This psalm purports to be “A Psalm of David,” and there is no
reason to doubt that it was composed by him. On what occasion it was
composed is now unknown, and there is nothing in the psalm itself to...
A prayer for help in an age of apparently universal hypocrisy,
dissimulation, and untrustworthiness. The title assigns it to David,
who might have written it while he was at the court of Saul, or duri...
XII.
The tradition of the Davidic authorship must be discarded here. The
psalm is an elegy, but not for personal suffering. It is a lament over
the demoralisation of men and the corruption of social l...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 12
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON SHEMINITH, A PSALM OF DAVID. The word
"sheminith" is used in the title of Psalms 6:1, and signifies
"eighth"; and intends either the eighth note, t...
_A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060._
In this Psalm David, who was the author of it, as the title informs
us, complains of the decrease of God's faithful servants, and of the
prevalence of falsehood and treachery...
This Psalm was written in dark times when evil seemed to prevail. But
the humble and lowly were assured that while it might seem like it, it
was not so, and that whatever the situation God was aware o...