Psalms 7:1
DO I. have I. PUT MY TRUST. flee for refuge. Hebrew. _hasa._ See App-69. PERSECUTE. pursue me. Refers probably to Saul.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO I. have I. PUT MY TRUST. flee for refuge. Hebrew. _hasa._ See App-69. PERSECUTE. pursue me. Refers probably to Saul.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE: i.e. Cush. TEAR. Hebrew. _taraph._ Refers to _living_ prey. MY SOUL. me. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. WHILE THERE IS NONE TO DELIVER. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "and there be no deliverer to rescue". Better, no sign of. rescuer. Compare Lamentations 5:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aval._ App-44. not the same as Psalms 7:14. IN MY HANDS. Hands put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is done by them.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL. Hebrew. _raa'._ App-44. DELIVERED. rescued. Aramaean and Syriac read "oppressed". ENEMY. adversary. Hebrew. _zarar_.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENEMY. foe. Hebrew. _'oyeb._ PERSECUTE... TAKE... TREAD. Figure of speech _Anabasis._ App-6. IT. me. SELAH. Connecting the treading down of Psalms 7:5 with the rising up of Jehovah. See App-66.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE. peoples. COMPASS THEE ABOUT. gather round Thee: i.e. to hear Thy judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKEDNESS... WICKED. lawlessness... lawless. Hebrew. _rasha_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEFENCE. shield. See note on "shield", Psa 6:12. UPRIGHT. Plural.... [ Continue Reading ]
RIGHTEOUS. Plural. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE: i.e. God. HIS SWORD... BOW. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._... [ Continue Reading ]
ORDAINETH. will ordain.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6. TRAVAILETH... CONCEIVED... BROUGHT FORTH. Figure of speech Anabasis. App-6. TRAVAILETH. will travail. INIQUITY. Hebrew 'aven App-44. i, not same word as Psalms 7:3. MISCHIEF. Hebrew. _'amal._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
PATE. head; especially the smooth skull. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for the whole person, for emphasis. From "plate". the smooth top of the head (Skeat).... [ Continue Reading ]
MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ See App-4. First occurrence in Psalms. The first of thirty-six occurrences in O.T. is Genesis 14:18. TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. UPON GITTITH. relating to the Feast of Tabernacles (for which it was suited), because it commemorated safe dwelling after deliverance.... [ Continue Reading ]