Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 39:11
Beauty — His comeliness and all his excellencies or felicities. Moth — As a moth consumeth a garment, to which God compares himself and his judgments, secretly and insensibly consuming a people, Isaiah 51:8.
Beauty — His comeliness and all his excellencies or felicities. Moth — As a moth consumeth a garment, to which God compares himself and his judgments, secretly and insensibly consuming a people, Isaiah 51:8.
Verse Psalms 39:11. _WHEN THOU WITH REBUKES DOST CORRECT MAN_] תוכחות _tochachoth_ signifies a _vindication of proceedings in a court of_ _law_, a _legal defence_. When God comes to maintain the cred...
WHEN THOU WITH REBUKES - The word here rendered “rebukes” means properly: (a) proof or demonstration; (b) confutation or contradiction; (c) reproof or admonition by words; (d) reproof by correctio...
Psalms 39 Deep Soul Exercise in View of Man's Frailty and Nothingness _ 1. The vanity of life (Psalms 39:1)_ 2. Self-judgment and prayer (Psalms 39:7) This Psalm is connected closely with the prec...
XXXIX. PRAYER OF A PIOUS ISRAELITE IN DISTRESS. Psalms 39:3. The poet, afflicted though he is, is silent in presence of the wicked, lest they should impugn or ridicule God's righteous government of t...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. See note on "moth", below. MOTH. Hebrew. _'ash._ Forming the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), connecting man (' _ish)_ with. moth (_'ash_). SELAH. Connecting huma...
Petition for relief (10, 11) and respite (12, 13)....
When thou with rebukes dost chasten a man for iniquity, Thou wastest like a moth his desirableness: Nought but vanity are all men. The A.V. obscures the correspondence of the first line with Psalms...
LIKE A MOTH— i.e. "As a moth consumes a garment." The Chaldee paraphrase has it, _like a moth broken asunder;_ but the phrase is more properly applied to the moth's consuming other things, and not to...
PSALMS 39 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Lament and Prayer of a Divinely Stricken One. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 39:1-3, How the Stricken One's Resolve to be Silent is Broken. Stanza II., Psalms 39:4-6, La...
_WHEN THOU WITH REBUKES DOST CORRECT MAN FOR INIQUITY, THOU MAKEST HIS BEAUTY TO CONSUME AWAY LIKE A MOTH: SURELY EVERY MAN IS VANITY. SELAH._ When thou with rebukes dost correct man. God's word of '...
39:11 away (d-17) Lit. 'melt.'...
This is a Ps. of great pathos and beauty. The writer's sore sickness, accepted as the punishment of sin (Psalms 39:9), has impressed him with the frailty and vanity of human life. He refrains at first...
This is another v. summing up the philosophy of the Ps. MAKEST HIS BEAUTY, etc.] RM 'consumest like a moth his delights': see Isaiah 50:7; Matthew 6:19....
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...
WHEN. — This is unnecessary. _With judgments for sin Thou chastenest a man._ REBUKES. — The word rendered “reproofs” in Psalms 38:14, where see Note. BEAUTY. — Literally, _Something desirable._ (See...
_[Psalms 39:12]_ בְּֽ תֹוכָ֘חֹ֤ות עַל ־עָוֹ֨ן ׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ...
Psalms 39:1 PROTRACTED suffering, recognised as chastisement for sin, had wasted the psalmist's strength. It had been borne for a while in silence, but the rush of emotion had burst the floodgates. Th...
THE FLEETING MEASURE OF OUR DAYS Psalms 39:1 In the opening verses David describes the circumstances out of which this psalm arose. The presence and prosperity of the wicked stirred him to the depths...
Again the circumstances are sorrow and affliction. The attitude of the sufferer is true dignity. If the psalm be taken in connection with the preceding one, it marks an advance, perhaps a gain out of...
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou (h) makest his (i) beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah. (h) Though your open plagues do not light on the...
