Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 55:11
The places of buying and selling, and of public and common conversation. So their sins were both universal and impudent.
The places of buying and selling, and of public and common conversation. So their sins were both universal and impudent.
WICKEDNESS IS IN THE MIDST THEREOF - That is, the wickedness connected with rebellion and revolt. DECEIT AND GUILE DEPART NOT FROM HER STREETS - They are everywhere. They are found in every street and...
Psalms 55 In the Throes of the Great Tribulation _ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_ 2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4) 3. The great tribulation ...
LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12. A description of...
WICKEDNESS. pravities (plural) Hebrew. _havah =_ cupidity. DECEIT. Oppression, or violence....
He prays for the confusion of his enemies" counsels, and describes the miserable condition of the city....
The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a fierce outburst of indignation....
_Wickedness_ The same word as in Psalms 52:2; _very wickedness_or _destruction. deceit_ R.V. oppression, or, marg., _fraud_. _her streets_ Lit., _broad place_: the open space inside the gates, where j...
WICKEDNESS IS IN THE MIDST THEREOF— _The deepest corruptions and distresses are within it._...
PSALMS 55 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend. ANALYSIS (Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.) Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous Exc...
_WICKEDNESS IS IN THE MIDST THEREOF: DECEIT AND GUILE DEPART NOT FROM HER STREETS._ Wickedness is in the midst thereof in contrast to DECEIT AND GUILE DEPART NOT FROM HER STREETS WICKEDNESS IS IN THE...
55:11 Perversities (b-1) See Psalms 5:9 and Note d. streets. (c-15) Or 'open place.'...
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
DECEIT. — Rather, _oppression,_ or _violence._ STREETS. — Rather, _squares,_ the open space at the gate of an Oriental city where public business was conducted. It is a miserable picture of mis-gove...
_[Psalms 55:12]_ הַוֹּ֥ות בְּ קִרְבָּ֑הּ וְֽ לֹא...
Psalms 55:1 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
FLEEING THE CITY'S ILLS Psalms 55:1 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references which, in their full extent, are chiefly applicable to Judas...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
_To me. This is almost a repetition of ver. 5. (Calmet) --- Elohim and Jehova are mentioned (Haydock) as "the power and eternity" of God gave David the greatest confidence._...
If we look at David in these verses, we see how the distressed monarch pleaded with God to prosper the plan he had laid with his friend Hushai, to defeat the counsel of his foes. He had sent back this...
Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
WICKEDNESS [IS] IN THE MIDST THEREOF,.... All manner of wickedness; abominable wickedness; wickedness as arrived to its highest pitch, and as having filled up its measure; see Ezekiel 9:4; DECEIT AND...
Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. Ver. 11. _Wickedness is in the midst thereof_] As if it were no longer, as once, Theopolis, but Poneropolls, for al...
_Day and night they_ That is, the violence and strife, last mentioned; go _about_ Do encompass it, as it were a garrison. _Upon the walls thereof_ In the outward parts, as also _in the_ very _midst of...
Wickedness is in the midst thereof, due to the treacherous agitation of the conspirators; DECEIT AND GUILE DEPART NOT FROM HER STREETS, from the open spaces or public concourses near the gates where t...
A COMPLAINT OF FALSE FRIENDS. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship, Maschil, a psalm of David....
9-15 No wickedness so distresses the believer, as that which he witnesses in those who profess to be of the church of God. Let us not be surprised at the corruptions and disorders of the church on ea...
Psalms 55:11 Destruction H1942 midst H7130 Oppression H4820 deceit H8496 depart H4185 (H8686) streets H7339 Wickedness -...
HE DESCRIBES THE CITY FROM WHICH HE HAS ESCAPED AS, FOR HIM AT LEAST, A PLACE OF VIOLENCE, STRIFE AND WICKEDNESS (PSALMS 55:9). He describes the city in which he has been dwelling as a place of conti...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm up...
CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
Psalms 55:6. _Oh that I had wings like a dove,_ to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
_Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE CENSURABLE IN LIFE I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments, this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:9 The singer seems to expect that the enemies will not repent of their evil (see v. Psalms 55:19)....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century B.C. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppre...
Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52; Ezekiel 22:1; Isaiah 59:7; Jeremiah 5:26;...
Streets — The places of buying and selling, and of public commerce....