David prayed to God to manifest himself in his trial. His heart went into mourning for his sick master. Rhetorical questions expressed David's frustration and sought to move God to action (cf. Rescue my soul from the destructions they are plotting against it; rescue my darling, my only one, from the lions. They persecuted him with an unwearied enmity, sought after his soul (v. 4), that is, his life, no less would satisfy their bloody minds; they aimed to disquiet his spirit and put that into disorder. I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother. Lord, with regular letters, translates the Hebrew word Adonai the ancient Hebrew word for Lord. The king's word is a law, and every thing must be carried with a high hand; he has fields, and vineyards, and preferments, at his disposal, 1 Sam 22 7. Such has often been the hard fate of the best of men. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. Salem Media Group. Lord, be not far from me (v. 22), as if I were a stranger that thou wert not concerned for; let not me beheld afar off, as the proud are." ; and Reland de Relig. If they urge their suit in the law-court, Lord, meet them there, and beat them at their own weapons. God alone can defend him against his attackers (9-10).Davids sorrow is the more painful when he remembers that those who now fight against him are those whom he helped, sympathized with and prayed for when they were sick or in trouble (11-14). Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. The Psalmist goes on to say in Psalm 35:14, I went about as for a friend, for a brother to me, i.e., as if the sufferer had been such to me. We must be earnest to keep the line of demarcation broad and clear. If God, by his Spirit, witness to our spirits that he is our salvation, we need desire no more to make us happy. The words were, as it were, muttered into his bosom. This psalm opens in a warlike tone, so as to suggest a soldier for its author, and for its occasion the eye of some battle. He prays to God to protect and deliver him, and appear for him (ver 1, 2), to comfort him (ver 3), to be nigh to him and rescue him (ver 17, 22), to plead his cause (ver 23, 24), to defeat all the designs of his enemies against him (ver 3, 4), to disappoint their expectations of his fall (ver 19, 25, 26), and, lastly, to countenance all his friends, and encourage them (ver 27. And my prayer returned into mine own bosom. I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: and I will praise thee among much people. He prophesies the destruction of his persecutors, ver 4-6, 8. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. He prays earnestly to God to appear graciously for him and his friends, against his and their enemies, that by his providence the struggle might issue to the honour and comfort of David and to the conviction and confusion of his persecutors. this is the day we longed to see." ichtalla, to be pierced through equals mad), be understood as those mentally deranged, enraged at nothing or without cause. Psalm 35: God Help Me[or download in RTFformat] Psalm 36: Reach for the Sky[or download in RTFformat] Psalm 37: Waiting for God[or download in RTFformat] Psalm 38: Lord, Remember Me[or download in RTFformat] Psalm 39: No Fixed Address[or download in RTFformat] Psalm 40: Build on a Rock[or download in The is not the Beth of companionship or fellowship, to express which or (Hosea 7:5) would have been used, but Beth essentiae or the Beth of characterisation: in the character of the most abject examples of this class of men do they gnash upon him with their teeth. Verse Psalms 35:13. He complains to God of the injuries they did him; they strove with him, fought against him (ver 1), persecuted him (ver 3), sought his ruin (ver 4, 7), accused him falsely (ver 11), abused him basely (ver 15, 16), and all his friends (ver 20), and triumphed over him,, ver 21, 25, 26. The gerund (of the noise of the teeth being pressed together, like Arab. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. When he fell under the frowns of Saul, was banished the court, and persecuted as a criminal, they were pleased, were glad at his calamities, and got together in their drunken clubs to make themselves and one another merry with the disgrace of this great favourite. He prays that God would fight against his enemies, so as to disable them to hurt him, and defeat their designs against him (v. 1), that he would take hold of shield and buckler, for the Lord is a man of war (Exod 15 3), and that he would stand up for his help (v. 2), for he had few that would stand up for him, and, if he had ever so many, they would stand him in no stead without God. 1 Kings 18:42, where, however, there is no express mention of prayer.) Psalm 35 1. Psalm 35 Commentary David's Seeing Their Good | 13-14 And that leads David to expound on the good that he's done for these men in times past in verses 13 and 14. All rights reserved. Our relationship with God is clearly seen in how we treat others. Probably it was then well known whom he meant; it may be Saul himself for one, whom he was sent for to attend upon when he was melancholy and ill, and to whom he was serviceable to drive away the evil spirit, not with his harp, but with his prayers; to others of the courtiers, it is likely, he had shown this respect, while he lived at court, who now were, of all others, most abusive to him. All rights reserved. Their way shall be dark and slippery, darkness and slipperiness (so the margin reads it); the way of sinners is so, for they walk in darkness and in continual danger of falling into sin, into hell; and it will prove so at last, for their foot shall slide in due time, Deut 32 35. 1 Of David. Psalms 35:13-14 13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. 