Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 1:6
Knoweth — He approves, loves, and delights in them, and therefore will recompence them. Perish — All their designs and courses shall come to nothing, and they shall perish with them.
Knoweth — He approves, loves, and delights in them, and therefore will recompence them. Perish — All their designs and courses shall come to nothing, and they shall perish with them.
Verse Psalms 1:6. _THE LORD KNOWETH_] יודע _yodea_, approveth the way, _aloweth the way_, _Coverdale_, of the righteous, צדיקים _tsaddikim,_ from צדק _tsadak_, to _give even weight_; the men who give...
FOR THE LORD KNOWETH THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS - This is given as a reason why the wicked would not stand in the judgment with the righteous. The reason is, that the Lord, the great Judge, fully unders...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE GENESIS SECTION: BOOK ONE:Psalm 1-41 Psalm 1-8 Psalms 1 The Godly and the Ungodly _ 1. The godly, his character and his fruit (Psalms 1:1)_ 2. The ungodly in com...
BOOK I. PSS. I- XLI. I. The Jewish Saint. This and Psalms 2 (see, however, on Psalms 33) are the only Pss. in Book I. which have no title or superscription. In Acts 13:33, there is very ancient autho...
FOR. _Effect_ latent in first clause: _cause_ latent in second clause. KNOWETH. approveth, or acknowledged. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause). Compare Nahum 1:7; 2 Timothy 2:19. PERISH. come to...
The character and destiny of the wicked....
The teaching of the Psalm is grounded on the doctrine of divine Providence. Each clause of the verse implies the supplement of its antithesis to the other clause. -The lord knows the way of the righte...
BOOK THE FIRST Psalms 1 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Righteous Man and the Lawless Contrasted. ANALYSIS The Righteous man DescribedPsalms 1:1-3: by what he Does NotPsalms 1:1; _by_ what he Does
_FOR THE LORD KNOWETH THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS: BUT THE WAY OF THE UNGODLY SHALL PERISH._ Way ... way - not used in different senses, but in the same: the portion or lot (Psalms 37:5; Psalms 37:18; P...
of the Messianic hope in Psalms 2, 20, 28,, 40. The following Pss. are either quoted from or distinctly referred to in NT.: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 32, 34, 40, 41. In several instances the...
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...
KNOWETH — _i.e., recogniseth with discriminative discernment and appreciation._ (Comp. Psalms 31:7; Psalms 144:3; Exodus 2:25; also John 10:14. So Shake
כִּֽי ־יֹודֵ֣עַ יְ֭הוָה דֶּ֣רֶךְ צַדִּיקִ֑ים וְ...
Psalms 1:1 THE Psalter may be regarded as the heart's echo to the speech of God, the manifold music of its windswept strings as God's breath sweeps across them. Law and Prophecy are the two main eleme...
THE TWO WAYS AND THE TWO ENDS Psalms 1:1 Like a signpost, this psalm points the road to blessedness. The opening word may be read, “Oh, the blessedness!” The psalm begins with the same message as th...
The master thought of this psalm is the law of Jehovah. The obedient and disobedient are placed in sharp contrast. This contrast is vividly seen by bringing together the first and last words of the ps...
For the LORD (f) knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. (f) Approves and prospers, in the same way that to not know is to reprove and reject....
Knoweth, with approbation. There is only one road which leads to heaven: but these men, having sown in the flesh, must reap corruption, Galatians vi. 8. (Berthier) --- God will reward or punish (Worth...
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. The Lord knoweth them that are his, saith an Apostle. And as Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life; so i...
Even in this world the prosperity of the ungodly begins to pass away as often as God manifests the tokens of his judgment; (for then, being awakened out of sleep, they are constrained to acknowledge,...
BOOK 1 - PSALMS 1-41 The first book may be in general thus divided into distinct parts. The first eight psalms form a whole, an introductory whole to the entire collection of Psalms. This series may b...
FOR THE LORD KNOWETH THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS,.... The way in which he walks by faith, which is in Jesus Christ; the way in which he goes to the Father, and carries to him his sacrifices of prayer and...
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Ver. 6. _For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous_] Or, acknowledgeth, approveth, administereth, and order...
_For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous_ As he searcheth the reins and the heart, and perfectly knows all his people, so he approves, loves, and delights in them, and in their conduct and conve...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE UNGODLY. All men are sinners: all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23. No man is able to stand before God, by virtue of his own rig...
For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, He knows them and is known of them, He is united with them by the closest band of union, in the most intimate fellowship, John 10:14, and therefore their...
4-6 The ungodly are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition. The ungodly are not so, ver. 4; they are led by the counsel of the wicked, in the way of sinners, to the seat of the...
FOR; he now gives a reason of this great difference between the righteous and the ungodly, expressed in the foregoing verses. THE LORD KNOWETH; either, 1. Properly and speculatively; he searcheth and...
Psalms 1:6 LORD H3068 knows H3045 (H8802) way H1870 righteous H6662 way H1870 ungodly H7563 perish H6 ...
‘For YHWH knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish.' Every man must choose the way in which he walks, whether in the way of the word of God or in the way of sinners. And...
Psalms 1:4 "The ungodly are _not_so." That "not" contains the germs of all moral disaster. We have set forth under this figure three aspects of the ungodly character. I. Its instability. Take a life...
Psalms 1 Ver. 1. There are cases in which without a figure "ignorance is bliss." Observe that all the characters mentioned here may have their excellences and their attractions; for example, the ungo...
CONTENTS: The two ways of man. CHARACTERS: God, righteous man, ungodly man. CONCLUSION: Blessed is the man whose footsteps are ordered by the Word of God for he shall find both peace and prosperity....
Psalms 1:1. _Man,_ אישׁ _Ish,_ a prince, a ruler, a patriarchal or family man, a man of high degree, as in Psalms 62:9. This is a running word in the psalms, while _Adam,_ the word of contrast with _I...
_The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous._ THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS I. Contrasted pictures of life. 1. That of the happy man illustrated by the law of attraction and repulsion. See the sentiments...
_Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly._ THE 1ST PSALM, INTRODUCTORY This Psalm seems to have been placed first in the collection because, from its general character and s...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 1:1. The first psalm serves as the gateway into the entire book of Psalms 1:1. Those who would worship God genuinely must embrace his Law (or Torah),
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 1:6 KNOWS means “knows with affection and approval” (compare Genesis 18:19; Amos 3:2
INTRODUCTION “This psalm seems to have been placed first in the collection, because, from its general character and subject, it formed a suitable introduction to the rest. It treats of the blessedness...
EXPOSITION IT is remarkable that neither the first nor the second psalm has any title. Titles are so much the rule in the first and second books of the Psalter, that, when they are absent, their absen...
Shall we turn to the Psalms, beginning tonight with the first psalm. The Psalms are actually divided into five books. It was really the hymnbook for the nation of Israel. They were sung in their origi...
2 Peter 2:12; 2 Timothy 2:19; Job 23:10; John 10:14; John 10:27;...
CHRIST VERSUS THE ANTICHRIST Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Satan an adept at counterfeits. As we enter into our study in the Psalms, we must first get the great message of the Psalms...
THE PREFATORY PSALMS Psalms 1:1, _Psalms 2:1, and Psalms 3:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm. It gives you the ke...