7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words; So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen. They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it. Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise? Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?
The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.
Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.
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Commentary on Psalms 59 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 59
This psalm is of the same nature and scope with six or seven foregoing psalms; they are all filled with David's complaints of the malice of his enemies and of their cursed and cruel designs against him, his prayers and prophecies against them, and his comfort and confidence in God as his God. The first is the language of nature, and may be allowed; the second of a prophetical spirit, looking forward to Christ and the enemies of his kingdom, and therefore not to be drawn into a precedent; the third of grace and a most holy faith, which ought to be imitated by every one of us. In this psalm,
As far as it appears that any of the particular enemies of God's people fall under these characters, we may, in singing this psalm, read their doom and foresee their ruin.
To the chief musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him.
Psa 59:1-7
The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David's house in the night, that they might seize him and kill him; we have the story 1 Sa. 19:11. It was when his hostilities against David were newly begun, and he had but just before narrowly escaped Saul's javelin. These first eruptions of Saul's malice could not but put David into disorder and be both grievous and terrifying, and yet he kept up his communion with God, and such a composure of mind as that he was never out of frame for prayer and praises; happy are those whose intercourse with heaven is not intercepted nor broken in upon by their cares, or griefs, or fears, or any of the hurries (whether outward or inward) of an afflicted state. In these verses,
Psa 59:8-17
David here encourages himself, in reference to the threatening power of his enemies, with a pious resolution to wait upon God and a believing expectation that he should yet praise him.