Verse Psalms 73:4. _NO BANDS IN THEIR DEATH_] Many of the godly have sore conflicts at their death. Their enemy then thrusts sore at them that they may fall; or that their confidence in their God may...
FOR THERE ARE NO BANDS IN THEIR DEATH - The word rendered “bands” here means properly “cords tightly drawn,” Isaiah 58:6; then, pains, pangs, torments - “as if” one were twisted or tortured with pain,...
III. THE LEVITICUS SECTION: BOOK THREE: PSALM 73-89 The third division of the book of Psalms corresponds in character to the third book of the Pentateuch, the book of Leviticus. That is the book of th...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after death...
BANDS: or pangs. The _Massorah_ calls attention to this _Homonym_ (_harzuboth_) as occurring not only twice, but in two different senses. The other case is Isaiah 58:6. IN. at. IS. Supply Ellipsis b...
Faith tried by the sight of the prosperity of the wicked....
The cause: the unbroken prosperity of the godless. Cp. Job's indignant complaint, Psalms 21:7 ff....
_no bands &c_.] The meaning may be that they are not bound and delivered over like "pale captives" to premature death (cp. the paraphrase of P.B.V. "they are in no peril of death"): or that they have...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE THIRD Psalms 73 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Temptation, arising from the Prosperity of the Lawless, Triumphantly Overcome. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 73:1-5, Under Protest, the Psalmist...
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. FOR (THERE ARE) NO BANDS IN THEIR DEATH - or 'even up to [lª-: note, ] their death. The same Hebrew occurs in . Bands, which tie o...
73:4 in (a-6) Some read 'until.' body (b-11) Or 'strength.'...
BOOK 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of Psalms...
Most scholars read, 'For they have no torments; sound and stalwart is their body.' 6. Compasseth.. chain] RV 'is as a chain about their neck,' in the sense of an ornament: see Proverbs 1:9....
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE PSALMS OF DAVID (BOOK 3). NOW I UNDERSTAND PSALMS 73 Jesus said, "Make sure that your valuable things are in *heaven". ...
FOR THERE ARE NO BANDS IN THEIR DEATH. — This is quite unintelligible, and does not fairly render the Hebrew, which gives, _For there are no bands to their death._ And by analogy of the derivation of...
כִּ֤י אֵ֖ין חַרְצֻבֹּ֥ות לְ מֹותָ֗ם וּ בָרִ֥י
Psalms 73:1 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 49:1. It tells how the prosperity of the godless,...
DECEPTIVE PROSPERITY Psalms 73:1 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30. The r.v. margin substitutes _only_ for _surely_ in Psalms 73:1. There is none go...
The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tell...
For [there are] (b) no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm. (b) The wicked in this life live at pleasure and are not drawn to death like prisoners: that is, by sickness which is death'...
Made. Hebrew, "have roared," sending forth shouts of war, where thy praises alone ought to be heard. (Calmet) --- Ensigns. They have fixed their colours for signs and trophies, both on the gates, and...
He here draws the outlines of the prosperity of the wicked: they have all carnal enjoyments, the good things brought forth by the sun, and the precious things put forth by the moon: they have plenty o...
4_For there are no bands to their death. _The Psalmist describes the comforts and advantages of the ungodly, which are as it were so many temptations to shake the faith of the people of God. He begins...
BOOK 3 - PSALMS 73-89 In the Third Book we get out into a larger sphere than the state of the residue of the Jews in the last days, whether in Jerusalem or driven out; and hence we find much less of t...
FOR THERE ARE NO BANDS IN THEIR DEATH,.... Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of body, but die at once, suddenly, in a moment, wholly at...
For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm. Ver. 4. _For there are no bands in their death_] Or, no knots and knarls; they die without long sickness, or much pain, or troub...
_For there are no bands in their death_ They are not violently dragged to an untimely death, either by the hand and sentence of the magistrate, which yet they deserve, or by any sudden and unexpected...
COMFORT AND WARNING CONCERNING THE OFFENSE GIVEN BY THE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS. A psalm of Asaph, one of the choirmasters of David, 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:2. A Reflection upon the...
For there are no bands in their death, they are not plagued with sufferings which make them weary unto death; BUT THEIR STRENGTH IS FIRM, well nourished is their paunch, fatness being considered a sig...
FIRM: _ Heb._ fat...
1-14 The psalmist was strongly tempted to envy the prosperity of the wicked; a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many saints. But he lays down the great principle by which he resolved...
THERE ARE NO BANDS IN THEIR DEATH; they are not dragged to death, neither by the hand and sentence of the magistrate, which yet they deserve; nor by any lingering and grievous torments of mind or body...
Psalms 73:4 pangs H2784 death H4194 strength H193 firm H1277 no - Psalms 17:14;...
Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly, o...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; and you shall find that those who sing the sweetest t...
The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he also knew that he was greatly tried, whereas he sa...
Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim the clear vision of faith. Psalms 73:1. _Truly Go...
You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1....
CONTENTS: The temptation to envy the prosperity of wicked people and how to fortify ones self against it. The awful fate of the ungodly. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: Observing that many wicked...
The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:1. Eleven other psalms bear his name. Hezek...
_For there are no bands in their death._ NO BANDS IN THE DEATH OF THE WICKED I. Their minds are occupied exclusively with the things of a present world (Philippians 3:19). 1. Habits. 2. Tastes. 3...
_Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart._ THE TROUBLE OF ASAPH In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they should...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,”_ or, as in the margin, “_for Asaph_.” See introduction to Psalms 50. _Subject_.—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tempora...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by a great...
Psa 73:1-28 begins with an affirmation of a basic foundational truth concerning God. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart (Psalms 73:1). It is important that we have basi...
Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Job 21:23; Job 21:24; Job 24:20
No bands — They are not dragged to death, by the sentence of the magistrate, which they deserve....