(245) _to Jehovah_, _etc_. It showed singular presence of mind in David that he was not paralyzed with fear, or that he did not in a paroxysm of fury take vengeance upon his enemy, as he e...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I CRIED UNTO THE LORD WITH MY VOICE,.... With the voice of his soul, in the language of his mind, mentally, as Moses and Hannah cried unto the Lord when no voice was heard, or articulate sounds expres...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Psalms 142:1 «Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. » I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. _When he was in the cave_] _sc._ Of En...

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

    _I cried unto the Lord_, &c. Hebrew, אזעק, _I will cry unto the Lord_ The words express the resolution he formed, when all human help failed, to have recourse again, as he often had had before, unto G...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I cried unto the Lord with my voice, in a loud appeal for help; WITH MY VOICE UNTO THE LORD DID I MAKE MY SUPPLICATION, with great earnestness and importunity, imploring His merciful assistance and de...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CRY FOR HELP IN GREAT EXTREMITY. Maschil, a didactic poem, one teaching an important lesson, of David; a prayer when he was in the cave, either in that of Adullam, 1 Samuel 22, or in that of Engedi,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PSALM 142 Either that of Adullam, 1SA 22, or that of En-gedi, 1SA 24. There he meditated this Psalm, which afterwards he more accurately composed and committed to writing. David, finding help no where...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 142:1 Contemplation H4905 (H8688) David H1732 Prayer H8605 cave H4631 out H2199 (H8799) LORD H3068 voice...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave. This «Maschil of David» is instructive to us, for the experience of one believer is very edifying to another. We are so much alike that, as in water...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    An instructive psalm of David, for we speak to one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, and they are a means of instruction, as well as a means of utterance of praise. «A prayer when he...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 142:1. _I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication._ Silent prayers are often true prayers, but there are times when, in extremity of suffering...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The malice of enemies and expectation of God's deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: There is no cave so deep or dark but that out of it we may send up our souls in prayer to Go...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The title of this psalm seems undisputed; and it therefore fixes the author and the occasion of its composition. _Maschil,_ or an instruction, _of David; a prayer when he was in the cave. 1 Samuel 22:...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I cried unto the Lord with my voice._ RELIGION IN THE TRIALS OF LIFE: - I. The trials here represented. He speaks of himself as-- 1. Overwhelmed (verse 3). 2. Walking in snares (verse 3). 3. Des...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 142:1. This individual lament is a companion to Psalms 57:1. It is also similar to...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “A maschil of David,” _ie_., an instruction or a didactic poem by David. “A prayer when he was in the cave;” “That is,” says Barnes, “either a prayer which he composed while there, or whi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DAVID once more cries to God for protection and deliverance. The "title" says that the prayer was composed by him "when he was in the cave," by which we must understand "the cave of Adullam...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    This is a prayer of David when he was in the cave. No doubt the cave of Adullam when he was hiding from Saul. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my prayer. I p...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 4:10; 1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Samuel 22:2; 1 Samuel 24:3;...

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