Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 55:21
He covered his treasonable and bloody design with fair and flattering speeches. Drawn swords; pernicious in their design and consequences.
He covered his treasonable and bloody design with fair and flattering speeches. Drawn swords; pernicious in their design and consequences.
Verse Psalms 55:21. _WERE SMOOTHER THAN BUTTER_] He was a complete courtier, and a deep, designing hypocrite besides. His words _were as soft as_ _butter, and as smooth as oil_, while he meditated wa...
THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH WERE SMOOTHER THAN BUTTER - Prof. Alexander renders this, “Smooth are the butterings of his mouth.” This is in accordance with the Hebrew, but the general meaning is well expres...
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...
WAR WAS IN HIS HEART. Compare 2 Samuel 14:33 with 2 Samuel 15:5; 2 Samuel 15:6. Referring to Psalms 55:19....
Once more the Psalmist reverts to the treachery of his former friend. It is quite natural that he should do so again, abrupt as is the transition from the great mass of his enemies to the one individu...
In this division of the Psalm the storm of indignation dies away, and the Psalmist's trustful confidence revives....
The words of _his mouth were smoother than butter_ This rendering, though supported by some of the Ancient Versions and commended by the parallelism (_smoother than buttersofter than oil_), cannot be...
THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH WERE SMOOTHER THAN BUTTER, &C.— _Smooth and deceitful are the buttery words of his mouth; but war is in his heart: his speeches are softer than oil; but they are drawn swords._...
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...
_AS FOR ME, I WILL CALL UPON GOD; AND THE LORD SHALL SAVE ME._ -Third strophe. His confident hope, resting upon the grounds stated in the previous prayer. Verse 16,17. AS FOR ME ... EVENING, AND MORN...
55:21 mouth, (h-8) Or '[The words of] his mouth were smooth as butter.'...
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...
THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH. — The ancient versions and the grammatical anomalies point to a corruption of the text. Read, _Smoother than butter is his face._ The reading _face_ for _mouth_ is suggested by...
_[Psalms 55:22]_ חָלְק֤וּ ׀ מַחְמָאֹ֣ת פִּיו֮ וּֽ קֲרָב...
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...
FRIENDS MAY FORSAKE, BUT GOD ABIDETH Psalms 55:12 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, deceit, and oppression trampled the virtuous and helpless un...
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...
Here is another view of the enemies of David; and still more so of the enemies of David's Lord. How smooth were the words of Judas when he said, Hail, Master! and kissed him. But how was the prophecy...
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...
[THE WORDS] OF HIS MOUTH WERE SMOOTHER THAN BUTTER,.... Such were the words of Ahithophel, when in counsel with David; and such the words of Judas, when he said to Christ, "hail, master", and kissed h...
Psalms 55:21 [The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords. Ver. 21. _The words of his mouth were smooth...
_He_, &c. I speak especially of “that perfidious person, who hath not only violated all the laws of friendship, but profanely broken his promise and oath of fidelity, wherein he was engaged to me.” Bi...
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....
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, with oily hypocrisy, BUT WAR WAS IN HIS HEART; HIS WORDS WERE SOFTER THAN OIL, dripping smoothness and good will, YET WERE THEY DRAWN SWORDS, his enti...
16-23 In every trial let us call upon the Lord, and he will save us. He shall hear us, and not blame us for coming too often; the oftener the more welcome. David had thought all were against him; but...
Psalms 55:21 mouth H6310 smoother H2505 (H8804) butter H4260 war H7128 heart H3820 words H1697 softer H7401 ...
DAVID DRAWS OUT THE EVIL AND HYPOCRISY OF HIS ENEMY (PSALMS 55:20). David here defines what type of enemy he is up against. This may refer to Saul, but more probably it refers to his treacherous one...
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 55:20 COVENANT. His treacherous friend had sealed his seeming friendship with a solemn obligation; see 1 Samuel 18:3....
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...
John 13:2; Luke 20:20; Luke 20:21; Matthew 26:25; Proverbs 12:18;...