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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 4:5

Sacrifices of righteousness] sacrifices accompanied by right conduct, offered in a right spirit, and so acceptable to God. Perhaps there may be a reference to the insincere sacrifices of 2 Samuel 15:12.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 4:5. _OFFER THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Do not attempt to offer a sacrifice to God for prosperity in your present rebellious conduct. Such a sacrifice would be a sin. Turn to God f...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    OFFER THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - Offer righteous sacrifices; that is, sacrifices prompted by right motives, and in accordance with the prescriptions in the law of God. This appears to be addres...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 4 __ 1. The cry to Jehovah (Psalms 4:1) 2. The warning to the enemies (Psalms 4:4) 3. The assurance of faith (Psalms 4:6)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    IV. AN EVENING HYMN BY A MAN HIGH IN OFFICE WHOSE RULE EXCITES JEALOUSY AND RESISTANCE. The Psalmist begins with an appeal to the God of his righteousness, _i.e._ the God who declares that his case is...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OFFER THE SACRIFICES. No Art. Hebrew. _zabah._ App-43. SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. righteous sacrifices. Genitive of Character. How could they offer these while in rebellion against the Lord's Anoin...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS— _True sacrifices_] Vitring. Isaiah 5:2 p. 56. 829....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 4 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Ideal Levite's Evening Prayer. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 4:1, New Favour Sought in the Strength of Past Supplies. Stanza II., Psalms 4:2, Expostulation addressed to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _OFFER THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE LORD._ Offer the sacrifices of righteousness - not hypocritical sacrifices, such as Absalom offered (2 Samuel 15:7), but sacrifices i...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:5 Offer (e-1) As Exodus 23:18 ; Psalms 50:14 . confide (f-6) * Implying 'security without anxiety,' and so elsewhere....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. — Comp. Psalms 51:18; Deuteronomy 33:19. The context in both places directs to the translation “right” or “due” sacrifices, _i.e.,_ sacrifices duly and religiously perform...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 4:6]_ זִבְח֥וּ זִבְחֵי ־צֶ֑דֶק וּ֝ בִטְח֗וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 4:1 Psalms 3:1; Psalms 4:1 are a pair. They are similar in expression (my glory, there be many which say, I laid me down and slept) in the psalmist's situation, and in structure (as indicated b...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MORNING AND EVENING PRAYERS Psalms 3:1; Psalms 4:1 These psalms probably date from David's flight before Absalom, 2 Samuel 16:1. It is the perfection of trust to be able to sleep when our foes are ma...

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

    This is a song of the evening. The general circumstances out of which it rises are the same as those of the previous psalm. Now, however, the day into which the singer marched with confidence is over....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (i) Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. (i) Serve God purely, and not with outward ceremonies....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Angry. My soldiers, do not resent this offence too much, kill not the boy; (2 Kings xviii. 5.) or (Haydock) you, my deluded subjects, enter into yourselves. St. Paul (Ephesians iv. 26.) cites this as...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Nothing can be more gracious than what is here recommended. It is as if the Holy Ghost commanded the sinner to pause over the view of his own nothingness, and then to come by faith, with Jesus and his...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._Sacrifice ye. _Many are of opinion that David exhorts his enemies to give some evidence of their repentance; and I certainly admit, that sacrifices were partly enjoined for the purpose of inducing...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 4 differs in this respect from Psalms 3, of which we shall see other examples, that it is not simple confidence, but appeals to righteousness against the sons of men, who turn all the glory tha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    OFFER THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Offer for sacrifice things righteously gotten, for the Lord hates robbery for burnt offering, Isaiah 61:8. Some respect may be had to the unrighteous acquisi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. Ver. 5. _Offer the sacrifices of righteousness_] Confess your sins, and slay them; run to him who is the propitiation, Jesus Chr...

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

    _Offer_ Unto God, that he may be reconciled to you; _the sacrifice of righteousness_ Righteous sacrifices; which requires that the persons offering them be righteous and do righteous things, and offer...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, showing the soundness of their penitence, the real character of their conversion, by sacrifices of atonement, AND PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE LORD, who would abundantl...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    EVENING PRAYER OF A CHRISTIAN IN EVERY KIND OF TROUBLE. David, in his flight before Absalom, had come to Mahanaim, on the east side of Jordan, 2 Samuel 17:24. He had a number of faithful men with him,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Hear me for thy mercy-sake, is our best plea. He who will not ask such blessings as pardon, and justifying righteousness, and eternal life, must perish for the want of them. Alas! that so many sh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OFFER, to wit, unto God, that he may be reconciled to you, and may pardon all your murmurings and insurrections against him and against me. For it seems plain that this, as well as the former verse, i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 4:5 Offer H2076 (H8798) sacrifices H2077 righteousness H6664 trust H982 (H8798) LORD H3068 Offer -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Stand in awe and do not sin, Commune with your own heart on your bed and be still, Selah Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in YHWH.' In view of whom they are dealing with t...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4 I. Everywhere, in the history of the human heart, these two things are found in the hours of our bitter pain: unfathomable desire and want of something more than earth or its love can give, a...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4:4 To persons who are cast down and doubtful what their hope is of pardon, and sanctification, and final acceptance the Divine answer is nothing mystical and perplexing, nothing implying that...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4:1. _Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer._ Good men want to be heard when they pray, they are...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4:1. _Hear me, when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer._ Past experience is a sweet solace in the hour of t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David's exhortation to others to serve God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The godly are chosen, and by distinguished grace set apart and separated from men, all the longings of the s...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 4:3. _Him that is godly._ חסיךְ _chasik,_ merciful. The literal reading is by far the best, because it designates godliness by the fruits of piety. Psalms 4:4. _Stand in awe._ St. Paul here fol...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness._ A GENTLE REMONSTRANCE This Psalm is mainly a gentle, earnest remonstrance with antagonists, seeking to win them to a better mind. The cry for an answ...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord._ SACRIFICE AND TRUST What are we to understand by this expression, “The sacrifices of righteousness”? 1. By way of specificati...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 4:1. This psalm expresses quiet trust amid troubling circumstances, combining the categories of individual lament and confidence....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NIGHT THOUGHTS _Introduction_ “The Psalmist prays God to deliver him from present as from past distresses (Psalms 4:2). 1. He assures the haters of his regal dignity that God bestowed it, and will...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AGAIN the psalm has a title, "To the chief Musician on Neginoth. A Psalm of David;" literally, "to the_ _superintendent or foreman," which, in this instance, would be the choir-leader, or ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The fourth psalm is to the chief musician on Neginoth. Now Neginoth is a stringed instrument, and it is mentioned in connection with several of the Psalms--3, 5, 53, 54, 60, 66, and 75. So it is some...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 4:19; 2 Samuel 15:12; Deuteronomy 33:19; Hebrews 13:15;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    A PSALM OF SUPPLICATION Psalms 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The prayer of Cornelius. As an introductory to the study of Psalms 4:1, which sets forth a great prayer of David, we thought we would give s...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Offer — Unto God, that he may be reconciled to you. Righteousness — Righteous sacrifices; which requires that the persons offering them be righteous and do righteous things, and offer them with an hon...

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