psalm-18:6

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 18:4-6

Troubles and Death Had Pressed In On Him (Psalms 18:4-6 ). ‘The cords of death encompassed me, And the floods of ungodliness (literally ‘worthlessness’ - belial) made me afraid. The cords of Sheol were round about me, The snares of death came on me, In my distress I called on YHWH, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came to his ears.’ David now describes the sore situation in which he had found himself time and again, especially when he had been... 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 18:6

Out of his temple; either, 1. Out of his sanctuary; whence he promised to hear and answer the prayers of his people, which are either made there or directed thither. Or, 2. Out of his heavenly habitation, which is oft called his temple: See Poole "Psalms 11:4". 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

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 18:4-6

Psalms 18:4-6The sorrows of death compassed me. Estimating our sorrowsNo attempt is here made to diminish the severity of the crisis. Often when a great agony is overpast, the sufferer himself forgets its intensity and is inclined to think that it might have been cured by less ostentatious menus than had been adopted for its pacification. We are seldom critically correct in the recollection of our sorrows. We either unduly magnify them, or we so far modify their intensity as to make any... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 18:6

Psa 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears. Ver. 6. In my distress I called upon the Lord ] This was David’s anchora sacra; sacred anchor, prayer, he knew, could never come too late, nor God want a way to deliver his distressed. The time of affliction is the time of supplication; and man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. And cried unto my God ] He grew more and more earnest. We... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 18:6

distress: Psalms 18:3, Psalms 18:4, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 130:1, Psalms 130:2, Mark 14:36, Acts 12:5 heard: Psalms 5:7, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 27:4, Psalms 27:5, 2 Samuel 22:7, Habakkuk 2:20, Revelation 11:19 my cry: Exodus 2:23, 1 Kings 8:27-Amos :, 2 Chronicles 30:27 Reciprocal: Exodus 22:23 - I will surely 1 Samuel 30:6 - David 2 Chronicles 14:11 - cried unto Job 9:16 - If I had Psalms 34:4 - sought Psalms 57:3 - send Psalms 77:2 - In the Psalms 86:7 - General Psalms 102:1 - let my Psalms... read more