Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 78:39
“And what’s a life? A blast sustained with clothing:
Maintained with food, retained with vile self-loathing;
Then, weary of itself, away to nothing.” —
QUARLES: Emblcms.
“And what’s a life? A blast sustained with clothing:
Maintained with food, retained with vile self-loathing;
Then, weary of itself, away to nothing.” —
QUARLES: Emblcms.
Verse Psalms 78:39. _HE REMEMBERED THAT THEY_ WERE BUT _FLESH_] Weak mortals. He took their feeble perishing state always into _consideration_, and knew how much they needed the whole of their state o...
FOR HE REMEMBERED THAT THEY WERE BUT FLESH - That they were human; that they were weak; that they were prone to err; that they were liable to fall into temptation. In his dealings with them he took in...
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...
HE REMEMBERED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ Compare "They forgat", Psalms 78:11. FLESH. Compare Genesis 6:3; Genesis 8:21.Psal
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....
_For_&c. And he remembered &c. _Flesh_denotes the frailty of human nature, including moral as well as physical weakness: _a wind_&c. symbolises the transitoriness of human life. Cp. Psalms 56:4; Psalm...
DISCOURSE: 635 THE EXTENT OF GOD’S MERCY Psalms 78:34. When he slew them, then they sought him; and they returned and inquired early after God: and they remembered that God was their Rock, and the hig...
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...
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
וַ֭ יִּזְכֹּר כִּי ־בָשָׂ֣ר הֵ֑מָּה ר֥וּחַ ה֝
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
“SIGNS IN EGYPT” Psalms 78:38 God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. _The Spirit… helpeth our infirmities_, Romans 8:26. In the words of Hosea, God teaches us “to go;” that...
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,...
What precious views are these of covenant love and covenant faithfulness: and how they all run up to the fountain-head of all our mercies, in the everlasting, free, spontaneous, and unchangeable love...
39._And he remembered that they were flesh. _Another reason is now brought forward why God had compassion on the people, which is, his unwillingness to try his strength against men who are so constitu...
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 HE REMEMBERED THAT THEY [WERE BUT] FLESH,.... Or "children of flesh", as the Targum; poor, frail, weak, mortal creatures, unable to bear the weight of his displeasure, the stroke of his hand, and...
For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. Ver. 39. _For he remembered that they were but flesh_] _i.e._ Frail and feeble, full of sin and misery.,...
_For he remembered they were but flesh_ He considered the corruption of their nature, which inclined them to evil, and was pleased to make that a reason for his sparing them. See the same argument use...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
For He remembered that they were but flesh, weak and sinful mortals; A WIND THAT PASSETH AWAY AND COMETH NOT AGAIN, altogether evanescent....
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...
FLESH; which here notes either, 1. The corruption of their natures, which was perpetually inclining them to sin, and consequently exposing them to God's wrath, which must needs have consumed them utt...
Psalms 78:39 remembered H2142 (H8799) flesh H1320 breath H7307 away H1980 (H8802) again H7725 (H8799)...
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 He remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again._ THE FRAILTY OF HUMAN NATURE I. The frailty of human nature impressively described. Two terms are used--...
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...
Genesis 6:3; James 4:14; Job 7:16; Job 7:7; John 3:6;...