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Text -- Psalms 57:7 (NET)

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57:7 I am determined, O God! I am determined! I will sing and praise you!
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Psa 57:7 - -- In a stedfast belief of thy promises.

In a stedfast belief of thy promises.

JFB: Psa 57:7 - -- Both with voice and instrument.

Both with voice and instrument.

Clarke: Psa 57:7 - -- My heart is fixed - My heart is prepared to do and suffer thy will. It is fixed - it has made the firmest purpose through his strength by which I ca...

My heart is fixed - My heart is prepared to do and suffer thy will. It is fixed - it has made the firmest purpose through his strength by which I can do all things.

Calvin: Psa 57:7 - -- 7.My heart is prepared, O God! 344 Some read fixed, or confirmed, and the Hebrew word נכון , nacon, bears that signification as well as the...

7.My heart is prepared, O God! 344 Some read fixed, or confirmed, and the Hebrew word נכון , nacon, bears that signification as well as the other. If we adopt it, we must understand David as saying that he had well and duly meditated upon the praises which he was about to offer; that he did not rush into a hurried and perfunctory discharge of this service, as too many are apt to do, but addressed himself to it with steadfast purpose of heart. I prefer, however, the other translation, which bears that he was ready to enter upon the service with all cheerfulness and cordiality. And although, wherever this spirit is really felt, it will lead to steadfastness of religious exercise, it is not without importance that the reader should be apprised of the force of the word which is here employed in the Hebrew. The ready heart is here opposed by David to the mere lip-service of the hypocrite, on the one hand, and to dead or sluggish service, on the other. He addressed himself to this voluntary sacrifice with a sincere fervor of spirit, casting aside sloth, and whatever might prove a hinderance in the duty.

TSK: Psa 57:7 - -- my : Psa 108:1, Psa 108:2, Psa 112:7 fixed : or, prepared I will : Psa 34:4; Isa 24:15; Rom 5:3; Eph 5:20

my : Psa 108:1, Psa 108:2, Psa 112:7

fixed : or, prepared

I will : Psa 34:4; Isa 24:15; Rom 5:3; Eph 5:20

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Psa 57:7 - -- My heart is fixed, O God - Margin, as in Hebrew, "prepared."Compare the notes at Psa 51:10. The word "suited"or "prepared"accurately expresses ...

My heart is fixed, O God - Margin, as in Hebrew, "prepared."Compare the notes at Psa 51:10. The word "suited"or "prepared"accurately expresses the sense of the Hebrew, and it is so rendered in the Septuagint, ( ἑτοίμη hetoimē ); in the Vulgate, "paratum;" and by Luther, "bereit ."The word is used, however, in the sense of "standing erect,"Psa 9:7; to "establish"or "strengthen,"Psa 89:4; Psa 10:17; and hence, to be erect; to be firm, steady, constant, fixed. This seems to be the meaning here, as it is expressed in our common version. His heart was firm and decided. He did not waver in his purpose, or lean now to one side and then to the other; he was not "swayed"or "moved"by the events that had occurred. He felt conscious of standing firm in the midst of all his troubles. He confided in God. He did not doubt his justice, his goodness, his mercy; and, even in his trials, he was ready to praise him, and was "resolved"to praise him. The repetition of the word "fixed"gives emphasis and intensity to the expression, and is designed to show in the strongest manner that his heart, his purpose, his confidence in God, did not waver in the slightest degree.

I will sing and give praise - My heart shall confide in thee; my lips shall utter the language of praise. In all his troubles God was his refuge; in all, he found occasion for praise. So it should be the fixed and settled purpose of our hearts that we will at all times confide in God, and that in every situation in life we will render him praise.

Poole: Psa 57:7 - -- Fixed or established , in a full assurance of thy merciful help. It was ready to sink with fear, or bowed down , Psa 57:6 ; but now I have through ...

Fixed or established , in a full assurance of thy merciful help. It was ready to sink with fear, or bowed down , Psa 57:6 ; but now I have through thy grace conquered my fears, and am fixed in a stedfast belief of thy promises. Or, is prepared , to wit, to sing and give praise, as it follows.

Gill: Psa 57:7 - -- My heart is fixed, O God,.... Firm and sure, trusting in the Lord, believing that he should be saved by him out of his troubles; see Psa 101:1. So, in...

