7<\/strong>. The Psalmist addresses Jehovah, appropriating to himself the promise of the preceding verse.<\/p>\n my hiding place<\/em> ] The same word as in Psa 27:5<\/span>; Psa 31:20<\/span>; Psa 91:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n thou shalt preserve me<\/em> &c.] Thou wilt guard me (Psa 12:7<\/span>; Psa 25:21<\/span>; Psa 31:23<\/span>) from distress (Psa 31:9<\/span>); thou wilt compass me about with shouts ( Psa 32:11<\/em><\/span>) of deliverance. Occasions for rejoicing arise wherever he turns: or possibly the glad shouts of the godly rejoicing at his deliverance are meant.<\/p>\n Thou art my hiding-place – <\/B>See Psa 9:9<\/span>, note; Psa 27:5<\/span>, note. The idea is that he would be safe under the protection of God. The general allusion is to concealment from an enemy, but the immediate reference is to sin, and the consequences of sin. By fleeing to God he would be secure against all the evils which sin brings upon human beings.<\/P> Thou shalt preserve me from trouble – <\/B>Particularly the trouble which comes from guilt; sadness and sorrow in the remembrance of sin; apprehension of the wrath of God in the world to come; the consequences of guilt in that unseen and eternal world.<\/P> Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance – <\/B>With songs expressive of deliverance or salvation. It is not merely one song or a single expression of gratitude; in his pathway to another world he will be attended with songs and rejoicings; he will seem to be surrounded with songs He himself will sing. Others, redeemed like him, will sing, and will seem to chant praises because He is redeemed and forgiven. All nature will seem to rejoice over his redemption. Nature is full of songs. The birds of the air; the wind; the running stream; the ocean; the seasons – spring, summer, autumn, winter; hills, valleys, groves – all, to one redeemed, seem to be full of songs. The feeling that we are pardoned fills the universe with melody, and makes the heaven and the earth seem to us to be glad. The Christian is a happy man; and he himself being happy, all around him sympathizes with him in his joy.<\/P> <\/p>\n Psa 32:7<\/span><\/p>\n Thou art my hiding place.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Our hiding place<\/strong><\/p>\n A man who is pursued as if he were a wild beast can appreciate the value of a safe hiding place.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>For there is an enemy to our souls ever seeking their destruction. Is it true that there is a wicked devil? Some think not, but Jesus tells us that there is. He tells us also that there is a hiding place from Satans power, and it is the Lord Himself.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>From our own inclinations. Some years ago I was walking with one of my children over a canal on a very narrow bridge. The child was frightened, and begged me to hold her tight, as she felt as if something were pulling her down into the canal. And so, like that child, we all of us have an inclination to fall from purity, and we shall fall unless the Lord hold us fast. And He will, if we ask Him. He will no more let you fall into sin, if you call on Him with all your heart, than I would have let that child fall into the canal. Though we have an inclination to sin, there is at all times a hiding place in which our souls may shelter until the danger be past.<\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> <\/strong>One of those times is, when the fear of death comes upon us. Who can help us when we die?<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Allow me to say a word about the hiding place we need when the sorrows of poverty afflict us. Ah, dont you think that such people need a hiding place? How blessed is the Gospel to them! They suffer, but they know, they feel, that our Heavenly Father cares for them. (W. Birch.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The believers refuge<\/strong><\/p>\n God our hiding place<\/strong><\/p>\n There <\/em>is no statement more true, and no truth more important, than that maxim of Martin Luther–Nolo Deum absolutum. Who, indeed, can meet an absolute God? God absolute is a consuming fire. His holiness is irreconcilably hostile to sin; His justice sternly demands the sinners punishment; and His truth obliges Him to execute the penalty of His violated law. In an absolute God there is no hope for a sinful creature. But now, through the incarnate Word, my atoning Sacrifice and interceding High-Priest, the devouring Fire becomes my protection, the almighty Adversary assumes the character of a friend, and with full assurance of faith I take up the song of the royal saint–Thou art my hiding place, thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Concerning the ungodly it is said–The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. But their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. I have seen the name of Benvenuto Cellini scratched with a nail upon the rugged stone wall of his cell in the Castello Sant Angelo; and have handled the sad mementos of Torquato Tasso in the convent of Sant Onofrio–his last refuge, the gate by which he entered paradise–midway between his cradle at Sorrento and his dungeon at Ferrara. But my sacred asylum can show many a worthier record and many a holier relic, for it has been the dwelling-place of the saints in all generations. Here Paul and