Bible Commentary

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name forever and ever. 5. Thou hast rebuked the heathen ] Or, as R.V. text, the nations, though here, where the word is parallel to the wicked, and denotes the nations in obstinate and sinful opposition to God’s people, heathen … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 9:5”

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. 4. In the defeat of his enemies he sees God’s judicial intervention on his behalf. God has pronounced and executed sentence in his favour. Cp. Psa 7:8-9. thou satest &c.] Better, thou didst take thy seat on the throne, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 9:4”

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 3, 4. Stanza of Beth. It is best to place a semicolon only at the end of Psa 9:2, and render Psa 9:3 in close connexion with it: Because mine enemies turn back, Stumble and perish at Thy presence. The ‘presence’ … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 9:3”

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. 2. rejoice ] R.V., exult; the same word as in Psa 5:11 c. The closing words of Psalms 7 are taken up and expanded in these two verses. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 9:2”

To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben, A Psalm of David. I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works. 1. I will praise thee, O Lord ] R.V., I will give thanks unto the Lord, as in Psa 7:17. with my whole heart ] With the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 9:1”

O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! 9. How can the Psalmist better close than with the same exclamation of reverent wonder with which he began; repeated now with fuller significance, after meditation on the way in which the truth it asserts is most signally declared! Fuente: The Cambridge … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 8:9”

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas. The fowl of the air – Gen 1:26, Over the fowl of the air. Gen 9:2, upon every fowl of the air. This dominion is the more remarkable because the birds of the air seem … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 8:8”

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 7, 8. Man’s subjects are as it were mustered and passed in review: domestic animals, and even the wild creatures that roam at large over the open country; the birds of the air (lit. heaven, as Psa 104:12), and the fish of the sea, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 8:7”

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet: 6. Again a reference to Gen 1:26; Gen 1:28. ‘Thou hast put all things under his feet’ reads like a paraphrase of the word there rendered ‘let them have dominion,’ which means primarily ‘to tread … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 8:6”

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. 5. Render as R.V.: For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honour. In rendering than the angels the A.V. follows the LXX, Vulg., Targ. and Syriac. The … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 8:5”