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Verse Psalms 59:6. _THEY RETURN AT EVENING_] When the beasts of prey
leave their dens, and go prowling about the cities and villages to get
offal, and entrap domestic animals, these come about the cit...
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THEY RETURN AT EVENING - Many have rendered this in the imperative, as
in Psalms 59:14, “Let them return at evening,” etc. So Luther
renders it, and so also DeWette. But the more natural and obvious
i...
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Psalms 59
Gentile Enmity Against Israel
_ 1. Surrounded by nations (Psalms 59:1)_
2. Their judgment anticipated (Psalms 59:9)
Another Michtam of David when he was persecuted by Saul. While in
prev...
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LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign
enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the
aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms
59:8 the...
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He compares his enemies to a troop of savage and hungry dogs (Psalms
22:16) such as still infest Oriental towns, in the day-time sleeping
in the sun or slinking lazily about, but as night comes on col...
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Be his enemies never so threatening and insolent, he can trust in God....
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THEY RETURN AT EVENING— Saul sent once to destroy him, and the
messengers went back to inform him that he was ill; but they returned
in the evening, to bring him even in his bed. Mudge renders it, _Th...
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PSALMS 59
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
The Beleaguered Psalmist Prays for Rescue and Avenging.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 59:1-5, In Praying for Rescue, the Psalmist
Describes the Character and Conduct of his...
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_THEY RETURN AT EVENING: THEY MAKE A NOISE LIKE A DOG, AND GO ROUND
ABOUT THE CITY._
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round
about the city. Here hopeful anticipation succe...
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Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; _set_ to Al-tashheth. _A Psalm_
of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill
him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57. The s...
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The writer's foes are compared to the savage dogs which infest Eastern
cities and prowl round at night in search of garbage. Possibly there
is a hint here that Jerusalem was actually besieged. MAKE A...
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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...
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A DOG. — This comparison to the gaunt half-starved wild dogs of an
Eastern town has met us before (Psalms 22:16). The verbs should be
rendered as futures here and in Psalms 59:15.
MAKE A NOISE. — Bett...
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_[Psalms 59:7]_ יָשׁ֣וּבוּ לָ֭ † עֶרֶב
יֶהֱמ֥וּ...
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Psalms 59:1
THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating
from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with
the others of that group, but its closest affinitie...
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“GOD IS MY HIGH TOWER”
Psalms 59:1
This is the fifth of the _Michtams,_ or “Golden Psalms.” Compare
Psalms 16:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms
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Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object
of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into
two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is m...
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They return at evening: they make a noise like a (e) dog, and go round
about the city.
(e) He compares their cruelty to hungry dogs showing that they are
never weary in doing evil....
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_Warning, to amend, (Worthington) the sign of the cross (Calmet) in
baptism, (St. Jerome) or confirmation. (Eusebius) --- It was customary
to erect a pole, on which some signal was placed, in case of...
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All these expressions, if considered as referring to Christ, carry a
correspondence with his complaints in other scriptures. Bulls of
Bashan, and dogs from the assembly, beset him around. Psalms 22:11...
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6._They will return at evening. _He compares his enemies to famished
and furious dogs which hunger impels to course with endless circuits
in every direction, and under this figure accuses their insati...
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Psalms 59 gives more the external enemies. The same wickedness is
found there, but the might of human power with it. But they also must
be judged, that wickedness may be set aside. Nor was it the sin...
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THEY RETURN AT EVENING,.... It was at evening Saul sent messengers to
watch David's house, that they might take him in the morning; but
missing him, perhaps after a fruitless search for him all the da...
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They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round
about the city.
Ver. 6. _They return at evening_] _sc._ To mine house at Gibeah of
Saul, hoping to find me then at home again; as if...
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_They return at evening_ Saul sent once to destroy him, and the
messengers went back to inform him that he was ill; but they returned
in the evening to bring him even in his bed. _They make a noise li...
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They, the particular enemies sent to capture him, RETURN AT EVENING;
THEY MAKE A NOISE LIKE A DOG, howling and snarling like the roaming
Oriental dogs, the scavengers of their cities, AND GO ROUND ABO...
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PRAYER OF AN INNOCENT PERSON AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK HIS SOUL.
To the chief musician, Al-taschith, again according to the melody
"Destroy not," Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David; when
Sau...
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1-7 In these words we hear the voice of David when a prisoner in his
own house; the voice of Christ when surrounded by his merciless
enemies; the voice of the church when under bondage in the world;...
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THEY RETURN AT EVENING, after they have been busy all day, either in
plotting against me, or in hunting after me. In the evening, when they
should compose themselves to rest, they return to their old...
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Psalms 59:6 evening H6153 return H7725 (H8799) growl H1993 (H8799) dog
H3611 around H5437 (H8779) city...
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DAVID EXPRESSES HIS CONFIDENCE THAT YHWH WILL PROTECT HIM (PSALMS
59:6).
Describing his enemies as like a pack of stray dogs on the prowl
(compare also Psalms 59:14) David is confident that YHWH will...
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CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and comfort and
confidence in God.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: Those who are for Christ's sake, harmless and innocent may
expect to be hated of w...
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Psalms 59:6. _They make a noise like a dog._ Mr. Jowett, in his
christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no
owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day, and...
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DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD.
REVELATIONS OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN HUMAN NATURE
I. The enmity of man towards man.
1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we learn
that...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:1. This is an individual lament,
seeking God’s protection from enemies who threaten the faithful
person’s life. The title connects the psalm to...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:6 The singer’s enemies are HOWLING LIKE
DOGS, PROWLING ABOUT THE CITY like a pack of semi-wild scavengers.
Thus they posed a danger to any human who might venture out alone in...
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription.—_“_To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” See
Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction
to Psalms 56. “_When Saul sent, and they watched the house...
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EXPOSITION
LIKE Psalms 56:1 and Psalms 57:1, this is a cry for deliverance out of
great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17)
that the deliverance will be granted. From the psal...
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Psa 59:1-17 is another one of those "destroy not" prayers of David,
when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him. His wife,
Michael, let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped. B...
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1 Samuel 19:11; Psalms 59:14...