Psalm 18:30

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 18:1-50

Psalms 18:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,1 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;My buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 18:27-50

Girded with Strength for Service Psalms 18:27-50 God’s way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads him through them. We must follow on the line of His purpose, and then the very mountains are a way and our enemies subserve the program, Acts 2:23 . Swift and sure-footed, when the path is slippery, Psalms 18:33 ; strong in battle, Psalms 18:34 ; great through God’s gentle kindness, or, as the English Book... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 18:1-50

This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and simple is it in its movement and language that nothing need be said of it save, perhaps, to suggest an analysis to aid in its study. Prologue of Praise (1-3). Here the psalmist pours out the gladness and gratitude of his heart which thrills with the highest spirit of adoration. The Peril and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 18:30-36

David Gives A Summary of What God Is And Of All God’s Blessings to Him (Psalms 18:30-36 ). Psalms 18:30 ‘As for God, his way is perfect, The word of YHWH is tried (tested and proved true), He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.’ David knows that God’s way is perfect. Thus to walk in that way is to walk the perfect road. He desired no other. For he knew that God’s word had been tried and tested and had never failed. Each of us similarly can enjoy the perfection of God’s way, and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 18:1-50

XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional matter has been interpolated by later scribes. The language, which is Aramaic in its colouring, confirms the view that it is late, and so does the theophany in Psalms 18:3-Proverbs : when compared with Deuteronomy 32. Possibly a later writer composed it and put it by a very permissible license... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 18:30

His way is perfect; his counsel and providence, though it may sometimes be dark and hard to be understood, yet is always wise and just, and every way perfect or unbeareable. The word of the Lord is tried; the truth of God’s promises is certain, and approved by innuerable experiences, and mine among the rest. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 18:1-50

INTRODUCTION“This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commentators, even Jewish as well as Christian, but, above all, the citations, made from it in the New Testament, evince that the kingdom of Messiah is here pointed at under that of David. It may thus be divided into five parts.Part I. Consisting of the first three verses, is the proem of the song.Part II.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 18:30

Psalms 18:30 I. Consider this great and deep utterance in application to God's material works. Let us look at the various phenomena that are around us, and we shall see that the light, and air, and heat, and cold, and the heavenly bodies, the laws of electricity, the various kinds of climate under which men are living all these are marvellously adapted to the end for which they are designed. All that came from the hand of God was very good, and it is the entrance and result of moral evil that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 18:1-50

Psalms 18:1-50 The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician. It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said,I will love thee, O LORD, my strength ( Psalms 18:1 ).So that is all an introduction to the psalm, which is written in the Hebrew, just the introduction to the psalm. This evidently is the time when he was... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 18:1-50

David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his consecration and with the Messiah in his view, he rises to the sublime of song, and joins his sorrows and his joys to those of Christ. The title is taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. Psalms 18:1-2 . I will love thee, oh Lord, possessed of all perfections, moral and divine, the infinite, unchangeable... read more

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