Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 14:6
Because — This was the ground of their contempt, that he lived by faith in God's promise and providence.
Because — This was the ground of their contempt, that he lived by faith in God's promise and providence.
Verse Psalms 14:6. _YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR_] Instead of תבישו _tabishu_, "Ye have shamed," Bishop _Horsley_ proposes to read תבישם _tabishem_, and translates the clause thus: "The cou...
YE HAVE SHAMED - The address here is made directly to the wicked themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and, perhaps, in connection with the previous verse, to show them what occa...
Psalms 14 _ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_ 2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7) Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shal
PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text presen...
POOR . an oppressed one. Compare Psalms 9 and Psalms 10....
The corruption of men exemplified in their oppression of Jehovah's people. Its condign punishment....
_You have shamed_ R.V., Ye put to shame. You deride the resort of the afflicted to Jehovah as mere folly. But the word usually means to _frustrate_or _confound_: and the line maybe explained, -Would y...
YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR— _Will ye shame the counsel of the afflicted?_—"Will ye now shame, or laugh at the poor oppressed people, for making God their refuge? Psalms 14:7. O that I coul...
PSALMS 14 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Vile Person's Testimony to Prevalent Wickedness, when confirmed by Jehovah, occasions Warning and Prayer. ANALYSIS Stanza I. (Psalms 14:1), An Impious Man revels in Wi...
_YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR, BECAUSE THE LORD IS HIS REFUGE._ Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - understand, to accord with the first clause of Psalms 14:5, to which this clause is...
This Ps., like Psalms 12, gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7, which some...
RM 'Ye put to shame the counsel (i.e. the righteous thoughts) of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.' 'The poor' are the afflicted righteous: see Psalms 9:12....
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...
COUNSEL. — This confidence, this piety, this appeal addressed to the supreme Protector, is in this verse called the “counsel,” the “plan” of the sufferer, and the poet asks, “Would ye then make the su...
עֲצַת ־עָנִ֥י תָבִ֑ישׁוּ כִּ֖י יְהוָ֣ה מַחְסֵֽהוּ׃...
Psalms 14:1 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1; Psalms 12:1. It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the former in its attribution to "the fool" of the heart spe...
THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries, _How long...
Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is r...
Ye have (e) shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge. (e) You mock them who put their trust in God....
The sad blindness of men's minds in their denying the existence of God, is here very strongly described; and the contradiction of such unbelief, as strongly pointed out in the fear of such a guilty mi...
6._Ye deride the counsel of the poor. _He inveighs against those giants who mock at the faithful for their simplicity, in calmly expecting, in their distresses, that God will show himself to be their...
In Psalms 14 the evil has reached its climax in God's sight What is ever true of flesh is now brought up under God's eye at the time when He is going to judge. Man rises up in pride before Him: yea, H...
YOU HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR,.... The poor saints, the Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the poor of this world; poor in spirit, and an afflicted people: and...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge. Ver. 6. _You have shamed the counsel of the poor_] And thought to mock him out of his confidence, as Sennacherib did by Hezek...
_You have shamed the counsel of the poor_ Ye have desired and endeavoured to bring to shame, or to disappoint, the course which the godly poor man takes, and the resolution which he adopts, which is t...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, the wicked may do so, but in vain, the Lord cries out to them through the poet, BECAUSE THE LORD IS HIS REFUGE, Jehovah is his Stronghold, his Defense and Prote...
OF THE CORRUPTION OF NATURAL MAN AND THE LORD'S SALVATION. This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the oppression...
SHAMED, i.e. desired and endeavoured to bring it to shame, or disappoint it. Compare PSALMS 6:10. Or, _ye have reproached or derided_ it, as a foolish thing. THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR, i.e. the cause wh...
Psalms 14:6 shame H954 (H8686) counsel H6098 poor H6041 LORD H3068 refuge H4268 Ye - Psalms 3:2,
‘Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who devour my people as they eat bread, And call not on YHWH? There were they in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous. You put...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late;...
CONTENTS: The corruption and foolishness of man. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Man in his natural state has become odious to God, utterly incapable of answering the ends of his creation, until...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool,_ the _Nabal,_ devoid of foresight, says, _there is no God;_ no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification of...
_Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?_ CONSCIENCE I. Conscience informed. It is quite true that the workers of iniquity seem like brute beasts, as if they had no common sense, no conscienc...
_The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ THE PRACTICAL DENIAL OF GOD THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and starts a train of thought whi...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:1. This is a community lament. Humans in general do not seek after God and thus they treat God’s people cruelly. Compare Psalms 53:1.
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:5 In the face of such threats (v. Psalms 14:4) the faithful must remember that the God of the covenant (LORD) is th
INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may,...
EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De We...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if...
Daniel 3:15; Ezekiel 35:10; Hebrews 6:18; Isaiah 37:10; Isaiah 37:11;