Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Psalms 35:7-8
The causelessness of their insidious enmity is the ground for such a prayer. May their schemes recoil on their own heads.
The causelessness of their insidious enmity is the ground for such a prayer. May their schemes recoil on their own heads.
Verse Psalms 35:7. _FOR WITHOUT CAUSE HAVE THEY HID FOR ME THEIR NET_ IN _A_ _PIT_] The word שחת _shachath_, a _pit_, belongs to the second member of this verse, and the whole should be read thus: Fo...
FOR WITHOUT CAUSE HAVE THEY HID FOR ME THEIR NET IN A PIT - See Psalms 7:15, note; Psalms 9:15, note. This figure is derived from hunting. The idea is that of digging a pit or hole for a wild beast to...
Psalms 35 The Cry for Justice and Divine Help _ 1. The cry of distress (Psalms 35:1)_ 2. The contrast? (Psalms 35:11) 3. Prayer for vindication and victory ...
XXXV. PRAYER AGAINST TREACHEROUS FOES BY ONE WHO IS QUIET IN THE LAND. Psalms 35:6_ b_ should replace Psalms 35:5_ b_. Chaff driven before the wind may well suggest the image of the angel pursuing th...
WITHOUT CAUSE. See note on Psalms 35:19. NET IN. PIT: i.e.. pit covered with. net....
WHICH WITHOUT CAUSE, &C.— _Without provocation he hath digged a pit for my life._ Saul seems to be pointed at in this clause, by the change of the plural number into the singular. Compare 1 Samuel 18:...
PSALMS 35 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayers against Open and Concealed Enemies, followed by Promises of Praise. ANALYSIS Three irregular stanzas. Stanza I., Psalms 35:1-10, An Indignant Imprecatory prayer...
_FOR WITHOUT CAUSE HAVE THEY HID FOR ME THEIR NET IN A PIT, WHICH WITHOUT CAUSE THEY HAVE DIGGED FOR MY SOUL._ They hid for me their net in a pit. Their having laid for the petitioner a pit-net, just...
This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungrateful cruelty. The circumstances are partly similar to...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
HAVE THEY HID... — Literally, _they have hid for me the pit of their net,_ which, as it stands, can mean nothing but a “pit with a net in it,” such as was used to entrap lions and other wild beasts. B...
כִּֽי ־חִנָּ֣ם טָֽמְנוּ ־לִ֭י שַׁ֣חַת רִשְׁתָּ֑ם...
Psalms 35:1 THE psalmist's life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are brought against him. He professes innocence, and appeals t...
RESCUING THE POOR AND NEEDY Psalms 35:1 This psalm dates from the Sauline persecution, or else from the disturbed condition of the kingdom in David's later years. Each of the three divisions into whi...
There is agony in this song. The singer is sore beset with enemies. They are striving with him, fighting against him. They are plotting against him, treacherously spreading a net for his feet. He crie...
For (e) without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul. (e) Showing that we may not call God to be a revenger but only for his glory, and...
Of God. A title which is often given to things of superior excellence. So divine condimenta of Plautus, (Pseudol.) denote ragouts or sauces of the best quality; (Haydock) and sacra fames of Virgil, me...
Who can be at a loss to discover the blessed Jesus here pointed out, of him it might be strictly said, it was indeed causeless when the enemies of God's Christ sought his destruction: John 15:25. And...
7._For they have hid for me without a cause. _He here declares that he did not take the name of God in vain, nor call upon him for protection without just cause, for he openly asserts his innocence, a...
Psalms 35 is an urgent appeal for the judgment of Jehovah against relentless and insidious persecutors who seek after the soul of the righteous. Insult, craft, violence, all were used against him. The...
FOR WITHOUT CAUSE HAVE THEY HID FOR ME THEIR NET [IN] A PIT,.... This is said in allusion to the custom of digging pits, and putting nets into them, for the catching of wild beasts; and covering them...
For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul. Ver. 7. _For without cause have they hid for me, &c._] The wicked are so acted and agi...
_Let their way_ By which they flee, being chased, as was now said; _be dark and slippery_ So as that they can neither discern the right path, nor be able to stand in it, and much less to escape, espec...
For without cause, without provocation on the part of David, while he was entirely innocent, HAVE THEY HID FOR ME THEIR NET IN A PIT, (WHICH) WITHOUT CAUSE THEY HAVE DIGGED FOR MY SOUL. That was David...
PRAYER AGAINST THE GODLESS. A psalm of David, invoking God's aid against the ungodly, contrasting the hypocrisy, cunning, and malice of the wicked with the integrity and generosity of the righteous,...
1-10 It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the Seed of the woman. Dav...
Out of mere malice, without any injury or provocation on my part, and without any necessity on their parts. They are no common, but the worst of enemies; and therefore I may justly pray against them,...
Psalms 35:7 cause H2600 hidden H2934 (H8804) net H7568 pit H7845 dug H2658 (H8804) cause H2600 life...
HE ASKS THAT THOSE WHO ARE HUNTING FOR HIM MIGHT FALL INTO THE TRAP THAT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE SET SO THAT ONCE MORE HE CAN REJOICE IN YHWH'S SALVATION (PSALMS 35:7). This movement from the battle gro...
CONTENTS: An appeal to heaven for the confusion of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The most righteous men and the most righteous causes may expect to meet with many mighty and malicious...
Psalms 35:1. _Fight against them._ This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fight against him, and for confusion to those about the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 35:1. This psalm shows how the faithful should pray when they know that hateful people are seeking to harm them. It explains the persecutors’ evil schemes and asks God to fi...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 35:4 The faithful pray that the schemes of the pursuers would fail, and that the pursuers themselves would suffer disappointment, humiliation, and destruction. It is proper for Go...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or during the revolt of Absalom. It is usual to connect i...
EXPOSITION A PSALM ascribed to David by the title, and with many characteristics of his early style—abrupt, impassioned, full of lively and graphic images, and full of transitions The picture which th...
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, stand up for my help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way agains...
Job 18:8; John 15:25; Psalms 119:85; Psalms 140:5; Psalms 25:3;...
For — Out of mere malice....