My heart is fixed, O God,.... Firm and sure, trusting in the Lord, believing that he should be saved by him out of his troubles; see Psa 101:1. So, in a spiritual sense, a heart fixed and established, or that is firm and sure, is one that is assured of its salvation by Christ, rooted and grounded in the love of God, firmly built on the foundation, Christ, and has its affections set on him; and is unmoved, from the hope of the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, by whatsoever it meets with in the world. It may be rendered, "my heart is prepared", or "ready" r; that is, according to some, to receive good or evil, prosperity or adversity, at the hand of God; to which sense is Jarchi's note,

"my heart is faithful with thee in the measure of judgment, and it is faithful with thee in the measure of mercy.''

That is, whether I am chastised with judgments, or followed with mercies, my heart is firm and true to God. The Targum is,

"my heart is prepared for thy law, O Lord; my heart is prepared for thy fear;''

that is, it is prepared for the worship and service of God; it is ready to every good work; it is prepared to pray unto him, and to wait for an answer, which are both from the Lord, Pro 16:1; and particularly to sing praise unto him, as follows;

my heart is fixed; this is repeated, to show the vehemency of his spirit, and the certainty of the thing;

I will sing and give praise; for the salvation wrought for him, and which he was sure of; and before he had finished this psalm, or while he had composed it, did enjoy it.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 57:7 Or perhaps “confident”; Heb “my heart is steadfast.” The “heart” is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’...

Geneva Bible: Psa 57:7 My heart is ( h ) fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: ( i ) I will sing and give praise. ( h ) That is, wholly bent to give you praise for my deliveranc...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Psa 57:1-11 - --1 David in prayer fleeing unto God, complains of his dangerous case.7 He encourages himself to praise God.

MHCC: Psa 57:7-11 - --By lively faith, David's prayers and complaints are at once turned into praises. His heart is fixed; it is prepared for every event, being stayed upon...

Matthew Henry: Psa 57:7-11 - -- How strangely is the tune altered here! David's prayers and complaints, by the lively actings of faith, are here, all of a sudden, turned into prais...

Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 57:6-11 - -- In this second half of the Psalm the poet refreshes himself with the thought of seeing that for which he longs and prays realized even with the dawn...

Constable: Psa 42:1--72:20 - --II. Book 2: chs. 42--72 In Book 1 we saw that all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writ...

Constable: Psa 57:1-11 - --Psalm 57 David's hiding from Saul in a cave precipitated this psalm (1 Sam. 22; 24; cf. Ps. 142). The tu...

Constable: Psa 57:5-10 - --2. The psalmist's confidence that God would help 57:6-11 57:6 Now David spoke of himself as a wild animal whom hunters were trying to snare. However, ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim ("praises" or "hymns"), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs in the title ...

JFB: Psalms (Outline) ALEPH. (Psa 119:1-8). This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the twenty-two let...

TSK: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Psalms have been the general song of the universal Church; and in their praise, all the Fathers have been unanimously eloquent. Men of all nation...

TSK: Psalms 57 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Psa 57:1, David in prayer fleeing unto God, complains of his dangerous case; Psa 57:7, He encourages himself to praise God. not. A gold...

Poole: Psalms (Book Introduction) OF PSALMS THE ARGUMENT The divine authority of this Book of PSALMS is so certain and evident, that it was never questioned in the church; which b...

MHCC: Psalms (Book Introduction) David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were writ...

MHCC: Psalms 57 (Chapter Introduction) (Psa 57:1-6) David begins with prayer and complaint. (Psa 57:7-11) He concludes with joy and praise.

Matthew Henry: Psalms (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Te...

Matthew Henry: Psalms 57 (Chapter Introduction) This psalm is very much like that which goes next before it; it was penned upon a like occasion, when David was both in danger of trouble and in te...

Constable: Psalms (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means...

Constable: Psalms (Outline) Outline I. Book 1: chs. 1-41 II. Book 2: chs. 42-72 III. Book 3: chs. 73...

Constable: Psalms Psalms Bibliography Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89." In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus,...

Haydock: Psalms (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PSALMS. INTRODUCTION. The Psalms are called by the Hebrew, Tehillim; that is, hymns of praise. The author, of a great part of ...

Gill: Psalms (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS The title of this book may be rendered "the Book of Praises", or "Hymns"; the psalm which our Lord sung at the passover is c...

Gill: Psalms 57 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 57 To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Some think the words "Altaschith"...

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