Instruments of death. — That is, deadly weapons.
Against the persecutors. — Literally, for those burning; so LXX. and Vulg. The meaning appears to be, “His arrows he makes into fiery arrows” — i.e., tips them with fire, by wrapping them in burning tow. Latin, malleoli. (Comp. Ephesians 6:16, with Note, in New Testament Commentary.) Milton’s “rattling storm of arrows barb’d with fire,” refers to the same custom.
Verse Psalms 7:13. _HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM THE INSTRUMENTS OF_ _DEATH_] This appears to be all a prophecy of the tragical death of _Saul_. He was wounded by the _arrows_ of the _Philistines_; a...
HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM - The instruments of punishment are already prepared, and God can use them when he pleases. They are not to be made ready, and, therefore, there is no necessity for delay...
Psalms 7 _ 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1)_ 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6) 4. God's dealings in governm
VII. A AND VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:12 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6 Israel personified asks f...
ORDAINETH. will ordain....
HE ORDAINETH HIS ARROWS, &C.— _He will make his_ {_arrows to pursue._ / _pursuing arrows._}...
PSALMS 7 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One Wrongfully Accused Commits his Vindication to the Righteous Judge of All the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 7:1-2, Appeal to Jehovah for Safety. Stanza II., Psalms...
_HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH; HE ORDAINETH HIS ARROWS AGAINST THE PERSECUTORS._ Ordaineth-`maketh.' against the persecutors. Gesenius translates, 'He maketh his arrows burn...
7:13 him (i-6) Or 'pointed at him.'...
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 h...
HE ORDAINETH, etc.] RV 'He maketh his arrows fiery _shafts_'The sense is parallel with the last clause of Psalms 7:12....
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...
_[Psalms 7:14]_ וְ֭ לֹו הֵכִ֣ין כְּלֵי ־מָ֑וֶת...
Psalms 7:1 THIS is the only psalm with the title "Shiggaion." The word occurs only here and in Habakkuk 3:1, where it stands in the plural, and with the preposition "upon," as if it designated instrum...
REFUGE IN GOD FROM EVIL MEN Psalms 7:1 This psalm should be compared with 1 Samuel 24:1; 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 26:1. Cush,
This is a song of the singer's confidence and appeal in circumstances of the most trying description. He is persecuted by enemies, some among them being violent and cruel. The basis of their attack wo...
_Except you. Hebrew, "if he be not." Houbigant would read, "God will not be turned aside." (Berthier) --- "For him who does not change, he will sharpen his sword." (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- God threa...
If we read these verses with reference to David's history, how were these truths confirmed in the instance of the Benjamite Saul? And if we read them with reference to a greater than David, even David...
Psalms 7 appeals to Jehovah, on the ground of the righteous and more than righteous dealing of the godly with their enemies, that Jehovah may arise and awake to the judgment He has commanded, and that...
HE HATH ALSO PREPARED FOR HIM THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH,.... The weapons of his indignation, Isaiah 13:5; which, will issue both in the first and second death, corporeal and eternal; the instruments of...
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Ver. 13. _He hath also prepared, &c._] The punishment of ungodly persons is here elegantly set...
_If he_ The wicked man last mentioned; _turn not_ From his wicked course; _he_ God; _will whet his sword_ Will prepare, and hasten, and speedily execute his judgments upon him. _He hath bent his bow _...
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He ordaineth His arrows against the persecutors, the burning arrows and darts of His lightnings being tile messengers of His punishment....
David's Confident Trust...
10-17 David is confident that he shall find God his powerful Saviour. The destruction of sinners may be prevented by their conversion; for it is threatened, If he turn not from his evil way, let him...
FOR HIM; either, 1. For or against the persecutor, as it follows. Or rather, 2. For himself, for his own use, to wit, to shoot against his enemies. THE INSTRUMENTS OF DEATH, i.e. arrows, or other dea...
Psalms 7:13 prepares H3559 (H8689) instruments H3627 death H4194 makes H6466 (H8799) arrows H2671 shafts H1814 ...
HE REVEALS THAT GOD IS A PRESENT JUDGE ON ALL (PSALMS 7:11). ‘God (Elohim) is a righteous judge, Yes, a God (El) who has indignation every day. If a man turn not, he will whet his sword, He has be...
Psalms 7:13 I. Consider from this instance how often there lurk meanings of mercy and of love in the Psalms when upon the surface of them all seems to breathe (like Saul on the road to Damascus) of th...
CONTENTS: David prays for deliverance from persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When the believer is slandered he has the court of heaven to fly to and a righteous Judge who is the patro...
The title of this psalm is similar to that of Zechariah 3:1. It is called, not a psalm, but _Shiggaion_ or _Shigionoth_ of David; which he sung to the Lord concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite....
_O Lord my God, in Thee do I put my trust._ AN APPEAL FROM THE SLANDERED I. The appeal (Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:6). A petition for freedom and deliverance from his persecutors, in which he desires God t...
_Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end._ THE SELF-DESTROYING POWER OF WICKEDNESS The accents require Psalms 7:9 to be rendered, “Let wickedness make an end of the wicked,” but that introduc...
_He ordaineth His arrows against the persecutors._ GOD’S ARROWS Mercy and love often lurk in the meanings of these Psalms, which on their surface seem, like Saul on the road to Damascus, to breathe t...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 7:1. The title of this individual lament from David refers to an otherwise unknown incident in his life when a man of Benjamin (the tribe of Saul) slandered David. The psalm...
INTRODUCTION “From the matter of this psalm it appears that it was composed with reference to some calumny on the character of David; but commentators are not agreed as to when and by whom this injur...
EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its date the earlier portion of David's public life—that during...
The seventh psalm is Shiggaion. Which means the loud crying of David which he sang unto the Lord concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from al...
2 Thessalonians 1:6; Deuteronomy 32:23; Deuteronomy 32:42; Habakkuk 3:11;...
Him — For the wicked. Ordaineth — Designs or fits for this very use. Of all sinners, persecutors are set up as the fairest marks of Divine wrath. They set God at defiance but cannot set themselves out...