Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 36:3
Left off — Once he had some degrees of wisdom, but now he is become an open apostate.
Left off — Once he had some degrees of wisdom, but now he is become an open apostate.
Verse Psalms 36:3. _THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH ARE INIQUITY_] In the principle; _and deceit_ calculated to pervert others, and lead them astray. _HE HATH LEFT OFF TO BE WISE_, AND _TO DO GOOD._] His hear...
THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH ARE INIQUITY AND DECEIT - Are false and wicked. See the notes at Psalms 12:2. It is words do not fairly represent or express what is in his heart. HE HATH LEFT OFF TO BE WISE -...
Psalms 36 Contrasts _ 1. What the wicked is and does (Psalms 36:1)_ 2. What Jehovah is and does (Psalms 36:5) 3. Prayer and trust in His loving kindness ...
XXXVI. We have here two Pss. or fragments of two Pss.: A, Psalms 36:1 and possibly Psalms 36:12, and B, Psalms 36:5. XXXVI. A. Psalms 36:1
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven._ App-44....
_iniquity and deceit_ Cp. Psalms 5:5-6; Psalms 10:7. _he hath left off_&c. Or, _he hath ceased to be wise to do good_. Cf. Jeremiah 4:22. He inverts the prophetic exhortation,...
The fruits of this reckless atheism described....
PSALMS 36 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Oracles False and True, Prompting Prayer and Praise. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 36:1-4, Personified Transgression Deluding and Driving on its Victim. Stanza II., Psalms...
_THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH ARE INIQUITY AND DECEIT: HE HATH LEFT OFF TO BE WISE, AND TO DO GOOD._ He hath left off - instead of leaving off the self-destroying folly of sin (Isaiah 1:16; Jeremiah 4:22;...
36:3 wickedness (b-7) Or 'vanity,' 'mischief.'...
This Ps. consists of two strongly contrasted pictures, one of the wickedness of the wicked man (Psalms 36:1), and one of the goodness of God (Psalms 36:5), followed by a prayer that the Psalmist may c...
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...
From the secret promptings of sin, the description of the ungodly passes on to its issues in words and deeds. It is an awful picture of wickedness of a man abandoning himself without check or remorse...
_[Psalms 36:4]_ דִּבְרֵי ־פִ֭יו אָ֣וֶן וּ מִרְמָ֑ה...
Psalms 36:1 THE supposition that the sombre picture of "the wicked" in Psalms 36:1 was originally unconnected with the glorious hymn in Psalms 36:5 fails to give weight to the difference between the s...
GOD THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE Psalms 36:1 The servant of the Lord, as the superscription tells us, is speaking here. He is horror-stricken at the ways and thoughts of the ungodly. By a bold image, Psalms...
The antithetical nature of this psalm is self-evident. In the first part (verses Psa 36:1-4), the reason and expression of the wickedness of the wicked are described. The one and only reason for trans...
The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and (c) deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good. (c) The reprobates mock wholesome doctrine, and put no difference between good and evil....
Riches. Septuagint and Houbigant read emune, "abundance." Hebrew begins with a. The sense is much the same. (Berthier) --- "Thou shalt feed on faith," (St. Jerome) or "incessantly." (Symmachus) --- Th...
These are the outlines, and but the outlines of a heart, whose imagination is only evil, and that continually. Genesis 6:5....
3._The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. _The two clauses of this verse may be understood as referring to the same thing, namely, that the wicked indulging in deceit and vanity, will not rec...
Psalms 36. We have a needed warning as to the wicked, particularly the enemies of righteousness, the instruments of Satan's power. There is no conscience to be expected; nothing that will stop them in...
THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH [ARE] INIQUITY AND DECEIT,.... Not only sinful, but sin itself; his mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, of filthy and unchaste words, of corrupt communication, lying, decei...
The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good. Ver. 3. _The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit_] That is, saith Calvin, he hath something to...
_The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit_ Are wicked and deceitful. _He hath left off to be wise and to do good_ Once he had some degrees of wisdom, and did things that were apparently good, an...
The words of his mouth, in the expression of this hatred against the godly, ARE INIQUITY AND DECEIT, full of falsehood and lying; HE HATH LEFT OFF TO BE WISE AND TO DO GOOD, rejected all right princip...
THE CURSE OF ESTRANGEMENT FROM GOD AND THE BLESSING OF FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical services of the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who her...
1-4 From this psalm our hearts should be duly affected with hatred of sin, and seek satisfaction in God's loving-kindness. Here is the root of bitterness, from which all the wickedness of wicked men...
ARE INIQUITY AND DECEIT, i.e. are wicked and deceitful. Once he had some shadows or degrees of wisdom, and sometimes did some things that were good in their kind; but new he hath not so much as the ap...
Psalms 36:3 words H1697 mouth H6310 wickedness H205 deceit H4820 ceased H2308 (H8804) wise H7919 (H8687) good...
THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE WICKED SPEAKS TO THE PSALMIST'S HEART ALERTING HIM TO THE SINFULNESS OF MAN (PSALMS 36:1). Psalms 36:1 ‘The oracle of the transgression of the wicked within my heart, There...
CONTENTS: The wicked contrasted with the righteous and the Lord of devout men extolled. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Sinners are self destroyers and when sin is finally made to appear in its...
Psalms 36:1. _There is no fear of God before his eyes._ David had some particular or general character of a wicked man before his eyes; a man who flattered himself as bearing an appearance of wisdom a...
_The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before hill eyes._ A SHARP CONTRAST OF SIN AND HOLINESS I. the character of the wicked (Verses 1-4). Depravity is...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 36:1. This is a lament that reflects on the wicked and on the steadfast love of the Lord. It concludes with a prayer that God will protect his people from the attacks of the...
INTRODUCTION This psalm was written by David. From Psalms 36:1 he describes the rebellious; Psalms 36:5 he extols the various attributes of the Lord; and in Psalms 36:10 he add see the Lord in prayer...
EXPOSITION THIS short psalm is mainly didactic. It places in contrast the extreme wickedness of the wicked and the inexhaustible fulness of love, faithfulness, and righteousness which characterizes t...
The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of hi...
1 John 2:19; 1 Samuel 11:6; 1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Samuel 13:14; 1