Teks -- Psalms 17:6 (NET)

17:6 I call to you for you will answer me, O God. Listen to me! Hear what I say!

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JFB: Psa 17:6 - wilt hear me

That is, graciously (Psa 3:4).

Clarke: Psa 17:6 - Incline thine ear unto me

Incline thine ear unto me - David prayed from a conviction that God would hear: but he could not be satisfied unless he received an answer. In a believer’ s mind the petition and the answer should not be separated.

Calvin: Psa 17:6 - I have called upon thee, etc

6.I have called upon thee, etc This verb being put in the past tense denotes a continued act; and, therefore, it includes the present time. The Hebrew word כי , ki, which we translate surely, often signifies because, and if it is so understood in this passage, the meaning will be, that David took encouragement to pray, because, depending upon the promise of God, he hoped that his prayers would not be in vain. But, perhaps, it may be thought preferable to change the tense of the verb as some do, so as to give this meaning, I will pray, because I have hitherto experienced that thou hast heard ³⁵⁸ my prayers. I have, however, chosen the exposition what appears to me the more simple. David, in my judgment, here encourages and animates himself to call upon God, from the confident hope of being heard, as if he had said, Since I call upon thee, surely, O God, thou wilt not despise my prayers. Immediately after he beseeches God to bestow upon him the blessings of which he told us he entertained an assured hope.

TSK: Psa 17:6 - I have // incline

I have : Psa 55:16, Psa 66:19, Psa 66:20, Psa 116:2

incline : Psa 13:3, Psa 13:4; Isa 37:17, Isa 37:20; Dan 9:17-19

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Poole: Psa 17:6 - I have called upon thee // For thou wilt hear me, O God

I have called upon thee it hath been, and still is, and shall be my constant course to apply myself to thee for assistance and for deliverance.

For thou wilt hear me, O God for though thou mayst delay for a season, I am well assured that thou wilt hear and answer me.

Gill: Psa 17:6 - I have called upon thee // for thou wilt hear me, O God // incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech

I have called upon thee,.... In prayer. This had been the constant practice of the psalmist, and he still continued in it;

for thou wilt hear me, O God; God is a God hearing prayer; he is used to hear his people, and they have frequent experience of it, and they may be assured that whatsoever they ask according to his will, and in the name of Christ, he will hear; and such an assurance is a reason engaging the saints to a constant calling upon God, Psa 116:2; and such confidence of being always heard Christ had, Joh 11:41;

incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech; meaning his prayer, which he now directed to him in full assurance of being heard, and is as follows.