They go. — It is quite in keeping with the Hebrew style to suppose mischief and strife personified here as the ancient versions do, and not only occupying the city as inhabitants, but prowling about its walls. So in the next verse corruption (see Psalms 5:9, Note), deceit, and guile are personified. Comp. Virgil’s
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Verse Psalms 55:10. _DAY AND NIGHT THEY GO ABOUT_] This and the following verse show the state of Jerusalem at this time. Indeed, they exhibit a fair view of the state of any city in the beginning of...
DAY AND NIGHT THEY GO ABOUT IT, UPON THE WALLS THEREOF - That is, continually. The word “they” in this place probably refers to the violence and strife mentioned in the preceding verse. They are here...
Psalms 55 In the Throes of the Great Tribulation _ 1. Prayer for help (Psalms 55:1)_ 2. Longings to escape (Psalms 55:4) 3. The great tribulation ...
LV. A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 55:1. The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from Jerusalem to the wilderness. Psalms 55:12. A description of...
MISCHIEF. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44....
He prays for the confusion of his enemies" counsels, and describes the miserable condition of the city....
The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a fierce outburst of indignation....
_they go about it upon the walls thereof_ A metaphor from watchmen going their rounds on the city walls. But who are meant by _they?_Perhaps the party hostile to the Psalmist, who are ever patrolling...
SORROW— _Injury._...
PSALMS 55 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Bitter Complaint of the Treachery of an Intimate Friend. ANALYSIS (Of the Psalm as Reconstructed.) Stanza I., Psalms 55:1-7, Invocation of God under great Nervous Exc...
_DAY AND NIGHT THEY GO ABOUT IT UPON THE WALLS THEREOF: MISCHIEF ALSO AND SORROW ARE IN THE MIDST OF IT._ Day and night they go about it - at all times. UPON THE WALLS THEREOF ... IN THE MIDST OF IT...
55:10 iniquity (a-13) See Note m, Psalms 55:3 ....
The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he complains is his equal and not his subject. There is real...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
_[Psalms 55:11]_ יֹומָ֤ם וָ לַ֗יְלָה יְסֹובְבֻ֥הָ עַל...
Psalms 55:1 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identification of the traitorous friend with Ahithophel is natur...
FLEEING THE CITY'S ILLS Psalms 55:1 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references which, in their full extent, are chiefly applicable to Judas...
This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his soul. He has been cruelly betrayed by his familiar fri...
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: (h) mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it. (h) All laws and good orders are broken and only vice and dissolution reigns under Saul....
If we look at David in these verses, we see how the distressed monarch pleaded with God to prosper the plan he had laid with his friend Hushai, to defeat the counsel of his foes. He had sent back this...
Psalms 55 is a distressing picture of wickedness in Jerusalem. The speaker is outside, but has experienced this wickedness in the treachery of his dearest friends. His resource is in God: Jehovah will...
DAY AND NIGHT THEY GO ABOUT IT, UPON THE WALLS THEREOF,.... That is, "violence" and "strife" go about the walls of it continually; men of violence and contention are the only watchmen of it: a city mu...
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it. Ver. 10. _Day and night they go about it, upon the walls thereof_] The ruffian soldiers do, a...
_Day and night they_ That is, the violence and strife, last mentioned; go _about_ Do encompass it, as it were a garrison. _Upon the walls thereof_ In the outward parts, as also _in the_ very _midst of...
A COMPLAINT OF FALSE FRIENDS. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship, Maschil, a psalm of David....
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof, the enemies keeping a careful watch, spying upon the righteous; MISCHIEF ALSO AND SORROW, harm of every kind, ARE IN THE MIDST OF IT....
9-15 No wickedness so distresses the believer, as that which he witnesses in those who profess to be of the church of God. Let us not be surprised at the corruptions and disorders of the church on ea...
THEY, i.e. the violence and strife last mentioned, PSALMS 55:9, go about it; do encompass it, and are as it were the garrison by which they design to defend it. UPON THE WALLS THEREOF; in the more out...
Psalms 55:10 Day H3119 night H3915 around H5437 (H8779) walls H2346 Iniquity H205 trouble H5999 midst H7130...
HE DESCRIBES THE CITY FROM WHICH HE HAS ESCAPED AS, FOR HIM AT LEAST, A PLACE OF VIOLENCE, STRIFE AND WICKEDNESS (PSALMS 55:9). He describes the city in which he has been dwelling as a place of conti...
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and yet so full of confidence in God. It is a Psalm up...
CONTENTS: Complaint concerning false friends. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The best salve for every sore is prayer. One of the greatest griefs is to find ourselves deceived in some who have m...
Psalms 55:6. _Oh that I had wings like a dove,_ to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But the English is preferable, as uttering the heart before...
_Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication._ THE COMPASSIONABLE, THE COMMENDABLE, AND THE CENSURABLE IN LIFE I. The compassionable. David appears here an object for pit...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:1. Like many other individual laments, this psalm prays for God’s help against dangerous enemies. There is a unique twist here. The danger comes from betrayal by a close...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 55:9 The singer seems to expect that the enemies will not repent of their evil (see v. Psalms 55:19)....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See introduction to Psalms 54 “_Maschil_,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “The Psalmist wishes to show how, in such a situation of...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century B.C. But no solid grounds have been shown for setting aside the traditionary ev...
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppre...
1 Samuel 19:11; 2 Samuel 16:21; 2 Samuel 16:22; 2 Samuel 17:1;...
They — Violence and strife. Go about — Do encompass it, as it were a garrison. Walls — In the outward parts, as also in the very midst of it. So that all parts were horribly corrupted....