Thy. Some copies of the Septuagint have, my justice, as well as the Ethiopic version. (Eusebius; St. Augustine, &c.) (Calmet) --- But the Vulgate is more correct. (Berthier) --- Council. Christ concea...
I have made no break or interruption in these verses, because the subject through the whole is one and the same. Under several very striking and elegant similitudes, the Psalmist in his prayer shows t...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 38 AND 39. Psalms 38 and 39 have, as I have said, a distinct and peculiar character. The deliverance has been sought and looked for by the upright, and forgivene...
WHEN THOU WITH REBUKES DOST CORRECT MAN FOR INIQUITY,.... The psalmist illustrates his own case, before suggested, by the common case and condition of men, when God corrects them; which he has a right...
_When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah._ Ver. 11. _When thou with rebukes dost correct man for...
_Remove thy stroke away from me_ But though I may not, I will not, open my mouth to complain, yet I may open it to pray, that thou wouldest take off the judgment that thou hast inflicted upon me. _I a...
THE BELIEVER'S ATTITUDE IN VIEW OF THE APPARENT HAPPINESS OF THE GODLESS. To the chief musician, even to Jeduthun, or Ethan, the name of one of David's chief choristers, who was the leader of a famil...
When Thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, sending forth His punishment upon the guilty, THOU MAKEST HIS BEAUTY TO CONSUME AWAY LIKE A MOTH; for just as garments disappear under the attack...
HIS BEAUTY TO CONSUME AWAY: _ Heb._ that which is to be desired in him, to melt away...
7-13 There is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him; to him we should be driven by our disappointments. If the world be nothing...
WITH REBUKES, i. e. with punishment, which is oft so called. See PSALMS 6:1, PSALMS 76:6. DOST CORRECT MAN FOR INIQUITY, i. e. dost punish him as his iniquity deserves. _His beauty_, Heb. _his desire_...
Psalms 39:11 rebukes H8433 correct H3256 (H8765) man H376 iniquity H5771 beauty H2530 (H8803) away H4529 ...
3). HIS SOLUTION LIES IN HOPING IN YHWH AND WALKING RIGHTLY BEFORE HIM, BEING DELIVERED FROM ALL HIS TRANSGRESSIONS. MEANWHILE THEREFORE HE PRAYS THAT YHWH WILL RESTORE HIM TO HEALTH, WHILE RECOGNISIN...
This Psalm gives a description of David's experience and conduct when stretched upon a sick-bed. He appears to have felt impatience working within him, which I am sorry to say is a very common disease...
Psalms 39:1. _I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me._ This is what David said; what he had deliberately...
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. David dedicated some Psalms to Asaph, and one or two to Jeduthun. Some of this chief musician's family appear to have remained singers as lat...
CONTENTS: The psalmist, bowed down with sorrow and sickness, is burdened with unbelieving thoughts and prays for help. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: We should not feed the fire of discontent b...
This psalm is inscribed _to Jeduthun,_ leader of one of the choral bands in the temple. 1 Chronicles 16:41; and bears the name of David. Psalms 39:5. _Thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth,_ which...
_When Thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth; surely every man is vanity._ THE SECRET BLASTING OF MEN These words give an account of two...
_I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue; I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle._ THOUGHT AND PRAYER UNDER TRIAL I. Thought under trial. 1. Its utterance repress...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 39:1. This psalm allows those who are suffering to express their confusion to God. The circumstances of the suffering are left vague, although there is acknowledgment of sin...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 39:7 The singer asks God to DELIVER him FROM ALL his TRANSGRESSIONS, thus admitting that he deserves God’s REBUKES FOR SIN....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, a psalm of David.” _Jeduthun_ was one of the leaders of the sacred music in the time of David (1 Chronicles 16:41; 1 Chronicles 25:6...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist, vexed and disgusted with life, feeling a desire to murmur and complain, but aware that his words are watched, and his wicked enemies ready to make use of them against him, has...
Psa 39:1-13. Jeduthun was one of David's musicians, as was Asaph. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me...
1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 5:5; Hebrews 12:6; Hosea 5:12;...