George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 14:7
PSALM XIV. (DOMINE QUIS HABITABIT.)
What kind of men shall dwell in the heavenly Sion.
PSALM XIV. (DOMINE QUIS HABITABIT.)
What kind of men shall dwell in the heavenly Sion.
Verse Psalms 14:7. _O THAT THE SALVATION_] Or, more literally, _Who will give_ _from Zion salvation to Israel_? From Zion the deliverance must come; for God alone can deliver them; but _whom_ will he...
OH THAT THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL - Margin, “Who will give,” etc. The Hebrew literally is, “Who will give out of Zion salvation to Israel?” The word “Israel” refers primarily to the Hebrew people, and t...
Psalms 14 _ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_ 2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7) Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shal
PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text presen...
OH..! Figure of speech _Epiphonema._ App-6. ZION. See App-68. BRINGETH BACK THE CAPTIVITY. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). See note on Deuteronomy 30:3. JACOB... ISRAEL. On these names, see...
Concluding prayer for the deliverance of Israel. _out of Zion_ The dwelling-place of Jehovah. See note on Psalms 3:4. _When the Lord bringeth back_&c. Or, as R.V. marg., _when the Lord returneth to t...
PSALMS 14 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Vile Person's Testimony to Prevalent Wickedness, when confirmed by Jehovah, occasions Warning and Prayer. ANALYSIS Stanza I. (Psalms 14:1), An Impious Man revels in Wi...
_OH THAT THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL WERE COME OUT OF ZION! WHEN THE LORD BRINGETH BACK THE CAPTIVITY OF HIS PEOPLE, JACOB SHALL REJOICE, AND ISRAEL SHALL BE GLAD._ Oh that the salvation of Israel were c...
14:7 captivity (a-17) See Psalms 126:1 and Note....
This Ps., like Psalms 12, gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7, which some...
OUT OF ZION] Zion is regarded as God's dwelling-place, from which He sends forth His help: see Psalms 3:4; BRINGETH BACK THE CAPTIVITY] The phrase may have the general sense of 'restoring prosperity t...
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...
OH THAT. — The thoughts of the exiles turn to the Holy City as the _one_ source of deliverance, as if Jehovah’s power would only manifest itself from His hallowed abode. So Daniel looked towards Jerus...
מִ֥י יִתֵּ֣ן מִ צִּיֹּון֮ יְשׁוּעַ֪ת יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל...
Psalms 14:1 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1; Psalms 12:1. It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the former in its attribution to "the fool" of the heart spe...
THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries, _How long...
Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is r...
Oh that the salvation of (f) Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad. (f) He prays for the whole Churc...
What a blessed relief, views of Jesus and hopes in his salvation afford, to bear up the mind under the sad and heart-breaking prospect of universal corruption. Reader, what but this can relieve your s...
David, after having laid down the doctrine of consolation, again returns to prayers and groanings. By this he teaches us, that although God may leave us for a long time to languish, yet we ought not t...
In Psalms 14 the evil has reached its climax in God's sight What is ever true of flesh is now brought up under God's eye at the time when He is going to judge. Man rises up in pride before Him: yea, H...
O THAT THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL [WERE COME] OUT OF ZION!.... By whom is meant the Messiah, the Saviour of Israel, of all the elect of God, whether Jews or Gentiles; and who is so called, because the sa...
Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad. Ver. 7. _Oh that the salvation of Is...
_O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion_ These words, considered in connection with the context, do not appear to be intended of any mere temporal salvation of Israel, whether from the r...
Oh, that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! Mount Zion, the place where the Ark of the Covenant had found its resting-place, was the place of the presence of God in the midst of His people...
OF THE CORRUPTION OF NATURAL MAN AND THE LORD'S SALVATION. This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the oppression...
O THAT: _ Heb._ who will give? etc....
OH THAT THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL WERE COME OUT OF ZION! These words directly and immediately concern the deliverance of the people of Israel out of that sinful and deplorable estate in which they now w...
Psalms 14:7 Oh H5414 (H8799) salvation H3444 Israel H3478 Zion H6726 LORD H3068 back H7725 (H8800) captivity...
‘Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When YHWH restores the fortunes (or ‘brings back the captivity) of his people, Then will Jacob rejoice, Israel will be glad.' The psalmist fi...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late;...
CONTENTS: The corruption and foolishness of man. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Man in his natural state has become odious to God, utterly incapable of answering the ends of his creation, until...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool,_ the _Nabal,_ devoid of foresight, says, _there is no God;_ no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification of...
_The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ THE PRACTICAL DENIAL OF GOD THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and starts a train of thought whi...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:1. This is a community lament. Humans in general do not seek after God and thus they treat God’s people cruelly. Compare Psalms 53:1.
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:7 The people pray that God will rescue them and promote their well-being. Their prayer concludes with firm hope (WHEN, not if). ⇐
INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may,...
EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De We...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if...
Psalms 53:6...
O that — These words immediately concern the deliverance of Israel out of that sinful state, in which they now were; which having described, he concludes, with a prayer to God to help them out of Zion...