--- title: "Psalms 5 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 5 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 3 My voice sha" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/5)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/5) Audio 1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct *my prayer* unto thee, and will look up. 4 For thou *art* not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.* 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.* 7 But as for me, I will come *into* thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: *and* in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.* 8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.* 9 For *there is* no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part *is* very wickedness; their throat *is* an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.*** 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.** 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.* 12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as *with* a shield.* [Psalms 4](/study/psalms/4) [Psalms 6](/study/psalms/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 This Psalm is inscribed *to the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A* *Psalm of David*. As *neginoth* may signify all kinds of instruments struck with a *plectrum*, stringed instruments, those like the drum, cymbals, c. so *nechiloth*, from חל *chal*, to be *hollow*, to *bore through*, may signify any kind of *wind* instruments, such as the horn, trumpet, flute, c. See on the title to the preceding Psalm ([Psalms 4:1-8](/kjv/psalms/4/1-8)). The *Septuagint* have, Εις το τελος, ὑπερ της κληρονομουσης, "In favour of her who obtains the inheritance." The *Vulgate* and *Arabic* have a similar reading. The word נחילות *nechiloth* they have derived from נחל *nachal*, to *inherit*. This may either refer to the Israelites who obtained the inheritance of the promised land, or to the Church of Christ which obtains through him, by faith and prayer, the inheritance among the saints in light. This Psalm is, especially, for the whole Church of God. Verse [Psalms 5:1](/kjv/psalms/5/1). ***Give ear to my words*** — This is properly a *morning hymn*, as the preceding was an *evening hymn*. We have seen from the conclusion of the last Psalm that David was very happy, and lay down and slept in the peace and love of his God. When he opens his eyes on the following morning, he not only remembers but feels the happiness of which he spoke and with his first recollections he *meditates* on the goodness and mercy of God, and the glorious state of salvation into which he had been brought. 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