_BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT WALKETH NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE UNGODLY, NOR STANDETH IN THE WAY OF SINNERS, NOR SITTETH IN THE SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL._ The Hebrew title of this book is 'The Book of Praises'. The term "Psalms" is Greek [psalmoi], taken from the Septuagint, and meaning songs sung to musica... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT HIS DELIGHT IS IN THE LAW OF THE LORD; AND IN HIS LAW DOTH HE MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT._ But - Hebrew, _ KIY_ (H3588) _ 'IM_ (H518), but if; i:e., But who (if there be anything in which he) delights (Romans 7:22), (it is) in the law (_ TOWRAAH_ (H8451), literally, the directory, from a root, _ Y... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SHALL BE LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY THE RIVERS OF WATER, THAT BRINGETH FORTH HIS FRUIT IN HIS SEASON; HIS LEAF ALSO SHALL NOT WITHER; AND WHATSOEVER HE DOETH SHALL PROSPER._ Tree planted by ... waters - alluded to in Jeremiah 17:8, the prophet thereby sealing the inspiration of the Psalmist. No... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO: BUT ARE LIKE THE CHAFF WHICH THE WIND DRIVETH AWAY._ (Job 21:18; Hosea 13:3; cf. Matthew 3:12.) In the East threshing floors are placed on a height; the threshed grain is thrown aloft for the wind to carry the chaff away. THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO - the negation of all that... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THE UNGODLY SHALL NOT STAND IN THE JUDGMENT, NOR SINNERS IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS._ Therefore - because they are unstable as "the chaff which the wind driveth away" (Psalms 1:4), and because God is about to have a judicial sifting (Ecclesiastes 12:14), wherein the fruit (Psal... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE LORD KNOWETH THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS: BUT THE WAY OF THE UNGODLY SHALL PERISH._ Way ... way - not used in different senses, but in the same: the portion or lot (Psalms 37:5; Psalms 37:18; Psalms 37:23) which results from the course of the unrighteous and ungodly respectively. God knows th... [ Continue Reading ]