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Verse Psalms 18:27. _FOR THOU WILT SAVE THE AFFLICTED_] The afflicted
are the _humble_; and those thou hast ever befriended....
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FOR THOU WILT SAVE THE AFFLICTED PEOPLE - From the particular tokens
of divine favor toward himself in affliction and trouble, the psalmist
now draws the general inference that this was the character...
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Psalms 18
The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ
_ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_
2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7)
3. God gave Him glory ...
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XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe
this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that
he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...
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PSALMS 18
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
David's Song of Deliverance.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist
proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...
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_FOR THOU WILT SAVE THE AFFLICTED PEOPLE; BUT WILT BRING DOWN HIGH
LOOKS._
For thou wilt save the afflicted people - those whom he had before
called 'merciful (benignant), upright, and pure,' he now...
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18:27 savest (g-6) Or 'wilt save.'...
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Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest
confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel
22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...
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HIGH LOOKS] RV 'the haughty eyes.'...
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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...
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HIGH LOOKS. — See variation in Samuel.
THE AFFLICTED PEOPLE. — Better, _afflicted folk,_ with no
distinctive reference to Israel, except, of course, I when the poem
became adapted for congregational...
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(25-27) It is better to change all the futures into our present. We
cannot explain this description of God’s attitude to man, as if the
poet were merely dealing with the conception of the Divine forme...
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_[Psalms 18:28]_ כִּֽי ־אַ֭תָּה עַם ־עָנִ֣י
תֹושִׁ֑יעַ...
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Psalms 18:1
THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the
psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the
same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout imag...
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GIRDED WITH STRENGTH FOR SERVICE
Psalms 18:27
God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make
ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads
him through the...
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This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms.
It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great
revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
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For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt (u) bring down high
looks.
(u) When their sin is come to the full measure....
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All these verses become doubly precious and blessed to the people of
Christ, from their personal concern in all that is his. The promise of
Jehovah is to the seed of Christ, in Christ as well as to Ch...
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27._For thou wilt save the afflicted people. _This verse contains the
correction of a mistake into which we are very ready to fall. As
experience shows that the merciful are often severely afflicted,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19.
Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of
His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His)
entering into t...
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FOR THOU WILT SAVE THE AFFLICTED PEOPLE,.... As the people of God
commonly are; they are afflicted with sin, and the corruption of their
own hearts, and with Satan and his temptations, and with the wo...
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For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high
looks.
Ver. 27. _For thou wilt save the afflicted people_] Even the same whom
before he had called merciful, or godly, upright, pure,...
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In these verses David lays down the general method of the procedure of
God's providence and moral government, which, in the issue, will be
according to the moral character and conduct of men themselve...
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A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY.
To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of
the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the
Lord, His p...
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For Thou wilt save the afflicted people, delivering them from the
trouble which oppresses them, BUT WILT BRING DOWN HIGH LOOKS, humbling
those who exalt themselves....
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20-28 Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God.
But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not
be a wicked departure from our God. David kept his eye upon...
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Psalms 18:27 save H3467 (H8686) humble H6041 people H5971 down H8213
(H8686) haughty H7311 (H8802) looks...
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HE DECLARES THAT WHAT A MAN SOWS HE WILL REAP (PSALMS 18:25).
David was confident that righteousness must triumph simply because of
what God is. Like him we too can know that He is and that He is a
r...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my
rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I
will trust; my buckler, and my horn of my salvation, and my hi...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._
What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the
Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he
must do so,...
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CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their
difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...
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David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial,
when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all
his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his
c...
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_The Lord reward me according to my righteousness._
OF THE JUSTICE OF DAVID’S BEHAVIOUR
I. David’s righteousness. Righteousness consists in rendering to all
their due, and the revealed will of God is...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way
God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic
monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v....
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:20 David claims that he has faithfully KEPT
THE WAYS OF THE LORD (v. Psalms 18:21), and thus God has...
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INTRODUCTION
“This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in
celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of
the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commenta...
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EXPOSITION
THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only
from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those
which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...
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The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician.
It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah
the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...
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2 Corinthians 8:9; 2 Samuel 22:28; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 3:9; Isai