to be (causatively make) large (in various senses · verb, hiphil active participle, masculine singular absolute
deliverance
יְשׁוּע֪וֹתye.shu.'ot
H3444
something saved · noun, common feminine plural construct
king
מַ֫לְכּ֥וֹmal.Ko
H4428
a king · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
sheweth
וְעֹ֤שֶׂהve.'O.seh
H6213
to do or make · conjunction + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
mercy
חֶ֨סֶדChe.sed
H2617
kindness · noun, common masculine singular absolute
anointed
לִמְשִׁיח֗וֹlim.shi.Cho
H4899
anointed · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
David
לְדָוִ֥דle.da.Vid
H1732
David · preposition + proper noun, a man's name
seed
וּלְזַרְע֗וֹu.le.zar.'O
H2233
seed · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
for
עַד'ad-
H5704
as far (or long · preposition
evermore
עוֹלָֽםo.Lam
H5769
properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Psalms 144:10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
2 Samuel 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Psalms 89:3-4 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Psalms 132:10 For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Psalms 78:71-72 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Isaiah 9:6-7 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,…
Luke 1:31-33 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Acts 2:34-36 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Psalms 18:29–end
In these verses,
I. David looks back, with thankfulness, upon the great things which God had done for him. He had not only wrought deliverance for him, but had given him victory and success, and made him triumph over those who thought to triumph over him. When we set ourselves to praise God for one mercy we must be led by that to observe the many more with which we have been compassed about, and followed, all our days. Many things had contributed to David's advancement, and he owns the hand of God in them all, to teach us to do likewise, in reviewing the several steps by which we have risen to our prosperity. 1. God had given him all his skill and understanding in military affairs, which he…
Paul (Rom 15:9) quotes from this doxology to show that under the Old Testament economy, others than the Jews were regarded as subjects of that spiritual government of which David was head, and in which character his deliverances and victories were typical of the more illustrious triumphs of David's greater Son. The language of Psa 18:50 justifies this view in its distinct allusion to the great promise (compare Sa2 7:12). In all David's successes he saw the pledges of a fulfilment of that promise, and he mourned in all his adversities, not only in view of his personal suffering, but because he saw in them evidences of danger to the great interests which were committed to his keeping. It is in…
Great deliverance giveth he to his king,.... Not that is king over him; for he is King of kings and Lord of lords; but that is made king by him, as David was; who did not usurp the throne, but was anointed king by the appointment of God, and was placed by him upon the throne; to whom he gave great deliverance from his enemies, or "magnified salvations" to him; which were great in kind, and many in number; and as Christ is, whom God has set as his King on his holy hill of Sion, against whom the Heathen raged, and kings and princes set themselves; but he is delivered from them all, and saved from the power of death and the grave, and ever lives to reign over, protect, and defend his people; in…
The Church Fathers
"Magnifying the salvation of His King" [Psalm 18:50]. God, who magnifies, so as to make wonderful, the salvation, which His Son gives to believers. "And showing mercy to His Christ:" God, who shows mercy to His Christ: "To David and to His seed for evermore:" to the Deliverer Himself strong of hand, who has overcome this world; and to them whom, as believers in the Gospel, He has begotten for evermore. What things soever are spoken in this Psalm which cannot apply to the Lord Himself personally, that is to the Head of the Church, must be referred to the Church. For whole Christ speaks here, in whom are all His members.
Since by the Holy Spirit he understood that God's promises were not confined to him alone but would pass also to his offspring, so he spoke in this way here with particular reference to Christ's life. The outcome, in fact, showed that David's offspring, blessing and sanctifying the nations, referred to no one other than the Lord of all. The blessing affected the offspring without restriction, after all, and following David, remember, there were many famous descendants of his in each generation (Christ himself thought to be the one proven to be famous and great)—first Solomon, then Uzziah, then Hezekiah, then Josiah—yet none emerged as more precisely realizing the force of the promise than Christ alone, and after him there was no one, nor is there anyone to whom the blessing of the promises would be thought to refer. After all, with Judah in captivity and the tribes intermingled, and no clarity as to who was descended from whom, it is now obvious that the fulfillment of the promise rested with Jesus himself, to whom in this case as well both the prayer and the prophecy allude, "To David and his offspring forever." I mean, those of the company of Hezekiah, even if they seemed to enjoy some grace from God, did not do so forever, death befalling each one with the result that they were not the subject of blessing forever.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Anointing · God Preserves those who receive — God Preserves those who receive
Anointing Of The Holy Spirit · God preserves those who receive — God preserves those who receive
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
Psalm 18:46-50
46. Let Jehovah live, [439] and blessed be my strength: [440] and let the God of my salvation be exalted; 47. The God who giveth me vengeance, and subdueth peoples [or nations] under me. 48. My deliverer from my enemies; yea, thou hast lifted me up from those who had risen up against me; thou hast delivered me from the man of violence. 49. Therefore will I praise thee, O Jehovah, among the heathen, and will sing to thy name. 50. He worketh great deliverances for his king, and showeth mercy to David, his anointed, and to his seed for ever.
46. Let Jehovah live. If it is thought proper to adopt this reading, which is in the optative mood expressing a wish that God might live,…
(Heb.: 18:50-51) The praise of so blessed a God, who acts towards David as He has promised him, shall not be confined within the narrow limits of Israel. When God's anointed makes war with the sword upon the heathen, it is, in the end, the blessing of the knowledge of Jahve for which he opens up the way, and the salvation of Jahve, which he thus mediatorially helps on. Paul has a perfect right to quote Psa 18:50 of this Psalm (Rom 15:9), together with Deu 32:43 and Psa 117:1, as proof that salvation belongs to the Gentiles also, according to the divine purpose of mercy. What is said in Psa 18:50 as the reason and matter of the praise that shall go forth beyond Israel, is an echo of the Messi…
God appointed David, his anointed ruler, to bring order into God’s world (see Ps 2). Both David and his descendants received this responsibility.
Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 18:50
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
This is the winding up verse into which the writer throws a fulness of expression, indicating the most rapturous delight of gratitude. "Great deliverance." The word "deliverance" is plural, to show the variety and completeness of the salvation; the adjective "great" is well placed if we consider from what, to what, and how we are saved. All this mercy is given to us in our King, the Lord's Anointed, and those are blessed indeed who as his seed may expect mercy to be built up for evermore. The Lord was faithful to the literal David, and he will not break his covenant with the s…
