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Psalm:7
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.
(page last updated: July 12 2019)
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Today's Audio Commentary: "All Them That Persecute Me"
Psalm:7 Reading (⇓) |
Part 1 → "All Them That Persecute Me" (⇓) |
Part 2 → "God judgeth the righteous" (⇓) |
Part 3 → "If I have done this..." (⇓) |
Part 4 → "Arise, O LORD..." (⇓) |
Part 5 → "In thee do I put my trust..." (⇓) |
Psalm:7 "All Them That Persecute Me" (commentary as one file) (⇓) |
Today's Commentary Outline:
- "All them that persecute (pursue) me (David)...": 7:1
- Absolam - kjv@2Samuel:16:11 ...Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life
- Former counsel and advisors
- Shimei (Cush) the Benjamite kjv@2Samuel:16:5-13
- (Note: everyone doing what is right in own eye?)
- What is the saint to think of all this?
- kjv@2Samuel:16:10 ...so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. (Discern source)
- kjv@2Samuel:16:11 ...let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. (Discern what is defendable attack verses personal buffeting)
- kjv@2Samuel:16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day. (Don't play into enemies hand - leave in God's hand)
- Critics of today? So what is it that David says of these critics?:
- "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day" 7:11
- WHY?
- "Behold, he (persecutor) travaileth (wind tightly/bind/by pledge) with iniquity (vanity/nothingness)". 7:14 (Absolam's plot behind David's back, inserting himself into the king's business).
- (Using David's own trusted circle and enemies, forging new alliances against God's anointed.
- "(he/persecutor) hath conceived (become pregnant) mischief (wearing effort/grievance)" 7:14 (Absolam making a point to wear at exiled David (personally and reputation) (ie public rape of David's 10 concubines)) (Deliberate defiances (ie moving capitol back to Hebron))
- "(he/persecutor) brought forth (beget) falsehood (sham)" 7:14
- "He (persecutor) made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made'. 7:15 (Absolam - Mistrust of what God was up to (mistrusting oracle/trusting David's planted spy))
- ACTION: "He (GOD) hath bent his bow, and made it ready...":* 7:12
- ACTION: "He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death" 7:13
- "he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors" 7:13
- "His (persecutor) mischief shall return upon his own head" 7:16 (Absolam = hung by his own hair on the great oak in the Woods of Ephraim). (Deserting troops - 20,000+ slain by 3,000 loyalists in one day). (Oracle = hung himself in his secret hide away).
- "His (persecutor) violent dealing (cruel/unjust gain) shall come down upon his own pate (crown of head)" 7:16 (Critics (Shimei/Others today) - David is careful not to play into their hand, takes it as God's buffeting "thorn in the flesh"). (Note: criticism can surface long after the actual historical events and take on facts and figures all their own).
- When God has bent HIS bow there is no telling the pathway the arrow will take but, we know that it is sure to hit it's mark.
- "If I have done this...": 7:3
- "If there be iniquity (moral evil/unjust) in my hands" 7:3
- David in regard to King Saul (and thereto Shimei)
- David in regard to Absolam
- moral evil? unjust? perfect in all regards?
- "If I have rewarded evil (affliction/adversity) unto him that was at peace with me" 7:4
- Peace with Saul? Saul rewarded evil by David?
- Peace with Absolam? Absolam rewarded evil by David?
- Peace with enemies and critics?
- "(yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy)" 7:4
- "Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it" 7:5
- "Yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth" 7:5
- "Lay mine honour in the dust" 7:5
- "If I have done this"?
- A king has a great many things needing to be done.
- David had done somethings in his life that he in his later life had to suffer the consequences of.
- Even though David often lost focus of where God was at currently, he never lost focus of where God is always at ultimately.
- We'd be wise to have a similar focus to our lives as well!
- "Arise, O LORD...": 7:6
- "In thine anger". 7:6
- What would the LORD have to be angry about?
- "Lift up thyself because of the rage (outburst of passion) of mine enemies (adversary)". 7:6
- Why would God lift HIMSELF up for David? (anointed)
- Why would God lift HIMSELF up for us? (Christ our Lord's anointing)
- Rage/passion often confused for righteousness. (Self's versus God's)
- "Awake for me to the judgment (verdict) that thou hast commanded (constituted)". 7:6
- "So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about" 7:7
- "For their sakes therefore return thou on high" 7:7
- "Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just" 7:9
- "For the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins". 7:9
- "In thee do I put my trust...": 7:1
- "The righteous God trieth the hearts and reins" 7:9
- "My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart" 7:10
- "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day" 7:11
- "I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness" 7:17
- "will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high" 7:17
kjv@2Samuel:16:7
kjv@2Samuel:16:8
kjv@Psalms:7:8
kjv@Psalms:7:9
Quoted resource: strongs 'H8199'
H8199 @ שׁפט shâphaţ shaw-fat' A primitive root; to {judge} that {is} pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication to vindicate or punish; by extension to govern; passively to litigate (literally or figuratively): - + {avenge} X that {condemn} {contend} {defend} execute ({judgment}) (be a) judge ({-ment}) X {needs} {plead} {reason} rule.
Quoted resource: strongs 'H2194'
H2194 @ זעם zâ‛am zaw-am' A primitive root; properly to foam at the {mouth} that {is} to be enraged: - {abhor} {abominable} (be) {angry} {defy} (have) indignation.
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