Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 60:3
To drink — Thou hast filled us with no less honor, than men intoxicated with strong drink.
To drink — Thou hast filled us with no less honor, than men intoxicated with strong drink.
Verse Psalms 60:3. _THOU HAST MADE US TO DRINK THE WINE OF ASTONISHMENT_] We reel as _drunken_ men; we are _giddy_, like those who have drank too much wine; but _our giddiness_ has been occasioned by...
THOU HAST SHOWED THY PEOPLE HARD THINGS - Thou hast caused them to see reverses, disappointments, and trials. This refers, according to the supposition in the Introduction to the psalm, to some calami...
Psalms 60 The Lord with His People _ 1. Confessions and prayer (Psalms 60:1)_ 2. The inheritance anticipated (Psalms 60:6) 3. Faith's certainty ...
LX. This Ps. really consists of two bound together in an abrupt style. In A, _i.e._ in Psalms 60:1; Psalms 60:10_ b_, Psalms 60:11 f. we have a lament over the desperate condition of Israel, though th...
SHEWED. SUFFERED... TO SEE. astonishment: or confusion, or trembling....
Grave disasters have befallen Israel through God's displeasure....
_hard_ i.e. calamitous. _the wine of astonishment_ Better as R.V., the wine of staggering. The cup of God's wrath is a common metaphor for His judgements. It is like some drugged potion, which robs th...
THE WINE OF ASTONISHMENT— i.e. "Thou hast so dispirited us, as if thou hadst given us _a myrrhate drought."_ So Dr. Hammond interprets the wine of astonishment. See on Psalms 11:6 and Zechariah 12:2....
PSALMS 60 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Outcry of Anguish, Expostulation and Entreaty, under a Severe Reverse. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 60:1-4, Lamentation over a Defeat. Stanza II., Psalms 60:5-8, Prayer...
_THOU HAST SHEWED THY PEOPLE HARD THINGS: THOU HAST MADE US TO DRINK THE WINE OF ASTONISHMENT._ Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment -- judgments stupifying and confounding, as wine in...
WINE OF ASTONISHMENT] RV 'wine of staggering,' or reeling: see Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22,; where God's wrath is similarly compared to stupefying wine....
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth: Michtam of David, to teach: when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
HARD THINGS — _i.e._, a hard fate. WINE OF ASTONISHMENT. — Literally, either _wine of reeling_ — _i.e.,_ an intoxicating draught — or _wine as reeling_ — _i.e._, bewilderment like wine, or wine, whic...
_[Psalms 60:5]_ הִרְאִ֣יתָה עַמְּךָ֣ קָשָׁ֑ה הִ֝שְׁקִיתָ֗נוּ יַ֣יִן
Psalms 60:1 THIS psalm has evidently a definite historical background. Israel has been worsted in fight, but still continues its campaign against Edom. Meditating on God's promises, the psalmist antic...
PRAYER FOR HELP AGAINST FOES Psalms 60:1 This was a national psalm to be _taught_ the people. See title; also Deuteronomy 31:19. A strong coalition had been formed against David at that time. See 2 S...
This is a song out of defeat. It may be divided into three parts. The first is a recognition of the cause of defeat, ending with a prayer (verses Psa 60:1-5). The second expresses the answer of God in...
Thou hast (e) shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. (e) You have handled your people sharply, in asking from them sense and judgment in that they aided S...
_Earth of Palestine, (Berthier) when David was at Mahanaim. (Ferrand) (2 Kings xvii. 22.) (Haydock) --- The countries beyond the Euphrates may be so styled, Psalm lxiv. 6. --- Rock, by inspiring Cyrus...
How blessed is it to eye Christ in such like expressions as these, when we behold him as standing forth the Surety and Sponsor of his church and people? Jesus, as the head of his people personating hi...
3._Thou hast showed thy people hard things _He says, first, that the nation had been dealt with severely, and then adds a figure which may additionally represent the grievousness of its calamities, sp...
In Psalms 60 the remnant acknowledge God's having cast them off. Their only hope is, that He will turn to them again. This is exactly the point of Israel's righteousness as a nation: no going for help...
THOU HAST SHOWED THY PEOPLE HARD THINGS,.... As to have their city and temple burial, multitudes of them slain, and the rest carried captive, and put into the hands of cruel lords and hard masters, an...
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. Ver. 3. _Thou hast showed thy people hard things_] God will be sure to plough his own ground, whatsoever...
_Thou hast made the earth to tremble_ A poetical expression, signifying great and dreadful changes among the people. _Heal the breaches thereof_ Reconcile all those differences which our civil wars ha...
A HYMN OF WAR AND VICTORY. To the chief musician upon Shushaneduth, to be chanted in public worship according to the melody "The Lily of Testimony," this tune indicating also the contents of the psalm...
Thou hast showed Thy people hard things, laid a heavy burden upon them; THOU HAST MADE US TO DRINK THE WINE OF ASTONISHMENT, the wine of His wrath, which is intoxication, said of the commotion, of the...
1-5 David owns God's displeasure to be the cause of all the hardships he had undergone. And when God is turning his hand in our favour, it is good to remember our former troubles. In God's displeasur...
THOU HAST SHOWED, Heb. _made them to see_, i.e. to experience or feel, as seeing is oft put, as PSALMS 49:10, and oft elsewhere. Thou hast filled us with no less horror and trembling, than men intoxic...
Psalms 60:3 shown H7200 (H8689) people H5971 things H7186 drink H8248 (H8689) wine H3196 confusion H8653...
HEADING (PSALMS 60:1 A). ‘For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach, when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the deliverance of God's people from enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God often gives His own people a hard course in this world that they may not take up their rest...
Psalms 60:1. _Oh God thou hast cast us off;_ or interrogatively, Why hast thou cast us off? At this juncture all the surrounding nations, named here, in the eighty third psalm, and in 2 Samuel 8., see...
_O God, Thou hast cast us off; Thou hast scattered us._ A PSALM OF DEFEAT In our own language we possess many fine songs of patriotism. It would be impossible to overestimate the value of such a song...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 60:1. This is a lament for the whole community of Israel at a time when their continued life in the land is being threatened by Gentile neighbors. The title says it is “for...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—_“To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Upon Shushaneduth_,” is probably a musical direction to the leader of the choir. In the superscription to Psa...
EXPOSITION IN the case of this psalm, the "title" is again our best guide, both with respect to the author and to the occasion of the composition. The title is unusually full, and contains such a numb...
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. For thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; fo...
Daniel 9:12; Ezekiel 23:31; Ezekiel 23:32; Habakkuk 2:16; Isaiah 51:1