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Verse Psalms 18:33. _MY FEET LIKE HINDS'_ FEET] Swiftness, or _speed
of foot_, was a necessary qualification of an ancient hero. This was
of great advantage in pursuing, combating, or escaping from a...
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HE MAKETH MY FEET LIKE HINDS’ FEET - So Habakkuk 3:19, “He will
make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine
high places.” The hind is the female deer, remarkable for fleetness...
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Psalms 18
The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ
_ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_
2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7)
3. God gave Him glory (Psalms 18:19)
4. His enemies...
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XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe
this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that
he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...
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MY. Ginsburg thinks this should be omitted....
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HE MAKETH MY FEET LIKE HINDS' FEET, &C.— i.e. "Hath endowed me with
agility and vigour, and made me swift to run, so that I can easily
ascend the highest hills." This was reckoned a very honourable
qu...
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PSALMS 18
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
David's Song of Deliverance.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist
proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...
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_FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE: THE LORD MY GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN MY
DARKNESS._
Here follows the fourth section of the psalm. The aid which God had
given the Psalmist against foreign enemies, after he ha...
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Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest
confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel
22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...
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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...
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This verse is borrowed in Habakkuk 3:19. For _swiftness_ as an
essential of a warrior in Oriental esteem comp. 2 Samuel 1:23, and the
invariable epithet in Homer’s _Iliad,_ “swift-footed Achilles.”
Fo...
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_[Psalms 18:34]_ מְשַׁוֶּ֣ה רַ֭גְלַי כָּ †
אַיָּלֹ֑ות וְ עַ֥ל בָּ֝מֹתַ֗י
יַעֲמִידֵֽנִי׃...
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Psalms 18:1
THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the
psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the
same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout ima...
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GIRDED WITH STRENGTH FOR SERVICE
Psalms 18:27
God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make
ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads
him through th...
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This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms.
It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great
revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
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He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my (a) high
places.
(a) As towers and forts, which he took out of the hands of God's
enemies....
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These are all glorious triumphs of our risen and exalted Saviour. And
He who hath thus conquered for us, can and will conquer sin in us.
Like another Joshua, our Almighty Leader and Commander, which J...
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David, having taken many strongholds which, on account of their steep
and difficult access, were believed to be impregnable, extols the
grace of God in this particular. When he says that God had given...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19.
Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of
His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His)
entering into t...
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HE MAKETH MY FEET LIKE HIND'S [FEET],.... As light and swift as
theirs, as the Targum; that is, either to flee, when there was a
necessity for it, as Kimchi observes; or rather to pursue after the
ene...
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He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high
places.
Ver. 33. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet] Heb. He matcheth my feet,
like hinds' feet; that is, not only swift, if I have o...
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_He maketh my feet like hinds' feet_ That is, most swift and nimble.
As he makes me wise in counsel and contrivance, Psalms 18:32; so he
makes me speedy and expeditious in execution; which are the two...
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GIVING ALL GLORY TO GOD ALONE...
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29-50 When we praise for one mercy, we must observe the many more,
with which we have been compassed all our days. Many things had
contributed to David's advancement, and he owns the hand of God in
t...
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LIKE HINDS FEET, i.e. most swift and nimble. As he made me wise in
counsel and contrivance, (which he elsewhere saith,) so he made me
speedy and expeditious in the execution; which are the two great
e...
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Psalms 18:33 makes H7737 (H8764) feet H7272 deer H355 sets H5975
(H8686) places H1116
maketh - 2 Samuel 2:18
high - Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 33:29; 2 Samuel 22:14; Habakkuk
3:
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DAVID GIVES A SUMMARY OF WHAT GOD IS AND OF ALL GOD'S BLESSINGS TO HIM
(PSALMS 18:30).
Psalms 18:30
‘As for God, his way is perfect,
The word of YHWH is tried (tested and proved true),
He is a shi...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._
What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the
Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he
must do so,...
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CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their
difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...
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David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial,
when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all
his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his
c...
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_By Thee have I run through a troop._
SURMOUNTING IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTIES
This is a poetical way of representing the fact that impossibilities
have often been made possible in our own experience. Loo...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way
God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic
monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v. Psalm...
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INTRODUCTION
“This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in
celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of
the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient comment...
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EXPOSITION
THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only
from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those
which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...
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The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician.
It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah
the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...
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2 Samuel 2:18; 2 Samuel 22:14; Deuteronomy 32:13; Deuteronomy 33:29;
Habakkuk 3:19...
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High — places — Confirms me in that high estate into which he hath
advanced me....