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.
Verse Psalms 7:14. _HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY_] All these terms show the pitch of envy, wrath, and malevolence, to which Saul had carried his opposition against David. He _conceived mischief_; he _t...
BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY - The wicked man does. The allusion here is to the pains and throes of child-birth; and the idea is, that the wicked man labors or struggles, even with great pain,...
Psalms 7 _ 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1)_ 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6) 4. God's dealings in governm
VII. A AND VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:12 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6 Israel personified asks f...
BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH, &C.— This verse is by some expositors more clearly rendered thus: _Behold he is travailing with his iniquity; for he had conceived mischief, and therefore he will bring forth fa...
PSALMS 7 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One Wrongfully Accused Commits his Vindication to the Righteous Judge of All the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 7:1-2, Appeal to Jehovah for Safety. Stanza II., Psalms...
_BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY, AND HATH CONCEIVED MISCHIEF, AND BROUGHT FORTH FALSEHOOD._ He traveleth ... and hath conceived mischief ... falsehood. Describing the sinner's laborious course o...
This Ps. is an appeal to God as the righteous Judge against an ungrateful and vindictive enemy. Nothing is known of Cush the Benjamite, but the case of Shimei affords a parallel to the circumstances h...
There is a transition at this point from God to the wicked man....
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...
BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH. — The poet’s thought recurs to the calumniator, whose sin has deserved all this Divine wrath, and he sees the truth that God’s judgments are not arbitrary, but follow naturally...
_[Psalms 7:15]_ הִנֵּ֥ה יְחַבֶּל ־אָ֑וֶן וְ הָרָ֥ה...
Psalms 7:1 THIS is the only psalm with the title "Shiggaion." The word occurs only here and in Habakkuk 3:1, where it stands in the plural, and with the preposition "upon," as if it designated instrum...
REFUGE IN GOD FROM EVIL MEN Psalms 7:1 This psalm should be compared with 1 Samuel 24:1; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 26:1. Cush,
This is a song of the singer's confidence and appeal in circumstances of the most trying description. He is persecuted by enemies, some among them being violent and cruel. The basis of their attack wo...
_For them that burn. That is, against the persecutors of his saints. (G.[Calmet?]) --- Hebrew also, "he has made his arrows to turn." (Houbigant after Symmachus.) (Haydock) --- The ancients used fiery...
If we read these verses with reference to David's history, how were these truths confirmed in the instance of the Benjamite Saul? And if we read them with reference to a greater than David, even David...
14_Behold, he shall travail _David has hitherto shown how great and formidable the danger was which was near him. In this verse, laughing to scorn the presumptuous and foolish attempts of Saul, and hi...
Psalms 7 appeals to Jehovah, on the ground of the righteous and more than righteous dealing of the godly with their enemies, that Jehovah may arise and awake to the judgment He has commanded, and that...
BEHOLD, HE TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY,.... Is full of it, and big with it, as a woman with child, and eagerly desires to bring it forth, and is in pain till he commits it; AND HATH CONCEIVED MISCHIEF;...
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. Ver. 14. _Behold, he travaileth with iniquity_] Heb. he shall travail, or he continually travaileth; he...
_Behold_, he That is, the wicked, _travaileth with iniquity_, &c. This metaphor denotes his deep design and vigorous endeavours for doing mischief; and his restlessness and pain till he have accomplis...
David's Confident Trust...
Behold, he, the wicked man, TRAVAILETH WITH INIQUITY, laboring and struggling, as in the throes of childbirth, in bringing forth transgression, AND HATH CONCEIVED MISCHIEF, AND BROUGHT FORTH FALSEHOOD...
10-17 David is confident that he shall find God his powerful Saviour. The destruction of sinners may be prevented by their conversion; for it is threatened, If he turn not from his evil way, let him...
HE, i.e. the wicked, as is undeniably manifest from the matter and context. CONCEIVED MISCHIEF, AND BROUGHT FORTH FALSEHOOD: this metaphor noteth his deep design, and continued course, and vigorous en...
Psalms 7:14 forth H2254 (H8762) iniquity H205 conceives H2029 (H8804) trouble H5999 forth H3205 (H8804) falsehood...
HE DECLARES THAT THERE ARE EVEN NOW PRESENT CONSEQUENCES OF SIN (PSALMS 7:14). ‘Behold he exerts himself with iniquity (worthlessness), Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood....
CONTENTS: David prays for deliverance from persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When the believer is slandered he has the court of heaven to fly to and a righteous Judge who is the patro...
The title of this psalm is similar to that of Zechariah 3:1. It is called, not a psalm, but _Shiggaion_ or _Shigionoth_ of David; which he sung to the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite....
_O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust._ AN APPEAL FROM THE SLANDERED I. The appeal (Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:6). A petition for freedom and deliverance from his persecutors, in which he desires God t...
_Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end._ THE SELF-DESTROYING POWER OF WICKEDNESS The accents require Psalms 7:9 to be rendered, “Let wickedness make an end of the wicked,” but that introduc...
_Behold, he travaileth with iniquity._ THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH 1. That all the labour of wicked men against the Church is but labour in vain in respect of their own intent and expectation. 2. That...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 7:1. The title of this individual lament from David refers to an otherwise unknown incident in his life when a man of Benjamin (the tribe of Saul) slandered David. The psalm...
INTRODUCTION “From the matter of this psalm it appears that it was composed with reference to some calumny on the character of David; but commentators are not agreed as to when and by whom this injur...
EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its date the earlier portion of David's public life—that during...
The seventh psalm is Shiggaion. Which means the loud crying of David which he sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from al...
Isaiah 33:11; Isaiah 59:4; Isaiah 59:5; James 1:15; Job 15:20;...
Travelleth — This metaphor denotes his deep design, and vigorous endeavours for doing mischief, and his restlessness and pain 'till he have accomplished it....