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 here referred to (2 Samuel 18:21). The absenee of any Scripture mention of Cush makes it all the more... [ Continue Reading ]
IF I HAVE DONE THIS] with which Cush charged him. See further in Psalms 7:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
The second clause may be read without the parenthesis, 'or despoiled him that without cause was mine adversary.'... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE] RV 'overtake.' MINE HONOUR] RV 'my glory,' an equivalent for 'soul' and 'life' in the previous parallel clauses. SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
AWAKE FOR ME] a daring figure, as if God's delay had been due to sleep. _To_ THE JUDGMENT _that_, etc.] RV 'thou hast commanded judgment,' i.e. exercised the justice of which Thou art the source.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO SHALL, etc.] RV 'and let,' etc. PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' So in Psalms 7:8. An assize of all the nations is pictured. FOR THEIR SAKES, etc.] RV 'over them return thou on high,' or 'sit thou above them,' i.e. in judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL JUDGE] RV 'ministereth judgment to.'... [ Continue Reading ]
JUST] RV 'righteous,' the same epithet which is applied to God. THE HEARTS AND REINS] the whole inner life. The reins are the kidneys, and are spoken of like the heart, the bowels, and the internal organs generally, as the seat of thought and feeling.... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, 'God is a righteous judge, yea, a God that hath indignation everyday.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, 'If a man turn not He (God) will whet,' etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE ORDAINETH, etc.] RV 'He maketh his arrows fiery _shafts_'The sense is parallel with the last clause of Psalms 7:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
There is a transition at this point from God to the wicked man.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE MADE] RV 'he hath made.' The evil he planned for others comes on himself.... [ Continue Reading ]
another figure for the same thing. Mischief is like a stone thrown up, which falls back upon the thrower's head. PATE] Old English for 'head.'... [ Continue Reading ]
All that has been said illustrates the righteousness of the Lord, which is accordingly the ground of this concluding ascription of praise.... [ Continue Reading ]