Psalm 7:15-8:2 NIV

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 7:15

"He hath made a pit, and digged it.And is fallen into the ditch which he made.His mischief shall return upon his own head,And his violence shall come down upon his own pate."Haman made a gallows upon which he planned to hang Mordecai, but it was Haman himself who was hanged there; and many another wicked man has experienced exactly the same kind of retribution.It is of interest that Spurgeon in his "Treasury of David" interpreted these lines of God Himself; but the words "If a man turn not" in... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 7:15

Psalms 7:15. He made a pit, &c.— This is a proverbial mode of speech often used in Scripture: it is taken from pits which are digged and then covered with the leaves of trees, or some such unstable materials, either to make men fall into them, as in the time of war; or else wild beasts, who are hunted into them. REFLECTIONS.—1. This Psalm opens with David's professed dependance upon God. O Lord, my God, in whom I have a sure interest, and who art bound to me in the tenderest relation, in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 7:15

15, 16. 1 Samuel 18:17; 1 Samuel 31:2 illustrate the statement whether alluded to or not. These verses are expository of 1 Samuel 31:2- :, showing how the devices of the wicked end in disappointment, falsifying their expectations. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 7:1-17

Psalms 7In the title, "shiggaion" probably means a poem with intense feeling. [Note: A. F. Kirkpatrick, Psalms, p. xx; Ross, p. 796.] Cush, the Benjamite, received no other mention elsewhere in the Bible. The Benjamites were, of course, King Saul’s relatives who were hostile to David before and after David became king.David prayed for deliverance from his enemies on the ground that he was innocent, and he asked God to vindicate him by judging them. Elements of an individual lament (Psalms... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 7:10-16

4. Description of justice 7:10-16 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 7:14-16

The evil plots the wicked conceive in their minds and give birth to in their actions will not turn out the way they hoped (cf. Mark 7:21-22; James 1:14-15). Rather than snaring the righteous in their traps, they themselves will be caught in them. What they sow they will reap (cf. Exodus 21:24-25; Matthew 26:52; Galatians 6:7). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 7:1-17

This Ps. is an appeal to God as the righteous Judge against an ungrateful and vindictive enemy. Nothing is known of Cush the Benjamite, but the case of Shimei affords a parallel to the circumstances here referred to (2 Samuel 18:21). The absenee of any Scripture mention of Cush makes it all the more probable that the title of this Ps. is genuine, and not invented. The Psalmist asserts his own innocence (Psalms 7:1-6), calls on God, the righteous Judge of all the earth, to exercise His power... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 7:15

(15) Pate.—A word retained from Coverdale’s translation, and common in the Elizabethan age. In Shakespeare it is frequent—“My inventionComes from my pate,As bird-lime does from frieze.”For the moral, comp. 1 Samuel 25:29.Psalms 7:15-16 are quoted by Eusebius of the overthrow of Maxentius by Constantine, with special reference to the fact that in preparing a bridge of boats he had prepared the means for his own destruction. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 7:1-17

Psalms 7:1-17THIS is the only psalm with the title "Shiggaion." The word occurs only here and in Habakkuk 3:1, where it stands in the plural, and with the preposition "upon," as if it designated instruments. The meaning is unknown, and commentators, who do not like to say so, have much ado to find one. The root is a verb, "to wander," and the explanation is common that the word describes the disconnected character of the psalm, which is full of swiftly succeeding emotions rather than of sequent... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 7:1-17

Psalms 7:0 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1-2 ) 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3-5 ) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6-10 ) 4. God’s dealings in government (Psalms 7:11-16 ) 5. Thanksgiving (Psalms 7:17 ) Psalms 7:1-2 . It has been suggested that over this Psalm should be written the sentence, “Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” David appealed to God to judge His cause, that a righteous God cannot but save the righteous and judge the wicked. David sang this unto the Lord... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 7:15

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 7:15

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 7:15

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 7:1-17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 7:10-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 7:14-16

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 7:1-17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 7:15

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 7:1-17

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 7:1-17

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