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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Psalm 17

Chapter 17

Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

A. M. 2942. B.C. 1062. (Title.)

86:1 142:1 *titles

Hear

7:8 18:20 43:1 140:12 1 John 3:21

the right

Heb. justice. attend.

5:2 55:2,3 61:1 66:19 142:6 2 Chronicles 7:15 Nehemiah 1:6 Daniel 9:18,19

not out of feigned lips

Heb. without lips of deceit.

18:44 *marg:; 145:18 Jeremiah 3:10 Matthew 15:8 John 1:47

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

Let my

37:6,33 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9 Jude 1:24

things

Ezekiel 18:25,29 33:17,20

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

proved

11:5 26:2 66:10 139:1 Job 23:10 Zechariah 13:9 Malachi 3:2 1 Corinthians 4:4 1 Peter 1:7

thou hast

16:7 Job 24:14 Hosea 7:6 Micah 2:1 Acts 16:9 18:9,10

shalt

7:4 44:17-21 1 Samuel 24:10,12 26:11,23 2 Corinthians 1:12

I am

39:1 119:106 Proverbs 13:3 Acts 11:23 James 3:2

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

works

14:1-3 Genesis 6:5,11 Job 15:16 31:33 1 Corinthians 3:3 1 Peter 4:2,3

word

119:9-11 Proverbs 2:10-15 Matthew 4:4,7,10 John 17:17 Ephesians 6:17 James 1:18 Revelation 12:11

destroyer

1 Peter 5:8 Revelation 9:11 *marg:

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

Hold

119:116,117,133 121:3,7 1 Samuel 2:9 Jeremiah 10:23

that

18:36 38:16 94:18

slip not

Heb. be not moved.

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

I have

55:16 66:19,20 116:2

incline

13:3,4 Isaiah 37:17,20 Daniel 9:17-19

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

Shew

31:21 78:12 Romans 5:20,21 Revelation 15:3

savest, etc

or, savest them which trust in thee, from those that rise up against thy right hand.

5:11,12 10:12-16 1 Samuel 17:45-57 25:28,29 2 Kings 19:22,34 2 Chronicles 16:9

by thy

20:6 44:3 60:5 Exodus 15:6 Isaiah 41:10 Acts 2:33

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

apple

Deuteronomy 32:10 Proverbs 7:2 Zechariah 2:8

hide

36:7 57:1 61:4 63:7 91:1,4 Ruth 2:12 Matthew 23:37 Luke 13:34

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

oppress me

Heb. waste.

1 Chronicles 17:9

deadly enemies

Heb. enemies against the soul.

7:5 35:4,7,12 1 Samuel 24:11

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

They are

73:7-9 119:70 Deuteronomy 32:15 Job 15:27 Isaiah 6:10 Matthew 13:15 Acts 28:27

with

12:3,4 31:18 123:4 Exodus 5:2 15:9 1 Samuel 2:3 2 Peter 2:18 Revelation 13:5,6

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

compassed

1 Samuel 23:26 24:2,3 26:2,3

set

10:8-10 Proverbs 6:13,14

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Like, etc

Heb. The likeness of him, (that is, of every one of them,) is as a lion that desireth to ravin.

7:2 22:13 2 Timothy 4:17 1 Peter 5:8

lurking

Heb. sitting.

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

Arise

3:7 7:6 44:23,26 119:126 Isaiah 51:9

disappoint him

Heb. prevent his face. which is. or, by.

7:11-13

thy

Isaiah 10:5,15 13:5 37:26 Habakkuk 1:12 Acts 4:28

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

which are

or, by. men of.

Luke 16:8 John 8:23 15:19 17:14 1 John 4:4,5

portion

49:17-19 73:12 Luke 12:19-21 16:25 James 5:5

belly

Job 12:6,9 21:7-15 22:18

hid

Proverbs 2:4 Matthew 13:44

they are full, etc

or, their children are full. leave.

39:6 Job 21:21 27:14-17 Luke 16:27,28

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

As

5:7 Joshua 24:15

I will

4:6 119:111 Job 19:26,27 2 Corinthians 3:18

I shall

16:11 36:8,9 65:4 Matthew 5:6 Revelation 7:16,17 21:3,4,23

I awake

49:14 Job 14:12 Isaiah 26:19 Matthew 27:52,53

with

Genesis 1:26,27 Philippians 3:21 1 John 3:2,3