Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 56:9
When I have no other arms or force, which is my present case, my prayers shall be sufficient to overthrow mine enemies.
When I have no other arms or force, which is my present case, my prayers shall be sufficient to overthrow mine enemies.
Verse Psalms 56:9. _WHEN I CRY_ UNTO THEE, _THEN SHALL MINE ENEMIES TURN_ _BACK_] As soon as they know that I call upon thee, then, knowing that thou wilt hear and save, my enemies will immediately ta...
WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE - This expresses strong confidence in prayer. The psalmist felt that he had only to cry unto God, to secure the overthrow of his enemies. God had all power, and his power would be...
Psalms 56 The Faithfulness of God, the Comfort of His People _ 1. Trust and Comfort (Psalms 56:1)_ 2. Praise for anticipated deliverance (Psalms 56:10) These five Psalms which are grouped together...
LVI. A PRAYER AGAINST STRONG, NUMEROUS, AND CRAFTY FOES. Psalms 56:2. For enemies read they that lie in wait for me (_mg.),_ PROUDLY: read bitterly. Psalms 56:4. Will praise his word, _i.e._ the fulf...
WHEN. CRY UNTO THEE. In the day of my cry. FOR. that. FOR ME. mine....
The second division of the Psalm is similar to the first: a description of present distress, and prayer for help, followed by an expression of perfect confidence in God's protection....
Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day when I call: This I know, that [or, for] God is on my side. For the emphatic _then_cp. Psalms 2:5. The certainty that God is on his side is the ground of...
PSALMS 56 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song by David in Captivity. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 56:1-3, In a few words, David Describes his Captive Condition, and Composes a _Refrain_ of Praise, Stanza II., P...
_WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE, THEN SHALL MINE ENEMIES TURN BACK: THIS I KNOW; FOR GOD IS FOR ME._ -The turning point of the psalm. The Psalmist is now assured of being heard. Verse 9. WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE,...
56:9 enemies (d-4) As Psalms 8:2 ....
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A _Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.' For Michtam see on Psalms 16. JONATH ELEM REHOKIM ('the dove of th...
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...
_[Psalms 56:10]_ אָ֥֨ז יָ֘שׁ֤וּבוּ אֹויְבַ֣י אָ֭חֹור בְּ...
Psalms 56:1 THE superscription dates this psalm from the time of David's being in Gath. Probably his first stay there is meant, during which he had recourse to feigned insanity in order to secure his...
“WHAT CAN MAN DO UNTO ME?” Psalms 56:1 This psalm was composed under the same circumstances as Psalms 34:1. See 1 Samuel 21:1. What a strange medley is here shown-David feigning madness and composing...
The keynote of this psalm is the concluding declaration of the previous one, "I will trust in Thee." Here again are evident the same circumstances of oppression (verses Psa 56:5-7). The song opens and...
_Glory. Soul, tongue, or rather instruments of music, (Calmet) and spirit of prophecy. (St. Athanasius)_...
What a sweet thought is here suggested of God's remembrance of his people's affliction! It is an interesting figure of speech, of bottling their tears: but the sense is, they are remembered. And woe w...
9._When I cry, then shall mine enemies turn back. _Here he boasts of victory with even more confidence than formerly, specifying, as it were, the very moment of time when his enemies were to be turned...
Psalms 56 expresses the sense of the bitter and relentless enmity of the wicked, but the tears of the godly are put in God's bottle. God is owned as the Most High, the title of promise but not of cove...
WHEN I CRY [UNTO THEE],.... In prayer; THEN SHALL MINE ENEMIES TURN BACK; great is the strength of prayer; the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous avails much against their enemies: when Moses...
When I cry [unto thee], then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God [is] for me. Ver. 9. _When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back_] For how should they stand before so mig...
When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back, the help of God coming with great readiness, at once; THIS I KNOW, FOR GOD IS FOR ME, that "He is God on his side. ...
COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF PERSECUTION. To the chief musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, the word not only denoting the melody according to which the hymn was to be sung, "The dove of silence of distant p...
8-13 The heavy and continued trials through which many of the Lord's people have passed, should teach us to be silent and patient under lighter crosses. Yet we are often tempted to repine and despond...
Psalms 56:9 When H3117 out H7121 (H8799) enemies H341 (H8802) turn H7725 (H8799) back H268 know...
AN EXPRESSION OF HIS TRUST IN GOD IN THE FACE OF HIS ENEMIES (PSALMS 56:8). His confidence lies in the fact that he knows that he is the chosen of YHWH, that God is keeping count of his wanderings, an...
To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam (a golden Psalm) of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up: he figh...
Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me._ «Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a whil...
CONTENTS: David pours out complaint about enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we are surrounded on all sides with difficulties and dangers because of enemies, we have but one retreat t...
The title of this psalm, which relates to the manner of singing and playing, is upon the remote and silent dove. To which _michtam_ is added, the golden ode of David. In the LXX, the title of this and...
_When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back._ PRAYER VANQUISHING ENEMIES I. This prayer implies the existence of conflict. David was pursued from place to place by: his adversaries. The...
_Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up._ THE DEPRECABLE AND THE DESIRABLE I. The deprecable in relation to man. 1. Craven-heartedness. A man whose heart is morally sound is bold a...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:1. Many take this to be an individual lament, but it could also be a psalm of anticipated thanksgiving. The description of troubles and prayer changes into gratitude that...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:8 God keeps account of the TEARS of his faithful ones. He is FOR those who trust in him. ⇐
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician upon Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.” The phrase “_Jonath-Elem-Rechokim_” occurs nowhere else in the Bible; and Biblical critics are by no means agreed as t...
EXPOSITION THIS and the following have been called "twin psalms." They begin with the same words, are nearly of the same length, and have each a refrain which divides them into two portions. Formally,...
Psa 56:1-13. This is the prayer of David when he heard a mourning dove. That is, a mourning: m-o-u-r-n-i-n-g dove, out in the distant terebinth trees. He no doubt heard these doves cooing off in the d...
Exodus 17:9; Isaiah 8:10; Isaiah 8:9; Jeremiah 33:3; John 18:6;...