Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 94:12
Blessed — Those afflictions which are accompanied with Divine instructions are great and true blessings.
Blessed — Those afflictions which are accompanied with Divine instructions are great and true blessings.
Verse Psalms 94:12. _BLESSED_ IS _THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENEST_] תיסרנו _teyasserennu_, whom thou _instructest; and teachest him out of thy_ _law_. _Two_ points here are worthy of our most serious reg...
BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENEST, O LORD - “Happy the man;” or “Oh the blessedness of the man.” See the notes at Psalms 1:1. The word here rendered “chastenest” does not mean to chasten in the...
PSALM 94-100 Psalms 94 Prayer for the Execution of the Vengeance of God _ 1. The Prayer on account of the enemy (Psalms 94:1)_ 2. Expostulation with the wicked (Psalms 94:8) 3. The comfort of the...
XCIV. A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ON OPPRESSIVE RULERS AND FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THEM. Psalms 94:1. The wickedness of the arrogant. The bad rulers here are evidently Jews. They are oppressors, not invaders...
BLESSED. Happy. See App-63. MAN. Hebrew. _geber._...
BLESSED IS THE MAN— _How happy the man whom thou instructest, O Lord, and teachest out of thy law,_ (Psalms 94:13.) _to set him at ease from the days of evil, till the pit be digged for the wicked._ ...
Psalms 92-97 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Service of Song for a Sabbath Day. ANALYSIS Psalms 92: Personal SongProbably by a King. Psalms 93: Jehovah Proclaimed King. Psalms 94: Prayer for Vengeance on the...
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENEST, O LORD - literally, 'Oh the blessednesses of the man whom thou dost admoni...
94:12 Jah, (d-9) See Note c, Psalms 68:4 . man (g-4) _ Geber_ . see Job 3:3 ....
This is a national Ps., written at a time when Israel was oppressed by foreign enemies. It may be connected either with the days of the exile or with some later period of national distress. The openin...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD, SHOW THAT YOU ARE A GREAT *JUDGE! PSALMS 94 Jesus said, "I am a good *judge. I do not do what I want to do. I obey the words of (God) that sent me". ...
BLESSED. — A far higher note than one of mere complaint, or even of trust in God, is struck here. The beatitude of suffering could not be made altogether plain in the Old Testament, though in Job the...
אַשְׁרֵ֤י ׀ הַ גֶּ֣בֶר אֲשֶׁר ־תְּיַסְּרֶ֣נּוּ יָּ֑הּ...
Psalms 94:1 THE theme of God the Judge is closely allied to that of God the King, as other psalms of this group show, in which His coming to judge the world is the subject of rapturous praise. This ps...
THE LORD OUR DEFENSE AGAINST EVIL-DOERS Psalms 94:6 Let us ponder all the great things that God will do for them that trust Him. He planted the ear, and will detect the sigh, sob, or broken utterance...
The placing of this song immediately after the one which sets forth the fact of the enthronement of Jehovah is remarkable. It creates a contrast, while it suggests a continuity of ideas. The contrast...
Blessed [is] the man whom thou (h) chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; (h) God has care over his, and chastised them for their own good, that they should not perish for ever with the...
Here the subject takes a new turn. From appealing to men, the petitioner turns now unto the Lord; and he puts it down as an unquestionable truth, that, let men persecute how they may, or let the sorro...
12_Blessed is the man whom thou hast instructed, O God! _The Psalmist now passes from the language of censure to that of consolation, comforting himself and others of the Lord’s people with the truth,...
Psalms 94 gives us this cry, which is at the same time the expression of the fullest intelligence of their position, of the dealings of God, of the position of the wicked, and the result about to be p...
BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENEST, O LORD,.... Much more happy now, and hereafter, than the proud insulting persecutor of him; he is chastened of the Lord, that he might not be condemned with th...
Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; Ver. 12. _Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, &c._] And thereby effectest that his vain thoughts lodge not wit...
_Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest_ Not he that prospers in his wickedness is happy, but he whom the Lord chasteneth when he acts amiss, and thereby teaches to study and obey his law with the gr...
AGAINST TYRANTS IN THE CHURCH. The psalmist, whose name is not given, appeals to God in view of the oppression of the adversaries, who included not only the enemies from without, but also the tyrants...
Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord, correcting him in the manner in which a father chastises his child, AND TEACHEST HIM OUT OF THY LAW, giving him true understanding out of His eternal W...
12-23 That man is blessed, who, under the chastening of the Lord, is taught his will and his truths, from his holy word, and by the Holy Spirit. He should see mercy through his sufferings. There is a...
And whereas these ungodly persons esteem themselves the only happy men, and conclude thy people to be of all men the most miserable, because of the manifold persecutions and afflictions which they com...
Psalms 94:12 Blessed H835 man H1397 instruct H3256 (H8762) LORD H3050 teach H3925 (H8762) law H8451...
Psalms 94:12 I. The highest love is marked by its severity, for the absolute condition of it is that it will never rest till it has lifted up the man whom it reaches to a level with itself. The lower...
This is the prayer of a man of God in great trouble, standing out for God in an evil day, when the Lord's people were greatly oppressed, and the honour of God was being trampled in the mire. The praye...
Let us read this evening the ninety-fourth Psalm, and may the Spirit of God instruct us while we read it! Psalms 94:1. _O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, sh...
CONTENTS: An appeal to God to appear for His people against His and their enemies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There is a God to whom vengeance belongs who will certainly call enemies to...
This psalm was written under great oppression, in a time of war, but it bears no marks of being written in Babylon, for then they had no hope to rise against the wicked: Psalms 94:16. Psalms 94:6. _Th...
_O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth. .. show Thyself._ PERSECUTORS AND THEIR VICTIMS I. The awful condition of the wicked persecutor. The persecutors referred to (Psalms 94:1) are represented as...
_Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of Thy law._ BLESSED DISCIPLINE I. God’s children are under tuition. Other children may run about, and take holiday; they may wa...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 94:1. This is a community lament, written for a time when the wicked not only exult (v. Psalms 94:3) but also oppress the faithful (many of wh
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 94:12 The faithful, who receive instruction from God’s word and live by it (v. Psalms 94:12) are BLESSED. the L
INTRODUCTION “There is no superscription to this Psalm. There is no indication of its authorship, of the period at which it was written, or of the circumstances to which it refers. There are many of t...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is primarily (Psalms 94:1) a "cry for vengeance on Israel's oppressors, passing into an appeal for more faith to God's own people" (Cheyne). In the latter half (Psalms 94:12) the...
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth (Psalms 94:1); Now, it's hard for us to remember that. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Romans 12:19). So often we try to take vengeance ourse...
1 Corinthians 11:32; Hebrews 12:5; Job 33:16; Job 5:17; Micah 6:9;...