Either into their persons; or rather, their bodies, which are oft understood by this word; of which see the notes upon Psalms 16:10. So their inordinate desire of pleasing and pampering their bodies was the occasion of destroying them; whilst God denied his blessing, which alone makes food able to nourish us, and inflicted his curse, which made their food as destructive as poison to them.
Verse Psalms 106:15. _SENT LEANNESS_] They despised the manna, and called it _light_, that is, _innutritive, bread_. God gave _flesh_ as they desired, but gave no blessing with it; and in consequence...
AND HE GAVE THEM THEIR REQUEST - By sending great quantities of quails. Numbers 11:31. BUT SENT LEANNESS INTO THEIR SOUL - The word translated “leanness” is from a verb - רזה _râzeh_ - to make thin;...
Psalms 105 AND 106 The Memories of the Past The last two Psalms of this fourth section review the entire history of Israel up to the time of the judges. It is the story of God's faithfulness and merc...
CVI. ISRAEL'S SIN. Psalms 106:1. Introduction. Praise to Yahweh for His power and greatness. The writer's desire to share in Israel's joy. PSALMS 106:3. HE THAT DOETH: read they that do. Psalms 106...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13....
BUT SENT LEANNESS INTO THEIR SOUL— _But thinned their numbers by death._ It is literally, _Sent thinness into their life;_ or, _in amidst their life._ Several of the ancient versions, with which Houbi...
PSALMS 106 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Humbled Israel Confessing Her Sins as a Nation. ANALYSIS Enclosed within an Introduction of Praise and Prayer, Psalms 106:1-5, and a Conclusion of Prayer and Doxology,...
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: -Three transgressions of Israel in the wilderness are detailed, rising in gradation of moral guilt, without respect to time: (1) Their...
As Psalms 105 gives thanks for God's goodness, so Psalms 106 confesses Israel's sin and acknowledges God's mercy, both being illustrated in an historical retrospect from the deliverance from Egypt dow...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE *LORD IS GOOD! PSALMS 106 Jesus said, "Father, *forgive them. Because they do not know what they are doing". ...
(13-33) These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with _the_ discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23....
LEANNESS. — The LXX., Vulg., and Syriac read _“_satiety.” As Mr. Burgess points out, by accepting this reading, and giving _nephesh_ its very usual signification of “lust” (comp. Psalms 78:18, where a...
וַ יִּתֵּ֣ן לָ֭הֶם שֶׁאֱלָתָ֑ם וַ יְשַׁלַּ֖ח...
Psalms 106:1 THE history of God's past is a record of continuous mercies, the history of man's, one of as continuous sin. The memory of the former quickened the psalmist into his sunny song of thankfu...
UNFAILING LOVING-KINDNESS Psalms 106:1 _ Who can utter?_ That is an unanswered question. Not even the leader of the heavenly choir can answer it. But what blessedness it brings to the heart of one w...
The previous psalm called the people to talk of the “marvellous works” of Jehovah. This one calls to praise, and the reason is that “His mercy endureth for ever.” This fact is then illustrated by a de...
And he gave them their request; but sent (h) leanness into their soul. (h) The abundance that God gave them did not profit, but made them pine away, because God cursed it....
I include all these verses within one reading, though the Reader will recollect that they refer to several very interesting transactions at different periods in the church's history. But it would swel...
15._He gave them their desire _There is a fine paronomasia in the word רזון, _razon, _for if, instead of ז, _zain, _we read ץ _, tsädhé, _the word would signify _good pleasure. _The prophet, therefore...
Psalms 106. "Hallelujah. Give thanks to Jehovah, for it is good (or He is good). His mercy endureth for ever." This last we have often seenthe expression of this unfailing faithful mercy of Jehovah, w...
AND HE GAVE THEM THEIR REQUEST,.... Flesh and feathered fowl in great abundance; see Psalms 78:27. So God sometimes gives to wicked men what they ask for, as much as they can desire, yea, more than he...
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. Ver. 15. _And he gave them their request_] _Deus saepe dat iratus quod negat propitius_ (Aug.). _ Munera magna quidem misit, sed mi...
_They soon forgat his works_ Even within three days, Exodus 15:22, and lost the impressions those works had made upon them. They that do not improve God's mercies to them, nor endeavour, in some measu...
And He gave them their request, sending them water, manna, quails, Exodus 15:22; Exodus 16; Exodus 17:2; Numbers 11, BUT SENT LEANNESS INTO THEIR SOUL, by consuming them with a very great plague, Numb...
GOD'S BLESSINGS IN SPITE OF ISRAEL'S UNFAITHFULNESS. This psalm, whose author is not known, gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel, as contrasted with the wonders of God's mercy, the concl...
13-33 Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God show...
Psalms 106:15 gave H5414 (H8799) request H7596 sent H7971 (H8762) leanness H7332 soul H5315 he gave -...
Psalms 106:15 It is an awful circumstance, and yet it is true, that our mercies may be our curses; that our desire may prove our ruin. The man, you will say, who has obtained the object of his desire,...
This Psalm relates the story of God's mercy to Israel, of the people's provocation of Jehovah, and of his great patience with them. It commences with an exhortation to praise the Lord. Psalms 106:1....
In this Psalm we have the story of God's ancient covenant people, and as we read it, we may read our own history in it if we also are his people. It is a looking-glass, in which the beholder may see h...
Psalms 106:1. _Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In this Psalm we have the history of God's people turned to practical account. I have...
CONTENTS: The badness of Israel made heinous by the great goodness of God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Moses, Aaron, Dathan, Abiram, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: Man's perverseness arises continually from hi...
This also is a Psalm of David, and is cited in 1 Chronicles 16., although the first and the two last verses only are there given. The subject is similar to that of the preseding psalm; and it was prob...
_They soon forgat His works._ GOD’S PRAISES SUNG; HIS WORKS FORGOTTEN The conduct of the Israelites, as here described, affords a striking exemplification of that spurious gratitude, which often burs...
WISHES THAT STING He gave them their request; But sent leanness into their soul. Psalms 106:15. It happened one day on the St. Louis express away over in America. It was a very warm day and the pass...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:1. This historical psalm (see notes on Psalms 78 and 105) retells a series of events from Israel’s history to illustrate God’s steadfas
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:6 This is a list of incidents that begins at the shore of the Red Sea (vv. Psalms 106:7) and ends during the time of the judges (vv....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:13 Sadly, the people of Israel SOON FORGOT God’s WORKS and slipped back into unfaithfulness (see v. Psal
INTRODUCTION “This it the first of a series of Hallelujah Psalms: Psalms of which the word Hallelujah is, as it were, the inscription (106, 111–113, 117, 135, 146–150.). As in the last Psalm, so here...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah psalms"—_i.e._ of the psalms beginning with the phrase "hallelujah"—which are Psalms 106:1, Psalms 111:1, Psalms 112:1,...
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise? Blessed are they that ke...
Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah 24:16; Numbers 11:31; Psalms 78:29-3...
Souls — Into their bodies. So their inordinate desire of pampering their bodies, was the occasion of destroying them....