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Verse Psalms 32:9. _BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE_ OR _AS THE MULE_] They
will only act by _force_ and _constraint_; be not like _them_; give a
_willing_ _service_ to your Maker. "They have no understanding;...
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BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE - The horse as it is by nature - wild,
ungoverned, unwilling to be caught and made obedient. The counsel
referred to in the previous verse is here given; and it is, that one
who...
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Psalms 32
Fullest Blessing
_ 1. The blessedness of righteousness imputed (Psalms 32:1)_
2. The blessedness of hiding-place (Psalms 32:6)
3. The blessedness of guidance and preservation (Psalms 32...
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XXXII. PARDON OF SIN.
Psalms 32:1 f. The joy of Divine pardon.
Psalms 32:3. Sin remitted on confession.
Psalms 32:6 f. The security of the godly. Read, in time of stress and
omit surely.
Psalms 32...
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HORSE... MULE. Compare Proverbs 26:3.
BIT... BRIDLE. See note on "eye", Psalms 32:8.
LEST. Otherwise they will not.
COME NEAR. draw near: i.e. for help and instruction, so as to
understand what they...
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A warning addressed to all not to resist God's will, and neglect
instruction.
Be not like horse like mule with no understanding,
With trappings of bit and bridle must they be curbed:
Else will they...
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Psalms 32, 33
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Felicitations to the Forgiven, and Examples of the Songs that they
Sing.
ANALYSIS
Part I., Psalms 32. Stanza I., Psalms 32:1-4, Happy the Forgiven; yet
Divine Discipl...
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32:9 thee. (b-29) Or 'lest they come near,' &c....
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The subject of the Ps. is the happiness that follows the confession of
sin and the experience of forgiveness. This is generally set forth at
the beginning (Psalms 32:1). Then the Psalmist relates his...
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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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WHOSE MOUTH. — Here the text has evidently suffered, and the exact
meaning is lost. There are also verbal difficulties. The word
translated “mouth” elsewhere (except Psalms 103:5, where see Note)
mean...
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אַל ־תִּֽהְי֤וּ ׀ כְּ ס֥וּס כְּ פֶרֶד֮
אֵ֤ין הָ֫בִ֥ין בְּ מֶֽתֶג ־וָ רֶ֣סֶן
עֶדְיֹ֣ו לִ...
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Psalms 32:1
ONE must have a dull ear not to hear the voice of personal experience
in this psalm. It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from
a heart tasting the sweetness of the new joy of...
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THE SONG OF THE FORGIVEN
Psalms 32:1
David wrote this psalm, Romans 4:6. _Maschil_ means “to give
instruction.” We are deeply instructed as to the working of
conscience. Compare with Psalms 51:1. Th...
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This is known as the second of the penitential psalms. It is the song
of a man who is rejoicing in the assurance of restoration. Opening
with a burst of praise which reveals the experimental knowledge...
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Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no
understanding: whose (i) mouth must be held in with bit and bridle,
lest they come near unto thee.
(i) If men can rule brute beasts, do they...
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_Created. Hebrew, "on foot," to express God's absolute dominion.
(Calmet) --- This passage shews that bra means properly created out of
nothing, Genesis i. Matter did not exist before God spoke. (Bert...
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All these expressions, if accepted in reference to what went before,
are to the same effect, and directed to the same purpose. God will
guide his people with his counsel, and compass them about with m...
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Psalms 32
_ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_).
PSALMS 32-34 = _ Day 6_ (_Evening_)....
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9._Be not like the horse or mule. _David now briefly explains the
amount of the counsel which he formerly said he would give. He exhorts
all to learn with quietness, to lay aside stubbornness, and to...
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Now (Psalms 32) we have what he wants still more the forgiveness of
sins. The pressure of affliction turns him to God's law, but to the
consciousness of having broken it. Righteousness in that sense h...
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BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE, [OR] AS THE MULE, [WHICH] HAVE NO
UNDERSTANDING,.... The design of this exhortation is to direct men how
to behave under the instructions given; not as brutes, which have no
ra...
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Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no
understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest
they come near unto thee.
Ver. 9. _Be ye not as the horse, or as the mul...
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_Be not as the horse, or as the mule_ God hath endowed you with
reason, both to inform you what you ought to do. and to check you when
you do amiss, and hath made you capable also of receiving good
ad...
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OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF A POOR SINNER.
A psalm of David, Maschil, a contemplation, written probably after
David had been restored to the grace of God, a little more than a year
after his great sin wi...
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8-11 God teaches by his word, and guides with the secret intimations
of his will. David gives a word of caution to sinners. The reason for
this caution is, that the way of sin will certainly end in so...
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BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE, OR AS THE MULE; be not such brutish and
sottish creatures as I have been, not having reason or grace to govern
yourselves, nor hearkening to the counsels and admonitions of oth...
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Psalms 32:9 horse H5483 mule H6505 understanding H995 (H8687)
harnessed H5716 H1102 (H8800) bit H4964 bridle H7448 Else H1077 near
H7126 (H8800)
Be ye - Proverbs 26:3; Jeremiah 31:18; James 3:3,...
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5). HE HEARS GOD'S VOICE AGAIN PROMISING TO LEAD HIM IN THE RIGHT WAY,
ALTHOUGH REQUIRING THAT HE RESPOND TO HIS GUIDING HAND (8-9).
‘I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you will go,...
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Psalms 32
In this Psalm David gives to the world his experience as a sinner.
I. He tells us of the blessedness of forgiveness. He is blessed (1)
because his sins are taken away; (2) because his sins...
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Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin
is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not
iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silen...
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CONTENTS: The blessedness of those whose sin is forgiven.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: The only cover that will hide our sins forever away from
God's sight is that provided in the atoning dea...
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This Psalm, as well as Psalms 51., is generally understood to have
been composed after the prophet Nathan had alarmed the conscience of
David for the sin against Uriah. It is a psalm of praise for par...
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_I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go._
A TEACHABLE DISPOSITION
A teachable disposition is implied by the notable words, “I will
guide thee with Mine eye.” We lay great...
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MULES OR MEN?
Be ye not... as the mule. Psalms 32:9.
I wonder why we are told not to be as the mule. I think it would be a
very good thing if some of us were a little more like him. For he has
many...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 32:1. This is usually classified as a
thanksgiving hymn. Worshipers thank God for the joy of having their
sins forgiven. Since the psalm is about confession and forgiveness...
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INTRODUCTION
“This is the second of the seven penitential psalms, as they are
called, which, says Selnecker, ‘St. Augustine used often to read
with weeping heart and eyes, and which before his death h...
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EXPOSITION
THIS psalm has been selected by the Church for one of the "seven
penitential psalms." It forms a part of the service of the synagogue
on the great Day of Atonement. Yet it is almost as much...
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Now this next psalm is thought to have been written at the time of
David's sin with Bathsheba. After the prophet of God, Nathan, had come
to him and spoken to him of that sin. We will get another psal...
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James 3:3; James 4:7; Jeremiah 31:18; Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 8:6;
Jeremiah 8:7; Job 35:11; Proverbs 26:3...
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Will not — Unless they be forced to it by a bit or bridle. And so
all the ancient translators understand it....