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he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/7.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/psalms/7.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/psalms/7.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/psalms/7.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/7.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/psalms/7.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/psalms/7.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/7.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/psalms/7.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/psalms/7.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/psalms/7.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/psalms/7.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/psalms/7.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/psalms/7.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/psalms/7.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/psalms/7.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/psalms/4-8.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/psalms/7.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/psalms/7.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/psalms/7.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/psalms/7.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/psalms/7.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/psalms/7.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/psalms/7.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/psalms/7.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/psalms/7.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/psalms/7.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/psalms/7.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/7.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/psalms/7.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/psalms/7.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/psalms/7.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/tod/psalms/7.htm" title="Treasury of David">TOD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/psalms/7.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) <span class= "bld">Instruments of death.</span>—That is, <span class= "ital">deadly weapons.</span><p><span class= "bld">Against the persecutors.</span>—Literally, <span class= "ital">for those burning; </span>so LXX. and Vulg. The meaning appears to be, “His arrows he makes into fiery arrows”—<span class= "ital">i.e., </span>tips them with fire, by wrapping them in burning tow. Latin, <span class= "ital">malleoli. </span>(Comp. <a href="/ephesians/6-16.htm" title="Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.">Ephesians 6:16</a>, with Note, in <span class= "ital">New Testament Commentary.</span>) Milton’s “rattling storm of arrows barb’d with fire,” refers to the same custom.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/psalms/7.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>7:10-17 David is confident that he shall find God his powerful Saviour. The destruction of sinners may be prevented by their conversion; for it is threatened, If he turn not from his evil way, let him expect it will be his ruin. But amidst the threatenings of wrath, we have a gracious offer of mercy. God gives sinners warning of their danger, and space to repent, and prevent it. He is slow to punish, and long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish. The sinner is described, ver. 14-16, as taking more pains to ruin his soul than, if directed aright, would save it. This is true, in a sense, of all sinners. Let us look to the Saviour under all our trials. Blessed Lord, give us grace to look to thee in the path of tribulation, going before thy church and people, and marking the way by thine own spotless example. Under all the persecutions which in our lesser trials mark our way, let the looking to Jesus animate our minds and comfort our hearts.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/psalms/7.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>He hath also prepared for him - The instruments of punishment are already prepared, and God can use them when he pleases. They are not to be made ready, and, therefore, there is no necessity for delay when he shall have occasion to use them. The idea is, that arrangements are made for the destruction of the wicked, and that the destruction must come upon them. The world is full of these arrangements, and it is impossible that the sinner should escape.<p>The instruments of death - The means of putting them to death; that is, of punishing them. The particular means referred to here are arrows, as being what God has prepared for the wicked. "Death" here is designed simply to denote punishment, as death would be inflicted by arrows.<p>He ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors - Or rather, as the Hebrew is, "He makes his arrows for burning," that is, "for burning arrows." Horsley renders it, "He putteth his arrows in action against those who are ready for burning." Prof. Alexander, "His arrows to (be) burning he will make." DeWette, "His arrows he makes burning." The Latin Vulgate and Septuagint, His arrows he has made for the burning: "that is, probably for those who are burning with rage, for persecutors. This seems to have been the idea of our translators. The Hebrew word - דלק dâlaq - means to burn, to flame; and hence, also, to burn with love, with anxiety, or with zeal or wrath - as persecutors do. But here the word seems properly to be connected with "arrows;" and the sense is, as rendered by Gesenius, "he maketh his arrows flaming;" that is, burning - alluding to the ancient custom of shooting ignited darts or arrows into besieged towns or camps, for the purpose of setting them on fire, as well as for the purpose of inflicting greater personal injury. The sense is, that God had prepared the means of certain destruction for the wicked. The reference here is not necessarily to persecutors, but what is said here pertains to all the wicked unless they repent. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/psalms/7.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>13. against the persecutors—Some render "for burning," but the former is the best sense. Arrows for burning would be appropriate in besieging a town, not in warring against one man or a company in open fight.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/psalms/7.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">For him; </span> either, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. For or against the persecutor, as it follows. Or rather, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. For himself, for his own use, to wit, to shoot against his enemies. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">The instruments of death, </span> i.e. arrows, or other deadly weapons. