Psalms 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick Or under any disorder or distress of body or mind, when any misfortune or infirmity attended them; meaning Saul and his courtiers, before David was persecuted by them; my clothing [was] sackcloth; Thus, when the Son of David was run upon by the rulers, the people cried, Crucify him, crucify him. 1. Let the LORD be magnified, (Comp. He felt that their restoration to health - that the preservation of their lives - depended on God, and he most earnestly and fervently pleaded in their behalf. 13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth. They gnashed upon him with their teeth; they never spoke of him but with the greatest indignation imaginable, as those that would have eaten him up if they could. This is to the spoiling of his soul; this base unkind usage robs him of his comfort, and cuts him to the heart, more than anything else. Clouds do not always descend in showers upon the same spot from which the vapours ascended, but they come down somewhere; and even so do supplications in some place or other yield their showers of mercy. Psalm 35 NIV - Of David. Contend, LORD, with those who - Bible Gateway 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. Meals so characterize Jesus' ministry that Robert J. Karris 2 concluded, "In Luke's Gospel Jesus is either going to a meal, at a . This psalm opens in a warlike tone, so as to suggest a soldier for its author, and for its occasion the eye of some battle. I really wouldn't want to be one of David's enemies. It seems that this psalm also was written during the time of Davids flight from Saul. He prays that God would act for him, and not stand by as a spectator (v. 17): "Lord, how long wilt thou look on? The word soul here is equivalent to self; I afflicted myself. my prayer came back again and again to my bosom, i.e., but, my prayer returned into mine own bosom , And my prayer returned into mine own bosom, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom, for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. My clothing was sackcloth - Compare the notes at Psalms 30:11. Lit. My God and my Lord: The cry of Thomas when he saw the wounds of Jesus. And of Your praise all the day long. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. David had been a man of sympathy; he had mourned when Saul was in ill health, putting on the weeds of sorrow for him as though he were a near and dear friend. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom. Sometimes adonai has the sense of Sir and sometimes it has the sense of God. He prays that God would stop their way (v. 3), that they might not overtake him when he fled from them. Such has often been the hard fate of the best of men. ". Rhetorical questions expressed David's frustration and sought to move God to action (cf. my clothing was sackcloth; that is, he was grieved, and mourned for them, it being usual to put on sackcloth in time of mourning; see Genesis 37:34; I humbled my soul with fasting; on the account of them, giving up himself to prayer for them, as follows: and my prayer returned into mine own bosom; that is, he prayed privately and heartily for them, as for himself; he was constant in it, his heart was in it, and he took delight in it, and he was heard and answered; unless the sense should be, that his prayer was slighted by them, and so returned back to himself, as a present despised is returned; but however it was not without its effect, the good for which he prayed for them was returned by the Lord unto him. (1.) Psalms 35:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible. Psalm 35:13 in all English translations. We may comfort ourselves with the testimony of our consciences concerning our innocency, with reference to those that are any way injurious to us, and with hopes that God will, in his own way and time, right us, and, in the mean time, support us. See Daniel 9:3; Matthew 17:21; Luke 2:37. (2.) We may request cookies to be set on your device. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain. Let them shout for joy and be glad, PLUS Save 20% for life! 1 Kings 18:42, where, however, there is no express mention of prayer.) But David is poor and needy, has nothing to make friends with, and therefore has none to take his part but men (as we say) of broken fortunes (1 Sam 22 2); and therefore no marvel that Saul spoiled him of what little he had got and the interest he had made. They had falsely accused him, but God, who knows all things, knew that he did not falsely accuse them, nor make them worse than really they were. They gnash upon him with their teeth after the manner of the profanest among those, by whom their neighbour's honour is sold for a delicate morsel. Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of those do you stone me? David was a man of war, and of a bold stout spirit, and yet was thus susceptible of the impressions of sympathy, forgot the bravery of the hero, and seemed wholly made up of love and pity; it was a rare composition of hardiness and tenderness, courage and compassion, in the same breast. His heart went into mourning for his sick master. There is some difference in the numbering of the psalms among versions. David here shows. Psalms 35 - Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible - StudyLight.org John 10:32. (l) I prayed for them with inward affection, as I would have done for myself: or, I declared my affection with bowing down my head. But this was not all. 