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Selected Verse: Psalms 18:31 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 18:31 |
Strong Concordance |
For who is God [0433] save [01107] the LORD [03068]? or who is a rock [06697] save [02108] our God [0430]? |
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King James |
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For who is God save the Lord? - Who is God except Yahweh? The idea is, that no other being has evinced the power, the wisdom, and the goodness which properly belong to the true God; or, that the things which are implied in the true nature of God are found in no other being.
Or who is a rock save our God? - See Psa 18:2. There is no one who can furnish such safety or defense; no one under whose protection we can be secure in danger. Compare Deu 32:31. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| (Heb.: 18:32-35) The grateful description of the tokens of favour he has experienced takes a new flight, and is continued in the second half of the Psalm in a more varied and less artificial mixture of the strophes. What is said in Psa 18:31 of the way and word of Jahve and of Jahve Himself, is confirmed in Psa 18:32 by the fact that He alone is אלוהּ, a divine being to be reverenced, and He alone is צוּר, a rock, i.e., a ground of confidence that cannot be shaken. What is said in Psa 18:31 consequently can be said only of Him. מבּלעדי and זוּלתי alternate; the former (with a negative intensive מן) signifies "without reference to" and then absolutely "without" or besides, and the latter (with ı̂ as a connecting vowel, which elsewhere has also the function of a suffix), from זוּלת (זוּלה), "exception." The verses immediately following are attached descriptively to אלהינוּ, our God (i.e., the God of Israel), the God, who girded me with strength; and accordingly (fut. consec.) made my way תמים, "perfect," i.e., absolutely smooth, free from stumblings and errors, leading straight forward to a divine goal. The idea is no other than that in Psa 18:31, cf. Job 22:3, except that the freedom from error here is intended to be understood in accordance with its reference to the way of a man, of a king, and of a warrior; cf. moreover, the other text. The verb שׁוּה signifies, like Arab. swwâ, to make equal (aequare), to arrange, to set right; the dependent passage Hab 3:19 has, instead of this verb, the more uncoloured שׁים. The hind, איּלה or איּלת, is the perfection of swiftness (cf. ἔλαφος and ἐλαφρός) and also of gracefulness among animals. "Like the hinds" is equivalent to like hinds' feet; the Hebrew style leaves it to the reader to infer the appropriate point of comparison from the figure. It is not swiftness in flight (De Wette), but in attack and pursuit that is meant, - the latter being a prominent characteristic of warriors, according to Sa2 1:23; Sa2 2:18; Ch1 12:8. David does not call the high places of the enemy, which he has made his own by conquest "my high places," but those heights of the Holy Land which belong to him as king of Israel: upon these Jahve preserves him a firm position, so that from them he may rule the land far and wide, and hold them victoriously (cf. passages like Deu 32:13; Isa 58:14). The verb למּד, which has a double accusative in other instances, is here combined with ל of the subject taught, as the aim of the teaching. The verb נחת (to press down = to bend a bow) precedes the subject "my arms" in the singular; this inequality is admissible even when the subject stands first (e.g., Gen 49:22; Joe 1:20; Zac 6:14). קשׁת נחוּשׁה a bow of brazen = of brass, as in Job 20:24. It is also the manner of heroes in Homer and in the Ram-jana to press down and bend with their hand a brazen bow, one end of which rests on the ground. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Who - Our Lord is the only God, and therefore there is none, that can hinder him from accomplishing his own work. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
For who is God save the Lord? - "For who is Eloah, except Jehovah?" None is worthy of adoration but the self-existent, eternal, infinitely perfect, and all-merciful Being.
Or who is a rock - A fountain emitting continual supplies of grace and goodness. |
31 For their rock [06697] is not as our Rock [06697], even our enemies [0341] themselves being judges [06414].
2 The LORD [03068] is my rock [05553], and my fortress [04686], and my deliverer [06403]; my God [0410], my strength [06697], in whom I will trust [02620]; my buckler [04043], and the horn [07161] of my salvation [03468], and my high tower [04869].
24 He shall flee [01272] from the iron [01270] weapon [05402], and the bow [07198] of steel [05154] shall strike him through [02498].
14 And the crowns [05850] shall be to Helem [02494], and to Tobijah [02900], and to Jedaiah [03048], and to Hen [02581] the son [01121] of Zephaniah [06846], for a memorial [02146] in the temple [01964] of the LORD [03068].
20 The beasts [0929] of the field [07704] cry [06165] also unto thee: for the rivers [0650] of waters [04325] are dried up [03001], and the fire [0784] hath devoured [0398] the pastures [04999] of the wilderness [04057].
22 Joseph [03130] is a fruitful [06509] bough [01121], even a fruitful [06509] bough [01121] by a well [05869]; whose branches [01323] run [06805] over the wall [07791]:
14 Then shalt thou delight [06026] thyself in the LORD [03068]; and I will cause thee to ride [07392] upon the high places [01116] of the earth [0776], and feed [0398] thee with the heritage [05159] of Jacob [03290] thy father [01]: for the mouth [06310] of the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696] it.
13 He made him ride [07392] on the high places [01116] of the earth [0776], that he might eat [0398] the increase [08570] of the fields [07704]; and he made him to suck [03243] honey [01706] out of the rock [05553], and oil [08081] out of the flinty [02496] rock [06697];
8 And of the Gadites [01425] there separated [0914] themselves unto David [01732] into the hold [04679] to the wilderness [04057] men [01368] of might [02428], and men [0582] of war [06635] fit for the battle [04421], that could handle [06186] shield [06793] and buckler [07420], whose faces [06440] were like the faces [06440] of lions [0738], and were as swift [04116] as the roes [06643] upon the mountains [02022];
18 And there were three [07969] sons [01121] of Zeruiah [06870] there, Joab [03097], and Abishai [052], and Asahel [06214]: and Asahel [06214] was as light [07031] of foot [07272] as a [0259] wild [07704] roe [06643].
23 Saul [07586] and Jonathan [03083] were lovely [0157] and pleasant [05273] in their lives [02416], and in their death [04194] they were not divided [06504]: they were swifter [07043] than eagles [05404], they were stronger [01396] than lions [0738].
19 The LORD [03069] God [0136] is my strength [02428], and he will make [07760] my feet [07272] like hinds [0355]' feet, and he will make me to walk [01869] upon mine high places [01116]. To the chief singer [05329] on my stringed instruments [05058].
3 Is it any pleasure [02656] to the Almighty [07706], that thou art righteous [06663]? or is it gain [01215] to him, that thou makest thy ways [01870] perfect [08552]?
31 For who is God [0433] save [01107] the LORD [03068]? or who is a rock [06697] save [02108] our God [0430]?
31 For who is God [0433] save [01107] the LORD [03068]? or who is a rock [06697] save [02108] our God [0430]?
32 It is God [0410] that girdeth [0247] me with strength [02428], and maketh [05414] my way [01870] perfect [08549].
31 For who is God [0433] save [01107] the LORD [03068]? or who is a rock [06697] save [02108] our God [0430]?