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PSALM LXXVIII
_An enumeration of the principal effects of the goodness of God_
_to his people_, 1-16;
_of their rebellions and punishment_, 17-33;
_their feigned repentance_, 34-37;
_God's compas...
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GIVE EAR, O MY PEOPLE - This is not an address of God, but an address
of the king or ruler of the people, calling their attention to an
important subject; to wit, his right to rule over them, or showi...
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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 ...
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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...
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TITLE. MASCBIL. Instruction. The tenth of thirteen so named. See note
on Title, Psalms 82, and App-65.
OF ASAPH. by, or for Asaph. Asaph was. "seer" or prophet (2 Chronicles
29:30). This Psalm is con...
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Cp. the opening of Psalms 49, noting that while there -all peoples"
are addressed, in accordance with the wider scope of the teaching of
the -Wise Men," here Israel is addressed in the spirit of proph...
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The Psalmist's solemn invitation to his countrymen to listen to his
teaching. He proposes to set forth the lessons to be drawn from
Israel's past history, in obedience to God's command to hand on the...
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_An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. The
history of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. The
Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David._
Masch...
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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:...
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Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of
my mouth.
Psalms 78:1.-God's address, through Asaph, to Israel to hear His law
and His parabolic instruction. His past dealings w...
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LAW] RM 'teaching.'...
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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...
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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
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For the formal opening see Psalms 49:1, Note.
MY PEOPLE. — An expression pointing to a position of weight and
authority.
MY LAW. — Here, rather _instruction,_ or _doctrine.
_...
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מַשְׂכִּ֗יל לְ אָ֫סָ֥ף הַאֲזִ֣ינָה
עַ֭מִּי תֹּורָתִ֑י...
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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
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LEARNING FROM THE FATHERS
Psalms 78:1
This psalm is said to have arisen, from a strong controversy between
Judah and Ephraim as to the location of God's sanctuary, and its final
transfer within the l...
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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,...
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" (a) Maschil of Asaph." Give ear, O my people, [to] my (b) law:
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
(a) Read (Psalms 32:1).
(b) The prophet under the name of a teacher calls the people his,...
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Asaph, who might live during the captivity. (Calmet) --- If the
ancient (Haydock) Asaph, or David, composed this psalm, it must be
considered a prediction of the ruin caused by Nabuchodonosor, or by
E...
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CONTENTS
This Psalm, as the title sets forth, is a Maschil, that is, a Psalm of
instruction. It contains, in an historical method of relation, God's
gracious dealings with Israel as a people. In read...
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1._Give ear, O my people! to my law. _From the close of the psalm, it
may with probability be conjectured, that it was written long after
the death of David; for there we have celebrated the kingdom e...
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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...
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GIVE EAR, O MY PEOPLE,.... The Jews were Christ's people, he
descending from their fathers according to the flesh; they were his
own, to whom he came, though rejected by them; they were his nation
and...
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Psalms 78:1 «Maschil of Asaph. » Give ear, O my people, [to] my law:
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
_Maschil of Asaph_] _Ode didasealiea Asaphi._ The six first verses
are proemial, wooin...
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_Give ear, O my people_ In these words “the psalmist opens his
commission, and speaks as one having authority from above to instruct
the world. He demands a large and attentive audience, while, by a
s...
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Give ear, O my people, to my law, the religious teacher calling
attention to his instruction which he is now about to begin; INCLINE
YOUR EARS TO THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH, in the attitude of most careful...
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A REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY AS A SOURCE OF CONSOLATION.
Maschil of Asaph, a didactic poem, intended to instruct the children
of Israel in the wonderful ways of the Lord and to warn them against
apos...
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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...
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PSALM 78 THE ARGUMENT The scope of this Psalm is plainly expressed
PSALMS 78:6, and is this, that the Israelites might learn to hope and
trust in God, and steadfastly to keep his laws and covenant; wh...
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Psalms 78:1 Contemplation H4905 (H8688) Asaph H623 ear H238 (H8685)
people H5971 law H8451 Incline H5186 ...
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MASCHIL
Maschil, instruction....
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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...
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_Give ear, O My people, to My law; incline your ears to the words of
My mouth._
THE OBLIGATION TO OBEY GOD’S LAW
I. It is the law of your nature. The foundation of morality is laid
deep in human nat...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare
Psalms 105:1; P
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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_.—...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 16:14; Isaiah 51:4; Isaiah 55:3; Judges 5:3; Matthew 13:9
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My law — The doctrine which I am about to deliver....