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Verse Psalms 14:6. _YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR_] Instead
of תבישו _tabishu_, "Ye have shamed," Bishop _Horsley_ proposes
to read תבישם _tabishem_, and translates the clause thus: "The
cou...
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YE HAVE SHAMED - The address here is made directly to the wicked
themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and,
perhaps, in connection with the previous verse, to show them what
occa...
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Psalms 14
_ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_
2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7)
Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shal
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PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an
examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for
the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text
presen...
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POOR . an oppressed one. Compare Psalms 9 and Psalms 10....
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The corruption of men exemplified in their oppression of Jehovah's
people. Its condign punishment....
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_You have shamed_ R.V., Ye put to shame. You deride the resort of the
afflicted to Jehovah as mere folly. But the word usually means to
_frustrate_or _confound_: and the line maybe explained, -Would y...
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YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR— _Will ye shame the counsel
of the afflicted?_—"Will ye now shame, or laugh at the poor
oppressed people, for making God their refuge? Psalms 14:7. O that I
coul...
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PSALMS 14
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Vile Person's Testimony to Prevalent Wickedness, when
confirmed by Jehovah, occasions Warning and Prayer.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I. (Psalms 14:1), An Impious Man revels in Wi...
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_YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR, BECAUSE THE LORD IS HIS
REFUGE._
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - understand, to accord with
the first clause of Psalms 14:5, to which this clause is...
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This Ps., like Psalms 12, gives a picture of a corrupt state of
society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's
authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7, which some...
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RM 'Ye put to shame the counsel (i.e. the righteous thoughts) of the
poor, but the Lord is his refuge.' 'The poor' are the afflicted
righteous: see Psalms 9:12....
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Psalms 1:41
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the *
before a word to show an explanation.
The translated Bible tex...
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COUNSEL. — This confidence, this piety, this appeal addressed to the
supreme Protector, is in this verse called the “counsel,” the
“plan” of the sufferer, and the poet asks, “Would ye then make
the su...
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עֲצַת ־עָנִ֥י תָבִ֑ישׁוּ כִּ֖י
יְהוָ֣ה מַחְסֵֽהוּ׃...
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Psalms 14:1
THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1; Psalms
12:1. It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the
former in its attribution to "the fool" of the heart spe...
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THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN
Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1
The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline
persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries,
_How long...
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Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of
godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands
for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is
r...
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Ye have (e) shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his
refuge.
(e) You mock them who put their trust in God....
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The sad blindness of men's minds in their denying the existence of
God, is here very strongly described; and the contradiction of such
unbelief, as strongly pointed out in the fear of such a guilty mi...
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6._Ye deride the counsel of the poor. _He inveighs against those
giants who mock at the faithful for their simplicity, in calmly
expecting, in their distresses, that God will show himself to be their...
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In Psalms 14 the evil has reached its climax in God's sight What is
ever true of flesh is now brought up under God's eye at the time when
He is going to judge. Man rises up in pride before Him: yea, H...
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YOU HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR,.... The poor saints, the
Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the
poor of this world; poor in spirit, and an afflicted people: and...
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Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his
refuge.
Ver. 6. _You have shamed the counsel of the poor_] And thought to
mock him out of his confidence, as Sennacherib did by Hezek...
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_You have shamed the counsel of the poor_ Ye have desired and
endeavoured to bring to shame, or to disappoint, the course which the
godly poor man takes, and the resolution which he adopts, which is t...
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Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, the wicked may do so, but in
vain, the Lord cries out to them through the poet, BECAUSE THE LORD IS
HIS REFUGE, Jehovah is his Stronghold, his Defense and Prote...
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OF THE CORRUPTION OF NATURAL MAN AND THE LORD'S SALVATION.
This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was
specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the
oppression...
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SHAMED, i.e. desired and endeavoured to bring it to shame, or
disappoint it. Compare PSALMS 6:10. Or, _ye have reproached or
derided_ it, as a foolish thing. THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR, i.e. the
cause wh...
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Psalms 14:6 shame H954 (H8686) counsel H6098 poor H6041 LORD H3068
refuge H4268
Ye - Psalms 3:2,
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‘Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who devour my people as they eat bread,
And call not on YHWH?
There were they in great fear,
For God is in the generation of the righteous.
You put...
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Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._
He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it
except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late;...
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CONTENTS: The corruption and foolishness of man.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: Man in his natural state has become odious to God, utterly
incapable of answering the ends of his creation, until...
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Psalms 14:1. _The fool,_ the _Nabal,_ devoid of foresight, says,
_there is no God;_ no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness
of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification of...
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_Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?_
CONSCIENCE
I. Conscience informed. It is quite true that the workers of iniquity
seem like brute beasts, as if they had no common sense, no conscienc...
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_The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._
THE PRACTICAL DENIAL OF GOD THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and
starts a train of thought whi...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:1. This is a community lament. Humans
in general do not seek after God and thus they treat God’s people
cruelly. Compare Psalms 53:1.
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:5 In the face of such threats (v. Psalms
14:4) the faithful must remember that the God of the covenant (LORD)
is th
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INTRODUCTION
“It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm.
The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers
pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may,...
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EXPOSITION
IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of
God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the
sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De We...
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt,
they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The
LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if...
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Because — This was the ground of their contempt, that he lived by
faith in God's promise and providence....