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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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MISCHIEF. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44....
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He prays for the confusion of his enemies" counsels, and describes the
miserable condition of the city....
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The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a
fierce outburst of indignation....
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_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...
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SORROW— _Injury._...
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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...
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_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...
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55:10 iniquity (a-13) See Note m, Psalms 55:3 ....
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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...
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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...
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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 a...
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_[Psalms 55:11]_ יֹומָ֤ם וָ לַ֗יְלָה
יְסֹובְבֻ֥הָ עַל...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 55:10 Day H3119 night H3915 around H5437 (H8779) walls H2346
Iniquity H205 trouble H5999 midst H7130...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 19:11; 2 Samuel 16:21; 2 Samuel 16:22; 2 Samuel 17:1;...
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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....