Psalm 17:5,Psalm 17:8

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 17:1-15

Psalms 17:1-15THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definition; late in the Persian period, says Cheyne. Perhaps we may content ourselves with the modest judgment of Baethgen in his last book ("Handcommentar," 1892, p. 45): "The date of composition cannot be decided by internal indications." The background is the familiar one of causeless foes round an innocent... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 17:1-15

Psalms 17:0 The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1-5 ) 2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6-12 ) 3. The deliverance (Psalms 17:13-15 ) Psalms 17:1-5 . This Psalm is blessedly linked with the foregoing one. We hear Christ interceding for the saints in whom is His delight (16:3). He pleads His own perfection. He is righteous; His prayer does not come from feigned lips. Not David, but Christ alone could truly say, “Thou hast proved my heart; Thou... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 17:1-15

Psalms 11:0 A song of trust. The declaration “In the Lord put I my trust” (Psalms 11:1 ) is buttressed by the reason (Psalms 11:7 ), while all between describes the condition in which David finds himself. Urged to flee from his enemies (Psalms 11:1 ), he shows the futility of the attempt (Psalms 11:2 ). The moral foundations are being undermined (Psalms 11:3 ), and only Jehovah is able to discriminate and judge (Psalms 11:4-6 ). Psalms 12:0 The evil speaker. The close relation between this... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Psalms 17:1-15

A Prayer of David Psalms 17:0 We have heard David sing, now let us hear him pray. He played wonderfully upon his harp, what is his skill as a suppliant? Does he know the ways of heaven? Can he speak the language of the skies, or any language of earth that can be understood there? This psalm is quite in a new style. It is said to be in the early style of the sweet singer of Israel. There is a charm in the early style of all great writers. It may be efflorescent, and redundant; yet there is... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 17:4-6

This is blessed, as it concerns our glorious Surety; for God engaged to carry him through his whole work; see Psalms 89:21-24 . And it is blessed also, as it concerns his redeemed in him. The Redeemer committed them to the Father in the moment of his departure. And God our Father hath engaged to keep them also for Jesus's sake: see John 17:11 ; 1 Peter 1:5 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 17:5

Sorrows...iniquity. Hebrew, "cables....Belial." By these figurative expressions, David declares to what dangers he had been exposed. They seem to be more applicable to our Saviour's agony. (Berthier) --- The wicked were constantly laying snares for both. We have the same idea enforced in the next verse. (Haydock) --- The words are put into the mouth of fallen man, in the mass for Septuagesima[the third Sunday before Lent]. (Worthington) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 17:1-7

1-7 This psalm is a prayer. Feigned prayers are fruitless; but if our hearts lead our prayers, God will meet them with his favour. The psalmist had been used to pray, so that it was not his distress and danger that now first brought him to his duty. And he was encouraged by his faith to expect God would notice his prayers. Constant resolution and watchfulness against sins of the tongue, will be a good evidence of our integrity. Aware of man's propensity to wicked works, and of his own peculiar... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 17:1-5

The Believer Takes His Refuge in God. Every true believer is a poor sinner in the sight of God, knowing that his natural sinfulness will not permit justifying himself before the tribunal of divine justice. At the same time every believer can and does cheerfully approach God, not on the strength of his own merits, but by virtue of his trust in the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. Moreover, he may, at such a time, urge the sincerity of his conduct, the righteousness of his life, for the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 17:1-15

Psalms 17:0A Prayer of David1 Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry;Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence;Let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night;Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing:I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lipsI have kept me from the paths of the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 17:1-15

God’s True Servants Safely Kept Psalms 17:1-15 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends with glad anticipation of the vision of God. The psalm may have been composed for use at eventide; two at least of its verses point in that direction, Psalms 17:3 ; Psalms 15:1-5 . What a comfort it is to appeal from the accusations of men to the judgment-bar of God! Yet our sufferings at their hands... read more