Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 32:9
Will not — Unless they be forced to it by a bit or bridle. And so all the ancient translators understand it.
Will not — Unless they be forced to it by a bit or bridle. And so all the ancient translators understand it.
Verse Psalms 32:9. _BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE_ OR _AS THE MULE_] They will only act by _force_ and _constraint_; be not like _them_; give a _willing_ _service_ to your Maker. "They have no understanding...
BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE - The horse as it is by nature - wild, ungoverned, unwilling to be caught and made obedient. The counsel referred to in the previous verse is here given; and it is, that one who...
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....
HORSE... MULE. Compare Proverbs 26:3. BIT... BRIDLE. See note on "eye", Psalms 32:8. LEST. Otherwise they will not. COME NEAR. draw near: i.e. for help and instruction, so as to understand what they...
A warning addressed to all not to resist God's will, and neglect instruction. Be not like horse like mule with no understanding, With trappings of bit and bridle must they be curbed: Else will they...
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...
32:9 thee. (b-29) Or 'lest they come near,' &c....
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...
LEST THEY COME NEAR.. THEE] RV '_Else_ they will not come near.. thee.' The horse and mule are thought of not as dangerous, but only as obstinate and stupid—incapable of being brought where they are w...
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...
WHOSE MOUTH. — Here the text has evidently suffered, and the exact meaning is lost. There are also verbal difficulties. The word translated “mouth” elsewhere (except Psalms 103:5, where see Note) mean...
אַל ־תִּֽהְי֤וּ ׀ כְּ ס֥וּס כְּ פֶרֶד֮ אֵ֤ין
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...
Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose (i) mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. (i) If men can rule brute beasts, do they...
_Created. Hebrew, "on foot," to express God's absolute dominion. (Calmet) --- This passage shews that bra means properly created out of nothing, Genesis i. Matter did not exist before God spoke. (Bert...
All these expressions, if accepted in reference to what went before, are to the same effect, and directed to the same purpose. God will guide his people with his counsel, and compass them about with m...
Psalms 32 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 32-34 = _ Day 6_ (_Evening_)....
9._Be not like the horse or mule. _David now briefly explains the amount of the counsel which he formerly said he would give. He exhorts all to learn with quietness, to lay aside stubbornness, and to...
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...
BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE, [OR] AS THE MULE, [WHICH] HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING,.... The design of this exhortation is to direct men how to behave under the instructions given; not as brutes, which have no ra...
Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Ver. 9. _Be ye not as the horse, or as the mul...
_Be not as the horse, or as the mule_ God hath endowed you with reason, both to inform you what you ought to do. and to check you when you do amiss, and hath made you capable also of receiving good ad...
Be ye not as the horse or as the mule, irrational brutes, WHICH HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING; WHOSE MOUTH MUST BE HELD IN WITH BIT AND BRIDLE, LEST THEY COME NEAR UNTO THEE, that is, without the aid of such...
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...
8-11 God teaches by his word, and guides with the secret intimations of his will. David gives a word of caution to sinners. The reason for this caution is, that the way of sin will certainly end in so...
BE YE NOT AS THE HORSE, OR AS THE MULE; be not such brutish and sottish creatures as I have been, not having reason or grace to govern yourselves, nor hearkening to the counsels and admonitions of oth...
Psalms 32:9 horse H5483 mule H6505 understanding H995 (H8687) harnessed H5716 H1102 (H8800) bit H4964 bridle...
5). HE HEARS GOD'S VOICE AGAIN PROMISING TO LEAD HIM IN THE RIGHT WAY, ALTHOUGH REQUIRING THAT HE RESPOND TO HIS GUIDING HAND (8-9). ‘I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you will go,...
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...
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...
_Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding._ BIT AND BRIDLE: HOW TO ESCAPE THEM I. A privilege to be sought. 1. This guidance is very full in its nature. (1) God is prepa...
_I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go._ A TEACHABLE DISPOSITION A teachable disposition is implied by the notable words, “I will guide thee with Mine eye.” We lay great...
MULES OR MEN? Be ye not... as the mule. Psalms 32:9. I wonder why we are told not to be as the mule. I think it would be a very good thing if some of us were a little more like him. For he has many...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 32:6 THEREFORE. The conclusion for EVERYONE WHO IS GODLY is to OFFER PRAYER (of confession) AT A TIME WHEN God...
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...
James 3:3; James 4:7; Jeremiah 31:18; Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 8:6;...