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Psalms 33:5
He loveth righteousness and judgment; He delights to show these attributes of His divine essence. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord, of the many proofs of His kindness.
He loveth righteousness and judgment; He delights to show these attributes of His divine essence. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord, of the many proofs of His kindness.
Verse Psalms 33:5. _HE LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS_] What he delights in himself, he loves to see in his followers. _THE EARTH IS FULL OF THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD._] To hear its worthless inhabitants compl...
HE LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS - See Psalms 11:7. AND JUDGMENT - justice. THE EARTH IS FULL OF THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD - Margin, “mercy.” So the Hebrew. That is, his mercy or goodness is manifest everywhe...
Psalms 33 The Future Praise of Jehovah _ 1. The call to praise Jehovah (Psalms 33:1)_ 2. His praise as the Creator (Psalms 33:4) 3. His praise of His governmental dealings ...
XXXIII. A SONG OF PRAISE. This Ps. has no title in MT. It may have been added at a later time to an older collection, probably Psalms 33:3. The LXX prefix, By David, when he changed his face before Ab...
GOODNESS. lovingkindness....
The moral attributes of Jehovah. Jehovah's word is upright: the same word as in Psalms 33:1; cp. Psalms 19:8; Psalms 25:8; Psalms 92:15;...
The grounds of praise....
_Righteousness_is the principle of justice; _judgement_the application of it in act. Cp. Psalms 36:6; Psalms 103:6; and for _loveth_cp. Psalms 11:7. _goodness_ Better, as R.V., lovingkindness. This li...
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...
_HE LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT: THE EARTH IS FULL OF THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD._ He ... righteousness - the Church's ground of assurance that the Lord will not let the unrighteousness of her en...
33:5 judgment. (d-5) Or 'justice;' and so Psalms 37:28 ; Psalms 72:2 ; Psalms 101:1 ....
This is an anonymous Ps. of national deliverance, called forth by some historical occasion which it is now impossible to fix with any certainty. From its central conception of God as the ruler of all...
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...
אֹ֭הֵב צְדָקָ֣ה וּ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט חֶ֥סֶד יְ֝הוָ֗ה...
Psalms 33:1 This is the last of the four psalms in Book 1 which have no title, the others being Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1, which are introductory, and 10 which is closely connected with 9. Some have ende...
“THE WORD OF JEHOVAH” Psalms 33:1 This psalm is eminently calculated to incite praise. Let us note the subjects which are touched upon, in the hope that presently one may strike a spark at which our...
This is a triumphant song of praise, opening with a call to vocal and instrumental music. "Rejoice," "praise," "give thanks," "sing praises," "sing," "play"-thus all modes of expression are appealed t...
He (e) loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. (e) However the world judges God's works, yet he does all things according to justice and mercy....
_Troubles. Hebrew, "fears or straits;" angustiis. (St. Jerome) (Haydock) --- The Vulgate adopts the Alexandrian Septuagint, Greek: thlipseon: the Vatican copy has, Greek: paroikion, "habitations," at...
Here, Reader, is a song, that all the New Testament saints may sing, in which God hath found out a way whereby his justice and mercy harmonize in the redemption by Christ Jesus. Psalms 85:10....
Psalms 32 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 32-34 = _ Day 6_ (_Evening_)....
5._He loveth righteousness and judgment. _This is a confirmation of the preceding verse, and intimates to us that God of his own nature loves righteousness and equity. It therefore follows, that frowa...
Psalms 33 has its just place after the forgiveness of the people. Before we pass on to these psalms, remark how the guilelessness of heart produced by complete forgiveness leads to that intimacy with...
HE LOVETH RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT,.... Or "righteous judgment" y; he delights in the administration of it himself, Jeremiah 9:24; and he is well pleased with acts of righteousness done by others, w...
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. Ver. 5. _He loveth righteousness and judgment_] _q.d._ How can he do otherwise than right, whose nature is such th...
_The word of the Lord is right_ All God's counsels and commands, whether contained in the Scriptures, or given forth in his providence, for the government of the world, are wise, and just, and good, w...
GOODNESS: Or, mercy...
1-11 Holy joy is the heart and soul of praise, and that is here pressed upon the righteous. Thankful praise is the breath and language of holy joy. Religious songs are proper expressions of thankful...
JUDGMENT, i.e. just judgment, by a figure called _hendiadis_, as JEREMIAH 22:3. Or _justice_ relates to the sentence, and judgment to the execution of it. He not only doth justice to all men, as was i...
2). GROUNDS FOR PRAISING YHWH (4-12). a). Because of His moral activity (4-5). Psalms 33:4 ‘For the word of YHWH is right, And all his work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and jus...
Psalms 33:1. _Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright._ Notice the connection between the words «rejoice «and «praise.» Joy is the soul of praise. God is not extolle...
Psalms 33:1. _Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright._ False gods were worshipped with dolorous sounds, accompanied by cutting with knives and with lancets; but our...
CONTENTS: Praise of God's wisdom and power. CHARACTERS: Psalmist, God. CONCLUSION: The righteous who know the goodness of God should never be empty of His praises. Though the residence of God's glor...
Psalms 33:2. _The psaltery,_ a little harp of sweet sound, and very generally used in unison with the voice. Psalms 33:6. _By the word of the Lord were the heavens made,_ as in Genesis 1. By the Word...
_The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord._ THANKSGIVING DAY I. His goodness to the irrational creation. Although nature is out of joint, yet even in its disruption I am surprised to find the al...
_Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous._ THE SPIRIT OF REJOICING: LIFE ADJUSTED TO THE WILL OF GOD “Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous.” It is the vital condition of all spiritual rejoicing that we ar...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 33:1. This is a hymn of praise to the God who made all things, who rules all things for his own purposes, and who has chosen a people to be his own and to bless the whole wo...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 33:4 The first reason for praise is God’s WORD (vv. Psalms 33:4, Psal
INTRODUCTION “This psalm is a fit companion, but by no means the second half, of the preceding one, being distinct from it both in matter and form. It indicates a more tranquil frame of mind, such as...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has no title in the Hebrew, and in some manuscripts it is joined on to the preceding psalm, and forms one with it. But the difference of subject-matter and of tone render it high...
Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely [or beautiful] for the upright (Psalms 33:1). Now, this is something that you might not be able to do as you read it. Praise the LORD with a...
Acts 14:17; Hebrews 1:9; Matthew 5:45; Psalms 11:7; Psalms 45:7;...
THE TRIUNE GOD Psalms 33:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is important for us to get a scriptural vision of the triune God. In the Book of Genesis we read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the e...
Goodness — He not only doth no man wrong, but he is kind and merciful to all men....