Psalm 5

Psalm 5

Verse 1

There are two types of prayers - those expressed in words and those inexpressible longings that remain as silent meditations.

Words are not the essence, but the garments of prayer. Moses at the Sea.

Red cried out to God, although he said nothing. However, the use of language can prevent the distraction of the mind, can assist the powers of soul and excite devotion. David, we observe, uses both modes of prayer, longs for one, an audience and, for the other, a consideration. That expressive word! "Consider my meditation." If I asked what is right, give me; If I forgot to ask for what I needed most, fill the gap in my prayer. 'Consider my meditation.' Keep your soul holy consider it as presented through my all-glorious Mediator: So observe him in your wisdom, weigh him on the scales, judge for yourself. sincerity and the true state of my needs, and answer me In due time because of your mercy! There may be intercession prevalent where there are no words; and woe to me! there may be words in which there is no true supplication. Let us cultivate the spirit of prayer which is still better than the habit of prayer. There may be apparent prayer where there is little devotion. We should start praying before we kneel down and we should not stop when we get up. We should start praying before we we should kneel and not cease when we rise. We must let us begin to pray before we kneel and we should not cease when we we will raise.

Verse 2

'The voice of my cry'. In another Psalm we find the expression The voice of my sorrow. The sorrow has a voice - a melancholic tone and complaining, a shrill pain in the ear, that reaches the heart of God; and the chorus has a voice - an eloquence that moves the soul; coming from our heart, reaches the heart of God. Oh! my brothers and sisters, sometimes not we can put our prayers into words: they are nothing more than a cry: but the Lord can understand the meaning, for he hears a voice in our cry. To a loving father, the cries of his children are music, and they have a magical influence that your heart cannot resist. "My king and my God. Carefully observe these small pronouns 'my king and my God". They are the marrow and the essence of the appeal. Here is a great argumento por que Deus deveria responder a oração - porque ele é nosso Rei And our God. We are not aliens to him: he is the king of our country.

The kings must heed the calls of their own people. We are not strangers. for him; we are his worshipers, and he is our God: our by covenant, by promise, by oath, by blood.

For I will pray to you.

God and only God. God is the only object of worship: the only resource. of our soul in times of need. Let broken cisterns be for the wicked and let the righteous drink only from the Divine fountain. "To you I will pray.

I would never stop pleading, even if the answer did not come.

3. Observe, this is not so much a prayer as it is a resolution, 'My voice I will hear; I will not be foolish, I will not remain silent, I will not deny my speech, I will cry. with you because the fire that lives inside me forces me to pray. We can to die sooner than to live without prayer. None of the children of God is possessed by a stupid demon.

In the morning. This is the most suitable time for the relationship with God. One o'clock in the morning is worth two at night. While the dew is on the grace, let grace fall upon the soul. Let us give God the mornings of our days and the morning of our lives. Prayer should be the key of the day and the night lock. The devotion must be to both the morning star and the evening star.

If we only read our version in English and want an explanation of this two sentences, we will find in the figure of an archer: "I will direct my prayer to you, I will place my prayer in the bow, I will direct the prayer towards sky, and then when I lift my arrow, I will look up to see where she went. But Hebrew has an even more complete meaning of I will direct my prayer. It is the word that is used to place in order the wood and the victim's pieces on the altar, and it is also used to the placement of the breads of the proposition on the table. It means exactly this: I will organize my prayer before you; I will place it on the altar for morning, just like the priest places the morning sacrifice. I will organize my prayer; or, as the old Master Trapp says: "I will arrange my I will put them in order, call all my powers and ask those that remain in their proper places, so that I can pray with all my strength and pray in an acceptable manner.

And he will look up I will look outside, I will seek the answer; after I pray, I will wait for it. blessing come. It is a word that is used elsewhere where we read of those who watched in the morning. So I will observe your response, oh my Lord! I will spread my prayer like the victim on the altar, and I will raise the eyes and I will wait to receive the answer from the fire of heaven to consume the sacrifice.

Two questions are suggested by the last part of this verse. We do not lose. much of the sweetness and effectiveness of prayer is lost due to a lack of careful meditation beforehand hopeful expectation after her? We often rush into things in the presence of God without premeditation or humility. We are like men who present themselves before a king without a petition, and what a wonder it is that Many times do we lose the end of the prayer? We should be careful to maintain the meditation current always running; for this is the water to steer the moinho da oração. É inútil parar as comportas de um riacho seco e esperar to see the wheel turn. Prayer without fervor is like hunting with a dead dog, and prayer without preparation is falconry with a blind falcon. Prayer is the work of the Holy Spirit, but he works through means. God made man but he used the dust of the earth as material: the Holy Spirit is the author of prayer, but he employs the thoughts of a fervent soul like gold with the such as shaping the vase. May our prayers and praises not be the flashes of a hot and hurried brain, but the constant burning of a well-lit fire.

