Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 6:9
The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
9. Twice he repeats the confident assertion of faith, that Jehovah has heard his prayer, and with equal confidence adds the assurance that He will accept it favourably, and not reject it. Cp. 1Jn 5:14-15.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The Lord hath heard my supplication – Repeating the sentiment in the previous verse, to express his assurance and his joy. Nothing is more natural in such circumstances than to dwell on the joyous thought, and to repeat it to ourselves, that it may make its full impression.
The Lord will receive my prayer – As he has done it, so he will still do it. This allays all fears of the future, and makes the mind calm. The state of mind here is this: The Lord has heard my prayer; I am assured that he will do it hereafter; I have, therefore, nothing to fear.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The Lord hath heard, and therefore will hear, as it follows. He draws an argument from his former experience.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
The Lord hath heard my supplication,…. Which he had presented to him, Ps 6:1; in which he deprecates his anger and hot displeasure; entreats his free favour, grace, and mercy; desires healing for soul or body, or both; prays a return of his gracious presence; and deliverance and salvation out of all his troubles, from all his enemies, and from death itself. The word h used properly signifies petitions for grace and mercy, which the psalmist put up under the influence of the spirit of grace and supplication, and which were heard;
the Lord will receive my prayer; instead of a burnt offering, as Aben Ezra glosses it; as sweet incense, as what is grateful and delightful, coming up out of the hands of Christ the Mediator, perfumed with the sweet incense of his mediation: the word i signifies prayer made to God as the righteous Judge, as the God of his righteousness, who would vindicate his cause and right his wrongs; and a believer, through the blood and righteousness of Christ, can go to God as a righteous God, and plead with him even for pardon and cleansing, who is just and faithful to grant both unto him. The psalmist three times expresses his confidence of his prayers being heard and received, which may be either in reference to his having prayed so many times for help, as the Apostle Paul did, 2Co 12:8; and as Christ his antitype did,
Mt 26:39; or to express the certainty of it, the strength of his faith in it, and the exuberance of his joy on account of it.
h “supplices pro gratia preces meas”, Michaelis: so Ainsworth. i “est propria oratio habita ad juris et aequi arbitrum”; Cocceius in Psal. iv. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 6:9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
Ver. 9. The Lord hath heard my supplication ] And thereby sealed up sweetest love to my soul; as Ahasuerus afterwards did to his Esther, by granting her request. But how knew David, and how doth many another man in like sort know that God hath heard his prayer, though as yet no visible return appeareth? I answer, This he may know, 1. By a cast of God’s pleased countenance. 2. By the testimony of his own conscience, Phi 4:6-7 , and by the assurance of faith, which saith to a man, as the angel once did to Cornelius, Thy prayers are heard and answered. Of Luther we read, that having been once wrestling hard with God by prayer for the prosperous proceeding of the Reformation in Germany, about which there was a general meeting of the states at that time, he came leaping out of his closet with Vicimus, Vicimus, in his mouth, that is, We have prevailed, we have got the day. God sometimes answereth his people before they pray, sometimes while they are praying, as here, and sometimes after they have prayed, but sooner or later they shall be sure of it.
The Lord will receive my prayer
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
receive. Figure of speech Synonymia. App-6.
Title. Shiggaion = a loud cry in danger or joy, from sha’ag, always rendered “roar”. Occurs twenty-one times. Both meanings are seen in this Psalm, and Hab 3:1 (plural “set to” = concerning), the only two occurrences. See App-65.
words = matters, or business.
Cush. Who it was is not known: an evidence of genuineness.
the = a.
Benjamite. Hence probably an adherent or servant of Saul, and therefore long before Shimei and Absalom.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Psa 6:9-10
Psa 6:9-10
“Jehovah hath heard my supplication;
Jehovah will receive my prayer.
All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore troubled:
They shall turn back, they shall be put to shame suddenly.”
Notice the future tense in the second clause, which might lend some credibility to the suggestion made in the previous verse, that David had first proved his repentance by thrusting away all evil companions either prior to or in close connection with God’s forgiveness of his sins.
It is paradoxical that the best people on earth, namely, the children of God, should have any enemies whatsoever. Yet it is eternally true that the righteous are indeed continually encompassed with bitter, determined, and ruthless enemies.
Why? Why did Cain hate his brother Abel and climax it with his murder? “Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous” (1Jn 3:12). Servants of the devil hate the Christ; and as Jesus said, “Ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake” (Luk 21:17). Thus, the very name Christian is sufficient to incur the hatred and persecution of any true follower of Christ. All of the apostles experienced the world’s savage and vicious hatred and warned all of us that, “All that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (2Ti 3:12).
E.M. Zerr:
Psa 6:9. Many terms of respect for God are repeated in the Psalms. It indicates the fervent devotion David maintained toward God. Supplication and prayer are mentioned in the same verse. There is not much difference, but the former is more urgent than the latter.
Psa 6:10. This verse was encouraged by the Lord’s answering of David’s prayer. Let them return means for them to turn back to their own proper place and be ashamed for having persecuted David.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
hath heard: Psa 3:4, Psa 31:22, Psa 40:1, Psa 40:2, Psa 66:19, Psa 66:20, Psa 118:5, Psa 120:1, Psa 138:3, Jon 2:2, Jon 2:7, 2Co 12:8-10
will receive: Psa 116:1, Psa 116:2, 2Co 1:10, 2Co 1:11
Reciprocal: Lam 3:56 – hast Rom 8:26 – with Eph 6:18 – Praying