Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 55:19
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they (o) have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
(o) But their prosperous estate still continues.
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they (o) have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
(o) But their prosperous estate still continues.
Verse Psalms 55:19. _BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CHANGES_] At first Absalom, Ahithophel, and their party, carried all before them. There seemed to be a very general defection of the people; and as in their...
GOD SHALL HEAR AND AFFLICT THEM - That is, God will hear my prayer, and will afflict them, or bring upon them deserved judgments. As this looks to the future, it would seem to show that when in the pr...
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...
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. The mighty Creator. because in conflict with His creatures. HEAR. hear me. AFFLICT THEM. answer them. EVEN, &C. Figure of speech _Parenthesis._ App-6. SELAH. Connecting the _...
In this division of the Psalm the storm of indignation dies away, and the Psalmist's trustful confidence revives....
The judgement of his enemies. _God shall hear, and afflict them_ Or, _humble them_. This, which is the rendering of the Ancient Versions, is probably right. But it requires a change of the vocalisatio...
EVEN HE THAT ABIDETH OF OLD— _Even he who reigns from everlasting._ Chandler, after Cocceius. The introducing God as reigning of old, and holding the government of the world from before all ages, has...
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...
_AS FOR ME, I WILL CALL UPON GOD; AND THE LORD SHALL SAVE ME._ -Third strophe. His confident hope, resting upon the grounds stated in the previous prayer. Verse 16,17. AS FOR ME ... EVENING, AND MORN...
55:19 seated (f-10) Or 'that abideth.' they (g-23) Or 'because they with whom are no changes.'...
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...
BECAUSE, etc.] RV (with comma after old) '_The men_ who have no changes, and who fear not God.' By 'changes' we may understand ups and downs of fortune, or pauses in their wickedness. A slightly diffe...
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...
GOD SHALL HEAR. — Render this verse, God shall hear and afflict them, He abideth of old; One in whom are no changes, And yet they fear not God. (Comp. James 1:17, “with whom is no variableness, neith...
_[Psalms 55:20]_ יִשְׁמַ֤ע ׀ אֵ֨ל ׀ וְֽ יַעֲנֵם֮ וְ...
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...
How precious are these words, whether considered as the language of our Lord in the days of his flesh, or of any of his believing people. They suit all. The evening, the morning, the noon; all seasons...
19_God shall hear, and afflict them _As the verb ענה, _anah, _which I have rendered _afflict, _signifies, occasionally, _to testify, _some understand David to say that God would rise up as a witness a...
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...
GOD SHALL HEAR AND AFFLICT THEM,.... That is, either he shall hear the prayers of his servant, imprecating evils upon his enemies, Psalms 55:9; and shall bring them down upon them, in answer to his r...
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. Ver. 19. _God shall hear_] _sc._ My prayers which are on the file befo...
_God shall hear_ My prayer against them, mentioned Psalms 55:15, or their reproaches, Psalms 55:12, their deceitful and treacherous speeches, Psalms 55:21. He had said, God would hear his voice,...
God shall hear and afflict them, hearing their fierce tumult and answering them as the stern Judge, EVEN HE THAT ABIDETH OF OLD, the Refuge of the believers from everlasting to everlasting. SELAH. BEC...
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....
THEY HAVE NO CHANGES, THEREFORE THEY FEAR NOT GOD: Or, with whom also there be no changes, yet they fear not God...
16-23 In every trial let us call upon the Lord, and he will save us. He shall hear us, and not blame us for coming too often; the oftener the more welcome. David had thought all were against him; but...
GOD SHALL HEAR; either, 1. My prayers against them, mentioned PSALMS 55:15. Or, 2. Their reproaches, PSALMS 55:12; their deceitful and treacherous speeches, PSALMS 55:21. He said God would hear
Psalms 55:19 God H410 hear H8085 (H8799) afflict H6030 (H8799) abides H3427 (H8802) old H6924 Selah...
HE STRESSES THAT GOD HAS ALREADY REDEEMED HIM ONCE (PSALMS 55:18). It would appear from this that an attempt had already been made to get rid of him by an armed assault. As one of Saul's commanders he...
Psalms 55:19 No changes! We must not take the expression in a hard and narrow literal sense, or it would be true of no man. The changes of which the Psalmist speaks mean changes that disturb, changes...
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...
_Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God._ NO CHANGES Who can they be--where can they live, of whom it can be said that they have not changes! Can they be inhabitants of this world...
_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 55:16 The psalmist describes both desperation (v. Psalms 55:17) and confidence (vv. Psalms 55:1
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 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Colossians 1:17; Deuteronomy 33:27;...
Hear — My prayers. Eternity — Who is eternal, and therefore unchangeable, and almighty. Because — They meet with no crosses nor disappointments. Therefore — Their success makes them go on securely, wi...