Silas sang their midnight hymn, and the heroic exile of Patmos heard the chanting of immortal tongues. Here Ignatius challenged the lions with his Gloria in Exeelsis, and brave old Sanctus as long as he had power to speak confessed–I am a Christian. And cheering it is to know that these, and such as these–a fire-crowned host of priests and kings–have been here before me. The cities of refuge were six, and were so distributed that one of them was always within half-a-days flight of the man-slayer: and the gates were ever open to admit him. And yet, from one cause or another, he might not reach it. But our defence is ever accessible. Nay, I carry my refuge constantly with me: and not as the Arab carries his tent, or the soldier his shield, or the turtle its shell; for Christ is not only immanent in His word and movements, but dwells–a living Spirit–in every living heart. And the provision is as vast as human want and as various as human woe. And there is perfect safety there. The psalmist is certain of it. Thou wilt preserve me from trouble. Not, indeed, from earthly ills–the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to; but with Thee always present I can endure these. But from sin, the source of all trouble, and itself the only real trouble, I know Thy grace is sufficient to save me. My faith, like the eagles wings, bears me above the hurtling thunder into the eternal sunshine. Like the skylark, I sing as I soar, and pour music out of the cloud. Like the nightingale, I lift a cheerful lay in the twilight, and charm the night with melodies of love and hope. Thus will the Lord, my hiding place, compass me about with songs of deliverance. (J. Cross, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n God a hiding place<\/strong><\/p>\n Adam <\/em>hid from God; David hides in God.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>From the penalties of a broken law.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>From the enmity of man.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>From the trials and sorrows of life.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>From the fear of death. (C. D. Bell, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Thou shalt preserve me from trouble.<\/strong>—<\/em><\/p>\n Saints preserved from trouble<\/strong><\/p>\n If <\/em>we content ourselves with that word which our translators have chosen here, trouble, we must rest in one of these two senses; either that God shall arm, and endue those that are His, with such a constancy, as those things that trouble others, shall not trouble them, but, As the sufferings of Christ abound in them, so their consolation also aboundeth by Christ, as unknown, and yet well known, as dying, and behold we live, as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing all things; for God uses both these ways in the behalf of His servants; sometimes to suspend the working of that that should work their torment, as He suspended the rage of the lions for Daniel, and the heat of the fire in the furnace for the others; sometimes by imprinting a holy stupefaction, and insensibleness in the person that suffers, so St. Laurence was not only patient, but merry and facetious when he lay broiling upon the fire; and so we read of many other martyrs, that they have been less moved, less affected with their torments, than their executioners or their persecutors have been. That which troubled others never troubled them; or else the phrase must have this sense, that though they be troubled with their troubles, though God submit them so far, to the common condition of men, that they be sensible of them, yet He shall preserve them from that trouble so as that it shall never overthrow them, never sink them into a dejection of spirit, or diffidence in His mercy. They shall find storms, but a stout and strong ship under foot. They shall feel thunder and lightning, but garlands of triumphant bays shall preserve them. They shall be trodden into the earth with scorns and contempts, but yet as seed is buried, to multiply to more. Thou shalt make me insensible of it, or Thou shalt make me victorious in it<\/em>. <\/em>(J. Donne, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Preserved in Christ Jesus<\/strong><\/p>\n There used to be an old battered safe standing in the Broadway, New York, on which was the notice, It stood the test; the contents were all saved. It had been in one of the hottest fires New York ever saw, but the old safe had carried its treasures safely through it all. No life so safe as that which is guided and controlled by Christ. (J. Ellis.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.<\/strong><\/p>\n Songs of deliverance<\/strong><\/p>\n Song <\/em>is the natural language of the feelings. The heart in song seeks relief, as the swollen lake flows over in rills that make music as they flow. Songs of deliverance, therefore, are above all others songs of joy. And joy is far more vivid when it is a recoil from grief or terror, than when it is a continuance or higher degree of the same joy. And such songs strike, also, most powerfully the chords of feeling in other hearts and call forth an echo: for all can sympathize in such joy. And they are peculiar to men. Angels have no dangers, devils no deliverance. They are characteristically human songs: they stamp the singer a native of earth. See the song at the Red Sea (Exo 15:1-27<\/span>.; and that in Jdg 5:1-31<\/span>.). And we, too, have songs of deliverance. Let us speak of some of them.