-
Verse Psalms 17:5. _HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS_] David walked in
God's ways; but, without Divine assistance, he could not walk
_steadily_, even in them. The _words of God's lips_ had shown him th...
-
HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS - He had been enabled before this to
keep himself from the ways of the violent by the word of God Psalms
17:4; he felt his dependence on God still to enable him, in the...
-
Psalms 17
The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy
_ 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1)_
2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6)
3. The deliverance ...
-
XVII. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS FOES. These
foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their
pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made in...
-
PATHS. tracks, or ruts....
-
The bold language of a good conscience. See Introd. p. lxxxvii. Cp.
Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16....
-
My steps have held fast to thy tracks,
My feet have not slipped.
The A.V. is grammatically untenable. He describes his conduct
positively. _Paths_, a different word from that in Psalms 17:4,
denotes...
-
PSALMS 17
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
One who is Righteous Prays, in Great Trouble, for Divine Deliverance
and Manifestation.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 17:1-2, The Prayer of Righteousness. Stanza II.,
vers,...
-
_HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS, THAT MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT._ HOLD UP
MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS, (THAT) MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT - a beautiful
supplement to Psalms 17:4, "I have kept me from the paths of th...
-
17:5 paths, (d-8) Or 'Hold my goings in thy paths, that my ...'...
-
The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God (Psalms 17:1), and
supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence (Psalms
17:3) and an account of the eager cruelty of his enemies ...
-
RV 'My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.'...
-
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...
-
HOLD UP. — Not, as in the Authorised Version, imperative, which is
directly opposed to the context. The psalmist still asserts his
innocence. Render: —
My course kept close in thy tracks,
My footstep...
-
תָּמֹ֣ךְ אֲ֭שֻׁרַי בְּ
מַעְגְּלֹותֶ֑יךָ בַּל ־נָמֹ֥וטּוּ...
-
Psalms 17:1
THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual
conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic,
say another, without venturing on closer definition; lat...
-
GOD'S TRUE SERVANTS SAFELY KEPT
Psalms 17:1
This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses
David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes,
and ends with glad...
-
This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the
preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case
the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly me...
-
_Sorrows...iniquity. Hebrew, "cables....Belial." By these figurative
expressions, David declares to what dangers he had been exposed. They
seem to be more applicable to our Saviour's agony. (Berthier)...
-
This is blessed, as it concerns our glorious Surety; for God engaged
to carry him through his whole work; see Psalms 89:21. And it is
blessed also, as it concerns his redeemed in him. The Redeemer
com...
-
5._Uphold my steps. _If we take _God’s paths _for the precepts of
his law, the sense will be evident, namely, that although David had
spoken according to truth, in boasting of having, in the midst of...
-
The key to Psalms 16 was in the words, "In thee do I put my trust"; to
Psalms 17, "Hear the right." In Psalms 16 we have seen the blessed
path and working of that spirit of confidence. It is, though t...
-
HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS,.... Which being spoken by David in his
own person, and for himself, shows that he was conscious of his own
weakness to keep himself in the ways of God, and to direct hi...
-
Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.
Ver. 5. _Hold up my goings in thy paths, &c._] Keep me within the
circle of thy word, as thou hitherto hast done; make me to walk
exactly...
-
_Hold up my goings_, &c. As by thy word and grace thou hast hitherto
kept me from the paths of evil men, and led me into thy paths, so I
pray thee enable me, by the same means, to persevere therein, a...
-
Hold up my goings in Thy paths, his steps follow the ways outlined by
God, THAT MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT, he has not left the way of God's
command on either side, he can in all sincerity urge his righteo...
-
THE BELIEVER TAKES HIS REFUGE IN GOD.
Every true believer is a poor sinner in the sight of God, knowing that
his natural sinfulness will not permit justifying himself before the
tribunal of divine jus...
-
SLIP NOT:
_ Heb._ be not moved...
-
1-7 This psalm is a prayer. Feigned prayers are fruitless; but if our
hearts lead our prayers, God will meet them with his favour. The
psalmist had been used to pray, so that it was not his distress...
-
As by thy word and grace thou hast hitherto kept me from the paths of
evil men, and led me into thy paths; so, I pray thee, enable me by the
same means to persevere in thy ways, and in mine abhorrency...
-
‘As for the works of men, by the word of your lips,
I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
My steps have held fast to your paths,
My feet have not slipped.'
When he compares his behaviour...
-
Psalms 17:5
The prayer may be regarded as showing (1) the right spirit, (2) the
right method, (3) the right purpose, of life.
I. In pointing out the right spirit of life, we see humility,
dependence...
-
Psalms 17:1. _Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear
unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips._
Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times,
the first v...
-
CONTENTS: David prays for relief from the pressure of enemies.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: If we are abused and misrepresented, we have a righteous
God to go to whose judgment is according t...
-
Psalms 17:3. _Thou hast tried me._ Vulgate, _Igne me examinâsti,_
Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of
metals.
Psalms 17:14. _Men which have their portion in this life,_ a...
-
_Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not._
SLIPPERY PLACES
The blessing of sanctified affliction is that we are made to see our
weakness. David here seems as a little child, ready...
-
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:1. This is an individual lament,
dealing especially with cases in which a person considers himself
unjustly accused of wrong (compare Psalms 7:1
-
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:3 The singer proclaims his innocence (TRIED,
VISITED, TESTED), and he recounts his efforts to stay pure....
-
INTRODUCTION
“David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for
deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away
his life. We find in it his opinion of the character of...
-
EXPOSITION
THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no
doubt, mainly of a series of petitions (Psalms 17:1, Psalms 17:2,
Psalms 17:6,...
-
The seventeenth psalm is another prayer of David. And it is, again,
one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause,
his own righteousness before the Lord.
Hear the right, O LORD,...
-
1 Samuel 2:9; Jeremiah 10:23; Psalms 18:36; Psalms 38:16; Psalms 94:18