This psalm is ascribed to David, and there is no reason to doubt the
correctness of the superscription to that effect.
The “occasion” on which it was composed, however, is not
intimated, nor is there...
With a fervour which is unmistakably the fruit of experience the
Psalmist describes the blessedness of forgiveness, and teaches that
penitence is the indispensable condition for receiving it (Psalms
3...
XXXII.
No other Old Testament saint that we know of could have written this
psalm except David. And yet at the outset we are met by the fact that
the history makes David’s repentance after each of his...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 32
[A PSALM], OF DAVID, MASCHIL. This is the first of the psalms that
bears this title: some think it is the name of a musical instrument,
on which this psalm was sung; others t...
_A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042._
This Psalm is properly entitled Maschil, which signifies, giving
instruction. For it gives us clear and satisfactory information
concerning the most important of all subjects,...
* The happiness of a pardoned sinner. (1,2) The misery that went
before, and the comfort that followed the confession of sins. (3-7)
Sinners instructed, believers encouraged. (8-11)...
This Psalm was probably written by David some time after his sin with
Bathsheba. It describes the agonies of conscience that he went through
before finally confessing his sin to God, and the subsequen...