<\/p>\n Compassed about with songs of deliverance<\/strong><\/p>\n That <\/em>is, not to have one or two, or a few occasions or deliverances to sing praises to God for, but abundant, yea innumerable causes to praise and magnify God, so as a man can look no way round about him, but he shall see many and infinite mercies, and so many songs and praises, every new mercy being a new matter of a new song of deliverance. For look as when a man hath endured an heavy, dark, and uncomfortable night, the morning approacheth, and light begins to appear, not in any one side of the heavens, but on every side, that, let a man look where he will, the light compasseth him, and it groweth lighter and lighter until perfect day: so, although Gods children seem to be in darkness and in the night of affliction, yet God affords some deliverance, and brings the joyful morning, and then they see the light of comfort on all sides, and can say, Now they are compassed with light and salvation. So as the thing which our prophet here professeth, is; first, that the Lord would afford him matter enough to frame and compile holy songs of joyful praise and thanks. Secondly, that this matter should be so plentiful and abundant, that nothing should on any side be about him, but that whence he ought to provoke himself to return joyful thanks, he should be begirt with blessings and mercy. (T. Taylor, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Many deliverances, many songs<\/strong><\/p>\n What need is there of plurality of songs: may not one song serve; and if one may, what need many? One song perhaps may serve for one deliverance; but if there be many deliverances, must there not be many songs? And must there not be many deliverances when there are many bondages? And are there not many bondages when I incur a new bondage as often as I commit a new sin? And yet another reason as great as this: for say that Gods deliverance be but one, will that one deliverance require but one song? O my soul, it deserves, and therefore requires, I say not a plurality, but an infinity of songs; for there must be some songs to express it, and others to extol it; some songs of miserere and others of magnificat; some de profundis, and others in excelsis; some songs of praise, and others of thanksgiving; and though there will be a time when all these songs shall be collected into one, and so collected make the great Cantieum Canticorum, yet till that time come there will be need of many songs; and seeing I shall need many, I hope, O God, Thou wilt not see me want, and tie me to one song, but wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. (Sir Richard Baker.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 7<\/span>. Thou<\/B><\/I> art <\/B>my hiding place<\/B><\/I>] An allusion, probably, to the city of refuge<\/I>: “Thou shalt preserve me from trouble.” The avenger of blood shall not be able to overtake me. And being encompassed with an impregnable wall, I shall feel myself encompassed with<\/I> songs of deliverance <\/I>– I shall know that I am safe.<\/P> <\/p>\n i.e. With such great deliverances on all sides, as will give just occasion to sing forth thy praises. <\/P> <\/p>\n 7.<\/B> His experience illustratesthe statement of Ps 32:6<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n Thou [art] my hiding place<\/strong>,…. In time of trouble; see<\/p>\n Ps 27:5<\/span>; so Christ is said to be, Isa 32:2<\/span>. “Thou shall preserve me from trouble”; not from having it; for in this world the saints must have tribulation, and through it enter the kingdom, but from being swallowed up with it; the Lord will bring them safe out of it, and of them it shall be said, “these are they that came out of great tribulation”, Re 7:14<\/span>;<\/p>\n thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance<\/strong>; or gird with gladness, as in Ps 30:11<\/span>; the meaning is, that God would give him abundant reason for praise and thankfulness; and an opportunity of attending him with songs of praise for deliverance out of the hands of his enemies, and from trouble; and that both in his house below, where the saints, his loving people and faithful subjects, would join with him, in the midst of whom he should stand encompassed with their songs of praise; or in heaven above, where he should sing the song of Moses, and of the Lamb, and be surrounded with the hallelujahs of angels and glorified saints; Aben Ebra interprets these songs of the voices of angels.<\/p>\n Selah<\/strong>; on this word, [See comments on Ps 3:2]<\/span>.<\/p>\n Devout Confidence.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> 7 Thou art<\/I> my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. 9 Be ye not as the horse, or<\/I> as the mule, which<\/I> have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. 10 Many sorrows shall be<\/I> to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD<\/B>, mercy shall compass him about. 11 Be glad in the LORD<\/B>, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are<\/I> upright in heart.<\/P> David is here improving the experience he had had of the comfort of pardoning mercy.<\/P> I. He speaks to God, and professes his confidence in him and expectation from him, v.