Psalm 58:9 BSB

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 58:1-11

FAITH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS I. The throne of iniquity ( Psalms 58:1-Deuteronomy :).(1) ‘Not only does the Psalmist, inspired by the vision of the eternal throne, foresee the issue, but he earnestly pleads for it; and he does so on two grounds—that the righteous may obtain the reward of their righteousness, and that all men may see that there is a God that judgeth in the earth. The triumph of injustice can only be temporary. There is a day coming when all the unjust judgments both of corrupt... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 58:6-9

David Calls On God To Deal With The Unrighteous As They Deserve (Psalms 58:6-9 ). In five more vivid illustrations David calls on God to deal with the unrighteous, followed by a sixth by which he assures the unrighteous that all their plans will come to nothing. In the first three he calls for them to be rendered harmless; to have their teeth broken, to be caused to disappear like dangerous, life threatening, fast flowing water, and to be robbed of their means of hurting people. In the next... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 58:1-11

LVIII. A Prayer for Vengeance on Unrighteous Judges.— This Ps. is closely allied to Psalms 82. The reproaches in Psalms 58:3, where the enemies of the Psalmist are said to have gone astray from the womb, and Psalms 58:4, where they are compared with deaf adders, point to Jewish tyranny, such, e.g., as that of the Sadducean priests, rather than to a foreign power. Nobody would have expected heathen to hear the voice of Jewish religion. Psalms 58:1 . We ought certainly to read, “ Do ye indeed... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 58:9

Feel the thorns, i.e. the heat of the fire kindled by the thorns put under them for that purpose; before your pots can be thoroughly heated. Take them away, to wit, mine enemies; whose sudden destruction he describes under this similitude. As with a whirlwind, i.e. violently and irresistibly. Both living, and in his wrath, Heb. as living (i.e. alive, as he did Korah, Numbers 16:0, the particle as being here not a note of similitude, but of truth or asseveration as it is John 1:14, and oft... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 58:1-11

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription.—“To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith.” see introduction to Psalms 57:0. “Michtam of David.” See Introduction to Psalms 56:0. Moll: “This complaint respecting domestic administrations of justice gushes forth from the Psalmist in a threatening language, which is almost obscure owing to bold and mingled figures of speech. It is like a torrent which plunges over every hindrance, foaming and raging. We may certainly credit this original poet with a richness of figures and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 58:1-11

Psalms 58:1-11 Psalms 58:1-11 is a prayer of David. I would not want to be one of David's enemies because of his prayers.Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies ( Psalms 58:1-3 ).Now David is talking about the nature, the sinful nature of man. Now, I don't think... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 58:1-11

Psalms 58:4 . The deaf adder, which stops her ears by putting one ear to the ground, and forcing her tail into the other. Very many of the ancient Greek and Latin writers mention the practice of certain singers and musicians who could so charm a serpent as to draw him from his retreat. Plin. 8: 16. They could also drive him away with affright. They could stop him in his flight, compose his fury, and stupify him to slumber. Tibullus, Elag. 9. They boasted of a power so to expel the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 58:1-11

Psalms 58:1-11Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Man in many aspectsI. The character of depraved men portrayed.1. Unrighteous in judgment.2. Wrong in heart.3. Violent in the treatment of men.4. Early in apostasy.5. False in life.6. Malignant in spirit.7. Deceitful in heart.II. The destruction of wicked men invoked.1. Their entire destruction.2. Their quick destruction.III. The spirit of righteous men misrepresented. The psalmist utters a calumny in representing them as delighting... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 58:9

Psa 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath. Ver. 9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, &c. ] Of this text we may say, as one doth of another, it had been easy had not commentators made it so knotty. I am for that of Drusius, Tractum a semicrudis carnibus olla extractis priusquam ignis calorem senserint, It is a comparison taken from raw flesh, taken out of the pot before it hath felt the full force of the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 58:9

thorns: Psalms 118:12, Ecclesiastes 7:6 as: Psalms 10:2, Psalms 10:5, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 73:18-Proverbs :, Job 18:18, Job 20:5-Joel :, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 10:25, Proverbs 14:32, Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 40:24, Jeremiah 23:19 both living: etc. Heb. as living as wrath, Numbers 16:30 Reciprocal: Judges 16:9 - toucheth 1 Kings 16:19 - in doing Job 24:19 - so doth Job 27:19 - he openeth Job 27:21 - a storm Psalms 73:19 - How Psalms 83:15 - General Isaiah 37:7 - I will Isaiah 57:13 - but the... read more