But, in addition, we do not forget to observe the result of our pleas? We are like the ostrich, which lays its eggs and does not look at them. puppies. We sowed the seed and are too idle to look for one. harvest. How can we expect the Lord to open the windows of His grace and we will not pour out a blessing, if we do not open the windows of expectation and are we seeking the promised favor? May the holy preparation bind the hands to patient's expectations and we will have much greater responses to our prayers.

Verse 4

And now the psalmist having thus expressed his resolution to pray, you hear him putting his prayer. He is pleading against his enemies cruel and wicked. He uses a very powerful argument.

He begs God to keep them away, because they were displeasing to Him. own God. "For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; nor does evil He will dwell with you." "When I pray against my temptations," says David, "I pray against the same things that you yourself dislike. You hate evil; Lord, I ask you, free me from him!

Let us learn here the solemn truth of the hatred that a just God must endure. for sin. He takes no pleasure in wickedness, no matter how witty, grandiose and proud as it may be. Its shine has no charm for him. The men can bow before successful wickedness and forget the the malice of battle in the ostentation of triumph, but the Lord of Holiness does not is one of who we are. "Neither will evil dwell with you." He will not allow that be the worst shelter. Neither on earth nor in heaven will evil share the mansion of God. Oh, how foolish we are if we try to entertain two such guests. hostile to one another like Christ Jesus and the devil! Be sure that Christ will not live in the living room of our hearts if we entertain the devil. in the basement of our thoughts.

Verse 5

'The foolish woman will not remain in your sight.' Sinners are fools. big writings. A small sin is a great madness, and the greatest of all foolishness is a great sin. Such foolish sinners as these must be banned from the court of heaven. The kings of the Earth used to have fools in their trends, but the only wise God would not have any fool in his palace above.

All who practice iniquity are abominable. displeasure, but a deep hatred that God endures towards the workers of iniquity. Being hated by God is a terrible thing. Oh, let us be very faithful. to warn the wicked around us, for it will be terrible to fall into the hands of a Angry God!

Verse 6

Note that evil speakers must be punished, just like those workers of evil, because "you will destroy those who speak the rent." All liars will have their portion in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. A A man can lie without danger from the law of man, but he will not escape from the law. from God. Liars have short wings, their flight will soon end and they will fall. in the burning floods of destruction. "The Lord will abhor man bloodthirsty and deceitful. Bloodied men will be intoxicated with your own blood, and those who started by deceiving others they will end up deceiving themselves. Our old proverb says: "Bloody and fraudulent men dig their own graves." The voice the people is in this case the voice of God. How forced is the word abominate! No shows us how powerful and deep the Lord's hatred is against the workers of iniquity?

Verse 7

With this verse, the first part of the Psalm ends. The psalmist he knelt in prayer; he described before God, like a argument for his release, the character and fate of the wicked; and now he contrast this with the condition of the righteous. "But as for me, I will enter into your house." I will not stay away, I will enter your sanctuary, just like a child enters his father's house. But I will not go there on my own. merits; no, I have a multitude of sins and therefore I will become part of the crowd. of your kindness. I will approach you with confidence because of Your incomprehensible grace. God's judgments are all counted, but your mercies are countless; he gives his anger by weight, but without weight his mercy. 'And in your fear I will worship toward your holy temple' - towards to the temple of your holiness. The temple was not built on earth at that time time; it was just a tabernacle; but David used to turn his eyes spiritually to that temple of God's holiness, where between the wings of the cherubim dwells in ineffable light. Daniel opened the window to Jerusalem, but we open our hearts to the sky.

Verse 8

Now we come to the second part, where the psalmist repeats his arguments, and passes through the same ground again. "Take me, oh Lord," as a little child is led by his father, like A blind person is guided by their friend. It is a safe and pleasant walk. when God leads the way. "In your righteousness," not in my righteousness, because this is imperfect, but in yours, because you yourself are just. "Do your path", not my way, "right in front of my face." Brothers, when we learn to abandon our own path and wish to walk on the path of God, it is a happy sign of grace; and it is no small mercy to see the way of God with a clear vision before our face. Mistakes about the Duties can lead us to a sea of sins, before we know where. we are.

Verse 9

This description of the depraved man was copied by the apostle.

Paulo, and along with some other quotes, he included it in the second chapter. of Romans, as being an accurate description of the entire human race, not of David's enemies. Just, but of all men by nature.

