And....princes. This seems to be lost in Hebrew, as all the Greeks have recognised it. (Berthier) --- God prepares the causes and means when he forms his decrees, which are wholly independent. He is not forced to wait for a favourable opportunity. (Calmet) --- He confounded the tongues at Babel, and his absolute decrees are always executed. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 32:10. _MANY SORROWS_ SHALL BE _TO THE WICKED_] Every _wicked_ man is a _miserable_ man. God has wedded sin and misery as strongly as he has holiness and happiness. God hath joined them t...
MANY SORROWS SHALL BE TO THE WICKED - The meaning here is, probably, that those who will not submit themselves to God in the manner which the psalmist recommends; who are like the horse and the mule,...
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 ...
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....
THE WICKED. the lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha._ App-44. TRUSTETH. confideth. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace....
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...
The warning given in the preceding verse is confirmed by the contrast between the lot of the ungodly and the faithful. _many sorrows_ Calamities and chastisements. The LXX has μάστιγες, _scourges_. C...
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...
_MANY SORROWS SHALL BE TO THE WICKED: BUT HE THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD, MERCY SHALL COMPASS HIM ABOUT._ The conclusion. The sorrows awaiting the wicked, and the joy awaiting the righteous. MANY SOR...
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...
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...
רַבִּ֥ים מַכְאֹובִ֗ים לָ † רָ֫שָׁ֥ע וְ הַ...
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...
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. Thi...
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...
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...
Psalms 32 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 32-34 = _ Day 6_ (_Evening_)....
10._Many sorrows shall be to the wicked. _Without a figure he here declares what will be the condition of the rebellious and stiff-necked. (669) He mentioned before that God wanted not bridles and bit...
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...
MANY SORROWS [SHALL BE] TO THE WICKED,.... Who will not be instructed and reformed, but are like the horse and mule, without understanding; many outward sorrows or afflictions attend them; loathsome a...
Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. Ver. 10. _Many sorrows shall be to the wicked_] This is David's doctrine (his use followeth in...
_Many sorrows shall be to the wicked_ This is an argument to enforce the preceding admonition; as if he had said, If any will be refractory or unruly, God hath many ways to curb and chastise them, and...
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 wit...
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, who are continually opposing the will of the Lord; BUT HE THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD, relying upon Him and following His guidance readily, MERCY SHALL COMPASS HIM A...
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...
MANY SORROWS SHALL BE TO THE WICKED: this is an argument to enforce the foregoing admonition; if any men will be refractory and unruly, God hath many ways to curb and chastise them, and bring them to...
Psalms 32:10 Many H7227 sorrows H4341 wicked H7563 trusts H982 (H8802) LORD H3068 mercy H2617 surround H5437 ...
6). HE EMPHASISES THE FACT THAT THE ONE WHO TRUSTS IN YHWH WILL BE SURROUNDED WITH MERCY (10). ‘Many sorrows will be to the wicked, But he who trusts in YHWH, lovingkindness will compass him about.'...
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...
«A Psalm of David, Maschil»: that is to say, an instructive psalm: «Maschil.» I suppose that David wrote it after he had been forgiven and restored to divine favor. I think we may read it as a part o...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ No man knows the blessedness of pardoned sin but the man who has felt the weight of guilt upon his conscience. If y...
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...
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...
_Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about._ THE PORTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED CONTRASTED Note the contrast in these words. The wi...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 32:6 THEREFORE. The conclusion for EVERYONE WHO IS GODLY is to OFFER PRAYER (of confession) AT A TIME WHEN God...
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...
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...
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...
1 Timothy 6:10; Ecclesiastes 8:12; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 12:3; Isaiah
Sorrows — This is an argument to enforce the foregoing admonition....