<\/I><\/span> 7<\/span>. Having tasted the sweetness of divine grace to a penitent sinner, he cannot doubt of the continuance of that grace to a praying saint, and that in that grace he should find both safety and joy. 1. Safety: “Thou art my hiding-place;<\/I> when by faith I have recourse to thee I see all the reason in the world to be easy, and to think myself out of the reach of any real evil. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble,<\/I> from the sting of it, and from the strokes of it as far as is good for me. Thou shalt preserve me from<\/I> such trouble as I was in while I kept silence,<\/I>” v.<\/I><\/span> 3<\/span>. When God has pardoned our sins, if he leaves us to ourselves, we shall soon run as far in debt again as ever and plunge ourselves again into the same gulf; and therefore, when we have received the comfort of our remission, we must fly to the grace of God to be preserved from returning to folly again, and having our hearts again hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. God keeps his people from trouble by keeping them from sin. 2. Joy: “Thou shalt not only deliver me, but compass me about with songs of deliverance;<\/I> which way soever I look I shall see occasion to rejoice and to praise God; and my friends also shall compass me about in the great congregation, to join with me in songs of praise: they shall join their songs of deliverance with mine. As every one that is godly shall pray with me,<\/I> so they shall give thanks with me.”<\/P> II. He turns his speech to the children of men. Being himself converted, he does what he can to strengthen his brethren<\/I> (Luke xxii. 32<\/span>): I will instruct thee,<\/I> whoever thou art that desirest instruction, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go,<\/I> v.<\/span> 8<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. This, in another of his penitential psalms, he resolves that when God should have restored to him the joy of his salvation he would teach transgressors his ways, and do what he could to convert sinners to God, as well as to comfort those that were converted, Psa 51:12<\/span>; Psa 51:13<\/span>. When Solomon became a penitent he immediately became a preacher, Eccl. i. 1<\/span>. Those are best able to teach others the grace of God who have themselves had the experience of it: and those who are themselves taught of God ought to tell others what he has done for their souls<\/I> (Ps. lxvi. 16<\/span>) and so teach them. I will guide thee with my eye.<\/I> Some apply this to God’s conduct and direction. He teaches us by his word and guides us with his eye, by the secret intimations of his will in the hints and turns of Providence, which he enables his people to understand and take direction from, as a master makes a servant know his mind by a wink of his eye. When Christ turned and looked upon Peter he guided him with his eye. But it is rather to be taken as David’s promise to those who sat under his instruction, his own children and family especially: “I will counsel thee; my eye shall be upon thee<\/I>” (so the margin reads it); “I will give thee the best counsel I can and then observe whether thou takest it or no.” Those that are taught in the word should be under the constant inspection of those that teach them; spiritual guides must be overseers. In this application of the foregoing doctrine concerning the blessedness of those whose sins are pardoned we have a word to sinners and a word to saints; and this is rightly dividing the word of truth and giving to each their portion.<\/P> 1. Here is a word of caution to sinners, and a good reason is given for it. (1.) The caution is, not to be unruly and ungovernable: Be you not as the horse and the mule, which have no understanding,<\/I> v.<\/span> 9<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. When the psalmist would reproach himself for the sins he repented of he compared himself to a beast before God<\/I> (so foolish have I been and ignorant,<\/I> Ps. lxxiii. 22<\/I><\/span>) and therefore warns others not to be so. It is our honour and happiness that we have understanding, that we are capable of being governed by reason and of reasoning with ourselves. Let us therefore use the faculties we have, and act rationally. The horse and mule must be managed with bit and bridle, lest they come near<\/I> us, to do us a mischief, or (as some read it) that they may come near to us, to do us service, that they may obey us,<\/I> Jam. iii. 3<\/I><\/span>. Let us not be like them; let us not be hurried by appetite and passion, at any time, to go contrary to the dictate of right reason and to our true interest. If sinners would be governed and determined by these, they would soon become saints and would not go a step further in their sinful courses; where there is renewing grace there is no need of the bit and bridle of restraining grace. (2.) The reason for this caution is because the way of sin which we would persuade you to forsake will certainly end in sorrow (v.<\/I><\/span> 10<\/span>): Many sorrows shall be to the wicked,<\/I> which will not only spoil their vain and carnal mirth, and put an end to it, but will make them pay dearly for it. Sin will have sorrow, if not repented of, everlasting sorrow. It was part of the sentence, I will greatly multiply thy sorrows.<\/I> “Be wise for yourselves therefore, and turn from your wickedness, that you may prevent those sorrows, those many sorrows.”