Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 73:9
Against — Against God, blaspheming his name, and deriding his providence. Walketh — Using all manner of liberty, reproaching all sorts of persons.
Against — Against God, blaspheming his name, and deriding his providence. Walketh — Using all manner of liberty, reproaching all sorts of persons.
Verse Psalms 73:9. _SET THEIR MOUTH AGAINST THE HEAVENS_] They blaspheme God, ridicule religion, mock at Providence, and laugh at a future state. _THEIR TONGUE WALKETH THROUGH THE EARTH._] They find...
THEY SET THEIR MOUTH AGAINST THE HEAVENS - Compare Revelation 13:6. Literally, “They set their mouth in heaven,” or in the heavens. The idea is, they speak as if they were “in” the heavens; as if they...
III. THE LEVITICUS SECTION: BOOK THREE: PSALM 73-89 The third division of the book of Psalms corresponds in character to the third book of the Pentateuch, the book of Leviticus. That is the book of th...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after death...
THE HEAVENS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for God, Who dwells there. TONGUE WALKETH. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ EARTH. Supply the Ellipsis, by adding "[they say]". "Let His...
Faith tried by the sight of the prosperity of the wicked....
The cause: the unbroken prosperity of the godless. Cp. Job's indignant complaint, Psalms 21:7 ff....
The A.V. gives a good sense: they blaspheme God and dictate to men. Cp. Daniel 7:25. But probably the R.V. is right in rendering, They have set their mouth In the heavens. The clause expands the wor...
THEY SET THEIR MOUTH AGAINST THE HEAVENS— i.e. _They blaspheme the God of heaven; and their tongue walketh,_ &c. i.e. is let loose to abuse and calumniate whomsoever they please....
THE PSALMS BOOK THE THIRD Psalms 73 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Temptation, arising from the Prosperity of the Lawless, Triumphantly Overcome. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 73:1-5, Under Protest, the Psalmist...
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. THEY SET THEIR MOUTH AGAINST THE HEAVENS. With their blasphemies they even reach up to heaven itself, denying t...
AGAINST] RV 'in,' a description of pride....
BOOK 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of Psalms...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE PSALMS OF DAVID (BOOK 3). NOW I UNDERSTAND PSALMS 73 Jesus said, "Make sure that your valuable things are in *heaven". ...
THEY SET. — The last clause is repeated here under a figure more defined: “They have set their mouth in [not _against]_ the heavens, While their tongue walketh through the earth.” an image very exp...
שַׁתּ֣וּ בַ † שָּׁמַ֣יִם פִּיהֶ֑ם וּ֝ לְשֹׁונָ֗ם...
Psalms 73:1 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 49:1. It tells how the prosperity of the godless,...
DECEPTIVE PROSPERITY Psalms 73:1 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30. The r.v. margin substitutes _only_ for _surely_ in Psalms 73:1. There is none go...
The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tell...
They (d) set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. (d) They blaspheme God, and do not fear his power and rail upon men, because they esteem themselves above all...
Our. Some copies of the Septuagint read "their," as if the enemy still spoke. But the people of God rather complain, that they are not so favoured with prodigies, as they had been formerly, and that t...
He here draws the outlines of the prosperity of the wicked: they have all carnal enjoyments, the good things brought forth by the sun, and the precious things put forth by the moon: they have plenty o...
9._They have set their mouth against the heavens. _Here it is declared that they utter their contumelious speeches as well against God as against men; for they imagine that nothing is too arduous for...
BOOK 3 - PSALMS 73-89 In the Third Book we get out into a larger sphere than the state of the residue of the Jews in the last days, whether in Jerusalem or driven out; and hence we find much less of t...
THEY SET THEIR MOUTH AGAINST THE HEAVENS,.... Against God in heaven, see Daniel 4:26, against his being, saying, there is no God; against his perfections, thinking him to be such an one as themselves;...
_They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth._ Ver. 9. _They set their mouth against the heavens_] They howl upward, as wolves; bark at the moon, as dogs; pis...
_They are not in trouble as other men_ They escape even common calamities. _Therefore pride compasseth them about_ Discovers itself on every side, in their countenances, speech, behaviour. _Their eyes...
They set their mouth against the heavens, to blaspheme God, AND THEIR TONGUE WALKETH THROUGH THE EARTH, with arrogant haughtiness, with meddlesome slander. Note: It is a composite picture which the ps...
COMFORT AND WARNING CONCERNING THE OFFENSE GIVEN BY THE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS. A psalm of Asaph, one of the choirmasters of David, 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:2. A Reflection upon the...
1-14 The psalmist was strongly tempted to envy the prosperity of the wicked; a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many saints. But he lays down the great principle by which he resolved...
AGAINST THE HEAVENS, i.e. against God, blaspheming his name, denying or deriding his providence, reviling his saints and servants. WALKETH THROUGH THE EARTH; using all manner of liberty, introducing a...
Psalms 73:9 set H8371 (H8804) mouth H6310 heavens H8064 tongue H3956 walks H1980 (H8799) earth H776 set
Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly, o...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; and you shall find that those who sing the sweetest t...
The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he also knew that he was greatly tried, whereas he sa...
Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim the clear vision of faith. Psalms 73:1. _Truly Go...
You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1....
CONTENTS: The temptation to envy the prosperity of wicked people and how to fortify ones self against it. The awful fate of the ungodly. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: Observing that many wicked...
The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:1. Eleven other psalms bear his name. Hezek...
_Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart._ THE TROUBLE OF ASAPH In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they should...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:1. This is a wisdom psalm. God’s people should trust him even when it seems unbelievers do not suffer because of their sin. They should remember the contrasting outcomes...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:4 This section describes the apparently carefree lives of the arrogant wicked of v. Psalms 73:3. Verse...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,”_ or, as in the margin, “_for Asaph_.” See introduction to Psalms 50. _Subject_.—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tempora...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by a great...
Psa 73:1-28 begins with an affirmation of a basic foundational truth concerning God. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart (Psalms 73:1). It is important that we have basi...
2 Chronicles 32:15; Daniel 3:15; Daniel 7:25; Exodus 5:2; James 3:6;...