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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 35:4-6

He asked God to rout his enemies and humiliate them. He wished God would blow them away like chaff and remove their stability so they would fall. The Angel of the Lord is the leader of God’s heavenly army, the pre-incarnate Christ (cf. Psalms 34:7). David wanted Him to do to his enemies what they intended to do to him. This is in keeping with how God usually deals with the wicked. 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 35:4

(4) Confounded.—Comp. Psalms 35:26. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:5

(5) As chaff.—Comp. Psalms 1:4, and see Note. There can be little doubt that the “angel of Jehovah” in this and the following verse is (comp. Psalms 104:4) a personification of the “hurricane” itself, which drives before it all obstacles, and overwhelms even whole armies in dangerous places. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:6

(6) Dark and slippery.—See margin. Delitzsch supposes an allusion to the passage of the Red Sea, but the picture suggests rather the passage of some dangerous mountain pass in a raging storm. “The tracks in the limestone hills of Palestine are often worn as smooth as marble; comp. Psalms 73:18” (quoted from Kay, in the Speaker’s Commentary). 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 35:5

35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD {d} chase [them].(d) Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:1-28

Psalms 25:0 In the Hebrew this prayer is arranged as an acrostic, i.e., the first word of each verse begins with a letter in alphabetical order from A-to-Z. Hereafter we shall not give as much attention to every psalm as we have thus far, but trust the reader to do the analyzing after the examples given. The purpose of this book is not so much textual explanation as a stimulus to Bible study in a broader sense, and it is assumed that the reader has been studying the Bible side by side with the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 35:4-6

When the prayer is thus expressed in faith, let the opposers of Christ and his church be confounded, and ashamed, and turned back; it is in other words, they shall be so brought to ruin and confusion. And who will not recollect in this place how exactly this prediction was fulfilled in the garden, when the band came to apprehend Christ, and fell to the ground backward? John 18:5-6 . read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 35:4-6

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:5

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 35:6

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

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

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 35:5

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:1-28

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 35:4-6

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