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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 18:31

It must needs be as I have said, because our Lord is the only God, and therefore there is none, neither God nor creature, that can hinder him from accomplishing his own word and work, or from defending those that trust him: he is unchangeable and invincible. Or this is an amplification, As God is what I have now described him to be, so he only is such, and there is no other God or Rock in which they may safely trust.

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See also Psalms 18:31 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 18:31. _FOR WHO_ IS _GOD SAVE THE LORD?_] "For who is Eloah, except Jehovah?" None is worthy of adoration but the self-existent, eternal, infinitely perfect, and all-merciful Being. _OR...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR WHO IS GOD SAVE THE LORD? - Who is God except Yahweh? The idea is, that no other being has evinced the power, the wisdom, and the goodness which properly belong to the true God; or, that the thing...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4. ROCK. Hebrew. _zur._ See notes on Exodus 17:6; Exodus 32:13. SAVE. except....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE: THE LORD MY GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN MY DARKNESS._ Here follows the fourth section of the psalm. The aid which God had given the Psalmist against foreign enemies, after he ha...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    Comp. Deuteronomy 32:31, where we see that “rock” was a common term among the tribes of Canaan for their divinities. Notice some trifling variations in Samuel....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 18:32]_ כִּ֤י מִ֣י אֱ֭לֹוהַּ מִ בַּלְעֲדֵ֣י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader, while we contemplate the Lord Jesus, as here celebrating the ways and works of Jehovah in redemption, as altogether finished and complete, it will be a sweet note in this song, if you and I ca...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    31._For who is God besides Jehovah? _David here, deriding the foolish inventions of men, who, according to their own fancy, make for themselves tutelary gods, (426) confirms what I have said before, t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR WHO [IS] GOD SAVE THE LORD?.... Or Jehovah: there is but one God, and Jehovah is he; there is none besides him, nor any like him: there are many that are called gods, nominal deities, who are not...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God? Ver. 31. _For who is God save the Lord?_] _Fictitios Deos et vanas spes prosternit,_ saith Vatablus. Here he striketh down to the grou...

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

    _Thou wilt light_, or, _thou dost light_, or, _hast lighted, my candle_ That is, given me safety, and comfort, and glory, and posterity also: all which particulars are often signified by a _candle_, o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GIVING ALL GLORY TO GOD ALONE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For who is God save the Lord? Or who is a rock, a certain refuge and concealment, SAVE OUR GOD? Jehovah alone is the true God, who can and will help....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    29-50 When we praise for one mercy, we must observe the many more, with which we have been compassed all our days. Many things had contributed to David's advancement, and he owns the hand of God in t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 18:31 God H433 except H1107 LORD H3068 rock H6697 except H2108 God H430 Psalms 86:8;...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID GIVES A SUMMARY OF WHAT GOD IS AND OF ALL GOD'S BLESSINGS TO HIM (PSALMS 18:30). Psalms 18:30 ‘As for God, his way is perfect, The word of YHWH is tried (tested and proved true), He is a shi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:31 David’s rescue (vv. Psalms 18:16) came by way of his military skill, which was itself God’s gift....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 22:32; Deuteronomy 32:31; Deuteronomy 32:39;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Who — Our Lord is the only God, and therefore there is none, that can hinder him from accomplishing his own work....

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