Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:36
Lied — They made but false protestations of their sincere resolutions of future obedience.
Lied — They made but false protestations of their sincere resolutions of future obedience.
Verse Psalms 78:36. _NEVERTHELESS THEY DID FLATTER HIM WITH THEIR MOUTH_] What idea could such people have of God, whom they supposed they could thus deceive? They promised well, they called him thei...
NEVERTHELESS THEY DID FLATTER HIM WITH THEIR MOUTH - The word rendered “flatter” means properly “to open;” and hence, “to be open; to be ingenious or frank;” and then, to be easily persuaded, to be de...
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...
TONGUES. Hebrew. tongue (singular)...
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....
But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue (R.V.). As though God were a man who could be deceived by hypocrisy. Cp. Isaiah 29:13. According to the Massoratic recko...
DISCOURSE: 635 THE EXTENT OF GOD’S MERCY Psalms 78:34. When he slew them, then they sought him; and they returned and inquired early after God: and they remembered that God was their Rock, and the hig...
WHEN HE SLEW THEM, &C.— _When he slew them, and they sought him, and returned,_ &c.—Ver. 35. _And remembered,_ &c.—Ver. 36. _Though they did flatter him—and lied,_ &c.—Ver. 37. _And their heart,_ &c.—...
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...
78:36 flattered (b-3) The word means, 'make pretence,' elsewhere 'entice,' 'deceive.'...
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
וַ יְפַתּ֥וּהוּ בְּ פִיהֶ֑ם וּ֝ בִ לְשֹׁונָ֗ם
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,...
The history of Israel fully shows this. While under the divine chastisements, oh! how seemingly earnest they sought the Lord: but when the rod was taken off, they returned every man again to his evil...
36._And they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. _Here they are charged with perfidiousness, because they neither confessed their guilt with sincerity of heart, nor trul...
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...
NEVERTHELESS, THEY DID FLATTER HIM WITH THEIR MOUTH,.... In prayer to him, they only drew nigh to him with their mouths, and honoured him with their lips; they showed much love to him and his ways and...
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. _Ver 36. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth_] They looked pitifully, as the fox caught i...
_Nevertheless, they did flatter him with their mouth_ As if they thought, by mere fair speeches, to prevail on Him who searches the heart, and requires truth in the inward parts, to revoke the sentenc...
Nevertheless, they did flatter Him with their mouth, trying to appease Him with a feigned change of heart, AND THEY LIED UNTO HIM WITH THEIR TONGUES....
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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...
They made glorious but false professions and protestations of their sincere resolutions of future obedience, if God would spare them....
Psalms 78:36 flattered H6601 (H8762) mouth H6310 lied H3576 (H8762) tongue H3956 Nevertheless -...
Psalms 78:34 I. It is a subject well worthy of the serious consideration of all persons who desire to be in the safe way of salvation how commonly it happens that the best intentions and resolutions,...
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...
_Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth._ FLATTERING GOD I. Here is a world-wide enormity. 1. It is rampant in heathendom. Men “flatter” their gods. 2. It is prevalent in Christendom....
_When He slew them, then they sought Him: and they returned and inquired early after God._ ISRAEL’S HYPOCRITICAL REPENTANCE I. The acts of repentance which they performed. 1. Seeking God. 2. Retur...
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 5:28; Deuteronomy 5:29; Ezekiel 33:31; Hosea 11:12;...