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Psalms 78:32-39
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.
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.
Verse Psalms 78:32. _FOR ALL THIS THEY SINNED STILL_] How astonishing is this! They were neither _drawn_ by _mercies_, nor _awed_ by _judgments_! But we shall cease to wonder at this, if we have a tho...
FOR ALL THIS THEY SINNED STILL - Even this did not reclaim them, and prevent their sinning. Heavy judgments do not always restrain men from sin. Not unfrequently they take occasion from such judgments...
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...
FOR ALL THIS. In, or amid all this....
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...
DISCOURSE: 633 OBSTINACY IN SIN REPROVED Psalms 78:32. _For all this, they sinned still._ THE history of the Israelites in the wilderness should not be considered as the history of that people only,...
BELIEVED NOT FOR, &C.— _Believed not,_ &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...
78:32 in (f-10) Or 'by.'...
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....
בְּ כָל ־זֹ֭את חָֽטְאוּ ־עֹ֑וד וְ לֹֽא
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,...
For all this they (s) sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. (s) Thus sin by continuance makes man insensible, so that by no plagues they can be amended....
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...
32._For all this they still sinned. _It is a common proverb, that fools become wise when the rod is applied to them. Hence it follows, that those who have often been chastised of God, and yet are not...
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...
FOR ALL THIS THEY SINNED STILL,.... Those that survived, not being brought to repentance by mercies, nor by judgments; not by mercies, such as before mentioned, though they were great and many, and so...
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. Ver. 32. _For all this they sinned still_] They utterly lost the fruit of their calamities; which godly men hold a very great...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
For all this they sinned still, refusing to let the punishments of the Lord lead them to repentance, AND BELIEVED NOT FOR HIS WONDROUS WORKS, even His miracles did not succeed in bringing about a last...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 78:32 sinned H2398 (H8804) believe H539 (H8689) works H6381 (H8737) they sinned -...
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...
_For all this they sinned still _ SINNING STILL 1. God’s revelation of His power, goodness, love and grace to the sinners of our day, in the completed canon of the Holy Scriptures, infinitely trans...
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...
Ezekiel 20:13; John 12:37; Luke 16:31; Numbers 14:1; Numbers 17:13;...