The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 55:16-23

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Contrasts in the character and experience of the righteous and the wicked.

I. CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE OF THE RIGHTEOUS.

1. His life is a continued exercise of prayer and faith. Calls upon God, evening, morning, and at noon. Carries all his anxieties and fears to God; casts upon him his burden (Psalms 55:22). And he does all this with an assured faith (Psalms 55:16, Psalms 55:17). "And he shall hear my voice." "The Lord shall save me."

2. He has been already delivered from great dangers. (Psalms 55:18.) "Many were against him." Every good man has a past full of such experiences.

3. He has confident assurance of future protection and guidance. "He shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." God is good and righteous. and this is the foundation of his assurance.

II. CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE OF THE WICKED.

1. Generally, they have no fear of God. Without God in the world; living, therefore, without restraint.

2. They are traitors to former vows of friendship. They violate without compunction former oaths and covenants.

3. They are guilty of the most cruel deceit. (Psalms 55:21.) Bloody and deceitful men.

4. God shall afflict and humble them. (Psalms 55:19.)

5. They shall die a premature death. (Psalms 55:23.)—S.

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