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Psalm 35:13 Commentary - The Treasury of David - Bible Study Tools But as for me, when they were sick Or under any disorder or distress of body or mind, when any misfortune or infirmity attended them; meaning Saul and his courtiers, before David was persecuted by them; my clothing [was] sackcloth; that is, he was grieved, and mourned for them, it being usual to put on sackcloth in time of mourning; see ( Genesis 37:34 ) ; I humbled my soul with fasting; on the account of them, giving up himself to prayer for them, as follows: and my prayer returned into mine own bosom; that is, he prayed privately and heartily for them, as for himself; he was constant in it, his heart was in it, and he took delight in it, and he was heard and answered; unless the sense should be, that his prayer was slighted by them, and so returned back to himself, as a present despised is returned; but however it was not without its effect, the good for which he prayed for them was returned by the Lord unto him. i. We find how patiently he bore Shimei's curses (so let him curse, for the Lord has bidden him); and we cannot suppose that he who was so meek in his conversation would give vent to any intemperate heat or passion in his devotion; but, by the spirit of prophecy, he foretels the just judgments of God that would come upon them for their great wickedness, their malice, cruelty, and perfidiousness, and especially the enmity to the counsels of God, the interests of religion, and that reformation which they knew David, if ever he had power in his hand, would be an instrument of. I humbled my soul with fasting - Margin, "afflicted;" so the Hebrew properly means. See Psalms 79:12 . Verse 13. ; and Reland de Relig. They will follow him, for they know his voice. Psalms 35:13 Meaning and Commentary Psalms 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick Or under any disorder or distress of body or mind, when any misfortune or infirmity attended them; meaning Saul and his courtiers, before David was persecuted by them; my clothing [was] sackcloth; What does Psalm 35:13 mean? | BibleRef.com God knew that they were, without cause, his enemies, and that they had, without cause, digged pits for him, v. 7. For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. (1.) Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? John 10 32. 2. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. they gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me together, and I knew it not; they tore me and ceased not: With hypocritical mockers in the feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help. Let God be my salvation, not only my Saviour out of my present troubles, but my everlasting bliss. so would we have it (v. 25), much more that he might not be reduced to such extremity that they should say, We have swallowed him up; for then they will reflect upon God himself. What does Psalm chapter 35 mean? | BibleRef.com Christian sympathy even for the froward. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. Nay, he had deserved well not only of the public in general, but of those particular persons that were now most bitter against him. If a fellow-subject had wronged him, he might have appealed to his prince, as St. Paul did to Csar; but, when his prince wronged him, he appealed to his God, who is prince and Judge of the kings of the earth: Plead my cause, O Lord! i. For him. They were very unrighteous; they were his enemies wrongfully, for he never gave them any provocation: They hated him without a cause; nay, for that for which they ought rather to have loved and honoured him. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. (2.) Verse 13-14. Yet he ended with a strong focus on God and His praise. Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 35:13-14 - King James Version He prayed for them. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. David was the fool in the play, and his disappointment all the table-talk of the hypocritical mockers at feasts; it was the song of the drunkards. Psalm 35 | Bible.org Exodus 2:24-25 ). "Whether or not this psalm was written as a companion to Psalms 34, it is well placed next to it, not only because of some verbal affinities and contrasts (notably the angel of the Lord, Psalms 34:7; Psalms 35:5-6, found nowhere else in the Psalter), but because it speaks out of the kind of darkness which has just been dispelled in the former psalm. They are hoping that David will soon be caught, so that they can pounce on him and destroy him. Commentary on Psalms 13 by Matthew Henry - Blue Letter Bible I. Perjury, Psalms 35:11; Psalms 35:11. Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! He has pleasure in the prosperity both of their temporal and of their spiritual affairs, and delights not in their griefs; for he does not afflict willingly; and we ought therefore to have pleasure in their prosperity, and not to envy it. If they urge their suit in the law-court, Lord, meet them there, and beat them at their own weapons. As God's angels encamp against those that fight against him. It was also with reference to prayer in their behalf; and to fasting, that he put on these marks of grief. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. He prays that his friends might have cause to rejoice and give glory to God, v. 27. 3. 1. II. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother. 2. he humbled himself, fasted, and prayed on their behalf 3. he mourned for them (as for a close friend or brother) 4. he mourned for them (as for his own mother) There is a visible contrast between how the faithful follower acts and the faithless ones act! I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother. of Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause: Through the psalms in general, we see that David did not think of himself as perfect in a sinless sense. Of the many interpretations that are given of this passage, that appears to me the most probable which derives it from the posture of the worshipper; who standing with his head inclined downward toward his bosom, turned away his attention from all external objects, and uttered his mournful and earnest requests, as if they were directed to his own bosom. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. Psalm 13 Commentary - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible Do We See Any Gospel Connections in the Book of Numbers? They really would get upset.Now when Elisha was going up the hill, little kids came up from Bethel saying, "aha, aha, ye old bald man!" When Saul would have David attainted of treason, in order to his being outlawed, perhaps he did it with the formalities of a legal prosecution, produced witnesses who swore some treasonable words or overt acts against him, and he being not present to clear himself (or, if he was, it was all the same), Saul adjudged him a traitor. 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. The most simple interpretation, therefore, is that which supposes that the prayer was offered under such a burden of grief on account of their sufferings, that his head sank on his bosom; or, in other words, that the prayer which was offered was such as is presented when the heart is most burdened and most sad. IV. was not my soul grieved for the poor? They were very proud and scornful (v. 21): They opened their mouth wide against me; they shouted and huzzaed when they saw his fall; they bawled after him when he was forced to quit the court, "Aha! 1. We must be earnest to keep the line of demarcation broad and clear. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it ( Psalms 35:15-21 ). If God be our friend, no matter who is our enemy. Lord, be not far from me (v. 22), as if I were a stranger that thou wert not concerned for; let not me beheld afar off, as the proud are." b. C. Simeon. Humbled my soul with fasting. Psalm 35:13 - Bible Hub This is the view of Ewald and Delitzsch, but seems prosaic. Though from the wayward and profligate life they led, they did not profit by my prayers, yet God did not permit me to pray in vain. How long wilt thou connive at the wickedness of the wicked? III. I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: and I will praise thee among much people. Their way shall be dark and slippery, darkness and slipperiness (so the margin reads it); the way of sinners is so, for they walk in darkness and in continual danger of falling into sin, into hell; and it will prove so at last, for their foot shall slide in due time, Deut 32 35. When they were sick This might refer to the case of Absalom, who was much beloved of his father, and for whose life and prosperity he no doubt often prayed, wept, and fasted. He thought of the people of God enlarging the LORD in their hearts and minds, and of his continual praise to God (my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness and of Your praise all the day long). He prayed for his enemy, and made the sick man's case his own, pleading and confessing as if his own personal sin had brought on the evil. To my cause, my God and my Lord. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 2 Take up shield and armor; arise and come to my aid. Psalm 35 KJV - Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that - Bible Gateway We are apt to justify our uneasiness at the injuries men do us by this, That we never gave them any cause to use us so; whereas this should, more than any thing, make us easy, for then we may the more confidently expect that God will plead our cause. This instance of the wrong done to David was typical, and had its accomplishment in the Son of David, against whom false witnesses did arise, Matt 26 60. But as for me - The psalmist now contrasts their conduct with his own. Lord, who is like unto thee? If God, by his Spirit, witness to our spirits that he is our salvation, we need desire no more to make us happy. Why Does God Compare Our Relationship with Him to That of a Bride and Groom? What Every Christian Should Know about the Protestant Reformation. Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. ichtalla, to be pierced through equals mad), be understood as those mentally deranged, enraged at nothing or without cause. How basely and insolently and with what a brutish enmity, and worse than brutish, they had behaved towards him (Psalms 35:15; Psalms 35:16); In my adversity they rejoiced. Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. All rights reserved. Note, It will be a comfort to us, when men do us wrong, if our consciences can witness for us that we have never done them any. And my prayer returned into mine own bosom - DeWette explains this as meaning, "I prayed with my head sunk on my bosom;" that is, with the head bowed down, so that the prayer which went out of Iris lips seemed to return again to his own bosom - that earnest prayer which one offers when the head is bowed with sorrow. but according to 1 Kings 17:12, a cake of a round formation (like the Talmudic , a circle); , jeering, jesting. Much like Psalm 23 ends in abundance, so Jesus concludes this parable in an abundant image of his care, described so beautifully in the First Nations Version of the Gospel of John: "Following the Shepherd, they will go in and out and find good food to eat. of It would harden the hearts of his enemies in their wickedness and confirm them in their enmity to him, and would be a great discouragement to all the pious Jews that were friends to his righteous cause. Psalms 6:3 ). the common phrase for thoughts coming upon the heart, Jeremiah 3:16; Jeremiah 7:31, etc.) 2. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. He appeals to God against them, the God to whom vengeance belongs, appeals to his knowledge (v. 22): This thou hast seen. He will do it in the great congregation, and among much people, that God might be honoured and many edified. 1. How tenderly, and with what a cordial affection, he had behaved towards them in their afflictions (v. 13, 14): They were sick. Psalm 35:13 Commentaries: But as for me, when they were sick, my His prayer to God to manifest himself both for him and to him, in this trial. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. ( Psalms 35:7-10 ). But as for me, when they were sick,. Or under any disorder or distress of body or mind, when any misfortune or infirmity attended them; meaning Saul and his courtiers, before David was persecuted by them; my clothing [was] sackcloth; that is, he was grieved, and mourned for them, it being usual to put on sackcloth in time of mourning; see. (2.) c. Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion who rejoice at my hurt: David simply and powerfully asked God to be his defense before his enemies. Note, It is no new thing for the most righteous men, and the most righteous cause, to meet with many mighty and malicious enemies: Christ himself is striven with and fought against, and war is made upon the holy seed; and we are not to marvel at the matter: it is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed of the serpent against the seed of the woman. 24 Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. We cannot express how great and good God is, and therefore must praise him by acknowledging him to be a non-such. Note, (1.) Let the LORD be magnified: David spoke much of his own need and trouble in this psalm. The most simple interpretation, therefore, is that which supposes that the prayer was offered under such a burden of grief on account of their sufferings, that his head sank on his bosom; or, in other words, that the prayer which was offered was such as is presented when the heart is most burdened and most sad. (2.) But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. Click on the different category headings to find out more. No such patron of oppressed innocency, no such punisher of triumphant tyranny. Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me; Fight against those who fight against me. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. This You have seen, O LORD: Thou hast seen is a perfect foil to the enemys cry, our eyes have seen it! (Kidner). Do We See Any Gospel Connections in the Book of Numbers? It seemed that God was too passive, so David cried out for Him to stir up Yourself and to awake on Davids behalf. They had carried on their plots against him with a great degree of secresy (v. 15): "I knew it not, till long after, when they themselves gloried in it; but thy eye was upon them in their close cabals and thou art a witness of all they have said and done against me and thy people." It would seem from this that the persons referred to, who now treated him with so much ingratitude, were those with whom he had been formerly intimately associated, or whom he had regarded as his personal friends, since it cannot be supposed that this deep sympathy would have been shown for those who were altogether strangers to him. 5. The Hebrew verb has this frequentative sense in one of its conjugations. He discovered not only the tender affection of a man, but the pious affection of a saint. But as for them - how do they act at the present time, when he finds himself in (Psalm 38:17; Job 18:12), a sideway direction, i.e., likely to fall (from , Arab. But cannot by itself mean smiters with the tongue. It is my soul that is in danger; Lord, rescue it. If God is our Friend, no matter who is our enemy. