Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
The verse stands in the book whose Hebrew title means praises or songs of praise and whose English title means songs set to music, the hymn book of the Jews arranged at different times for use in the temple service. Like the rest of the book it is Hebrew poetry made not by rhyme or appreciable rhythm but by elegant and elevated, often sublime style and peculiar choice of words and structure of sentences. It is an outpouring of lamentation, prayer, praise and thanksgiving often in prophetic language, a mirror of the faith, love and hope of the true Israelite, full of the heart's emotion under all the vicissitudes of life. It is pictured with noble simplicity from the vines, fruits, valleys, mountains, torrents, rivers, lakes and animals of Palestine.
It stands in Book I, Psalms 1 to 41, the division written by David, the greatest of the sweet singers of Israel, which is why the collection is often called the Psalms of David. The one hundred and fifty psalms were composed over a thousand years from Moses to the close of the captivity, with one attributed to Moses, seventy-three to David, two to Solomon, twelve to Asaph, eleven to the sons of Korah, and one each to Heman and Ethan. The psalm containing the verse is also found in 2 Samuel 22, with very slight changes and somewhat different wording, and no two chapters in the Bible are exactly alike. The account in Samuel shows its historical connection, while the account in the Psalms stands as part of the collection of David's writings.
The psalm is a song of triumph celebrating God's power and goodness and David's deliverance from his enemies, specifically a psalm of thanksgiving for being delivered from the hand of Saul. The verse describes the defeat and complete scattering of the speaker's enemies, beaten small and cast away like dust and dirt in the streets scattered by the wind, with the word translated wind carrying the sense of wind. The psalm gives moral principles for God's people that remain a rule of conduct for Christians. Its teachings are not addressed and confined to Jews as a nationality but concern Christians as God's people of this dispensation, because moral instructions given to God's people in one age concern His people in every age.
The verse expresses confidence in the ultimate defeat of wickedness and the triumph of good. The psalm is one of Christ's resurrection psalms, and the verse is included among the prophetic word pictures that help reveal Christ's experience in his struggles with the enemy and the feelings he endured in his inmost soul. The defeat and disappointment of David's enemies is a type of Christ's victory for believers and in them over sin and spiritual foes.
The verse stands in the book whose Hebrew title means praises or songs of praise and whose English title means songs set to music, the hymn book of the Jews arranged at different times for use in the temple service. Like the rest of the book it is Hebrew poetry made not by rhyme or appreciable rhythm but by elegant and elevated, often sublime style and peculiar choice of words and structure of sentences. It is an outpouring of lamentation, prayer, praise and thanksgiving often in prophetic language, a mirror of the faith, love and hope of the true Israelite, full of the heart's emotion under all the vicissitudes of life. It is pictured with noble simplicity from the vines, fruits, valleys, mountains, torrents, rivers, lakes and animals of Palestine.
It stands in Book I, Psalms 1 to 41, the division written by David, the greatest of the sweet singers of Israel, which is why the collection is often called the Psalms of David. The one hundred and fifty psalms were composed over a thousand years from Moses to the close of the captivity, with one attributed to Moses, seventy-three to David, two to Solomon, twelve to Asaph, eleven to the sons of Korah, and one each to Heman and Ethan. The psalm containing the verse is also found in 2 Samuel 22, with very slight changes and somewhat different wording, and no two chapters in the Bible are exactly alike. The account in Samuel shows its historical connection, while the account in the Psalms stands as part of the collection of David's writings.
The psalm is a song of triumph celebrating God's power and goodness and David's deliverance from his enemies, specifically a psalm of thanksgiving for being delivered from the hand of Saul. The verse describes the defeat and complete scattering of the speaker's enemies, beaten small and cast away like dust and dirt in the streets scattered by the wind, with the word translated wind carrying the sense of wind. The psalm gives moral principles for God's people that remain a rule of conduct for Christians. Its teachings are not addressed and confined to Jews as a nationality but concern Christians as God's people of this dispensation, because moral instructions given to God's people in one age concern His people in every age.
The verse expresses confidence in the ultimate defeat of wickedness and the triumph of good. The psalm is one of Christ's resurrection psalms, and the verse is included among the prophetic word pictures that help reveal Christ's experience in his struggles with the enemy and the feelings he endured in his inmost soul. The defeat and disappointment of David's enemies is a type of Christ's victory for believers and in them over sin and spiritual foes.