His people] the followers and imitators of the wicked man. Return hither] better, 'turn hither,' after the wicked man's example. Wrung out to (RV 'by') them] rather, 'are supped up by them.' They drink in the wicked man's principles, or share in his prosperity: see PBV.
12-14 are best understood as the utterance of the Psalmist's doubts.
Verse Psalms 73:10. _THEREFORE HIS PEOPLE RETURN HITHER_] There are very few verses in the Bible that have been more variously translated than this; and, like the man in the fable, they have blown th...
THEREFORE HIS PEOPLE - Those that truly love God; the pious in the earth. RETURN HITHER - Return to this subject. In their musings - their meditations on divine things - they come back to this inquiry...
III. THE LEVITICUS SECTION: BOOK THREE: PSALM 73-89 The third division of the book of Psalms corresponds in character to the third book of the Pentateuch, the book of Leviticus. That is the book of th...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after death...
HIS PEOPLE. God _'_. people. RETURN. tum: i.e. follow. HITHER. to us. (Spoken by the wicked.) ARE. shall be. WRUNG OUT TO. drained by....
Faith tried by the sight of the prosperity of the wicked....
A difficult verse. The general sense appears to be that attracted by the prosperity and pretensions of the wicked a crowd of imitators turn to follow them, and in their company drink to the dregs the...
The mass of men are carried away by their evil example....
THEREFORE HIS PEOPLE RETURN HITHER— _"Therefore God's people falleth off to them, and from thence they reap no small advantage."_ Green. Mudge renders it, _Therefore, let his people come before them,...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE THIRD Psalms 73 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Temptation, arising from the Prosperity of the Lawless, Triumphantly Overcome. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 73:1-5, Under Protest, the Psalmist...
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. THEREFORE HIS PEOPLE RETURN HITHER. In consequence of the prosperity attending the wicked, Yahweh's people () fo...
73:10 turn (d-4) Or 'Therefore he turns his people.'...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE PSALMS OF DAVID (BOOK 3). NOW I UNDERSTAND PSALMS 73 Jesus said, "Make sure that your valuable things are in *heaven". ...
THEREFORE. — The Prayer Book version has undoubtedly caught the meaning here. It plainly describes the popularity gained (the surest way) by the self-applause described in the preceding verse. This ve...
לָכֵ֤ן׀ _יָשׁ֣וּב_† עַמֹּ֣ו הֲלֹ֑ם וּ מֵ֥י מָ֝לֵ֗א...
Psalms 73:1 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 49:1. It tells how the prosperity of the godless,...
DECEPTIVE PROSPERITY Psalms 73:1 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30. The r.v. margin substitutes _only_ for _surely_ in Psalms 73:1. There is none go...
The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tell...
Therefore his (e) people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them. (e) Not only the reprobate, but also the people of God often fall back seeing the prosperous estate of the wi...
He here draws the outlines of the prosperity of the wicked: they have all carnal enjoyments, the good things brought forth by the sun, and the precious things put forth by the moon: they have plenty o...
10._On this account his people will return hither. _Commentators wrest this sentence into a variety of meanings. In the first place, as the relative _his _is used, without an antecedent indicating who...
BOOK 3 - PSALMS 73-89 In the Third Book we get out into a larger sphere than the state of the residue of the Jews in the last days, whether in Jerusalem or driven out; and hence we find much less of t...
THEREFORE HIS PEOPLE RETURN HITHER,.... Either the true people of God, and so the Targum, the people of the Lord, and whom the psalmist owned for his people; for the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac,...
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them. Ver. 10. _Therefore his people return hither_] _i.e._ Some good men are as wise (or rather as foolish) as I have...
_Therefore his people return hither_ “It seems impossible to ascertain,” says Dr. Horne, “with any degree of precision, the meaning of this verse, or to whom it relates. Some think it intends those pe...
COMFORT AND WARNING CONCERNING THE OFFENSE GIVEN BY THE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS. A psalm of Asaph, one of the choirmasters of David, 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:2. A Reflection upon the...
Therefore his people return hither, the multitude of the godless ever rallying round such an arrogant declaimer of blasphemies and slanders; AND WATERS OF A FULL CUP ARE WRUNG OUT TO THEM, prosperity...
1-14 The psalmist was strongly tempted to envy the prosperity of the wicked; a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many saints. But he lays down the great principle by which he resolved...
HIS PEOPLE; either, 1. The people of those wicked blasphemers; all their children, and servants, and friends, encouraged by their example. Or rather, 2. The people of God, who is oft understood under...
Psalms 73:10 people H5971 return H7725 (H8799) (H8675) H7725 (H8686) here H1988 waters H4325 full...
Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly, o...
You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1....
Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim the clear vision of faith. Psalms 73:1. _Truly Go...
The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he also knew that he was greatly tried, whereas he sa...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; and you shall find that those who sing the sweetest t...
CONTENTS: The temptation to envy the prosperity of wicked people and how to fortify ones self against it. The awful fate of the ungodly. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: Observing that many wicked...
The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:1. Eleven other psalms bear his name. Hezek...
_Therefore His people return hither, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them._ THE FULL CUP FOR CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE It is great comfort to meet amid the many references to the ungodly the me...
_Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart._ THE TROUBLE OF ASAPH In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they should...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:1. This is a wisdom psalm. God’s people should trust him even when it seems unbelievers do not suffer because of their sin. They should remember the contrasting outcomes...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:4 This section describes the apparently carefree lives of the arrogant wicked of v. Psalms 73:3. Verse...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,”_ or, as in the margin, “_for Asaph_.” See introduction to Psalms 50. _Subject_.—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tempora...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by a great...
Psa 73:1-28 begins with an affirmation of a basic foundational truth concerning God. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart (Psalms 73:1). It is important that we have basi...
Psalms 75:8...
Turn — To this wicked company. Waters — And partake of the same prosperity with their leaders. God seems to give them a full cup of consolation, as if he would wring out all his blessings upon them....