<\/P> 2. Here is a word of comfort to saints, and a good reason is given for that too. (1.) They are assured that if they will but trust in the Lord, and keep closely to him, mercy shall compass them about<\/I> on every side (v.<\/I><\/span> 10<\/span>), so that they shall not depart from God, for that mercy shall keep them in, nor shall any real evil break in upon them, for that mercy shall keep it out. (2.) They are therefore commanded to be glad in the Lord, and<\/I> to rejoice<\/I> in him, to such a degree as even to shout for joy,<\/I> v.<\/span> 11<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. Let them be so transported with this holy joy as not to be able to contain themselves; and let them affect others with it, that they also may see that a life of communion with God is the most pleasant and comfortable life we can live in this world. This is that present bliss which the upright in heart, and they are only, are entitled to and qualified for.<\/P><\/p>\n At last the Psalmist gives himself to thanksgiving, and although he uses but few words to celebrate the divine favor, there is, notwithstanding, much force in his brevity. In the first place, he denies that there is any other haven of safety but in God himself. Secondly, he assures himself that God will be his faithful keeper hereafter; for I willingly retain the future tense of the verb, though some, without any reason, translate it into the past. He is not, however, to be understood as meaning that he conceived himself safe from future tribulations, but he sets God’s guardianship over against them. Lastly, whatever adversity may befall him, he is persuaded that God will be his deliverer. By the word compass, he means manifold and various kinds of deliverance; as if he had said, that he should be under obligation to God in innumerable ways, and that he should, on every side, have most abundant matter for praising him. We may observe in the meantime, how he offers his service of gratitude to God, according to his usual method, putting songs of deliverance instead of help. <\/p>\n 7<\/strong>. <\/strong> My hiding place <\/strong> My place of safety. In the previous verse the psalmist mentions the general effect of his great restoration; here he speaks of the enlargement of his personal faith and joy.<\/p>\n What a rich verse this is, and what a rich representation is made in it of the Lord Christ, as the hiding place of poor redeemed sinners? In his person, in his righteousness, in his blood, in his salvation, in his power, love, goodness, grace here, glory hereafter, how everlastingly secured are his redeemed ones! Hid from sin, from Satan, from themselves and their own corruptions; from all the accusations of the law, the alarms of conscience, and the justice of Almighty God. Jesus hath sustained all for them, when he became a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest. Precious Jesus! be thou to my soul, at these, and everything I want beside; for thou art indeed to all thy redeemed, both as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Isa 32:2<\/span> .<\/p>\n Psa 32:7 Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.<\/p>\n Ver. 7. Thou art my hiding place, &c.<\/strong> ] And therefore I, being a pardoned person, shall be in safety under thy wings, Psa 91:4<\/span> , per totum. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thou shalt preserve me from trouble<\/strong> ] Either from it or in it; that I be not hurt by it. The godly, after one trouble, must prepare for another; after one deliverance, expect another. A company cometh, as she said. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thou shalt compass me about with songs<\/strong> ] i.e.<\/em> Plentifully furnish me with matter of praise, ita ut laetus Paeana canam.<\/em> And like as in a lottery, at every prize the trumpet soundeth; so at every deliverance I will sing aloud to thy glory. All my springs shall be in thee.<\/p>\n hiding place. Note Jehovah my righteousness (Psa 32:6), my hiding place (Psa 32:7), and my guide (Psa 32:8). Compare Psa 9:9; Psa 27:5; Psa 31:20; Psa 119:114. <\/p>\n songs = shoutings. <\/p>\n Selah. Connecting this worship and praise with the further instruction and guidance which such receive. <\/p>\n my: Psa 9:9, Psa 27:5, Psa 31:20, Psa 119:114, Psa 143:9, Jer 36:26, Col 3:3 <\/p>\n compass: Psa 32:10, Psa 5:12, Psa 18:5 <\/p>\n songs: Psa 40:3, Psa 98:1, Exo 15:1-3, Jdg 5:1, 2Sa 22:1, Rev 7:10, Rev 15:2, Rev 15:3 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 32:10 – he instructed Jos 2:22 – found them not 1Sa 23:14 – but God 2Sa 22:3 – my refuge Psa 42:8 – in the night Psa 68:19 – daily Psa 91:1 – dwelleth Psa 121:4 – he that Isa 26:20 – enter Isa 30:29 – Ye shall Isa 32:2 – an hiding Jer 50:6 – have forgotten Dan 6:27 – delivereth Zep 2:3 – hid Luk 8:38 – besought 2Co 1:4 – that Col 3:16 – and spiritual<\/p>\n Psa 32:7. Thou art my hiding-place When by faith I have recourse to thee, I see all the reason in the world to be easy, and to think myself out of the reach of any real evil. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble From the sting of it, and from the strokes of it, as far as is good for me. Thou shalt preserve me from such trouble as I was in while I kept silence, and did not confess my sins, and pray for forgiveness, Psa 32:3. If, when God has pardoned our sins. he were to leave us to ourselves, we should soon relapse into sin, and contract fresh guilt, and thereby plunge ourselves again into the same gulf of distress and misery; therefore, when we have received the comfort of our remission, we must have recourse to the grace of God to be preserved from returning to folly again, and having our hearts again hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. God keeps his people from trouble, by keeping them from sin. Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance With such great deliverances on all sides as will give just occasion to sing thy praise. And my friends, also, shall compass me about in the great congregation, to join with me in songs of praise: they shall join their songs of deliverance with mine.<\/p>\n David paused to praise God for being a refuge for him when such a flood of trouble had overwhelmed him. The Lord not only sustained him but also gave him occasion to praise His name. Charles Wesley’s hymn "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" drew on Psa 32:6-7: "While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me, O my Saviour, hide . . ."<\/p>\n "In Psa 32:3-4 David was hiding from<\/span> God, but in Psa 32:7 he is hiding in<\/span> God." [Note: Ironside, p. 191.] <\/span><\/p>\n Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. 7. The Psalmist addresses Jehovah, appropriating to himself the promise of the preceding verse. my hiding place ] The same word as in Psa 27:5; Psa 31:20; Psa 91:1. thou shalt preserve me &c.] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 32:7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>we need a hiding place for the soul.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>there are special times when we need a hiding place.<\/p>\n
I. <\/strong>the refuge which he needs. Refer to David in the stronghold; man-slayer in city of refuge; Noah in the ark. The sinner needs a refuge under the guilt of sin, under the demands of the law, under the dangers of life.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>the confidence he indulges. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble–not that actual exemption from trial is promised, but so preserved as that we shall not sink under it. The argument is that past deliverances are a ground of future hope. If He delivered me as a rebellious sinner, shall He not deliver me as a praying believer? It rests on the promise and faithfulness of God–For the mountains shall depart, etc. The Christian, after one trial, should prepare for another. It is supported by the experience of the Church.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>the joy he anticipates. Songs of deliverance. (Study.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I. <\/strong>that sung on our deliverance from the most appalling danger. The Christians most thankful praise is praise for deliverance. The joy that breathes in his song is the joy of recovered safety. His whole happiness is a treasure rescued from utter wreck; he is a delivered man. In whatever scene, with whatever fellowship he mingles in his eternal career, he shall be marked as one that has been delivered. All the greatness that may yet come to him, all the blessedness that eternity shall put to his lips, all the glory to which his nature may ascend, cry out of deliverance. His is not the joy of the happy child who has never passed beyond the home of love and purity, but the joy of the reformed prodigal, who, despite a wasted heritage, blighted hopes, and a dishonoured name, has, after weary wanderings, again found a home of peace and love.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>the believers song of deliverance from earthly sorrows and troubles. As the Christian has many a sorrow, so he has many a song. He has songs of deliverance when the judgments which threatened to overwhelm him have not been permitted to come nigh; songs of deliverance when they have come, and all Gods waves and billows have gone over him, and he has passed through the cloud and the sea unharmed. Even the dread chastisements of God which came upon David in consequence of his sin lost their terribleness and all that should make them dreaded. They were henceforth to work together for good; and therefore he lifts the song of deliverance, though the troubles were still with him. Evil in its outward aspect is not changed, but to the soul its spiritual relation is reversed. In the life of the true penitent the fruits of past wickedness, severed from the tree that nourished them, lose their noxious quality, and fatten the soil for future harvests of good. And therefore the pardoned sinner counts it all joy when he falls into tribulation. Hear again Davids song: Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>the song of final and eternal deliverance. It is not till the Church has reached her heavenly home, and every member of the great body of Christ is finally redeemed from the power of the world,–and death, the last enemy, destroyed, that the glorified Church shall stand on the shores of the glassy sea, and swell high the anthem of triumph that began in the deliverance of Israel under Moses, and is consummated in the triumph of the Lamb, over the world, and sin, and death, and the grave. Then her joy shall be full, in the sense of her own safety assured for ever against all enemies. Nothing shall remain but joy add song. <\/em>(J. Riddell.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
<\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TABLE> Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"