Observe this notable figure: "Your throat is an open grave", a sepulcro cheio de repugnância, de miasma, de peste e morte. Mas, pior que this is an open tomb, with all its evil gases seeping out, to spreading death and destruction everywhere. Thus, with the throat of the the wicked, it would be a great mercy if it could always be closed. If if we could seal the mouth of the wicked in continuous silence, it would be like a hollow tomb and would not do much harm. But "their throat is a open grave “consequently all the wickedness of his heart exhales and be. How dangerous is an open tomb; men in their journeys may easily stumble and find oneself among the dead. Ah! hear the wicked man, for there is nothing he won't say to ruin you; he longs to destroy your character and bury it in the horrendous tomb of its own evil throat.

A sweet thought here, however. In the resurrection there will be a resurrection not only of bodies, but of characters. This must be a great comfort for a man who has been abused and defamed. 'So the the righteous will shine like the sun." The world may think you are vile and bury your character; but if you are upright, on the day when the tombs deliver their dead, this open tomb of the sinner 'The throat will be compelled to abandon your celestial character, and you will manifest and be honored at men's eyes. "They flatter with their tongue." Or, as we can read it: "They have an oily tongue, a smooth tongue." A soft tongue is a great evil; many have been enchanted by it. There are many eaters of ant humans who, with their long tongues covered in oily words, They seduce and trap the unsuspecting, thus earning their gain. When the the wolf licks the lamb, he is preparing to wet his teeth on blood. There are many human anteater eaters who, with their long tongues covered in oily words, seduce and imprison the uninformed, thus gaining their gain. When the wolf licks the lamb, it is getting ready to wet the teeth in blood. There are many human ant eaters that, with their long tongues covered with oily words seduce and trap the unwary, thus gaining their gain. When the wolf licks the lamb, he is preparing to wet the teeth in the blood.

Verse 10

"Against you:" not against me. If they were my enemies, I would I would forgive, but I cannot forgive them. We must forgive our enemies, but The enemies of God are not within our power to forgive.

These expressions have often been noticed by men of excessive refinement as being harsh and irritating to the ear. 'Oh!' they say they are vengeful and vindictive. Let's remember that they can to be translated as prophecies, not as wishes; but we do not care to use this escape method. We have never heard of a reader of the Bible that, after reading these passages, became vengeful for reading them, and is just test the nature of a writing by its effects. When we hear a a judge condemning a murderer, no matter how severe his sentence is, does not we feel we should be justified in condemning others for any a particular damage committed against us. The psalmist here speaks as a judge, ex official; he speaks like the mouth of God, and in condemning the wicked, he does not give us no excuse to say anything in the way of the curse about those who caused us personal offense. The most shameful way of to curse another is to pretend to bless him. We all had fun noticing the the scornful malice of that old and miserable priest of Rome, when she cursed the Emperor of France with her blessing. He was blessing him in form and cursing him in reality. Now, in contrast directly, we placed this healthy combination of David, which is meant to be a blessing, warning the sinner of the imminent curse. O unrepentant man, Be it known that all your pious friends will give their solemn consent to the horrible sentence of the Lord, which He will pronounce upon you in day of judgment! Our verdict will applaud the condemning curse that the The judge of the whole earth will thunder against the wicked.

In the following verse, once again we find the contrast that marked the Previous Psalms.

Verse 11

Joy is the privilege of the believer. When sinners are destroyed, our joy will be complete. They laugh first and always cry; we cry now, but we will rejoice eternally. When they howl, we we will shout and, as they must moan forever, so we must always shout with joy. This our holy blessing has a firm foundation, for, oh Lord, we are happy in you. The eternal God is the well of our happiness.

We love God and, therefore, we delight in Him. Our heart is to desire in our God. We meet lavishly every day because we feed on it. We have music at home, music in the heart and music in heaven, for the Lord Jehovah is our strength and our song; he also became our salvation.

12. Jehovah commanded his people, the heirs of happiness, and nothing was given to them. will steal the inheritance. With all the fullness of his power, he will bless them and All your attributes will unite to satisfy them with the divine. contentment. Not only is this for the present, but the blessing reaches the long and unknown future. 'You, Lord, will bless the righteous.' This is a promise of infinite length, unlimited width, and preciousness ineffable. As for the defense that the believer needs in this land of battles, it is here. promised to him to the fullest extent. There were vast shields used by the ancient ones, as extensive as the entire figure of a man, that would surround him entirely. Thus says David: "You will benevolently have him as a shield." From according to Ainsworth, there is also the idea of being crowned here, so that we wear a real helmet, which is both our glory and defense. Oh Lord, always grant us this gracious coronation!