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Verse Psalms 73:19. _ARE THEY_ BROUGHT _INTO DESOLATION_] This is
often a literal fact. I have known several cases where persons, very
rich, have by sudden losses been brought into desolation as in a...
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HOW ARE THEY BROUGHT INTO DESOLATION, AS IN A MOMENT! - How suddenly
and unexpectedly does destruction come upon them! Nothing can be
argued from their apparent prosperity, for there is no ground of
s...
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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 t...
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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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HOW ARE THEY. How [is it that] they are.
THEY ARE. [How is it that] they are....
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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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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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Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
-The victory which he gained over his doubts in the sanctuary when he
understood the end of the godless.
Verse 17. UNTIL I WENT...
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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 Psalm...
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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".
(MATTHEW 6:20) (*Heaven is the home of...
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IN A MOMENT. — Literally, _in a wink._ (Comp. “In the twinkling of
an eye.”)...
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אֵ֤יךְ הָי֣וּ לְ שַׁמָּ֣ה כְ רָ֑גַע
סָ֥פוּ תַ֝֗מּוּ מִן ־בַּלָּהֹֽות׃...
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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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How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are (i)
utterly consumed with terrors.
(i) By your fearful judgment....
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_To thee. St. Jerome, "the soul intrusted in thy law." (Haydock) ---
Hebrew has now torec, which is rendered, "thy turtle dove." But the
Septuagint have read d, instead of r, better; (Calmet) and Houb...
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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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19._How have they been destroyed, as it were in a moment! _The
language of wonder in which the Psalmist breaks forth serves much to
confirm the sentiment of the preceding verse. As the consideration o...
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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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HOW ARE THEY BROUGHT INTO DESOLATION, AS IN A MOMENT?.... Very
suddenly, which is often the case of wicked men, who cry Peace and
safety, and sudden destruction comes upon them, 1 Thessalonians 5:3,
s...
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How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are
utterly consumed with terrors.
Ver. 19. _How are they brought into desolation! &c._] Such as the
psalmist expresseth by an exclamation...
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_They are brought to desolation as in a moment_ Their fall is
wonderful, both for its greatness, and for its suddenness. _They are
utterly consumed with terrors_ With the horrors of their own minds; o...
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The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth...
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15-20 The psalmist having shown the progress of his temptation, shows
how faith and grace prevailed. He kept up respect for God's people,
and with that he restrained himself from speaking what he had...
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Their fall is wonderful, both for its soreness and for its suddenness.
CONSUMED WITH TERRORS; either, with the horrors of their own minds; or
rather, with God's dreadful judgments unexpectedly seizing...
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Psalms 73:19 desolation H8047 moment H7281 utterly H5486 (H8804)
consumed H8552 (H8804) terrors H1091
How - Psalms 58:9; Job 20:5; Isaiah 30:13; Acts 2:23; 1 Thessalonians
5:3;...
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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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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 wicke...
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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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_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 shoul...
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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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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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1 Samuel 28:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Acts 2:23; Daniel 5:6; Isaiah
21:3; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 30:13; Job 15:21; Job 20:23; Job 20:5;...
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Terrors — With God's dreadful judgements unexpectedly seizing upon
them....