Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 78:30
They were not estranged from their lust, they were still indulging their desire to the full; but while their meat was yet in their mouths,
They were not estranged from their lust, they were still indulging their desire to the full; but while their meat was yet in their mouths,
THEY WERE NOT ESTRANGED FROM THEIR LUST - literally, “They were not made strangers to;” that is, in regard to their lusts or desires they were not in the condition of “foreigners” or aliens; they were...
PSALM 78-83 Psalms 78 A Historical Retrospect _ 1. The call to hear (Psalms 78:1)_ 2. Ephraim's failure (Psalms 78:9) 3. His dealings in power and mercy ...
LXXVIII. THE LESSON OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary, ha...
NOT ESTRANGED. not turned away from. THEIR LUST. What they had longed for....
In spite of these miracles of mercy they sinned yet more, and tempted God in their unbelief, so that while He supplied their wants He was compelled to punish them for their sin. The order is logical n...
They were not estranged from their lust, Their food was yet in their mouth,...
THEY WERE NOT ESTRANGED FROM THEIR HOST— _But before they were averse to what they had desired, and while their meat was still in their mouths, the wrath of God,_ &c. Green: who, instead of the _fatte...
PSALMS 78 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Didactic Poem, Counselling the Re-union of the Tribes. ANALYSIS Part I.THE PRELUDE (1) An Invitation to Attend to a Series of Problems Drawn from AntiquityPsalms 78:...
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast to God's marvels performed i...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32. It traces the course of God's relations with His people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells on...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ TELL YOUR CHILDREN PSALMS 78 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me. Do not stop them". (Matthew 19
Evidently from Numbers 11:33, _They did not yet loath in consequence of their lusts, the meat was yet in their mouths when,_ &c. For the expression, comp. the Latin _alienari ab aliqua re,_ to be disi...
לֹא ־זָר֥וּ מִ תַּאֲוָתָ֑ם עֹ֝֗וד אָכְלָ֥ם בּ
Psalms 78:1 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1; Psalms 106:1; Psalms 107:1. Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and esp
BLESSED YET UNGRATEFUL Psalms 78:25 God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His children; but too often we become so engrossed with His gifts as to forget and neglect the Giver. W...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the psalm,...
They were not estranged from their (q) lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths, (q) Such is the nature of concupiscence, that the more it has the more it lusts....
What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in numberless instances, if the Lord, in anger, granted them to thy...
The Psalmist expresses this still more clearly, by adding immediately after, (verses 30, 31,) that this pampering proved fatal to them, as if with the meat they had swallowed the flame of the divine w...
In Psalms 78 the conduct of Israel is discussed by wisdom, historically as regards the whole people, but with very important principles brought out. There was not only a redemption of old, to which fa...
THEY WERE NOT ESTRANGED FROM THEIR LUST,.... By the goodness and liberality of God unto them, they were not brought to repentance for their sin of lusting; nor did they abstain from their fleshly lust...
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths, Ver. 30. _They were not estranged from their lust_] Satiated they were, but not satisfied. It is as easy to qu...
_They were not estranged from their lust_, &c. Green translates the verse, _But before they were averse to what they had desired, and while their meat was still in their mouths, the wrath of God_, &c....
1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the church m...
The sense is either, 1. Whilst their greedy appetite yet continued, and was not fully satisfied, before, they began to loathe it, as they did afterwards, NUMBERS 11:20. Or, 2. Before they were depriv...
Psalms 78:30 deprived H2114 (H8804) craving H8378 food H400 mouths H6310 But - Numbers 11:33-34,...
The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards their gracious God. Psalms 78:10. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; and forgat his works, and his w...
This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflected. Psalms 78:9. _The children of Ephraim, being...
CONTENTS: Israel's sins wherewith they had provoked God. The tokens of God's displeasure as the result. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: God's people limit Him by forgetfulness of His benefits (Ps...
Title. _Maschil of Asaph._ Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice o...
_They were not estranged from their lust._ DISSATISFACTION WITH PLENTY God gave them plenty, and they ate “and were filled.” He gave them what they sought, flesh; feathered birds came in abundance....
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God. ⇐...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph_,” _i.e._, an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the celebrated Asaph in the time of David. _Occasion_.—...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed by mo...
Psa 78:1-72 is a psalm that rehearses the history of God's people. And the psalm was written in order to remind the children, the coming generation, of the works of the Lord. One of the important obli...
Luke 16:19; Numbers 11:33; Numbers 11:34; Numbers 22:20; Proverbs