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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 5:2

It is the part and duty of a king to answer the just and humble desires of his subjects. To thee alone will I direct all my prayers, and therefore from thee alone I expect succour and relief.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 5:2. _HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF MY CRY_] We may easily find the process through which David's mind was now passing: 1. We have seen from the preceding Psalm that he lay down in a very ha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    :Title UPON NEHILOTH - The title of Psalms 4:1 is, “upon Neginoth.” As that refers to a musical instrument, so it is probable that this does, and that the idea here is that this psalm was intended par...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF MY CRY - My cry for assistance. The word “voice” refers to the utterance of his desires, or to his “expressed” wishes in a time of trouble. MY KING, AND MY GOD - Though he wa...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 5 _ 1.The cry to God the King (Psalms 5:1)_ 2. Hating iniquity and trusting in mercy (Psalms 5:4) 3. Prayer for guidance and judgment (Psalms 5:8

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    V. A HYMN FOR MORNING SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE. Psalms 5:1. Solemn invocation of Yahweh. The Psalmist sets in order (Psalms 5:3), not perhaps his prayer (RV), but his sacrifice, the victim and the kind...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HEARKEN. Figure of speech _Synonymia._ App-6. VOICE. The voice marks the tone of any cry. First occurrence here. MY CRY. Connecting this Psalm with Psalms 3:4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HEARKEN, &C.— _Attend unto the voice of my supplication._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 5 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Morning Prayer for Deliverance from Conspirators. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 5:1-3, Petitions Pleaded to which an Answer is Awaited. Stanza II., Psalms 5:4-6, Jehovah's...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF MY CRY, MY KING, AND MY GOD: FOR UNTO THEE WILL I PRAY._ Hearken-used in the English portion for other Hebrew verbs, [translate, therefore, _ QAASHAB_ (H7181) here, 'Attend...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MY KING] If the writer is David he forgets his own royalty in the presence of the heavenly King. WILL I PRAY] RV 'do I pray.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is a morning prayer before going to the sanctuary. The chief difficulty in ascribing it to David lies in the reference (Psalms 5:7) to 'thy holy temple.' The word means a 'palace,' and is not str...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 5:3]_ הַקְשִׁ֤יבָה ׀ לְ קֹ֬ול שַׁוְעִ֗י מַלְכִּ֥י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 5:1 THE reference to the temple in Psalms 5:7 is not conclusive against the Davidic authorship of this psalm, since the same word is applied in 1 Samuel 1:9; 1

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PROTECTION FROM THE WICKED Psalms 5:1 The _ordering_ of prayer is very necessary, Genesis 22:9. Our Lord's prayer should be our model. Often our _words_ need to be supplemented by our _meditations;_...

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

    This is another song of the morning. It opens with language which reveals the reason of the soul's assurance as it faces another day. First are petitions asking the attention of Jehovah. These are fol...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Cry. Hebrew, "meditation." (Menochius) --- The cry of the heart, (St. Chrysostom) and "the groans," which the spirit forms within us, Romans viii. 26. God cannot reject such prayers. If he seems inat...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we consider the Lord Jesus in these addresses as the representative of his church and people, we not only heighten the several expressions made use of, but raise also our confidence, when coming to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 5 the cry of the godly is presented, and the character of God, as necessarily responding to that of the godly, is appealed to as necessitating His hearing him and judging the wicked. If the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF MY CRY,.... Which seems to intend more than groans or words, even a loud outcry, as of a person in great distress; such as the strong crying of Christ, in the days of his fle...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. Ver. 2. _Hearken unto the voice of my cry_] He thrice repeats the same request, to show the greatness of his grief an...

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

    _Consider my meditation_ That is, my prayer, as the foregoing and following words show. He calls his prayer his meditation, to signify that it was not the mere labour of his lips, but that it proceede...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    MORNING PRAYER BEFORE WORSHIP. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical service, upon Nehiloth, flutes or wind instruments of the Temple-orchestra, a psalm of David. David was at this time in...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hearken unto the voice of my cry, his loud and insistent clamoring for help, MY KING, the special Ruler of Israel, AND MY GOD, for whose protection David pleads, expecting it with all confidence; FOR...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 God is a prayer-hearing God. Such he has always been, and he is still as ready to hear prayer as ever. The most encouraging principle of prayer, and the most powerful plea in prayer, is, to look...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 5:2 heed H7181 (H8685) voice H6963 cry H7773 King H4428 God H430 pray H6419 (H8691) unto the -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Give ear to my words, O YHWH, Consider my meditation. Hearken to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, For to you do I pray. O YHWH in the morning you will hear my voice, In the morning I wil...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 5 This Psalm is peculiar in setting forth the characteristics of prayer in general. I. In the first and second verses we have a suggestion of the variety of prayer. (1) "Give ear to my _words...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 5:1. _Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation._ Sometimes we pray right off, as David did when he cried to the Lord, «Hear me when I call.» At other times, we sit down to meditate...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David's prayer in which he extols God's holiness and asks judgment upon the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Prayer should be both the key of the morning and the bolt of the eve...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 5:6. _Leasing;_ a Gothic and primitive word equivalent to falsehood. They professed loyalty to the king, but were traitors in heart, as in Psalms 5:9. Psalms 5:9. _Their throat is an open sepu...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Give ear to my words, O Lord._ THE INWARD AND OUTWARD SIDES OF THE DIVINE LIFE The Psalm falls into two main parts-- Psalms 5:1, and Psalms 5:8. The inward comes first; for communion with God in the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For unto Thee will I pray._ PRAYER If you “restrain prayer before God”-- 1. You act in opposition to your sense and confession of what is right. You know that you ought to pray. How can you repel...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:1. This individual lament from David is the first psalm that prays for the downfall of one’s enemies. Such Psalms relate to situations where one is faced with bloodthirsty...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 5:2 MY KING AND MY GOD. Even a king such as David should be subject to God’s divine kingship. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “A morning prayer of David, appealing to God as his king, against whose sovereignty his own enemies were really in rebellion.”—_Kay_. “This psalm must have been composed at Jerusalem, sin...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm is assigned by some to the time of Manasseh, but contains nothing that is really opposed to the superscription—"A Psalm of David"—since, before the temple was built, the tabernac...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 5:1-12 is a prayer of the morning. Psalms 4:1-8 was the prayer of the evening, and now for the morning. Give ear unto my words, O LORD; consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 33:22; Psalms 10:16; Psalms 145:1; Psalms 24:7; Psalms 24:8;...

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