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Psalms 62:3,4

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 62:3 The next section speaks to those who attack a man, particularly through lies and injustice. The question how long is not asking for information but is expressing despair (compare Psalms 13:1).

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See also Psalms 62:3,4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 62:3. _HOW LONG WILL YE IMAGINE MISCHIEF_] The original word, תהותתו _tehothethu_, has been translated variously; _rush upon,_ _rage against, stir yourselves up, thrust against_: the root...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HOW LONG WILL YE IMAGINE MISCHIEF AGAINST A MAN? - The original word here rendered “imagine mischief,” from התת _hâthath_, occurs only in this place. It means, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), to bre...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 62 Waiting and Trusting _ 1. He only (Psalms 62:1)_ 2. Persecuted (Psalms 62:3) 3. My expectation from him (Psalms 62:5

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXII. REST IN GOD. The Psalmist, who is closely allied in thought and style to the author of Psalms 4, exhorts to complete trust in God. He expresses his trust in Psalms 62:1 f., his rest in Psalms 62...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IMAGINE MISCHIEF. Occurs only here. Probably. assault, or rise against. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Patiently the Psalmist awaits God's help, and remonstrates with his enemies for their malice and hypocrisy....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _How long_ For the indignant remonstrance cp. Psalms 4:2, noting also the connexion of that verse with Psalms 62:4_; Psalms 62:7; Psalms 62:9_of this Psalm. G

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HOW ALONG WILL YE IMAGINE MISCHIEF? &C.— _How long will ye push against a single man? Ye shall all of you be slain, and fall on a sudden, like a bending wall, or a tottering fence._ See Green and Mudg...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 62 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Restful Resolution, Exposing the Treacherous and Encouraging the Timorous, traces both Power and Kindness to God the Judge of All. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 62:1-4, Cou...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HOW LONG WILL YE IMAGINE MISCHIEF AGAINST A MAN? YE SHALL BE SLAIN ALL OF YOU: AS A BOWING WALL SHALL YE BE, AND AS A TOTTERING FENCE._ How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? The Septuagin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is a Ps. of the strongest faith, in which the experience of hostility (Psalms 62:3) and the contemplation of life (Psalms 62:9) only provide the background against which a serene confidence in Go...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YE SHALL BE SLAIN] RV 'that ye may slay him,' or better still,' battering him,' a figure continued in the next clause. AS A BOWING WALL shall ye be, etc.] RV 'like a bowing wall and like,' etc. The c...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IMAGINE MISCHIEF. — This is the Rabbinical rendering of a word that occurs only here. The LXX. have “fall upon”; Vulg., “rush upon,” a meaning supported by an Arabic root meaning to _storm_ or _assaul...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 62:4]_ עַד ־אָ֤נָה ׀ תְּהֹֽותְת֣וּ עַל אִישׁ֮...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 62:1 THERE are several points of affinity between this psalm and the thirty-ninth-such as the frequent use of the particle of asseveration or restriction ("surely" or "only"); the rare and beau...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    OUR ONLY ROCK AND REFUGE Psalms 62:1 This is the “Only” Psalm. It consists of three stanzas, each of which begins with that word and ends with _Selah._ It was probably composed during Absalom's rebe...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this psalm the principle of the last is yet more emphatically expressed. It opens with the declaration: My soul waiteth only upon God, and then proceeds in three stanzas to set forth this fact. The...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    How long will ye imagine mischief against a (c) man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a (d) bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a tottering fence. (c) He means himself, being the man whom God had appoi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Land. "O solitude," cries out St. Ephrem, "ladder of heaven, mother of compunction,....and piety, thou art the guardian of the eyes," &c. --- Glory. The ark, (Calmet) or Jesus Christ, the desired of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a beautiful breaking off of the subject, but in reality carrying on the same glorious confidence, in this striking remonstrance with the enemies of God and of Christ. It is as if the soul in h...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._How long will ye continue mischief? _The Hebrew word תהותתו _, tehotethu, _(412) which I have translated _continue, _or _lengthen out, mischief, _is rendered by some, _to meditate, _or _imagine mis...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 62 confidence is more expressed. It is not looking from an overwhelmed heart, but a free looking up, so that one is not overwhelmed. His soul waits on God, has none else indeed, but does not...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HOW LONG WILL YE IMAGINE MISCHIEF AGAINST A MAN?.... Against a good man, as the Targum; or against any Israelite, as Kimchi; or rather he means himself, a single man, a weak man, and an innocent one;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a tottering fence. Ver. 3. _How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?_] Wh...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _How long will ye_ Mine enemies, (to whom he now turns his speech,) _imagine mischief against a man_ Against me, a man like yourselves, whom common humanity obliges you to pity; a single man, who is n...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    TRUST IN GOD IN THE FACE OF GREAT DANGER. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, the special choirmaster being named who should take charge of this hymn for use in public worship, a psalm of David, appa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? rushing, raving, storming upon him with lifted fist, in order to browbeat him. YE SHALL BE SLAIN, ALL OF YOU, rather, all of you break him down; AS A B...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 We are in the way both of duty and comfort, when our souls wait upon God; when we cheerfully give up ourselves, and all our affairs, to his will and wisdom; when we leave ourselves to all the way...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Ye, mine enemies, to whom now he turneth his speech. AGAINST A MAN, i.e. against me, a man like yourselves, whom common humanity obligeth you to pity; a single man, who is no fit match for you; a poor...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 62:3 attack H2050 (H8779) man H376 slain H7523 (H8792) leaning H5186 (H8803) wall H7023 tottering...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘How long will you set upon a man, That you may slay him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, Like a tottering fence?' But while he sees God as his Rock and his strong tower, He is invisible to his ad...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In this Psalm the royal singer casts himself entirely on God. Here we see the foundation of his expectation laid bare. He has no confidence anywhere but in God. The Psalm begins in the original with t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 62:1. _Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation._ Waiting upon God, if not true and sincere, is only a mockery; it is also an insult to the Lord; and, so far from bringing...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David professes his confidence in God and encourages himself to wait on God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Hope in God will always be an anchor to the soul, sure and steadfast. Thoug...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm is inscribed to Jeduthun, leader of a choral band in the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:41. Both this and Psalms 63., have been understood as composed in the wilderness, though some would refer thi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from Him cometh my salvation._ A TESTIMONY AND AN EXHORTATION I. A religious testimony. 1. Concerning self (Psalms 62:1; Psalms 62:6). His confidence in God was--...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician_.” See introduction to Psalms 57. “_To Jeduthun_.” See introduction to Psalms 39. “_A Psalm of David_.” “There are no historical statements or de...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm, like so many, is the cry of an afflicted one—a man of high position, whom his enemies seek to destroy, or, if that be not possible, to thrust down from his dignity (Psalms 62:3,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 62:1-12, another psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: and from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock (Psalms 62:1) So remember the last one, "Lead me to the Rock that is higher t...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 26:10; Exodus 10:3; Exodus 16:28; Hosea 7:15; Isaiah 30:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye — Mine enemies; to whom now he turns his speech. Against — Against me, a man like yourselves, whom common humanity obliges you to pity....

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