Help, Lord – Hebrew, “Save, Yahweh.” The idea is that there was no human help, and therefore, divine help is implored. The psalmist saw that…

Ceases. —Intransitive, as in Psalms 7:9.

The faithful. —The Vulgate and Syriac treat this word as abstract:…

Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

One might have thought that David still …

To the chief musician upon the eighth. With respect to the word eighth, there are two opinions among interpreters. According to s…

Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases. A godly man, according to the notation of the word ^F26, is one that has …

This psalm furnishes good thoughts for bad times; one may comfort oneself with such meditations and prayers. Let us see what makes the times bad, a…

1. In the previous ten psalms, the psalmist wrote about the persecution he suffered from his son Absalom, which prefigured the persecution C…