psalm
His Mercy Endures Forever
Let’s continue where we left off yesterday with 6 more reasons we need to praise the Lord: 4. For what He did with the first born in Egypt (vv. 10- 12).
David’s Anticipation of Victory
This is known as a michtam psalm. It speaks of that which is substantial, or enduring, or fixed. Michtam literally means “engraven” or “permanent.” This word pictures that which is unmoveable, steadfast, stable and enduring. When David says, “My heart is …
Prisoners Are Delivered From Bondage
In this passage the psalmist describes Israel’s condition. They were like a people who sit in prison. This confinement may be a result of the actual treatment of captives by the Babylonian and Assyrian soldiers. The cell is dark and the threat of execution hangs over them. They a …
Jerusalem – The City of God
Most commentators agree this psalm belongs to the time when God overthrew Sennacherib’s hosts before the gates of Jerusalem. Like Psalm 75 it is a hymn of praise. We are told how God is great (v. 1) and His fame is known in (Zion) Jerusalem (v. 2). He is known because of His defe …
Confidence Amid Deception
This psalm expresses David’s confidence in the words of God for deliverance amid men who are full of deception. Some think he wrote it during those days when his duties kept him in Saul’s courtroom while Saul was looking for ways to kill him. Others think he wrote it during those days …
The Blessing of Answered Prayer
David may have written this psalm after the purchase of the threshing floor of Araunah (II Sam. 24) and the erection of the alter there to the Lord. Prosperity had caused David to become self-confident and proud. As a result of this God sent a great plague upon Israel which killed 70,000 …
A Prayer For Help
Psalm 120 is the first of a series of fifteen “Pilgrim Psalms†which were sung by those journeying to the Jewish Temple for the annual feasts (Passover, Pentecost, etc.). Each of these psalms is a “step†along the journey. Psalm 120 is not a happy song, beginning with distress and ending with …
The Confident Prayer For Deliverance
Have you ever been betrayed by someone greatly loved and fully trusted by you? In this Psalm is the son of a man who was betrayed. It is dedicated to the chief musician, or choir director and is to be played on stringed instruments.The author is David, and the occasion is w …
Swift Judgement on The Judges
The Psalmist gives a series of graphic pictures showing the certain fate of those who corrupt the justice system:A disarmed lion (v. 6). David could picture himself as a shepherd tending the sheep when a lion would attack. He would be helpless with just his shepherd’s staff …
The Lord’s Faithfulness Endures Forever
This psalm is short and sweet; I doubt the reason why we sing it so often as we do is for the shortness of it; but, if we rightly understood and considered it