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Verse Psalms 73:21. _THUS MAY HEART WAS GRIEVED_] The different views
which I got of this subject quite confounded me; I was equally
astonished at their sudden overthrow and my own ignorance. I felt...
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THUS MY HEART WAS GRIEVED - literally, and more expressively, “was
soured.” The meaning is, that his heart was grieved, pained,
dissatisfied. His mind was embittered, and he was rendered unhappy, by
t...
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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...
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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...
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THUS. Compare the Structure (Psalms 73:3)and (Psalms 73:21)....
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Faith triumphant in the conviction of an ultimate judgement and the
consciousness of the supreme blessedness of fellowship with God....
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_Thus_ R.V. For. If this rendering is adopted, the connexion is with
the general sense of the preceding verses: -I failed to perceive the
truth until my eyes were opened in the sanctuary, _for_" &c. B...
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The Psalmist's confession of his error....
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THUS MY HEART WAS GRIEVED— _I was disturbed with envy and
indignation at the prosperity of the wicked._ The word rendered _a
beast,_ in the next verse, is a term aptly applied in Scripture to one
who...
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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...
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Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
-He condemns his past beastlike folly and expresses his assurance of
God's presence and guidance, notwithstanding his folly.
Verse 21. THU...
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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...
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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". ...
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GRIEVED. — Literally, _grew sour;_ or, as we say, “was soured.”...
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כִּ֭י יִתְחַמֵּ֣ץ לְבָבִ֑י וְ֝
כִלְיֹותַ֗י אֶשְׁתֹּונָֽן׃...
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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,...
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The true place in which to form a right estimate of life is where
Asaph found it-in the sanctuary of God; because from its elevation and
the purity of its atmosphere, one can take into view the unseen...
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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...
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_Humble. Hebrew, "the contrite," whether of Israel, or of any other
nation, Isaias lxvi. 2. (Berthier) --- The rich and presumptuous think
not of thanking God. (Menochius)_...
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Reader! do mark what it was which the Lord blessed to the mind of his
servant: namely, his visits to the sanctuary. It is in God's house
that we are brought acquainted with God's ways. The secret of t...
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21._For my heart was in a ferment. _The Psalmist again returns to the
confession which he had previously made, acknowledging that whilst he
felt his heart pierced with perverse envy and emulation, he...
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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...
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THUS MY HEART WAS GRIEVED,.... Not with his own sins, nor with the
sins of the wicked, but at their prosperity; for this is an account of
himself, while under the temptation, and before he went into t...
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Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
Ver. 21. _Thus my heart was grieved_] Heb. leavened and soured, _sc._
with the greatness of godly sorrow, _et quasi aceto acri
perfundebatur,...
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_Thus my heart was grieved_ I was disturbed, so as I have expressed,
with envy and indignation at the prosperity of the wicked. Hebrew,
יתחמצ לבבי, _jithchamets lebabi, my heart was in a ferment_,
or,...
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The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth...
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Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins, that is, if
his heart should become embittered, if it should hurt him inside, in
his inward parts, in his feelings;...
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21-28 God would not suffer his people to be tempted, if his grace
were not sufficient, not only to save them from harm, but to make them
gainers by it. This temptation, the working of envy and discon...
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THUS; so as I have above expressed; for this particle so taken, doth
not belong to what he had now wisely and piously said in the next
foregoing verses, but to what he had unadvisedly spoken in the fo...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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«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...
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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...
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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...
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_If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the
generation of Thy children._
SEARCHING AND FINDING RELIEF IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
. Searching for relief in the right direction (Psalm...
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_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...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:1. This is a wisdom psalm. God’s
people should trust him even when it seems unbelievers do not suffer
because of their sin. They should remember the contrasting outcomes...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:21 Even when the singer harbored his bitter
thoughts, God still had a firm hold on him: I AM CONTINUALLY WITH YOU;
YOU HOLD MY RIGHT HAND. During the singer’s earthly life, you...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 16:13; Lamentations 3:13; Psalms 37:1; Psalms 37:7; Psalms 73:3...
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Pricked — I was deeply wounded with disquieting thoughts....