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Themes 4 ▾
Prayer 3 Holiness 7 Worship 7 Joy 11
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David human 1-12
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Small Catechism 1× 3 Heidelberg Catechism 1× 4-5 Second Helvetic Confession 1× 4 Summa Theologica 1× 7 Homilies on the Gospel of John 1× 9 John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible 1× 1-12 Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament 1× 1, 4, 7, 10 Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary 1× 1, 7 Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary 1× 2-12
Manuscript witnesses 5 ▾
Codex Sinaiticus Aleph c. AD 330-360 Codex Vaticanus B c. AD 300-325 Codex Alexandrinus A c. AD 400-440 Aleppo Codex (Crown of Aleppo) c. AD 930 Leningrad Codex (Codex Leningradensis) AD 1008
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What is Psalms 5 about?

As evening prayer gives way to morning, the fifth psalm finds David bringing his voice to the LORD at daybreak, looking up and waiting. He appeals to a God who takes no pleasure in wickedness, before whom the boastful cannot stand and the bloody and deceitful man is abhorred, and he asks to be led in God's righteousness because of his watching enemies. He prays that all who take refuge in the LORD may rejoice and shout for joy, defended and covered with favor as with a shield. The alternation of judgment on the wicked and joy for the righteous carries forward the two ways of the opening psalm into the daily rhythm of prayer.

Historical backdrop

These are the songbook of a nation, sung across a thousand years of Israel's worship, from Moses in the wilderness to the exiles returned from Babylon. They were carried from the tabernacle to Solomon's temple to the second temple rebuilt under Persia, set to the lyre and the harp and the clash of cymbals in the courts of the LORD.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 5
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Psalms 5
The Church Fathers on Psalms 5
Cited by the confessions

Psalms 5

Psalms Chapter 5
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1Give ear to my words, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation.
2Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God; For unto thee do I pray.
3O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.
4For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
5The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
6Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
7But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
8Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; Make thy way straight before my face.
9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
10Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.
11But let all those that take refuge in thee rejoice, Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
12For thou wilt bless the righteous; O Jehovah, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield.
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What is Psalms 5 about?

As evening prayer gives way to morning, the fifth psalm finds David bringing his voice to the LORD at daybreak, looking up and waiting. He appeals to a God who takes no pleasure in wickedness, before whom the boastful cannot stand and the bloody and deceitful man is abhorred, and he asks to be led in God's righteousness because of his watching enemies. He prays that all who take refuge in the LORD may rejoice and shout for joy, defended and covered with favor as with a shield. The alternation of judgment on the wicked and joy for the righteous carries forward the two ways of the opening psalm into the daily rhythm of prayer.