CHAPTER 5

A PSALM OF DAVID: A PRAYER FOR PROTECTION

¹Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. (As the Fourth Psalm was an evening Psalm, a prayer to the Lord concerning the coming night, the Fifth Psalm is a morning Psalm. David awakens to meditate upon God and pray. This pertains likewise to Christ [Isa. 50:4].)

²Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto You will I pray (we learn from these Psalms just how strong was Davids prayer life, and likewise our Saviours).

³My voice shall You hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto You, and will look up (he will look up, simply because his help comes from above; we must never forget that).

⁴For You are not a God Who has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with You (there was no wickedness or evil in the Messiah; there was terrible wickedness and evil in Israel).

⁵The foolish shall not stand in Your sight: You hate all workers of iniquity (Israel played the fool and rejected the Messiah; consequently, they could not stand in Gods sight; God cannot abide wickedness or evil, even in those He calls His Chosen).

⁶You shall destroy them who speak leasing (lies): the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man (this has a double meaning; the first speaks of Ahithophel, who betrayed David; he was Davids closest advisor; the second and foremost speaks of Judas, the Lords Disciple, who betrayed Him).

⁷But as for me, I will come into Your House in the multitude of Your Mercy: and in Your fear will I worship toward Your Holy Temple (the Temple referred to here is speaking of the Heavenly Temple toward which David prayed and the Earthly Temple into which Jesus went [Jn. 2:16]; so, He came into this House in Mercy and fear and cleansed the Temple of its traffickers).

⁸Lead me, O LORD, in Your Righteousness because of my enemies; make Your Way straight before my face (when Jesus cleansed the Temple, He did not fear His enemies, because He was led by the Holy Spirit because of Righteousness).

⁹For there is no faithfulness in their mouth (the Pharisees); their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre (the Sadducees); they flatter with their tongue (the Herodians).

¹⁰Destroy You them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against You (in all cases, this prayer was answered; Ahithophel died of suicide, Absalom was killed in the battle to overthrow David; likewise, Judas died of suicide, and the whole of Israel was destroyed in A.D. 70).

¹¹But let all those who put their trust in You rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them: let them also who love Your Name be joyful in You (this Passage speaks of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and also the Resurrection of David, who was resurrected from potential destruction; David placed his trust in Jehovah, and the Lord restored him to the throne).

¹²For You, LORD, will bless the Righteous; with favour will You compass him as with a shield. (The shield addressed here is the largest size, which covers the entire body. This shield here is the favor and Grace of Jehovah.

The Righteous is the Lord Jesus. All who are in Him are likewise blessed.)