Look on, like an idle spectator, without affording me any pity or help. My darling, to wit, my soul, as it is in the former clause. Heb. my only one; which is now left alone and forsaken by my friends, and hath none to trust to but God. See Poole on "Psalms 22:20".
Verse Psalms 35:17. _MY DARLING_] יחידתי _yechidathi, my only one_, Psalms 22:20. _My united one_, or _He that is alone_. Perhaps this may relate to Christ. Psalms 22:20....
LORD, HOW LONG WILT THOU LOOK ON? - How long wilt thou witness this without interposing to deliver me, and to punish those who treat me thus? God saw it all. He was able to save him that was thus pers...
Psalms 35 The Cry for Justice and Divine Help _ 1. The cry of distress (Psalms 35:1)_ 2. The contrast? (Psalms 35:11) 3. Prayer for vindication and victory ...
XXXV. PRAYER AGAINST TREACHEROUS FOES BY ONE WHO IS QUIET IN THE LAND. Psalms 35:6_ b_ should replace Psalms 35:5_ b_. Chaff driven before the wind may well suggest the image of the angel pursuing th...
LORD*. The primitive text was Jehovah. App-4. Altered to "Adonai" by the _Sopherim._ See App-32. MY DARLING. My only one. See note on Psalms 22:20. FROM THE LIONS. Compare Psalms 22:13; Psalms 22:16....
A cry for help, and a vow of thanksgiving....
_wilt thou look on_ Lit. _wilt thou see_, as in Psalms 35:22, and not interfere. A.V. gives the sense rightly. _rescue my soul_ Restore, lit., _bring back_, my life, for it is all but lost. _my darli...
The causelessness of the Psalmist's persecution and the ingratitude of his persecutors are urged as reasons for God's interference on his behalf....
MY DARLING— _My solitary one._ See Psalms 22:20....
PSALMS 35 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayers against Open and Concealed Enemies, followed by Promises of Praise. ANALYSIS Three irregular stanzas. Stanza I., Psalms 35:1-10, An Indignant Imprecatory prayer...
_LORD, HOW LONG WILT THOU LOOK ON? RESCUE MY SOUL FROM THEIR DESTRUCTIONS, MY DARLING FROM THE LIONS._ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? - without interposing for me. RESCUE ... DESTRUCTIONS - or '...
35:17 one (f-16) See Psalms 22:20 ....
This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungrateful cruelty. The circumstances are partly similar to...
MY DARLING] equivalent to 'my soul': see on Psalms 22:20....
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...
DARLING... see margin and Note to Psalms 22:20. THE LIONS is another suitable epithet for the hostile foreign party, so bitter against the genuine Israelite....
אֲדֹנָי֮ כַּ מָּ֪ה תִּ֫רְאֶ֥ה הָשִׁ֣יבָה נַ֭פְשִׁי...
Psalms 35:1 THE psalmist's life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are brought against him. He professes innocence, and appeals t...
RESCUING THE POOR AND NEEDY Psalms 35:1 This psalm dates from the Sauline persecution, or else from the disturbed condition of the kingdom in David's later years. Each of the three divisions into whi...
There is agony in this song. The singer is sore beset with enemies. They are striving with him, fighting against him. They are plotting against him, treacherously spreading a net for his feet. He crie...
We have a similar cry delivered concerning Christ, by the spirit of prophecy, Psalms 22:20....
17._O Lord! how long wilt thou look on? _The meaning of the word which I have translated _how long, _is ambiguous in the Hebrew. In Latin it signifies, How long wilt thou see it, and suffer it without...
Psalms 35 is an urgent appeal for the judgment of Jehovah against relentless and insidious persecutors who seek after the soul of the righteous. Insult, craft, violence, all were used against him. The...
LORD, HOW LONG WILT THOU LOOK ON?.... And behold these injuries and insults, and not arise to help and save? The psalmist firmly believed the omniscience of God, and was well assured he saw all that w...
_Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions._ Ver. 17. _Lord, how long wilt thou look on?_] _i.e._ Carry thyself as a spectator of my miseries...
_Lord, how long wilt thou look on_ Like an idle spectator, without affording me any pity or help? _Rescue my soul from their destructions_ Be pleased, at length, to vindicate my innocence from those w...
Lord, how long wilt Thou look on? namely, without doing something to effect deliverance for him. Rescue my soul from their destruction, my darling, literally, "my only one," FROM THE LIONS, from the w...
THE HYPOCRISY AND MALICE OF THE WICKED...
MY DARLING: _ Heb._ my only one...
17-28 Though the people of God are, and study to be, quiet, yet it has been common for their enemies to devise deceitful matters against them. David prays, My soul is in danger, Lord, rescue it; it b...
Psalms 35:17 Lord H136 on H7200 (H8799) Rescue H7725 (H8685) me H5315 destructions H7722 precious H3173 lions...
CONCERNED BY HOW LONG HIS AFFLICTION IS GOING ON HE POINTS OUT HOW FALSE THEIR ACCUSATIONS ARE AND ASKS FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THEIR ATTEMPTS TO BRING HIM DOWN (PSALMS 35:17). . Psalms 35:17 ‘Lord, ho...
MY DARLING Hebrew, "my only one." (Psalms 22:20)....
CONTENTS: An appeal to heaven for the confusion of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The most righteous men and the most righteous causes may expect to meet with many mighty and malicious...
Psalms 35:1. _Fight against them._ This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fight against him, and for confusion to those about the...
_Lord, how long wilt Thou look on?_ HOW LONG This was David’s cry in his distress. I. A trying experience. David did not doubt that the Lord saw his trouble. He did not say, “My way is hid from the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 35:1. This psalm shows how the faithful should pray when they know that hateful people are seeking to harm them. It explains the persecutors’ evil schemes and asks God to fi...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or during the revolt of Absalom. It is usual to connect i...
EXPOSITION A PSALM ascribed to David by the title, and with many characteristics of his early style—abrupt, impassioned, full of lively and graphic images, and full of transitions The picture which th...
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, stand up for my help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way agains...
Habakkuk 1:13; Psalms 10:14; Psalms 13:1; Psalms 13:2; Psalms 142:6;...
Look on — Without affording me pity or help. Darling — My soul, Heb. my only one; which is now left alone and forsaken by my friends, and hath none to trust in but God....