Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 78:65
That shouteth... — For the boldness of the image which likens God to a giant warrior exhilarated with wine we may range this with the picture in Psalms 60 (See Notes.)
That shouteth... — For the boldness of the image which likens God to a giant warrior exhilarated with wine we may range this with the picture in Psalms 60 (See Notes.)
Verse Psalms 78:65. _THEN THE LORD AWAKED_] He seemed as if he had totally disregarded what was done to his people, and the reproach that seemed to fall on himself and his worship by the capture of th...
THEN THE LORD AWAKED AS ONE OUT OF SLEEP - literally, as one sleeping; that is, as one who is asleep suddenly arouses himself. The Lord seemed to have slept, or to have been inattentive to what was oc...
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...
THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ changed "Jehovah" to "Adonai". See App-32. AS ONE OUT OF SLEEP. Supply _Ellipsis_ (App-6). "as one [awaketh] out of sleep"....
While His people were at the mercy of their enemies He seemed to be asleep. Cp. Psalms 44:23, note. _that shouteth_&c. Cp. Isaiah 42:13-14. "The daring figure of God's awaking as from sleep, and dashi...
At length Jehovah took pity on His people, and delivered them from their adversaries....
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:...
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. -Now Yahweh awakes as one out of sleep, and destroys His people's enemies, and restores the ark; but...
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...
For this bold figure cp. Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 42:14....
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
וַ יִּקַ֖ץ כְּ יָשֵׁ֥ן ׀ אֲדֹנָ֑י כְּ֝ גִבֹּ֗
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
GOD RAISES UP HIS SHEPHERD DAVID Psalms 78:59 This paragraph continues the history of the Judges, and tells the story of what befell after the battle in which Eli's sons were slain. See 1 Samuel 4:1....
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,...
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that (q) shouteth by reason of wine. (q) Because they were drunk in their sins, they judged God's patience to be slumbering, as thoug...
The history of the church is pursued through all these verses. But we must look farther than the history, and particularly in the close of the Psalm, which ends with a view of David as the chosen of G...
65._But the Lord awoke as one asleep. _Some understand this as spoken of the Israelites, implying that the Lord awoke against them; and others, as spoken of their enemies. If the first sense is adopte...
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...
THEN THE LORD AWAKED AS ONE OUT OF SLEEP,.... He seemed to be asleep, while he suffered the ark to be taken, and the Israelites to be slain; and he may be said to awake when he exerted his power in sm...
_Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine._ Ver. 65. _The Lord awaked as one out of sleep_] _Humanitus dictum; _ the Philistines haply had suc...
_Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep_, &c. “While, by his permission, the Philistines were chastising his people for their sins, he held his peace, and seemed unconcerned as one asleep: but when...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, for it had seemed to Israel that He had slumbered while the heathen were enslaving His people, AND LIKE A MIGHTY MAN THAT SHOUTETH BY REASON OF WINE, filled w...
56-72 After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, the children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptuous sins render even Israelites hateful to God's...
AWAKED AS ONE OUT OF SLEEP; for God, by giving up not only his people, but his ark, to the contempt and insolency of the Philistines, might seem to be asleep, and insensible of his own honour and inte...
Psalms 78:65 Lord H136 awoke H3364 (H8799) sleep H3463 man H1368 shouts H7442 (H8711) wine H3196 The
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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:65 God graciously answered Israel’s recurring pattern of sin by raising up David to be their king. THE LORD AWOKE AS FROM SLEEP. This is a bold image, conveying what the believ...
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...
Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 42:14; Isaiah 51:9; Psalms 44:23; Psalms 7:6...