--- title: "Psalms 56 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Psalms 56 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many tha" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/psalms/56" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/56)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/56)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/56) Audio 1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.* 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow *me* up: for *they be* many that fight against me, O thou most High.* 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. 4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts *are* against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in *thine* anger cast down the people, O God. 8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: *are they* not in thy book? 9 When I cry *unto thee*, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God *is* for me. 10 In God will I praise *his* word: in the LORD will I praise *his* word. 11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. 12 Thy vows *are* upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: *wilt* not *thou deliver* my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? [Psalms 55](/study/psalms/55) [Psalms 57](/study/psalms/57) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 56:1](/kjv/psalms/56/1) « To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. » Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. **Upon Jonath-elem-rechokim** ] Meaning himself, who had wished before the wings of a dove, [Psalms 55:6](/kjv/psalms/55/6) , and was now the dove of dumbness among foreigners, Philistines, those ravenous hawks that were ready to seize and tear him, *Fatua columba,* [Hosea 7:11](/kjv/hosea/7/11) . Dumb he was fain to feign himself, and worse, among them (see [Psalms 34:1](/kjv/psalms/34/1) , the title; [1 Samuel 22:17](/kjv/1-samuel/22/17) , &c.), and therein was more of the serpent than of the dove. **** **Michtam of David** ] *Davidi insigne aureolum,* David’s jewels, or golden ingot. See [Psalms 16:1](/kjv/psalms/16/1) , title. This Michtam he made likely ([as also Psa 34:1](/kjv/as-also-psa/34/1) ) when, gotten away from Gath, he came into the cave of Adullam, [1 Samuel 22:1](/kjv/1-samuel/22/1) . *Carmine secessum scribentis et otia quaerunt.* Ver. 1. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up] Sup me up (as the Hebrew word soundeth), make but one draught of me, or suck me in as a whirlpool, swallow me up as a ravenous wild beast.[The devil is said to seek whom he may swallow down 1Pe 5:8](/kjv/-the-devil-is-said-to-seek-whom-he-may-swallow-down-1pe/5/8) at a gulp, as it were; and his imps are as greedy, but that they are gagged by God. The man here mentioned is Ishbibenob, the brother of Goliath, saith the Chaldee; but they do better who understand it to be Saul and his accomplices. **** **He fighting daily oppresseth me** ] Pliny saith of the scorpion, that there is not one minute wherein he doth not put forth the sting. 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