Geneva Bible Notes: Psalms 57

Psalms 57:1 ^/ Or, dwel moste safely.

Psalms 57:1 ^b He compareth the afflictions, which God layeth vpon his children, to a storme, that commeth & goeth.

Psalms 57:1 ^a This was ether the beginning of a certeine song, or the wordes, which Dauid vttered, when he stayed his affection.

Psalms 57:1 ^! David being in the desert of Ziph, where the inhabitants did betraye him, & at length in the same caue with Saul.

Psalms 57:2 ^c Who leaueth not his workes begon vnperfit.

Psalms 57:2 ^! Calleth moste earnestly vnto God with ful confidence, that he wil performe his promes & take his cause in hand

Psalms 57:3 ^d He wolde rather deliuer me by a miracle, then that I shulde be ouercome.

Psalms 57:4 ^e He meaneth their calumnies & false reportes.

Psalms 57:5 ^! Also that he wil shew his glorie in the heauens and the earth against his cruel enemies.

Psalms 57:5 ^f Suffer me not to be destroyed to the contempt of thy Name.

Psalms 57:6 ^g For verie feare, seing the great dangers on all sides.

Psalms 57:7 ^h That is, wholly bent to giue thee praise for my deliuerance.

Psalms 57:8 ⁱ He sheweth that bothe his heart shal praise God and his tongue shal confesse him, and also that he wil vse other meanes to prouoke him self forwarde to the same.

Psalms 57:9 ^! Therefore doeth he rendre laude & praise.

Psalms 57:10 ^k Thy mercies do not onely apperteine to the Jewes, but also to the Gentiles.