Day #105

Sermon - Audio
Pslam 7, 27, 31, 34, & 52 - Audio
Pslam 7, 27, 31, 34, & 52 - Reading

Daily Insights - Please Comment

7

"While having affinities with the lament psalm, this poem is more precisely a lyric expression of sentiments felt by someone falsely accused. The sequence is as follows: invocation and petition asking God to protect the speaker from attackers (vv. 1–2); the speaker’s protestation of innocence, using the rhetorical format “if . . . , let . . .” (vv. 3–5); appeal to God to take up the speaker’s defense against his enemies (vv. 6–9); statement of trust in God (vv. 10–11); assertion that evil people are subject to God’s judgment (vv. 12–16); the speaker’s praise of God (v. 17)." ESVLB

Overall - David's lament. A man of Benjamin slanders David, and David uses this Psalm to discuss those who criticize us unfairly.

v1-2 - Cry for Safety / Show Trust to God. "in you I take refuge," "save me"

v3-5 - Claim of Innocence given against his accusers attacks, "If I have..., If there is..."

v6-11 - A call for justice to be given from God, "Lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies."

12-16 - Thoughts on unrepentant people, his adversaries

17 - David will bring praise to God when these things are done. He has confidence in God's justice and deliverance.

27

"The key to this psalm is to know that it combines two separate genres—the song of victory (thanksgiving for a battlefield deliverance) and a worship psalm. The opening line declares that the Lord is the speaker’s salvation; the rest of the poem can be analyzed on the basis of what this saving relationship means. Trusting in God for one’s salvation means that a person is confident in God and free from fear (v. 1); has confidence against enemies (vv. 2–3, 5); longs to worship God and have communion with him (vv. 4, 6–8); prays to God as a lasting refuge (vv. 9–10); relies on God for help against enemies (vv. 11–12); has confidence in God and waits for him (vv. 13–14)." ESVLB

Maybe one of the better known Psalms because of its words of confidence during really rough and grueling times.

v1-3 - Deal with not being afraid of circumstances because God is with us, "whom shall i fear," "my heart shall not fear."

v4 - I've always loved this statement by David. He desires most of all to worship and be with God.

Q - Do we desire, above all else, to be with Christ in the fullness of glory?
Q - Do we anticipate the 2nd coming of Christ?
Q - Do we honestly believe that as Paul stated, "death is gain?"

v5-6 - God's protection, "For he will hide me," "he will conceal me."

v7-12 - Prayer for Favor to continue, "be gracious to me," "hide not your face from me," "teach me your way."

v13-14 - Confidence is given in waiting on the LORD.

Thought - "Wait for the LORD, be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!

31

"This Psalm mingles elements of the lament and the praise psalm in approximately equal quantities. The poem unfolds as follows: opening petition that God rescue the speaker (vv. 1–2); praise of God for deliverance from affliction (vv. 3–8); petition for deliverance (vv. 9–10); description of the speaker’s crisis (vv. 11–13); statement of trust in God (vv. 14–15); petition for deliverance (vv. 16–18); catalog of God’s praiseworthy acts (vv. 19–22); expansion outward to the community of believers in a call to faith (vv. 23–24)." ESVLB

"This is a lament that seeks help from God for a faithful person worn out with trouble and beset by enemies who want to do him harm." ESVSB

v1-2 - Again a Psalm that starts out with trust/dependence upon God, "do I take refuge," "in your righteousness deliver me!"

v3-8 - Recognition of past experiences with God's provision.

v5 - Jesus uses this phrase when dying on the cross (Luke 23:46). He trusts that God has used Him for His purposes.

v6-13 - A confusing group of verses. Meaning that the writer is a bit confused at his current situation. He believes God will help him, but right now things don't seem to be going well. However, at 14 David proclaims truth:

v14-15 - "In the preceding vv., the psalmist was the object of other people’s thoughts or actions. Now he is the grammatical subject, expressing his own beliefs. The opening words, But I, contrast the psalmist’s trust in God with his troubled condition." JSB

Ending - The final part of the Psalm is filled with confidence in God's love, provision, and goodness. This Psalm was not only applicable to David's situation, but to all the saints past and present. We will suffer times of hardship, and we must remember v14-24 of Psalm 31 during those times.

34

"The theme of this praise psalm is laid out in the concluding verse: “the Lord redeems the life of his servants” (v. 22). The variations on that theme of praise are as follows: introductory call to praise (vv. 1–3); personal narrative of deliverance (vv. 4–6); a general assertion that God delivers his people (vv. 7–10); a portrait of what it means to be God’s servant and therefore receive God’s redemption (vv. 11–14); catalog of God’s praiseworthy acts on behalf of his servants (vv. 15–21); concluding statement of theme (v. 22). This psalm is an acrostic poem in which the first letters of the verses follow the order of letters in the Hebrew alphabet." -ESVLB-

Overall - This Psalm is in connection with 1 Sam 21 where David fakes his "madness" in order to get away from Achish of Gath. The "faked" madness may have been God's idea given to David, since David gives God all the credit within this Psalm.

v1-3 - A joining of Praise to the LORD...exalting Him.

v4-7 - God answered David's prayers for deliverance from His adversaries.

v8-14 - The idea of "Fearing the LORD" is prevalent in this section.

Ending - God cares for those who trust in Him.

52

"Implicitly underlying this psalm is the standard situation of the lament psalm: the speaker is besieged by hostile people. But the usual motifs appear in somewhat unconventional form. At the outset, the poet addresses his adversaries directly as part of a statement of confidence in God (v. 1). This is followed by the conventional portrait of the evil oppressors, addressed, however, directly to the oppressors rather than to God (vv. 2–5). The subsequent statement of confidence pictures the anticipated taunt of the righteous over the speaker’s oppressors (vv. 6–7). In another variation on a conventional motif, the vow to praise God contrasts the destruction of the wealthy who trusted in their riches (the taunt in v. 7) with the eternal nature of the rewards that righteous persons will receive because they trusted in God (vv. 8–9)." ESVLB

Overall - This Psalm comes from 1 Sam 21:1-7 (David's flight from Saul), 1 Sam 22:9-19 - The killing of the priests. The enemy in this section is Doeg.

Even though God's enemies seem strong (v1-7), we are safe in God's keeping (v8-9)