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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 5:7

‘But as for me, in the multitude of your lovingkindness I will come into your house, In your fear I will worship towards your holy temple.’ His own entry before God rests in his confidence in God’s overwhelming lovingkindness (‘warm covenant love’ - chesed), His benevolence and goodness, and his own reverent awe and fear. He comes aware of the greatness and holiness of God, but also aware of His grace and mercy revealed through the covenant between God and His people, a covenant which has... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 5:8

‘Lead me, O YHWH, in your righteousness because of my enemies, Make your way level before my face.’ He asks God, because He is righteous, to lead him, in view of those who lie in wait for him. He needs protection from those who are seeking to entrap him, and asks that God will show him the way ahead, and will keep his path level so that he will not stumble or fall on it. For ‘in your righteousness’ see Psalms 31:1; Psalms 71:2; Psalms 119:40; Psalms 143:1; Psalms 143:11, where it clearly means... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 5:1-12

V. A Hymn for Morning Sacrifice in the Temple. Psalms 5:1-Leviticus : . Solemn invocation of Yahweh. The Psalmist sets in order ( Psalms 5:3), not perhaps his prayer (RV), but his sacrifice, the victim and the kindled wood upon the altar. Laying out or ordering in this sense is a common technical use of the Heb. verb. “ Keep watch” may refer to a watch for favourable signs before or during the sacrifice. Psalms 5:4-Judges : . The bloodthirsty can find no acceptance before God. Unlike them,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 5:7

I will come, to wit, with holy boldness and confidence, as becomes thy son and servant; whereas mine enemies cannot appear in thy presence with any comfort and safety, Psalms 5:5. Into thy house, to wit, the tabernacle; from which, though I be now excluded, through the malice and power of mine adversaries, yet thou wilt, I doubt not, restore me to my former opportunities of coming thither to worship thee, which was my constant custom and chief joy. In the multitude of thy mercy, or, by thy... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 5:8

Lead me; direct my heart, and counsels, and affairs, and all the course and actions of my life. In thy righteousness; in thy righteous laws; which sometimes are called righteousness, as Psalms 119:172; Matthew 3:15. Or, for, or because of, or according to thy righteousness; which is a phrase and argument frequently used in this Book of Psalms. Because of mine enemies; either, 1. That I may give them no occasion of slandering me, or religion for my sake. Or rather, 2. Because they are most... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 5:1-12

INTRODUCTION“A morning prayer of David, appealing to God as his king, against whose sovereignty his own enemies were really in rebellion.”—Kay. “This psalm must have been composed at Jerusalem, since David had access to the house of God (see Psalms 5:7); probably a short time before the open revolt of Absalom, when the king was aware of the machinations of conspirators under a bloodthirsty and treacherous chief (Psalms 5:6). Like Psalms 3:0, it is a morning song (Psalms 5:6).”—Speaker’s... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 5:1-12

Psalms 5:0 This Psalm is peculiar in setting forth the characteristics of prayer in general. I. In the first and second verses we have a suggestion of the variety of prayer. (1) "Give ear to my words " formal prayer; (2) "Consider my meditation " unexpressed prayer; (3) "Hearken unto my cry " ejaculatory prayer. II. The second verse directs our thoughts to the appropriating power of prayer. God is addressed as " my King," " my God." III. By the third verse we are pointed to the statedness... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 5:7

Psalms 5:7 Worship a sight of God. Belief in God is the great regenerating force in the world. Not to believe in God is to be without the grandest idea which can exalt the mind and the noblest motive for moral attainment. But faith in God depends upon culture. We are born capable of believing in God, but we are not born believers in God. When a man begins to neglect his church or his place of worship, he loses one of the things which keep faith in God alive within him. The man who attends, even... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 5:1-12

Psalms 5:1-12 Psalms 5:1-12 is a prayer of the morning. Psalms 4:1-8 was the prayer of the evening, and now for the morning.Give ear unto my words, O LORD; consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and look up ( Psalms 5:1-3 ).This again is upon a Neginoth, the psalm of David. And he said,For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in... read more

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