{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa055.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa055.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa055.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nhide not thyself, &c.--(compare Psa 13:1; Psa 27:9), withhold not help.\nThe terms of the last clause express full indulgence of grief.\noppression--literally, \"persecution.\"\nthey . . . iniquity--literally, \"they make evil doings slide upon me.\"\nexpress great alarm.\ncome upon--or literally, \"into.\"\nbe at rest--literally, \"dwell,\" that is, permanently.\nEven a wilderness is a safer place than exposure to such evils, terrible as storm and tempest.\nDestroy--literally, \"swallow\" (Psa 21:9).\ndivide their tongues--or, \"confound their speech,\" and hence their counsels (Gen 11:7).\nthe city--perhaps Jerusalem, the scene of anarchy.\nwhich is described in detail (compare Psa 7:14-16).\nWickedness--literally, \"Mischief,\" evils resulting from others (Psa 5:9; Psa 52:2, Psa 52:7).\nstreets--or literally, \"wide places,\" markets, courts of justice, and any public place.\nThis description of treachery does not deny, but aggravates, the injury from enemies.\nguide--literally, \"friend\" (Pro 16:28; Pro 17:9).\nacquaintance--in Hebrew, a yet more intimate associate.\nin company--literally, \"with a crowd,\" in a festal procession.\nLet death, &c.--or, \"Desolations are on them.\"\nlet them go--literally, \"they will go.\"\nquick--or, living in the midst of life, death will come (compare Num 16:33).\namong them--or, \"within them,\" in their hearts (Psa 5:9; Psa 49:11).\nGod answers his constant and repeated prayers.\nmany with me--that is, by the context, fighting with me.\nGod hears the wicked in wrath.\nabideth--or, \"sitteth.\"\nof old--enthroned as a sovereign.\nBecause . . . no changes--Prosperity hardens them (Psa 73:5).\nThe treachery is aggravated by hypocrisy. The changes of number, Psa 55:15, Psa 55:23, and here, enliven the picture, and imply that the chief traitor and his accomplices are in view together.\nthy burden--literally, \"gift,\" what is assigned you.\nhe shall sustain--literally, \"supply food,\" and so all need (Psa 37:25; Mat 6:11).\nto be moved--from the secure position of His favor (compare Psa 10:6).\nbloody . . . days--(compare Psa 5:6; Psa 51:14), deceit and murderous dispositions often united. The threat is directed specially (not as a general truth) against the wicked, then in the writer's view.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 55","type":"page"}