Psalms 73:1
A clean heart — To all true Israelites, who love God, and serve him in spirit and truth.... [ Continue Reading ]
A clean heart — To all true Israelites, who love God, and serve him in spirit and truth.... [ Continue Reading ]
My feet — My faith in God's providence, was almost overthrown.... [ Continue Reading ]
No bands — They are not dragged to death, by the sentence of the magistrate, which they deserve.... [ Continue Reading ]
As other men — As good men frequently are.... [ Continue Reading ]
And speak — Boasting of their oppressions.... [ Continue Reading ]
Against — Against God, blaspheming his name, and deriding his providence. Walketh — Using all manner of liberty, reproaching all sorts of persons.... [ Continue Reading ]
Turn — To this wicked company. Waters — And partake of the same prosperity with their leaders. God seems to give them a full cup of consolation, as if he would wring out all his blessings upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold — These seem to be the words of the psalmist, summing up the matter.... [ Continue Reading ]
In vain — Hence I was sometimes tempted, to think that religion was a vain, unprofitable thing. True religion is here described by its two principal parts, the cleansing of the heart, and the hands.... [ Continue Reading ]
Offend — By grieving, discouraging and tempting them to revolt from God.... [ Continue Reading ]
To know — To find out the reason of this providence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Until — 'Till I consulted the word of God. He alludes to the practice of those times, which was, in difficult cases to resort to God's sanctuary, and the oracle therein. Their end — There I learned that their prosperity was short.... [ Continue Reading ]
Terrors — With God's dreadful judgements unexpectedly seizing upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]
They awake — Out of the pleasant dream of this vain life. Despise — Thou shalt make them despicable both to themselves and to all others; raise them to shame, and everlasting contempt. Image — All their felicity and glory, which shall be evidently discerned to be, no real or substantial thing, but a... [ Continue Reading ]
Pricked — I was deeply wounded with disquieting thoughts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Nevertheless — Although I gave thee just cause to cast me off, yet thou didst continue thy care and kindness to me. Hast held — That my faith might not fail.... [ Continue Reading ]
Go a whoring — Those who revolt from thee, to work wickedness; which is called whoredom in scripture.... [ Continue Reading ]