Psalms 6 We may get the meaning and help of this Psalm by asking, How did David conduct himself in the time of sickness and trouble? I. He made his sorrow a question between himself and God. Set it down as a stern fact that there is a moral secret under the whole figure and movement of human life.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 6:3 I. Consider that the principle on which we are less ready than of old to rush to confession under natural national calamities of an ordinary type is a just and noble one, and is a sign of vital progress in our theological conceptions, and our view of our relation to the world and to God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 6:6 I. The feeling that he was suffering God's rebuke, smarting under God's correction, was at once a comfort and a grief to the Psalmist: a comfort when he remembered the loving wisdom that corrected him; a grief when he called to mind the sinful ingratitude that needed correction. It is by... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 6:10 I. Consider those passages in the Bible which are constantly objected to as most inconsistent with toleration I mean the so-called imprecatory portions of the Psalms. (1) I see little reason for considering these Psalms as the utterance of David's longing for personal revenge. It is not... [ Continue Reading ]