Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 41:3
Make his bed — Give him ease and comfort, which sick men receive by the help of those who turn and stir up their bed, to make it soft and easy for them.
Make his bed — Give him ease and comfort, which sick men receive by the help of those who turn and stir up their bed, to make it soft and easy for them.
Verse Psalms 41:3. _THE LORD WILL STRENGTHEN HIM_] Good, benevolent, and merciful as he is, he must also die: but he shall not die as other men; he shall have peculiar consolations, refreshment, and s...
THE LORD WILL STRENGTHEN HIM UPON THE BED OF LANGUISHING - The word rendered strengthen here means to support; to uphold; to sustain. The idea here is, that God would enable him to bear his sickness,...
Psalms 41 Faith and Unbelief in View of the Cross _ 1. Faith in Him and the Results (Psalms 41:1)_ 2. Unbelief and its hatred (Psalms 41:4) 3. The vindication of the Christ of the cross ...
XLI. THE PRAYER OF A SICK MAN AGAINST CRUEL AND TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 41:1. Kindness to the poor is a favourite virtue in the OT, but seems to have no natural place at the beginning of this Ps. We...
THE BED. the couch....
It is possible to render as in P.B.V. and R.V. marg., _The Lord perserve him … the Lord support him:_but it is more natural to regard these clauses as descriptive of the blessings which await the comp...
The blessings in store for the compassionate man....
The Lord will support him upon the couch of languishing (R.V.), uphold him (Psalms 18:35) and preserve him from sinking into the grave. _thou wilt make all his bed_ Lit. thou hast turned (or, changed)...
THOU WILT MAKE ALL HIS BED IN HIS SICKNESS— _Thou turnest all his bed in his sickness._ This expresses the ease and refreshment which God had just before given him in his sickness; as great as a perso...
PSALMS 41 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Regretting that Enemies and Friends should meanly Rejoice in his Sickness, the Psalmist nevertheless Perseveres in Prayer for Pardon and Recovery. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Ps...
_THE LORD WILL STRENGTHEN HIM UPON THE BED OF LANGUISHING: THOU WILT MAKE ALL HIS BED IN HIS SICKNESS._ The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing - The Lord will sustain him by supplyi...
The Psalmist has been brought low by sickness, and pronounces a blessing on those who consider such sufferers as himself (Psalms 41:1). His own experience has been of an opposite kind. His enemies hav...
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...
WILL STRENGTHEN. — Literally, w_ill prop him up, support him._ WILT MAKE. — Literally, _hast turned._ Some think with literal allusion to the fact that the Oriental bed was merely a mat, which could b...
_[Psalms 41:4]_ יְֽהוָ֗ה יִ֭סְעָדֶנּוּ עַל ־עֶ֣רֶשׂ דְּוָ֑י...
Psalms 41:1 THE central mass of this psalm describes the singer as suffering from two evils: sickness and treacherous friends. This situation naturally leads up to the prayer and confidence of the clo...
“LORD, HEAL MY SOUL” Psalms 41:1 This psalm was probably composed, with the adjacent ones, during the four years in which Absalom's conspiracy was being hatched. Perhaps the anxiety thus caused induc...
This whole song depends for interpretation on its opening beatitude. The man who is considerate toward the weak, who is compassionate, is blessed. His blessings are then described. Emphasize "him" and...
The LORD will strengthen him upon the (b) bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his (c) bed in his sickness. (b) When for sorrow and grief of mind he calls himself on his bed. (c) You have restored...
_Strong. Most Bibles before Clement VIII read "fountain." (Calmet) --- El signifies both God and strong. (Berthier) --- The Levites desired earnestly to serve God in his temple; Christians must wish t...
Still carrying on the recollection of the blessed Jesus as Christ here primarily and principally considered, do we not find in the whole life of the Mediator, while upon earth, Jehovah supporting him....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 40 AND 41. In Psalms 40 then Christ is seen, not only in His passage through the sorrows which beset His way, if He took up the cause of the disobedient and guil...
THE LORD WILL STRENGTHEN HIM UPON THE BED OF LANGUISHING,.... When on a sick bed, or a death bed, where he lies languishing, and ready to expire; when his natural strength, spirits, and heart fail him...
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Ver. 3. _The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing_] Whether through sickness of b...
_The Lord will keep him alive_ Hebrew, _Will quicken him_, that is, revive and restore him. God will either preserve him from trouble, or, if he see that trouble is necessary, or will be useful for hi...
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING AND TRUST IN GOD. To the chief musician, a psalm of David, composed probably during the time of persecution by Absalom and, if not Messianic throughout, is at least in part ty...
The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing, support him upon his sick-bed, not let him sink down in death; THOU WILT MAKE ALL HIS BED IN HIS SICKNESS, turning it into a couch of recovery...
MAKE: _ Heb._ turn...
1-4 The people of God are not free from poverty, sickness, or outward affliction, but the Lord will consider their case, and send due supplies. From his Lord's example the believer learns to consider...
Either, 1. Change or overturn his bed of sickness; which is done when a man is restored to health. Or rather, 2. Give him ease and comfort, which sick men receive by the help of those who turn and st...
Psalms 41:3 LORD H3068 strengthen H5582 (H8799) bed H6210 illness H1741 sustain H2015 (H8804) sickbed H2483...
BLESSING IS PRONOUNCED ON THE ONE WHO CONSIDERS THE SICK KING IN HIS ILLNESS, AND A PRAYER IS MADE FOR THE DELIVERANCE AND RECOVERY OF THE SICK KING (PSALMS 41:1). Psalms 41:1 ‘Blessed is he who con...
You will see, dear friends, from these holy songs, that the saints of God in those olden days were not screened from trials and troubles, but were tempted in all points like as we are. If we happen to...
CONTENTS: Prayer for relief from sickness and confession of sins. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we suffer in our reputation, our first concern should be about our integrity and we may the...
A psalm of David, when sick with grief at Absalom's rebellion. Psalms 41:4. _Heal my soul._ It would appear that David was visited with some temporary sickness, prior to Absalom's rebellion, and that...
_The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness._ SICKNESS No one who has not felt the pains of sickness can fully appreciate the blessing of hea...
_Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble._ THE PSALMIST’S AFFLICTION The central mass of this psalm describes the singer as suffering from two evils: sic...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 41:1. This is a lament in which a person has fulfilled his responsibilities to the poor and yet is suffering severely. He prays for God’s help and vindication....
INTRODUCTION This psalm, like the preceding one, is from the pen of David, and is addressed “to the chief musician,” for use in public religious services. It seems to have been composed with reference...
EXPOSITION THE forty-first psalm completes the first book of the Psalter. All the psalms contained in it are assigned to David by the titles, except Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1; Psalms 10:1;...
Let us turn at this time in our Bibles to Psalms 41:1-13. This is another one of the psalms that begins with a beatitude. The very first psalm begins with a beatitude, "Blessed is the man." Here again...
2 Corinthians 4:16; 2 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Kings 1:16; 2 Kings 1:6;...