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor: He will shame them for shaming his people, bring them to confusion for making confusion, pull off their fine apparel and give them a beggarly suit of dishonour, and turn all their rejoicing into weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. It might also, after the Arabic nawika, to be injured in mind, anwak, stupid, silly (from the same root , to prick, smite, wound, cf. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them. Let me have inward comfort under all outward troubles, to support my soul. They were very barbarous and base, for they trampled upon him when he was down, rejoiced at his hurt, and magnified themselves against him, v. 26. Psalm 35 by C. H. Spurgeon - Blue Letter Bible Two very wicked things David here lays to the charge of his enemies, to make good his appeal to God against themperjury and ingratitude. Thus, therefore, from , like from , may mean smitten, men, i.e., men who are brought low or reduced (Hengstenberg). Heman the Ezrahite wrote one (Psalms 88), and Ethan the Ezrahite composed one (Psalms 89). See how much the honours, estates, liberties, and lives, even of the best men, lie at the mercy of the worst, against whose false oaths innocency itself is no fence; and what reason we have to acknowledge with thankfulness the hold God has of the consciences even of bad men, to which it is owing that there is not more mischief done in that way than is. He prays earnestly to God to appear graciously for him and his friends, against his and their enemies, that by his providence the struggle might issue to the honour and comfort of David and to the conviction and confusion of his persecutors. (1.) Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication, It is the character of the godly in the land that they are the quiet in the land, that they live in all dutiful subjection to government and governors, in the Lord, and endeavour, as much as in them lies, to live peaceably with all men, however they may have been misrepresented as enemies to Csar and hurtful to kings and provinces. This is the plural for the generic word for God. of LORD, how long are you just going to stand there looking? Notwithstanding the arts that were used to blacken David, and make him odious, and to frighten people from owning him, there were some that favoured his righteous cause, that knew he was wronged and bore a good affection to him; and he prays for them, (1.) He prays that God would fight against his enemies, so as to disable them to hurt him, and defeat their designs against him (v. 1), that he would take hold of shield and buckler, for the Lord is a man of war (Exod 15 3), and that he would stand up for his help (v. 2), for he had few that would stand up for him, and, if he had ever so many, they would stand him in no stead without God. Thieves enter only to take away life, to . Job 19:18; Job 30:1). Against his many enemies (v. 4-6): Let them be confounded, etc. A great deal of good service he had done to his king, witness his harp, witness Goliath's sword, witness the foreskins of the Philistines; and yet his king vowed his death, and his country was made too hot for him. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation. my prayer came back again and again to my bosom, i.e., for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, And my prayer returned into mine own bosom, Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular, Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural, Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular, A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag, Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular, Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular, A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular, Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular, David prays for his own safety, and his enemies' confusion, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Poetry: Psalm 35:13 But as for me when they were (Psalm Ps Psa. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. But as for me, when I was in adversity they rejoiced.". See Daniel 9:3; Matthew 17:21; Luke 2:37. All the hellish arts of malice and falsehood are made use of to render them odious or despicable; their words and actions are misconstrued, even that which they abhor is fathered upon them, laws are made to ensnare them (Dan 6 4, etc. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. He prayed for them. The Timeless Psalms: Psalm 13, Joan Stott, prayers and meditations based on lectionary Psalms, 2014. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. Psalm 35 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) - Christianity Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of those do you stone me?
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