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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 35:1-10

1. A prayer for deliverance 35:1-10In this section David asked God to deliver him from enemies who were trying to kill him without cause. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 35:1-28

Psalms 35David lamented the unjustified opposition of his enemies in this psalm and called on God to deliver him. It is really a combination of three laments. The language alternates between legal and military terminology."Whether or not this psalm was written as a companion to Psalms 34, it is well placed next to it, not only because of some verbal affinities and contrasts (notably ’the angel of the Lord’, Psalms 34:7; Psalms 35:5-6, found nowhere else in the Psalter), but because it speaks... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 35:1-28

This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungrateful cruelty. The circumstances are partly similar to those of David’s persecution by Saul, but no prominent individual is mentioned as hostile, and David’s attitude to Saul was more forgiving than that of the Psalmist towards those of whom he complains. The Ps., like Psalms 31, has many resemblances to the book of Jeremiah, and some ascribe it to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:1

(1) Plead my cause.—Better, Strive, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me. The construction requires this, and the parallelism suggests recourse to arms rather than to the law.Fight.—Literally, devour. (Comp. Numbers 24:8.“He shall eat up the nations.” So a Latin author—“Qua medius pugnæ vorat agmina vortex.”SILIUS: Punic, 4:230.Comp. Shakespeare—“If the wars eat us not up.’—Coriolanus, Acts 1:0, sc. 1) read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:2

(2) Shield and buckler.—Better, buckler and shield, as the first (Heb., magen) suggests a small, the latter (tsinnah) a large shield covering the whole body. Greek, θυρεός (see Note, Psalms 5:12.) Notice that the poet, in the intensity of his purpose, overlooks the anomaly of arming a warrior with two shields at once. The bold flight of imagination that could picture the Divine Being as a warrior, a picture common in Hebrew poetry, but here more vividly realised than anywhere else except Isaiah... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:3

(3) Draw out also the spear—i.e., from the sheath, that seems to have been used to guard its point. So δουροδόκη (Homer, Odyssey, i. 128).Stop the way.—So LXX., Vulg., and all ancient versions. Many modern scholars, however, are disposed to treat the word segor not as the imperative of a verb, but as a noun, equivalent to the Greek σάγαρις, Latin, securis, a Persian and Scythian weapon mentioned by Herodotus (i. 215, iv. 70) and Xenophon (Anab., iv. 4, 16), and generally taken for a battle-axe,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:1-28

Psalms 35:1-28THE psalmist’s life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are brought against him. He professes innocence, and appeals to Jehovah to be his Advocate and also his Judge. The prayer in Psalms 35:1 a uses the same word and metaphor as David does in his remonstrance with Saul. {1 Samuel 24:15} The correspondence with David’s situation in the Sauline persecution is, at least, remarkable, and goes far to sustain the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 35:1-28

Psalms 35:0 The Cry for Justice and Divine Help 1. The cry of distress (Psalms 35:1-10 ) 2. The contrast? (Psalms 35:11-18 ) 3. Prayer for vindication and victory (Psalms 35:19-28 ) This Psalm introduces us again to the suffering of the righteous, giving another prophetic picture of the distress of the remnant. When David composed this Psalm we do not know. But He casts himself completely on the Lord and calls to Him for help and vindication. Thus the godly have always done when... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 35:1

35:1 [[A Psalm] of David.] Plead [my {a} cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.(a) He desires God to undertake his cause against them who persecute him and slander him. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 35:2

35:2 {b} Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.(b) Even though God can with his breath destroy all his enemies, yet the Holy Spirit attributes to him these outward weapons to assure us of his patient power. read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 35:1-10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 35:1-28

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 35:1-28

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:2

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:3

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:1-28

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 35:1-28

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 35:1

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 35:2

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