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Verse Psalms 78:38. _BUT HE_, BEING _FULL OF COMPASSION_] Feeling for
them as a _father_ for his children.
_FORGAVE_ THEIR _INIQUITY_] יחפר _yechapper_, made an _atonement_
for their iniquity.
_AND...
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BUT HE, BEING FULL OF COMPASSION - literally, “But he, merciful,”
That is, he was ready to forgive them.
FORGAVE THEIR INIQUITY - literally, Atoned for, expiated, covered over
their iniquity. There i...
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PSALM 78-83
Psalms 78
A Historical Retrospect
_ 1. The call to hear (Psalms 78:1)_
2. Ephraim's failure (Psalms 78:9)
3. His dealings in power and mercy ...
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LXXVIII. THE LESSON OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY. The northern tribes have been
perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the
schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary, ha...
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INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah_. App-44.
DESTROYED. laid waste....
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These judgements failed to reform them, and further chastisements
produced only temporary and superficial amendments. Yet in spite of
all, God continued to shew them mercy....
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This verse describes the general attributes of God, in virtue of which
(Psalms 78:39) He spared Israel in spite of their guilt. Render:
But he, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity and destro...
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DISCOURSE: 635
THE EXTENT OF GOD’S MERCY
Psalms 78:34. When he slew them, then they sought him; and they
returned and inquired early after God: and they remembered that God
was their Rock, and the hig...
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WHEN HE SLEW THEM, &C.— _When he slew them, and they sought him, and
returned,_ &c.—Ver. 35. _And remembered,_ &c.—Ver. 36. _Though
they did flatter him—and lied,_ &c.—Ver. 37. _And their heart,_
&c.—...
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PSALMS 78
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Didactic Poem, Counselling the Re-union of the Tribes.
ANALYSIS
Part I.THE PRELUDE
(1) An Invitation to Attend to a Series of Problems Drawn from
AntiquityPsalms 78:...
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Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land
of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
-The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast
to God's marvels performed i...
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This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and
with Deuteronomy 32. It traces the course of God's relations with His
people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells on...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
TELL YOUR CHILDREN
PSALMS 78
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me. Do not stop them".
(Matthew 19
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The verbs in the first clause should be in the present, _But he, the
compassionate, forgives iniquity, and doth not destroy, and many a
time he turned away, &c.
_...
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וְ ה֤וּא רַח֨וּם ׀ יְכַפֵּ֥ר עָוֹן֮
וְֽ לֹא
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Psalms 78:1
THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1; Psalms 106:1; Psalms
107:1. Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and esp
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“SIGNS IN EGYPT”
Psalms 78:38
God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. _The
Spirit… helpeth our infirmities_, Romans 8:26. In the words of
Hosea, God teaches us “to go;” that...
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The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its
measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's
persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the
psalm,...
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But he, [being] full of compassion, (x) forgave [their] iniquity, and
destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and
did not stir up all his wrath.
(x) Because he would always h...
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What precious views are these of covenant love and covenant
faithfulness: and how they all run up to the fountain-head of all our
mercies, in the everlasting, free, spontaneous, and unchangeable love...
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38._Yet he, being merciful, expiated their iniquity. _To show the more
fully that no means had succeeded in bending the Israelites, and
causing them to return to a sound state of mind, we are now info...
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In Psalms 78 the conduct of Israel is discussed by wisdom,
historically as regards the whole people, but with very important
principles brought out. There was not only a redemption of old, to
which fa...
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BUT HE, BEING FULL OF COMPASSION,.... Or merciful; having bowels of
mercy, as a tender mother to the son of her womb; a word from the same
root as this signifies the womb: the mercies of God are tende...
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But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and
destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and
did not stir up all his wrath.
Ver. 38. _But he, being full of c...
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_But he, being full of compassion_ Of pity for them amidst their sins
and miseries; _forgave their iniquity_ Not simply and absolutely, for
in that sense it is undeniably certain from the Holy Scriptu...
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1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are
carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a
particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the
church m...
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FORGAVE THEIR INIQUITY; not simply and absolutely, for so it is
undeniably certain from the Holy Scriptures that God pardons none but
true penitents, such as these were not; but respectively, and so f...
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Psalms 78:38 compassion H7349 forgave H3722 (H8762) iniquity H5771
destroy H7843 (H8686) time H7235 (H8689) turned
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The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards
their gracious God.
Psalms 78:10. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk
in his law; and forgat his works, and his w...
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This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is
like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see
ourselves reflected.
Psalms 78:9. _The children of Ephraim, being...
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CONTENTS: Israel's sins wherewith they had provoked God. The tokens of
God's displeasure as the result.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph.
CONCLUSION: God's people limit Him by forgetfulness of His benefits
(Ps...
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Title. _Maschil of Asaph._ Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which
signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or
melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice o...
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_But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
destroyed them not._
ALL GOOD REWARDED
The whole Book of Judges may be said to be a commentary on these
words, for it is a record of suc...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare
Psalms 105:1; P
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:32 The mighty works of God described in vv.
Psalms 78:9 should have been enough reason for the people to be
faithful, but they were not (v....
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph_,” _i.e._, an instruction of
Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the
celebrated Asaph in the time of David.
_Occasion_.—...
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EXPOSITION
This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the
rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period
subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed by mo...
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Psa 78:1-72 is a psalm that rehearses the history of God's people. And
the psalm was written in order to remind the children, the coming
generation, of the works of the Lord. One of the important obli...
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1 Kings 21:29; Exodus 34:6; Isaiah 44:21; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 48:9;...