Let death. — According to the written text we should render desolations upon them. Here we have another sudden outburst of overmastering feeling.
Quick — i.e., alive, perhaps with reminiscence of the fate of Korah. (Comp. Proverbs 1:12.)
Hell. — Sheôl. (See Note Psalms 6:5.)
And among them. — The conjunction is unnecessary. Render, in their dwellings, in their very midst.
Verse Psalms 55:15. _LET DEATH SEIZE UPON THEM_] This is a prediction of the sudden destruction which should fall on the ringleaders in this rebellion. And it was so. _Ahithophel_, seeing his counsel...
LET DEATH SEIZE UPON THEM - This would be more correctly rendered, “Desolations (are) upon them!” That is, Desolation, or destruction will certainly come upon them. There is in the original no necessa...
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...
QUICK. alive. Compare Numbers 16:30. HELL. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35. wickedness. Hebrew. _raa_ (plural)...
The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a fierce outburst of indignation....
The mournful recollections of past friendships so cruelly outraged give way to a fierce invocation of vengeance, and the individual disappears behind the whole body of the Psalmist's enemies. It will...
LET DEATH SEIZE UPON THEM, &C.— _Death shall exact the debt with usury; they shall descend alive into_ hades. This version is from Cocceius; and Dr. Chandler well remarks, that it preserves the propri...
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...
_LET DEATH SEIZE UPON THEM, AND LET THEM GO DOWN QUICK INTO HELL: FOR WICKEDNESS IS IN THEIR DWELLINGS, AND AMONG THEM._ Let death seize upon them So the Qeri' reads-literally, 'Let death deceive upo...
55:15 them, (e-5) Some read 'Desolation be upon them!'...
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...
QUICK INTO HELL] RM 'alive into Sheol.' For the light in which we are to regard such imprecations see Intro....
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 55:16]_ _יַשִּׁ֤י_† _מָ֨וֶת_† ׀ עָלֵ֗ימֹו יֵרְד֣וּ שְׁאֹ֣ול...
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...
FRIENDS MAY FORSAKE, BUT GOD ABIDETH Psalms 55:12 The streets and open spaces of the city were filled with conspirators. Violence, strife, deceit, and oppression trampled the virtuous and helpless un...
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...
Let death seize upon them, [and] let them (l) go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them. (l) As Korah, Dathan and Abiram....
We must of necessity drop David's history in these verses, to attend to an infinitely greater; for surely what is here said by the Spirit of Christ, which was in the holy men of old, is said in prophe...
15_Let death seize upon them. _He now denounces the whole faction, not the nation generally, but those who had taken a prominent part in the persecution of him. In imprecating this curse he was not in...
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...
LET DEATH SEIZE UPON THEM,.... Ahithophel and his accomplices, Judas and the men with him; as a mighty man, as the king of terrors, and shake them to pieces. Or, "let him exact upon them" a; as a cred...
Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them. Ver. 15. _Let death seize upon them_] _Irruat super illos mors,_ as a merc...
_Let death seize upon them_ Hebrew, ישׁי מות עלימו, _jashi maveth gnaleemo_, which Cocceius renders, _death will exact the debt with usury_, a version which, as Dr. Chandler well remarks, preserves th...
Let death seize upon them, the treacherous friends, AND LET THEM GO DOWN QUICK INTO HELL, into the realm of death, with a living body as in the case of Korah, Numbers 16:30; FOR WICKEDNESS IS IN THEIR...
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....
HELL: Or, the grave...
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...
THEM, i.e. him and all such false-hearted wretches, that pretended religion with wicked design, and now have manifestly apostatized, both from the profession and practice of it, and fallen into all ma...
Psalms 55:15 death H4194 seize H5377 (H8686) (H8675) H3451 down H3381 (H8799) alive H2416 hell...
HE PRAYS THAT GOD WILL DEAL WITH HIS TREACHEROUS FRIEND, ALONG WITH HIS ASSOCIATES, BY DEATH (PSALMS 55:15). He prays for sudden death to come on these men. The fact that David prayed like this indica...
HELL Or, the grave....
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 55:12 It is not a nameless ENEMY who is seeking to harm the faithful singer, but MY COMPANION, MY FAMILIAR FRIEND. Compare...
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...
2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 18:14; 2 Samuel 18:9; Acts 1:18; Acts 1:25;
Them — All such as pretend to religion, and have manifestly apostatized both from the profession and practice of it. The grave — Cut off by a sudden and violent death. Among them — Heb. in their inwar...