Psalm 34:5-8

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 34:7

7. angel—of the covenant ( :-), of whom as a leader of God's host (Joshua 5:14; 1 Kings 22:19), the phrase— encampeth, c.—is appropriate or, "angel" used collectively for angels (1 Kings 22:19- :). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 34:8

8. taste and see—try and experience. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 34:1-10

1. God’s goodness to His people 34:1-10 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 34:1-22

Psalms 34In this combination individual thanksgiving and wisdom psalm, David glorified God for delivering His people, and he reflected on the Lord’s promise to bless the godly with long life.The title identifies the occasion on which David composed this psalm (cf. 1 Samuel 21:10-15). It is another acrostic with all but the last verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet and with the omission of a verse beginning with the letter waw. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 34:4-7

The psalmist’s recent experience of God answering his prayer for help and delivering him (Psalms 34:4; Psalms 34:6) was only one example to him. Those who trust in the Lord never experience disappointment (Psalms 34:5; Psalms 34:7)."If the sequence in Psalms 34:2-3 was in essence ’I have reason to praise Him; join me’, here [in Psalms 34:4-5] it is ’This was my experience; it can be yours’." [Note: Kidner, p. 139.] "The Angel of the Lord" (Psalms 34:7) is undoubtedly a reference to the Lord... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 34:8-10

David called on the people to experience the Lord’s goodness personally by relying on Him in their times of distress. He assured them that if they did, He would not disappoint them."David gave a threefold witness of what the Lord does for His own: He saves (Psalms 34:4-8), He keeps (Psalms 34:7), and He satisfies (Psalms 34:8)." [Note: Wiersbe, The . . . Wisdom . . ., p. 158.] Young, self-reliant lions occasionally cannot provide for their own needs adequately, but people who trust in the Lord... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 34:1-22

The reliability of this title (A Psalm of David; when he feigned madness (RM) before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed) is doubtful, both because the Philistine king in question is called Achish and not Abimelech in 1 Samuel 21:13, and because the contents of the Ps. are akin to the proverbial wisdom of a later age than David’s. The Ps. is an alphabetic or acrostic one, with some of the same irregularities which are found in Psalms 25. Psalms 34:10-16 are quoted in 1 Peter... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 34:5

(5) Were lightened.—The Hebrew verb means properly “to flow,” but by a natural process, as in the common phrases “streams of light,” “floods of light,” acquired in Aramaic the sense of “shining.” Such must be its meaning in Isaiah 60:5, almost the echo of the thought in the psalm, the thought of a reflex of the Divine glory lighting up the face of those who in trouble seek God. (Theodoret has “He who approaches God, receives the rays of intellectual light.”) We naturally think of the dying... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 34:6

(6) This poor man.—Better, this sufferer—i.e., either the writer, or Israel personified. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 34:7

(7) The angel of the Lord is an expression which has given rise to much discussion. From comparison with other passages it may be (1) any commissioned agent of God, as a prophet (Haggai 1:13). (2) One of the celestial court (Genesis 22:11). (3) Any manifestation of the Divine presence, as the flame in the bush (Exodus 3:2), the winds (Psalms 35:5-6; Psalms 104:4). (4) Jehovah Himself, as in the phrase “the angel of his presence” (Isaiah 63:9). It may very well be, therefore, that the psalmist... read more

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