Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:33
Vanity — In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither. Trouble — In manifold diseases, dangers, and perplexities.
Vanity — In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither. Trouble — In manifold diseases, dangers, and perplexities.
Verse Psalms 78:33. _THEIR DAYS DID HE CONSUME IN VANITY_] By causing them to wander forty years in the wilderness, _vainly expecting_ an end to their labour, and the enjoyment of the promised rest, w...
THEREFORE THEIR DAYS DID HE CONSUME IN VANITY - He suffered them to spend their days - the days of that entire generation - in vain and fruitless wanderings in the desert. Instead of leading them at o...
PSALM 78-83 Psalms 78 A Historical Retrospect _ 1. The call to hear (Psalms 78:1)_ 2. Ephraim's failure (Psalms 78:9) 3. His dealings in power and mercy ...
LXXVIII. THE LESSON OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary, ha...
IN VANITY. in. breath. i.e. the whole generation of men quickly died out. Compare Numbers 14:29; Numbers 14:35; Numbers 26:64; Numbers 26:65.
These judgements failed to reform them, and further chastisements produced only temporary and superficial amendments. Yet in spite of all, God continued to shew them mercy....
_in vanity … in trouble_ Or, as a breath, unsubstantial and transitory (Psalms 39:5; Psalms 39:11; Psalms 62:9): with sudden terror (Leviticus 26:16)
DISCOURSE: 634 THE FRUIT OF IMPENITENCE AND UNBELIEF Psalms 78:32. _For all this, they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their...
PSALMS 78 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Didactic Poem, Counselling the Re-union of the Tribes. ANALYSIS Part I.THE PRELUDE (1) An Invitation to Attend to a Series of Problems Drawn from AntiquityPsalms 78:...
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast to God's marvels performed i...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32. It traces the course of God's relations with His people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells on...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ TELL YOUR CHILDREN PSALMS 78 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me. Do not stop them". (Matthew 19
(32-33) For the allusion see Numbers 14:11; Numbers 14:28....
וַ יְכַל ־בַּ † הֶ֥בֶל יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וּ֝...
Psalms 78:1 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1; Psalms 106:1; Psalms 107:1. Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and esp
BLESSED YET UNGRATEFUL Psalms 78:25 God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His children; but too often we become so engrossed with His gifts as to forget and neglect the Giver. W...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the psalm,...
What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in numberless instances, if the Lord, in anger, granted them to thy...
33._And he consumed their days in vanity. _As the Psalmist here speaks of the whole people, as if he had said, that all without exception were speedily consumed, from the least even to the greatest, t...
In Psalms 78 the conduct of Israel is discussed by wisdom, historically as regards the whole people, but with very important principles brought out. There was not only a redemption of old, to which fa...
THEREFORE THEIR DAYS DID HE CONSUME IN VANITY,.... They were not immediately cut off by the hand of God, though some were; but the greatest part spent their time, for about eight and thirty years toge...
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. Ver. 33. _Therefore their days did he consume in vanity_] So that they never saw the promised land, for the which they came...
_Their days did he consume in vanity_ In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither, sometimes forward and sometimes backward, which they knew would never bring them, in their own persons, to th...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
Therefore their days did He consume in vanity, literally, "He caused their days to vanish in a breath," AND THEIR YEARS IN TROUBLE, with abrupt speed, for by His decision all the members of the nation...
1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the church m...
IN VANITY; in tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither, sometimes forward, and sometimes backward, which they knew would never bring them in their own persons to their promised and much-desire...
Psalms 78:33 days H3117 consumed H3615 (H8762) futility H1892 years H8141 fear H928 days -...
The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards their gracious God. Psalms 78:10. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; and forgat his works, and his w...
This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflected. Psalms 78:9. _The children of Ephraim, being...
CONTENTS: Israel's sins wherewith they had provoked God. The tokens of God's displeasure as the result. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: God's people limit Him by forgetfulness of His benefits (Ps...
Title. _Maschil of Asaph._ Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice o...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:32 The mighty works of God described in vv. Psalms 78:9 should have been enough reason for the people to be faithful, but they were not (v....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph_,” _i.e._, an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the celebrated Asaph in the time of David. _Occasion_.—...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed by mo...
Psa 78:1-72 is a psalm that rehearses the history of God's people. And the psalm was written in order to remind the children, the coming generation, of the works of the Lord. One of the important obli...
Deuteronomy 2:14; Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 1:2;...