Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 73:24
The experience of God's fellowship contains in itself a promise that it will continue and become closer. This thought plainly leads to belief in immortality.
The experience of God's fellowship contains in itself a promise that it will continue and become closer. This thought plainly leads to belief in immortality.
Verse Psalms 73:24. _THOU SHALT GUIDE ME WITH THY COUNSEL_] After we have suffered awhile, receiving directions and consolations from thy good Spirit, by means of thy prophets, who are in the same ca...
THOU SHALT GUIDE ME WITH THY COUNSEL - With thy advice; with thy teaching. This implies two things: (a) his belief that God “would” do this, notwithstanding his folly; and (b) his purpose that God “...
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...
Faith triumphant in the conviction of an ultimate judgement and the consciousness of the supreme blessedness of fellowship with God....
_with thy counsel_ Tacitly he contrasts the course of his life with that of the wicked, for counsel is an attribute of the Divine Wisdom (Proverbs 8:14), which the wicked despise (Proverbs 1:25; Prove...
The _positive_solution of the Psalmist's perplexity: the only true and abiding happiness is to be found in fellowship with God....
DISCOURSE: 625 THE CHRISTIAN’S EXPERIENCE AND HOPES Psalms 73:23. _I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to...
THOU SHALT GUIDE ME WITH THY COUNSEL, &C.— See Psalms 49:15. That the future wretched state of wicked men is understood in the preceding verses, seems further evident, from its being opposed to the ha...
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...
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. -He condemns his past beastlike folly and expresses his assurance of God's presence and guidance, notwithstanding his folly. Verse 21. THU...
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". ...
TO GLORY. — Better, _With honour,_ as LXX. and Vulg.; or _achar_ may be taken as a preposition: _Lead me_ _after honour, i.e.,_ in the way to get it. The thought is not of a reward after death, but o...
בַּ עֲצָתְךָ֥ תַנְחֵ֑נִי וְ֝ אַחַ֗ר כָּבֹ֥וד...
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,...
The true place in which to form a right estimate of life is where Asaph found it-in the sanctuary of God; because from its elevation and the purity of its atmosphere, one can take into view the unseen...
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...
It were a pity to separate these verses, and the devout and happy frame which appears through the whole of them. Reader! what a thought is that one, Nevertheless I am continually with, thee! An union...
24._Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel. _As the verbs are put in the future tense, the natural meaning, in my opinion, is, that the Psalmist assured himself that the Lord, since by his leading he ha...
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...
THOU SHALT GUIDE ME WITH THY COUNSEL,.... Which is wise and prudent, wholesome, suitable, and seasonable, hearty, sincere, and faithful, and which is freely given, and when taken, infallibly succeeds:...
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory. Ver. 24. _Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel_] We had his repentance, Psalms 73:21,22, his faith, Psalms 73:23, and here w...
_Thou shall guide me_, &c. As thou hast kept me hitherto, in all my trials, so I am persuaded thou wilt lead me still into, and in, the right way, and keep me from straying from thee, or falling into...
The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth...
Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel for God shows each of His children on which paths they should go forward, AND AFTERWARD RECEIVE ME TO GLORY, when he has reached the goal, his soul's salvation, re...
21-28 God would not suffer his people to be tempted, if his grace were not sufficient, not only to save them from harm, but to make them gainers by it. This temptation, the working of envy and discon...
THOU SHALT GUIDE ME: as thou hast kept me hitherto in all my trials, so I am assured thou wilt lead me still into right paths, and keep me from wandering or straying from thee, or falling into mischie...
Psalms 73:24 guide H5148 (H8686) counsel H6098 afterward H310 receive H3947 (H8799) glory H3519 Thou -...
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...
Psalms 73:22 I. Consider the character and condition of this man at first, and before he was turned to the Lord: "So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before Thee." He acted the fool beca...
«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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory._ GOD-GUIDED FREEDOM Some, as the Church of Rome, would deny to men the right of free thought. They appeal to authority, and t...
_So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before Thee._ FLESH AND SPIRIT A RIDDLE What secrets of inward experience we have in our text. Consider-- I. The confessions concerning the flesh....
_If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of Thy children._ SEARCHING AND FINDING RELIEF IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION . Searching for relief in the right direction (Psalm...
_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 73:21 Even when the singer harbored his bitter thoughts, God still had a firm hold on him: I AM CONTINUALLY WITH YOU; YOU HOLD MY RIGHT HAND. During the singer’s earthly life, you...
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...
1 Peter 1:4; 1 Peter 1:5; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Acts 7:59; Isaiah 30:21;...