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">He ordaineth, </span> Heb. <span class="ital">maketh</span> or <span class="ital">worketh</span>, designeth or fitteth for his very use. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Against the persecutors; </span> or, <span class="ital">against furious and wry persecutors</span>, as the word signifies, and as it is used, <span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/31-36.htm" title="And Jacob was wroth, and strived with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued after me?">Genesis 31:36</a> <a href="/psalms/10-2.htm" title="The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.">Psalm 10:2</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-19.htm" title="Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.">Lamentations 4:19</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/psalms/7.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death,.... The weapons of his indignation, <a href="/isaiah/13-5.htm">Isaiah 13:5</a>; which, will issue both in the first and second death, corporeal and eternal; the instruments of the former are diseases of various kinds, and judgments, as famine, pestilence, &c. and of the latter not only the law is an instrument of it, that being the letter which kills, and is the ministration of condemnation and death, but even the Gospel itself to wicked men is the savour of death unto death; and devils will be the executioners of it; <p>he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors: the word for persecutors signifies "hot" or "burning" (h), and designs such persons who burn in malice and wrath, In rage and fury, against the saints, and hotly pursue after them, as Laban did after Jacob, <a href="/genesis/31-36.htm">Genesis 31:36</a>; for these more especially God has determined in his eternal purposes and decrees, and for these he has provided in his quiver, arrows of wrath and vengeance, fiery ones; and against these will he bring them forth, direct them, and shoot them at them, <a href="/psalms/64-7.htm">Psalm 64:7</a>. Some (i) understand all this not of God, but of the wicked man, and read "if he turn not", but, on the contrary, instead of that, "will whet his sword, bend his bow", &c. against the righteous; yet he shall be disappointed, he shall not accomplish his designs, as appears by the following verses; these phrases are used of wicked men, <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/11-2.htm">Psalm 11:2</a>, but the former sense seems best. <p>(h) "ardentibus", V. L. "in ardentes", Montanus; "hot persecutors", Ainsworth. (i) So Brentius & Glassius in Gejerus. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/psalms/7.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/psalms/7.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">13</span>. Render:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Tea at him hath he aimed deadly missiles;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Making his arrows fiery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Or, <span class="ital">Yea, for him hath he prepared</span> &c.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The description of the warrior-judge is continued. God’s arrows are His lightnings (<a href="/psalms/18-14.htm" title="Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.">Psalm 18:14</a>; <a href="/zechariah/9-14.htm" title="And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.">Zechariah 9:14</a>), which He aims at the impenitent sinner. There may be a reference to the fire-darts of ancient warfare (Lat. <span class="ital">malleoli</span>), arrows with tow, pitch, and other inflammable materials attached to them, lighted and discharged into a besieged town with the object of setting it on fire. Cp. ‘the fire-charged darts of the evil one,’ <a href="/ephesians/6-16.htm" title="Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.">Ephesians 6:16</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">He hath prepared for him the instruments of death</span>. These are probably not the sword and the bow, but the "arrows" of the next clause. They are prepared "for <span class="accented">him</span>," <span class="accented">i.e.</span> for the wicked man. He ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors; rather, <span class="accented">he maketh his arrows to be fiery ones.</span> Hengstenberg notes that "in sieges it was customary to wrap inflammable matter round arrows, and to shoot them after it had been kindled" (compare the, fiery darts" of St. Paul, <a href="/ephesians/6-16.htm">Ephesians 6:16</a>). Psalm 7:13<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/psalms/7.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>(Heb.: 7:12-14) If God will in the end let His wrath break forth, He will not do it without having previously given threatenings thereof every day, viz., to the ungodly, cf. <a href="/isaiah/66-14.htm">Isaiah 66:14</a>; <a href="/malachi/1-4.htm">Malachi 1:4</a>. He makes these feel His זעם beforehand in order to strike a wholesome terror into them. The subject of the conditional clause אם־לא ישׁוּב is any ungodly person whatever; and the subject of the principal clause, as its continuation in <a href="/psalms/7-14.htm">Psalm 7:14</a> shows, is God. If a man (any one) does not repent, then Jahve will whet His sword (cf. <a href="/deuteronomy/32-41.htm">Deuteronomy 32:41</a>). This sense of the words accords with the connection; whereas with the rendering: "forsooth He (Elohim) will again whet His sword" (Bttch., Ew., Hupf.) ישׁוּב, which would moreover stand close by ילטושׁ (cf. e.g., <a href="/genesis/30-31.htm">Genesis 30:31</a>), is meaningless; and the אם־לא of asseveration is devoid of purpose. Judgment is being gradually prepared, as the fut. implies; but, as the perff. imply, it is also on the other hand like a bow that is already strung against the sinner with the arrow pointed towards him, so that it can be executed at any moment. כּונן of the making ready, and הכין of the aiming, are used alternately. לו, referring to the sinner, stands first by way of emphasis as in <a href="/genesis/49-10.htm">Genesis 49:10</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/2-3.htm">1 Samuel 2:3</a>, and is equivalent to אליו, <a href="/ezekiel/4-3.htm">Ezekiel 4:3</a>. "Burning" arrows are fire-arrows (זקּים, זיקות, malleoli); and God's fire-arrows are the lightnings sent forth by Him, <a href="/psalms/18-15.htm">Psalm 18:15</a>; <a href="/zechariah/9-14.htm">Zechariah 9:14</a>. The fut. יפעל denotes the simultaneous charging of the arrows aimed at the sinner, with the fire of His wrath. The case illustrated by Cush is generalised: by the sword and arrows the manifold energy of the divine anger is symbolised, and it is only the divine forbearance that prevents it from immediately breaking forth. 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