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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 39:1-13

Psalms 39:1-13PROTRACTED suffering, recognised as chastisement for sin, had wasted the psalmist’s strength. It had been borne for a while in silence, but the rush of emotion had burst the floodgates. The psalm does not repeat the words which forced themselves from the hot heart, but preserves for us the calmer flow which followed. It falls into four parts, the first three of which contain three verses each, and the fourth is expanded into four, divided into two couples.In the first part (Psalms... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 39:1-13

Psalms 39:0 Deep Soul Exercise in View of Man’s Frailty and Nothingness 1. The vanity of life (Psalms 39:1-6 ) 2. Self-judgment and prayer (Psalms 39:7-13 ) This Psalm is connected closely with the preceding one and shows deep soul exercises. In the midst of trial, with God’s hand resting upon the sufferer, he had been silent before his enemies. Before the Lord he did not maintain silence but pours out his heart, confessing the vanity of his fleeting life which appears to him as a... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 39:3

39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] {d} spake I with my tongue,(d) He confesses that he grudged against God, considering the greatness of his sorrows, and the shortness of his life. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 39:1-13

Psalms 38:0 An appeal to God from chastisement because of iniquity (Psalms 38:1-4 ). The mental anguish is described in figures of physical disease, and yet it is not impossible that such disease may have been part of the chastisement (Psalms 38:5-8 ). The desertion of friends and the opposition of enemies also entered into it (Psalms 38:10-17 ). There are verses susceptible of an application to Christ, but others would prevent its application as a whole to him. Psalms 40:0 Messianic (compare... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 39:3

We see here the profitableness of silence towards man, for it tended to receive the descendings of grace in leading the mind out in devout meditation towards God. How lovely are the kindlings of the Holy Spirit, and what blessed effects do they induce! Isaiah 41:1 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 39:3

Misery. Hebrew, "confusion," (Berthier) or "noise," (St. Jerome; Haydock) from the greatest danger. (Theodoret) --- Dregs. Mud, Jeremias xxxviii. 6. St. Augustine, &c., explain this of the Christian saved by faith from the sink of his sins. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 39:1-6

1-6 If an evil thought should arise in the mind, suppress it. Watchfulness in the habit, is the bridle upon the head; watchfulness in acts, is the hand upon the bridle. When not able to separate from wicked men, we should remember they will watch our words, and turn them, if they can, to our disadvantage. Sometimes it may be necessary to keep silence, even from good words; but in general we are wrong when backward to engage in edifying discourse. Impatience is a sin that has its cause within... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 39:1-13

The Believer's Attitude in View of the Apparent Happiness of the Godless. To the chief musician, even to Jeduthun, or Ethan, the name of one of David's chief choristers, who was the leader of a family or choir of singers, active chiefly in the liturgical part of worship, a psalm of David. v. 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, to his entire manner of thinking and acting, that I sin not with my tongue, namely, by murmuring and complaining over his own misfortune as compared with the good... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 39:1-13

Psalms 39:0To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue:I will keep my mouth with a bridle,While the wicked is before me.2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;And my sorrow was stirred.3 My heart was hot within me;While I was musing the fire burned:Then spake I with my tongue,4 Lord, make me to know mine end,And the measure of my days, what it is;That I may know how frail I... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 39:1-13

the Fleeting Measure of Our Days Psalms 39:1-13 In the opening verses David describes the circumstances out of which this psalm arose. The presence and prosperity of the wicked stirred him to the depths, but he carefully refrained from speech. There are hot moments in our lives, when we do well not to say what is in our hearts. But if our feelings demand a vent, let us get alone and speak out our hearts to God. A softer tone settles on heart and tongue, when we reach His holy presence. How... read more