Verse Psalms 107:17. _FOOLS BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION_] This is the THIRD _comparison_; the captivity being compared to _a person in a_ _dangerous malady_. Our Version does not express this clau...
FOOLS, BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION - Wicked people, considered as fools, because they “are” transgressors. Compare Psalms 14:1, note; Psalms 73:3, note; Psalms 75:4, note. The immediate allusion he...
THE DEUTERONOMY SECTION: BOOK FIVE: PSALM 107-150 The final section of the book of Psalms, the fifth, is just like Deuteronomy. It shows God's ways with Israel, the end of these ways in deliverance n...
BOOK V. PSS. CVII.- CL. CVII. A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Yahweh's Special Goodness. It is divided at Psalms 107:8 f., Psalms 107:15 f., Psalms 107:21 f.,...
FOOLS. the Perverse, depending on their own wisdom, which is foolishness with God (1 Corinthians 1:20). Compare Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 12:15;...
FOOLS BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION— _The foolish, who depart from his way, and are brought low by their iniquities.—_Ver. 18. _Whose soul loatheth all manner of food, and who draw near to the gates...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE FIFTH[474] [474] See Table II., _ante._ PSALMS 107 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Examples of Men's Straits, leading to Prayer; and of Jehovah's Deliverance, calling for Praise. ANALYSIS...
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. FOOLS - sinners, in Bible diction; because sin is suicidal folly. BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION - literally, '...
BOOK 5 This book, which seems originally to have been joined with Book 4, contains forty-four Pss., the vast majority of which are of late date. The contents of these Pss. are a surer guide to the per...
A new illustration. Read, probably, 'Sick men, because of the way of their transgression,' etc....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ INTRODUCTION Here are some of the things that you should know as you read the psalms in this book. 1. At the top of each psalm (say it "sarm") is a title in DARK...
FOOLS — _i.e., infatuated in wickedness._ (Comp. the noun foolishness in Psalms 38:5 with the same ethical sense; and comp. Job 5:3 and the frequent connection of folly with sin in the book of Proverb...
(17-22) The sick....
אֱ֭וִלִים מִ דֶּ֣רֶךְ פִּשְׁעָ֑ם וּֽ֝ מֵ עֲוֹ
Psalms 107:1 NOTWITHSTANDING the division of Books which separates Psalm evil from the two preceding, it is a pendant to these. The "gathering from among the heathen" prayed for in Psalms 106:41 has h...
“HIS WONDERS IN THE DEEP” Psalms 107:17 Sickness yields the third type of suffering. Emphasis is laid on the cause of the suffering, which in the view of the writer is transgression and sin. We shall...
WE now begin the fifth and last book of the Psalter. In this book the music is richest and fullest. It begins in this psalm on the fundamental notes, and rises through major and minor, by the way of t...
(g) Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. (g) They who have no fear of God, by his sharp rods are brought to call on him, and so find mercy....
Under another similitude, the Psalmist here sets forth the miseries of our fallen nature, in order to display the benignity and compassion of Heaven in our recovery. When sin entered into the world, s...
17_Fools are afflicted on account of the way of their transgression. _He comes to another species of chastisement. For as he observed above, that those were given over to captivity who refused to yiel...
BOOK 5 - PSALMS 107-150 In the fifth Book the people are looked at as brought back, and a general survey of God's ways taken, with a kind of divine commentary on it all, ending, as all His ways surel...
FOOLS, BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION,.... Or, "because of the way" h "of it"; their sinful course of life; for it is not for a single transgression they are afflicted, but for a continued series of s...
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Ver. 17. _Fools because of their transgression_] _Propter viam defectionis sum,_ by means of their defection, the...
_Fools_ That is, wicked men whom he calls _fools_, because through their own sin and folly they wrong themselves, and act against their own interest; not only their spiritual, but their secular intere...
Fools because of their transgression, men devoid of proper mentality, as they prove themselves to be by indulging in sins which invariably carry their own punishment with them, like immorality and int...
The next section treats of those who foolishly bring misery upon themselves by willful indulgence in sin....
17-22 If we knew no sin, we should know no sickness. Sinners are fools. They hurt their bodily health by intemperance, and endanger their lives by indulging their appetites. This their way is their f...
FOOLS, i.e. wicked men, whom he calls _fools_, because of the mischiefs which through their own folly they bring upon themselves. BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION, Heb. _because of the way of their tran...
Psalms 107:17 Fools H191 because H1870 transgression H6588 iniquities H5771 afflicted H6031 (H8691) Fools -...
The psalmist exhorteth the redeemed, in praising God, to observe the different forms of his mercy. He views the chosen people as travelers, captives, sick men, and seamen, and in each of these classes...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ Because we are sinners God's goodness takes the form of mercy. Mercy this was what we wanted; therefore,...
Psalms 107:1. _O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In the heading of this Psalm we are reminded that the psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising God...
CONTENTS: God's wisdom, power and goodness celebrated. Man's deplorable forgetfulness of His mercies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who have no special matter for praise may furnish t...
This psalm begins the fifth and last book of the Hebrew psalter. It is divided into five parts or pauses, as it would seem, in the singing and the music. The character of the composition, though diver...
_O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy en-dureth for ever._ MEN AND MERCY I. Men consciously needing the mercy of Heaven. Morally, we are all distressed travellers, captives, in...
_Fools, because of their transgression and because of their iniquities, are afflicted._ THE HISTORY OF SUNDRY FOOLS Here are four pictures, and you may find your likeness in one of the four; but, be...
INTRODUCTION Many expositors are of opinion that this Psalm was written to celebrate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile. This opinion is based chiefly on Psalms 107:2. But the Psalm as a...
EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity (Psalms 107:1), and then for other deliverances (Psalms 107:4), passing into a general account of God's provident...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 107:1-43. The hundred and seventh psalm begins with an exhortation to us to Give thanks unto the LORD (Psalms 107:1), And the basis for the thanksgiving is His...
Isaiah 57:17; Isaiah 57:18; Jeremiah 2:19; Lamentations 3:39;...
Afflicted — With sickness....