Thy hand; thy afflicting hand bringing my sins to remembrance, and filling me with thy terrors for them. My very radical moisture was in a manner dried up, and wasted through excessive fears and sorrows.
FOR DAY AND NIGHT - I found no relief even at night. The burden was constant, and was insupportable. THY HAND WAS HEAVY UPON ME - Thy hand seemed to press me down. It weighed upon me. See Job 13:21; P...
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....
HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. IS. was. INTO. Some codices, with Aramaean, read "like". SELAH. Connecting the _trouble_ of conviction with the _confession_ to which it led. See Ap...
The illustration of this truth from the Psalmist's own experience. He kept silence, refusing to acknowledge his sin to himself and to God; but meanwhile God did not leave him to himself (Job 33:16 ff....
DISCOURSE: 547 TRUE BLESSEDNESS DECLARED Psalms 32:1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spi...
MY MOISTURE IS TURNED INTO THE DROUGHT OF SUMMER— Some have inferred, says Dr. Delaney, from Psalms 32:3, &c. that David continued some time impenitent after the affair with Bathsheba: but had he been...
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...
_FOR DAY AND NIGHT THY HAND WAS HEAVY UPON ME: MY MOISTURE IS TURNED INTO THE DROUGHT OF SUMMER. SELAH._ Thy hand was heavy - (1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 5:11; Job 13:21.) MY MOISTURE ... - rather, 'my...
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...
THY HAND WAS HEAVY. — The verb, as in “kept silence” in Psalms 32:3, is properly present — the agony is still vividly present. MY MOISTURE. — The Hebrew word is found only once besides (Numbers 11:8),...
כִּ֤י ׀ יֹומָ֣ם וָ לַיְלָה֮ תִּכְבַּ֥ד עָלַ֗י...
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...
_Faithfulness. He always fulfils his promises, and his laws are just; (Worthington) therefore he deserves our praise. (Calmet) (Psalm cxliv. 13.)_...
I do not presume to say that Christ, as the sinner's Surety; is here speaking: but as the word Selah occurs at the close of this complaint, and as the words themselves correspond to some well-known wo...
_THE COMFORT OF REPENTANCE_ ‘For while I held my tongue: my bones consumed away through my daily complaining. For Thy hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is like the drought in summe...
Psalms 32 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 32-34 = _ Day 6_ (_Evening_)....
4._For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. _In this verse he explains more fully whence such heavy grief arose; namely, because he felt the hand of God to be sore against him. The greatest of al...
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...
FOR DAY AND NIGHT THY HAND WAS HEAVY UPON ME,.... Meaning the afflicting hand of God, which is not joyous, but grievous, and heavy to be borne; especially without his gracious presence, and the discov...
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. Ver. 4. _For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me_] See what God can do when once he taketh...
_When I kept silence_ Namely, from a full and open confession of my sins, and from pouring out my soul to God in serious and fervent prayers for pardon and peace. _My bones waxed old_ My spirits faile...
For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me, as long as he refused to turn to the Lord in true repentance; MY MOISTURE IS TURNED INTO THE DROUGHT OF SUMMER, all his vitality having left him. As long...
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...
3-7 It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and only way to peace of conscience, is, to confess ou...
Psalms 32:4 day H3119 night H3915 hand H3027 heavy H3513 (H8799) vitality H3955 turned H2015 (H8738) drought...
2). HE DESCRIBES THE PERIOD WHEN HE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO FIND REST IN HIS HEART BECAUSE GOD'S HAND WAS ON HIM GIVING HIM NO PEACE (3-4). Psalms 32:3 ‘When I kept silence, my bones wasted away, Throug...
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...
Psalms 32:1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silenc...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ The Lord can bless the man who is full of sin only when his sin is covered by the atonement the propitiation which...
In this Psalm we have the gospel of the peace of God as David knew it for himself, and wrote it for the benefit of others. Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is co...
«A Psalm of David, Maschil,» that is to say, an instructive Psalm. I suppose that David wrote it after he had been forgiven and restored to divine favour. I think we may read it as a part of our own e...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ That is a wonderful word, almost the same in Hebrew as in English, covered, hidden, concealed, put away, removed, d...
This is a great psalm of grace, a psalm in which a sinner, cleansed by sovereign grace, adores and blesses the mercy of God. Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is...
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...
_Day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me._ PREMENS GRAVISSIMA “_Premes gravissima. Sublevans suavissima et potentissima.” _So wrote one of our shrewdest commentators about the hand of which the psa...
_When I kept silence, my bones waxed old._ UNCONFESSED SIN On several grounds we may set forth the urgency of the duty of making immediate and penitent confession of our sins unto God. I. every sin...
_Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS Since the time of Origen, seven of the psalms have borne the name of Penitential; namely, Psalms 6:1; Psa...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 32:3 Only those who are forgiven are truly happy. When the psalmist KEPT SILENT, refusing to confess his sins, God’s HAND was HEAVY UPON him. But this was mercif
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...
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 Samuel 5:11; 1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 5:7; 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 6:9;...
Hand — Thy afflicting hand. My moisture — Was dried up....