Psalms 56:1
DAILY] RV 'all the day long.' So in Psalms 56:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
DAILY] RV 'all the day long.' So in Psalms 56:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A _Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.' For Michtam see on Psalms 16. JONATH ELEM REHOKIM ('the dove of the distant terebinths') indicates the song to the melody of whicb the Ps. was to be sung. As in the c... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST ME, O THOU MOST HIGH] RV 'proudly against me.'... [ Continue Reading ]
IN GOD I WILL PRAISE HIS WORD] By God's help I will praise Him for the truth of His promises.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL THEY ESCAPE BY INIQUITY?] A slight change of reading would give, 'Requite them according to their iniquity.' PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' This prayer would become more intelligible if national rather than personal enemies were in view.... [ Continue Reading ]
TELLEST] countest. PUT THOU MY TEARS] or, 'my tears are put.' THY BOTTLE] or 'skin.' God treasures His servants' tears as if they were water or wine. St. Bernard says, 'the tears of penitents are the wine of angels.' THY BOOK] in which all things are recorded.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY VOWS, etc.] The vows I have made to Thee bind me to Thy service.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wilt_ NOT _thou deliver?_ etc.] RV '_hast thou_ not _delivered_,' etc.—an affirmation in the form of a question. The meaning is, 'Yea, and my feet from falling.'... [ Continue Reading ]