FeignedDeceitful; false.A prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of FEIGNED lips. ( ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Let my prayer come before thee. Admit it to an audience; let it speak with thee. Though it be my prayer, and therefore very imper...
Lamentations 3:56 Thou hast heard my voice Either in times past, when he cried unto him, and was delivered; and this was an encouragement to call upon...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice. The pendulum of spirituality swings from prayer to praise. The voice which in the last ver...
Psalms 17:1 Hear the right, O Lord The psalmist appeals to the Lord as a Judge, sitting on the throne judging right, that he would hear his cause liti...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Lord, hear my voice. It is all we ask; but nothing less will content us. If the Lord will but hear us we will leave it to his sup...
Overview - Psalms 39 1?David's care of this thoughts. 4?The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life; 7?the reverence of God's judgments, 10?...
Overview - Psalms 17 1?David, in confidence of his integrity, craves defence of God against his enemies. 10?He shews their pride, craft, and eagerness...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God. Thou hast always heard me, O my Lord, and therefore I have the utmost confi...
PSALM 102 OVERVIEW. SUBJECT. This is a patriot's lament over his country's distress. He arrays himself in the griefs of his nation as in a garment of...
Psalms 115:6 They have ears, but they hear not The makers of them have taken care to place a pair of ears to their heads, but could not convey the fac...
PSALM 17 OVERVIEW TITLE and SUBJECT. A prayer of David. David would not have been a man after God's own heart, if he had not been a man of prayer. He...
Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them, &c.] When all the above evils threatened them in the preceding chapters shall ...
?EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS Verse 18. The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him. Not only near by his omnipresence, but to sympathiz...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer. Give me to go up to thy house, or if I may not do so, yet let my cry be heard. Thou listenest...
PSALM 5 OVERVIEW Title. To the Chief Musician upon Nehiloth, a Psalm of David. The Hebrew word Nehiloth is taken from another word, signifying to perf...
PSALM 143 OVERVIEW. Title. A Psalm of David. It is so much like other Davidic psalms that we accept the title without a moment's hesitation. David's h...
Job 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me Which added greatly to his affliction, that though he cried to the Lord for help and deliverance,...
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous Who are so not merely in the sight of men, but of God; nor in their own account, and by t...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God. Prayer is that postern gate which is left open even when the city is...