?EXPOSITIONVerse 12. They also that seek after my life lay snares for me. Alas! for us when in addition to inward griefs, we are beset by outward temp...
For our sins (uper twn amartiwn). Some MSS. have peri (concerning). In the Koin this use of uper as like peri has come to be common. He refers to the...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 12-23. Having spread the sad case before the Lord, the pleader now urges another series of arguments for divine help. He reasons from...
?EXPOSITION Verse 9. Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies. Many foes beset us, we cannot overcome them, we cannot even escape from them; but Jehovah ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 134. Deliver me from the oppression of man. David had tasted all the bitterness of this great evil. It had made him an exile from hi...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 9. Help us O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name. This is masterly pleading. No argument has such force as this. God's gl...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? The man of God looks calmly for...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. Lest he tear my soul. Here is the plea of fear co-working with the plea of faith. There was one among David's foes mightier that t...
Chapter 1818:4 And the vessel that he made of a clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to th...
FOWLER foul'-er (yoqesh): A professional birdcatcher. In the days previous to firearms, birds were captured with nets spread on the ground, in traps ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 8. Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked. Even they are dependent upon thee they can do no more than thou dost permit. Thou d...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. Deliver me from all my transgressions. How fair a sign it is when the psalmist no longer harps upon his sorrows, but begs freedom ...
Chapter?3 Nebuchadnezzar's golden image. (1-7) Shadrach and his companions refuse to worship it. (8-18) They are cast into a furnace, but are miracul...
Overview - Judges 20 1?The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong. 8?The decree of the assembly. 12?The Benjamites, being cited, make head a...
Chapter?59 Reproofs of sin and wickedness. (1-8) Confession of sin, and lamentation for the consequences. (9-15) Promises of deliverance. (16-21) ...
Jeremiah 7:10 And come and stand before me in this house In the temple; this they did after they had been guilty of such immoralities and idolatry; th...
Disputation of the Second Day.Disputation of the Second Day. The next day, a notary having again been summoned, the discussion was conducted as follow...
SABBATH MORNING. Cotterill. O Thou, Lord of the Sabbath, who hast set apart this day for thyself, and hast commanded us to keep it holy to thy name...
Chapter 5959:3 For your hands are defiled with a blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath uttered perversen...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. Assuredly no subtle plot shall succeed against one who has the eyes of...