Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 55:3
Voice — Their clamours and threats, and slanders. Cast — They lay many crimes to my charge.
Voice — Their clamours and threats, and slanders. Cast — They lay many crimes to my charge.
Verse Psalms 55:3. _THEY CAST INIQUITY UPON ME_] To give a colourable pretense to their rebellion, they charge me with horrible crimes; as if they had said: Down with such a wretch; he is not fit to r...
BECAUSE OF THE VOICE OF THE ENEMY - He now states the cause of his troubles. He had been, and was, unjustly treated by others. The particular idea in the word “voice” here is, that he was suffering fr...
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...
OPPRESSION: or outcry. The Hebrew word _'akah_ occurs only here. INIQUITY. iniquitous words or devices. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6....
_the voice of the enemy_ Insulting, calumniating, threatening. _oppression_ A peculiar word, found here only, meaning that his enemies hem him in or crush him down. Cp. the cognate verb in Amos 2:13....
FOR THEY CAST INIQUITY UPON ME— The Psalmist here declares the causes of his consternation and perplexity. It was upon account of _the clamour of his enemies,_ when the conspiracy against him was stro...
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...
_BECAUSE OF THE VOICE OF THE ENEMY, BECAUSE OF THE OPPRESSION OF THE WICKED: FOR THEY CAST INIQUITY UPON ME, AND IN WRATH THEY HATE ME._ Because of the voice of the enemy - reproaching (Psalms 55:12)...
55:3 wicked. (l-14) As Psalms 9:5 . iniquity (m-18) Or 'vanity;' it is inwardly devised evil. see Job 4:8 ; Job 15:35 ; Psalms 7:14 ;...
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...
CAST INIQUITY UPON ME] attack me with wicked devices, as they might roll down stones on an enemy....
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...
OPPRESSOR. — This meaning of a rare word is secured from Amos 2:13. CAST INIQUITY. — Better, _roll mischief._ The figure seems to be drawn from the practice of rolling stones down on an enemy from a...
_[Psalms 55:4]_ מִ קֹּ֤ול אֹויֵ֗ב מִ פְּנֵ֣י...
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...
Because of the (b) voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for (c) they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. (b) For the threatenings of Saul and his adherents. (c)...
If we consider David's history, it will appear probable that he had an eye to his son, Absalom, as this enemy. If we look at Christ, probably Judas was the foe here intended, with the Scribes and Phar...
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...
BECAUSE OF THE VOICE OF THE ENEMY,.... Of Absalom, as Arama; or of Ahithophel, who gave out he would smite the king only, 2 Samuel 17:2; and so of any spiritual enemy, as sin, Satan, and the world, wh...
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. Ver. 3. _Because of the voice of the enemy_] He may very well in...
_Hide not thyself from my supplication_ Either as one unconcerned and not regarding it, or as one displeased, and resolved not to hear nor help. _I mourn and make a noise_ I cannot forbear such sighs...
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....
because of the voice of the enemy, as he was compelled to hear it, BECAUSE OF THE OPPRESSION OF THE WICKED, the burden laid upon him by their hatred; FOR THEY CAST INIQUITY UPON ME, the picture being...
1-8 In these verses we have, 1. David praying. Prayer is a salve for every sore, and a relief to the spirit under every burden. 2. David weeping. Griefs are thus, in some measure, lessened, while tho...
THE VOICE OF THE ENEMY, i.e. their clamours, and threats, and slanders, and insolent boastings; all which are hateful to thee, as well as injurious to me. THEY CAST INIQUITY UPON ME: the sense is, eit...
Psalms 55:3 voice H6963 enemy H341 (H8802) oppression H6125 wicked H7563 down H4131 (H8686) trouble H205 wrath...
A DESPERATE PLEA FOR GOD TO HEAR HIM IN THE LIGHT OF THE TERRIBLE OPPRESSION AND PERSECUTION THAT HE IS FACING (PSALMS 55:1). David calls on God to hear his cries for help as he faces the threatening...
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...
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...
2 Samuel 15:3; 2 Samuel 16:7; 2 Samuel 16:8; 2 Samuel 19:19;...