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Verse Psalms 35:12. TO _THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL_] _To destroy my
life_; so נפש _nephesh_ should be translated in a multitude of
places, where our translators have used the word _soul_....
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THEY REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD - They recompensed, or returned evil
instead of good. The manner in which they did it he states in the
following verses.
TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL - Margin, “depriving...
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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 ...
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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...
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EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44.
SPOILING. bereaving....
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The causelessness of the Psalmist's persecution and the ingratitude of
his persecutors are urged as reasons for God's interference on his
behalf....
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_They rewarded_&c. Better, as R.V., they reward. As in the preceding
verse he speaks of what is still going on. His enemies are guilty of
the basest ingratitude. Cp. Psalms 38:20; Psalms 109:5; Prover...
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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...
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_THEY REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL._
They ... the spoiling of my soul - literally, '(to) the bereavement of
my soul;' they bereaved me of all the consolations and necessaries...
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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...
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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...
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TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL. — Literally, _desolation to my soul._ We
may paraphrase,
“They rewarded me evil for good,
Which to me was desolation.”...
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יְשַׁלְּמ֣וּנִי רָ֭עָה תַּ֥חַת
טֹובָ֗ה שְׁכֹ֣ול לְ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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They rewarded me evil for good [to] the (k) spoiling of my soul.
(k) To have taken from me all comfort and brought me into despair....
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_Sinner. Hebrew and Septuagint, "sinners," who are always striving to
supplant the just by pride and evil example. (Berthier) --- Let me not
listen to their wicked advice. (St. Augustine) --- Let not...
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I do not think it enough to prove that these words were spoken in a
spirit of prophecy, wholly referring to Christ; but I would desire the
Reader to remark, with me, the gracious love of the Holy Ghos...
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12._They render me evil for good. _David again shows that the malice
of his enemies was of a very aggravated character, because they not
only oppressed him wrongfully, seeing he was innocent, and had...
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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...
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THEY REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD,.... For the good David did in killing
Goliath, and slaying his ten thousands of the Philistines, and thereby
saving his king and country, Saul and his courtiers envied...
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They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.
Ver. 12. _They rewarded me evil for good_] To render good for evil is
divine, good for good is human, evil for evil is brutish; but evil f...
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_They laid to my charge things I knew not_ They accused me to Saul of
treacherous designs against his crown and life, and of other crimes of
which I was wholly innocent and ignorant. _They rewarded me...
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They rewarded me evil for good, which he, on his part, was trying to
show them, TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL, to make his soul bereaved, to
make him friendless, to isolate him....
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THE HYPOCRISY AND MALICE OF THE WICKED...
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SPOILING:
_ Heb._ depriving...
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11-16 Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was
the character of David's enemies. Herein he was a type of Christ.
David shows how tenderly he had behaved towards them in afflictio...
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FOR GOOD; for the good offices which did to divers of them when I had
favour and power in Saul's court and camp. TO THE SPOILING OF MY SOUL,
i.e. to the stripping of my person of all my comforts and h...
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Psalms 35:12 reward H7999 (H8762) evil H7451 good H2896 sorrow H7908
soul H5315
They - Psal
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BROUGHT BEFORE THE JUDGES HE IS QUESTIONED ABOUT CRIMES OF WHICH HE
KNOWS NOTHING, AND THAT BY THOSE TO WHOM HE HAD SHOWN NOTHING BUT
KINDNESS WHO ARE NOW DETERMINED TO BRING HIM DOWN (PSALMS 35:11)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 19:15; 1 Samuel 19:4; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 20:31;...