Psalm 64:1-67:8 WEB

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 64:1-10

Psalms 61-64 Longing for GodFar from home, weary, depressed and in danger, David seeks refuge and refreshment with God. He trusts that God will bring him safely back to Jerusalem and give him the strength to carry out his promise to lead God’s people in God’s ways (61:1-5). The people with him add their support to his request (6-7), and David responds that he will always remain faithful to his task (8).God alone is the strength of David’s assurance (62:1-2). David’s enemies think they can ruin... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 64:1

Title. A Psalm. Hebrew. mizmor. App-65 . of David = relating to David and the true David. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4 . prayer = musing. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 64:1

PSALM 64EVIL SLANDERERS JUDGED BY THE LORDSUPERSCRIPTION: FOR THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. A PSALM.A SONG OF DAVID.Again, there is no legitimate objection to receiving the superscription as correct. It is an older opinion, by many centuries, than those hypothetical ascriptions which represent it as "reflecting the situation between Mordecai and Haman,"[1] or as concerning the conflict "Between Daniel and his enemies in Babylon which found its climax in the lion's den."[2]Not only are the words of this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 64:1

Psalms 64:0. David prayeth for deliverance, complaining of his enemies: he promiseth himself to see such an evident destruction of them, that the righteous shall rejoice at it. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. Title. לדוד מזמור למנצח lamnatseach mizmor ledavid.— This psalm was probably written by David when he was fallen into disgrace with Saul, and driven from his court, perhaps, through the calumnies and falsehoods which Saul's courtiers vented against him, in order to ingratiate... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 64:1

1. preserve . . . fear—as well as the danger producing it. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 64:1-2

1. A plea for protection 64:1-2David opened his psalm with a complaint in which he asked God to preserve him from dreading the plots of wicked enemies who conspired in secret against him. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 64:1-10

Psalms 64David asked God to judge the enemies of the righteous in this individual lament psalm. He requested divine protection and voiced confidence that God would judge his wicked foes. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 64:1-10

This is a Ps. on a familiar theme. The Psalmist’s life is in danger. He describes the injurious words and malicious plans of his enemies, and foretells how their overthrow will be a warning to all who see it, and a new ground for the righteous to rejoice in God. The same figure (shooting an arrow) is employed both for the assaults of the wicked and for their discomfiture by God.4. In secret] RV ’in secret places.’ The perfect] the upright man: cp. Psalms 37:37. Fear not] regard neither God nor... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 64:1

(1) My prayer.—Rather, my cry, complaint, as in Psalms 55:2. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 64:1-10

Psalms 64:1-10FAMILIAR notes are struck in this psalm, which has no very distinctive features. Complaint of secret slanderers, the comparison of their words to arrows and swords, their concealed snares, their blasphemous defiance of detection, the sudden flashing out of God’s retribution, the lesson thereby read to and learned by men, the vindication of God’s justice, and praise from all true hearts, are frequent themes. They are woven here into a whole which much resembles many other psalms.... read more