2 Put on your armor, and take up your shield. 5. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, And my prayer kept returning to my bosom. See Psalms 79:12 . If a fellow-subject had wronged him, he might have appealed to his prince, as St. Paul did to Csar; but, when his prince wronged him, he appealed to his God, who is prince and Judge of the kings of the earth: Plead my cause, O Lord! They were very barbarous and base, for they trampled upon him when he was down, rejoiced at his hurt, and magnified themselves against him, v. 26. Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. 1Kings 18:42, where, however, there is no express mention of prayer.) He appeals to God's justice: Awake to my judgment, even to my cause, and let it have a hearing at thy bar, v. 23. (2.) But this was not all. 3 Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! And he turned around and cursed them. And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. If God, by his Spirit, witness to our spirits that he is our salvation, we have enough, we need desire no more to make us happy; and this is a powerful support when men persecute us. Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication, How long wilt thou connive at the wickedness of the wicked? , not: like the mourning (from , like from ) of a mother (Hitzig), but, since a personal is more natural, and next to the mourning for an only child the loss of a mother (cf. Psalm 35:13 in all English translations. My prayer returned into, or was directed to, my bosom. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. When Saul would have David attainted of treason, in order to his being outlawed, perhaps he did it with the formalities of a legal prosecution, produced witnesses who swore some treasonable words or overt acts against him, and he being not present to clear himself (or, if he was, it was all the same), Saul adjudged him a traitor. This is the view of Ewald and Delitzsch, but seems prosaic. I. It is a vexation of spirit which attends even a right work that for this a man is envied of his neighbour, Eccl 4 4. He prays that they might be turned back, scattered and brought to ruin (4-6), for they have persecuted him without cause (7-8). To my cause, my God and my Lord. Prepare for battle, and come to my aid. Humbled my soul with fasting. They were very unrighteous; they were his enemies wrongfully, for he never gave them any provocation: They hated him without a cause; nay, for that for which they ought rather to have loved and honoured him. Well, might he call them abjects, for nothing could be more vile and sordid than to triumph in the fall of a man of such unstained honour and consummate virtue. . B. of Let me hear you say, "I will give you victory!" II. It is the character of the godly in the land that they are the quiet in the land, that they live in all dutiful subjection to government and governors, in the Lord, and endeavour, as much as in them lies, to live peaceably with all men, however they may have been misrepresented as enemies to Csar and hurtful to kings and provinces. My God and my Lord: The cry of Thomas when he saw the wounds of Jesus. Jesus takes, blesses, breaks, and gives the bread to them (Luke 24:30), the same sequence of actions we recall from his final meal (22:19). But this is not the worst of it. Orient. It is a vexation of spirit which attends even a right work that for this a man is envied of his neighbour,Ecclesiastes 4:4. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. Proud member He prayed for his enemy, and made the sick man's case his own, pleading and confessing as if his own personal sin had brought on the evil. Take hold of shield and buckler, stand up for my help. See Daniel 9:3; Matthew 17:21; Luke 2:37. They seemed to be hardened in their sins, and to be of the number of those who have sinned unto death and are not to be prayed for, Jer 7 16; 11 14; 14 11; 1 John 5 16. He really has the Lord on their tails. Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion of . He felt that their restoration to health - that the preservation of their lives - depended on God, and he most earnestly and fervently pleaded in their behalf. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word       |      . but according to 1 Kings 17:12, a cake of a round formation (like the Talmudic , a circle); , jeering, jesting. Though the people of God are, and study to be, a quiet people, yet it has been the common practice of their enemies to devise deceitful matters against them. Lord, who is like unto thee? 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. It seemed that God was too passive, so David cried out for Him to stir up Yourself and to awake on Davids behalf. When he fell under the frowns of Saul, was banished the court, and persecuted as a criminal, they were pleased, were glad at his calamities, and got together in their drunken clubs to make themselves and one another merry with the disgrace of this great favourite. This he complains of here as the highest piece of injustice imaginable: False witnesses did rise up, who would swear anything; they laid to my charge things that I knew not, nor ever thought of. For him. The most simple interpretation, therefore, is that which supposes that the prayer was offered under such a burden of grief on account of their sufferings, that his head sank on his bosom; or, in other words, that the prayer which was offered was such as is presented when the heart is most burdened and most sad. He prays that his friends might have cause to rejoice and give glory to God, v. 27. Let their way be dark and slippery: let the angel of the LORD persecute them ( Psalms 35:5-6 ). Clouds do not always descend in showers upon the same spot from which the vapours ascended, but they come down somewhere; and even so do supplications in some place or other yield their showers of mercy. like , Genesis 49:12, from , construct state, like ) for a mother (the objective genitive, as in Genesis 27:41; Deuteronomy 34:8; Amos 8:10; Jeremiah 6:26). C. Prayer for justice on David's behalf against false friends who became his enemies ( Psalms 35:19 . We are apt to justify our uneasiness at the injuries men do us by this, That we never gave them any cause to use us so; whereas this should, more than any thing, make us easy, for then we may the more confidently expect that God will plead our cause. i. Heman the Ezrahite wrote one (Psalms 88), and Ethan the Ezrahite composed one (Psalms 89). Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. We may request cookies to be set on your device. The comedians, who may fitly be called hypocritical mockers (for which does a hypocrite signify but a stage-player?) My soul is my only one, and therefore the greater is the shame if I neglect it and the greater the loss if I lose it: it is my only one, and therefore ought to be my darling, ought to be carefully protected and provided for. 10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? Call a man ungrateful and you can call him no worse. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor In singing this psalm, and praying over it, we must take heed of applying it to any little peevish quarrels and enmities of our own, and of expressing by it any uncharitable revengeful resentments of injuries done to us; for Christ has taught us to forgive our enemies and not to pray against them, but to pray for them, as he did; but, 1. The verb means to smite; Niph. His prayer to God to manifest himself both for him and to him, in this trial. It is supposed that Saul and his party are the persons he means, for with them he had the greatest struggles. He will praise God with the whole man, with all that is within him, and with all the strength and vigour of his soul, intimated by his bones, which are within the body and are the strength of it. (1.) The words were, as it were, muttered into his bosom. They are hoping that David will soon be caught, so that they can pounce on him and destroy him. (Comp. David here shows. 2. he humbled himself, fasted, and prayed on their behalf 3. he mourned for them (as for a close friend or brother) 4. he mourned for them (as for his own mother) There is a visible contrast between how the faithful follower acts and the faithless ones act! Note, It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with many mighty and malicious enemies: Christ himself is striven with and fought against, and war is made upon the holy seed; and we are not to marvel at the matter: it is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the seed of the woman. And of Your praise all the day long. This You have seen, O LORD: God has seen the facts of the case, and these include not only Davids innocence, but also that he is being falsely accused and slandered. (Boice), ii. ), and all to ruin them and root them out. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. A posture somewhat similar to this is referred to in the case of Elijah, 1 Kings 18:42 : And he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees. The posture of prayer with the head reclining toward the bosom is common among the Muslims, Reland de Religione Mohammetica, p. 87. Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. Let the LORD be magnified, A lament over unjust opposition 35:11-18. VERSE Psalms 35:13 "But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Psalms 35:13 Context Prov 27 4. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. He appeals to God against them, the God to whom vengeance belongs, appeals to his knowledge (v. 22): This thou hast seen. How basely and insolently and with what a brutish enmity, and worse than brutish, they had behaved towards him (Psalms 35:15; Psalms 35:16); In my adversity they rejoiced. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 3. It would seem from this that the persons referred to, who now treated him with so much ingratitude, were those with whom he had been formerly intimately associated, or whom he had regarded as his personal friends, since it cannot be supposed that this deep sympathy would have been shown for those who were altogether strangers to him. When they were sick - Compare the notes at Job 30:25. Psalm 35 New Living Translation Psalm 35 A psalm of David. The mercy he hoped to win by prayer he promises to wear with praise: "I will give thee thanks, as the author of my deliverance (v. 18), and my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness, the justice of thy judgments and the equity of all thy dispensations;" and this, 1. Nor was it a sudden passion against him that they harboured, but inveterate malice: They devised his hurt, laid their heads together, and set their wits on work, not only to do him a mischief, but to find out ways and means to ruin him. Among the Hebrews fasting and prayer were much more closely connected than they are with Christians. "O Lord, my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; if I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy): let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth." This was remarkably fulfilled in the ruin of Saul; for he had laid a plot to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines (1 Sam 18 25), that was the net which he hid for him under pretence of doing him honour, and in that very net was he himself taken, for he fell by the hand of the Philistines when his day came to fall.

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