Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 32:3
Verse Psalms 32:3. When I kept silence] Before I humbled myself, and confessed my sin, my soul was under the deepest horror. "I roared all the day long;" and felt the hand of God heavy upon my soul.
Verse Psalms 32:3. When I kept silence] Before I humbled myself, and confessed my sin, my soul was under the deepest horror. "I roared all the day long;" and felt the hand of God heavy upon my soul.
WHEN I KEPT SILENCE - The psalmist now proceeds to state his condition of mind before he himself found this peace, or before he had this evidence of pardon; the state in which he felt deeply that he w...
Psalms 32 Fullest Blessing _ 1. The blessedness of righteousness imputed (Psalms 32:1)_ 2. The blessedness of hiding-place (Psalms 32:6) 3. The blessedness of guidance and preservation ...
XXXII. PARDON OF SIN. Psalms 32:1 f. The joy of Divine pardon. Psalms 32:3. Sin remitted on confession. Psalms 32:6 f. The security of the godly. Read, in time of stress and omit surely....
KEPT SILENCE: from confession. Probably during the year referred to in 2 Samuel 12:1. ROARING. irrepressible anguish. Not yet articulate confession....
The illustration of this truth from the Psalmist's own experience. He kept silence, refusing to acknowledge his sin to himself and to God; but meanwhile God did not leave him to himself (Job 33:16 ff....
DISCOURSE: 547 TRUE BLESSEDNESS DECLARED Psalms 32:1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spi...
WHEN I KEPT SILENCE, MY BONES WAXED OLD— _Because I kept silence, my bones were consumed._ Mudge and Houb. See Proverbs 17:22....
Psalms 32, 33 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Felicitations to the Forgiven, and Examples of the Songs that they Sing. ANALYSIS Part I., Psalms 32. Stanza I., Psalms 32:1-4, Happy the Forgiven; yet Divine Discipl...
_WHEN I KEPT SILENCE, MY BONES WAXED OLD THROUGH MY ROARING ALL THE DAY LONG._ Here begins the main body of the psalm, detailing from his own case the grounds why the guilelessly-confessing and conse...
The subject of the Ps. is the happiness that follows the confession of sin and the experience of forgiveness. This is generally set forth at the beginning (Psalms 32:1). Then the Psalmist relates his...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
WHEN I KEPT. — He describes his state of mind before he could bring himself to confess his sin (the rendering of the particle _ki_ by _when,_ comp. Hosea 11:1, is quite correct). Like that knight of s...
כִּֽי ־הֶ֭חֱרַשְׁתִּי בָּל֣וּ עֲצָמָ֑י בְּ֝ שַׁאֲגָתִ֗י...
Psalms 32:1 ONE must have a dull ear not to hear the voice of personal experience in this psalm. It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from a heart tasting the sweetness of the new joy of...
THE SONG OF THE FORGIVEN Psalms 32:1 David wrote this psalm, Romans 4:6. _Maschil_ means “to give instruction.” We are deeply instructed as to the working of conscience. Compare with Psalms 51:1. Thi...
This is known as the second of the penitential psalms. It is the song of a man who is rejoicing in the assurance of restoration. Opening with a burst of praise which reveals the experimental knowledge...
_New. Interesting, like the canticle of the lamb, or of redemption, Apocalypse. [chap. v.?] Public worship and music are very useful, when performed with attention. (Berthier) --- The prophet invites...
I do not presume to say that Christ, as the sinner's Surety; is here speaking: but as the word Selah occurs at the close of this complaint, and as the words themselves correspond to some well-known wo...
Psalms 32 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 32-34 = _ Day 6_ (_Evening_)....
_THE COMFORT OF REPENTANCE_ ‘For while I held my tongue: my bones consumed away through my daily complaining. For Thy hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is like the drought in summe...
3._When I kept silence, my bones wasted away. _Here David confirms, by his own experience, the doctrine which he had laid down; namely, that when humbled under the hand of God, he felt that nothing wa...
Now (Psalms 32) we have what he wants still more the forgiveness of sins. The pressure of affliction turns him to God's law, but to the consciousness of having broken it. Righteousness in that sense h...
WHEN I KEPT SILENCE,.... Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it to God, being quite senseless and stupid; the Targum adds, "from the words of th...
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. Ver. 3. _When I kept silence_] _i.e._ While I, through guile of spirit (for this leaven of hypocrisy is more or less in th...
_When I kept silence_ Namely, from a full and open confession of my sins, and from pouring out my soul to God in serious and fervent prayers for pardon and peace. _My bones waxed old_ My spirits faile...
OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF A POOR SINNER. A psalm of David, Maschil, a contemplation, written probably after David had been restored to the grace of God, a little more than a year after his great sin wit...
When I kept silence, during that long year when he was conscious of his sin, but refused to acknowledge it, MY BONES WAXED OLD, wasting away, withering like a flower during the time of drought, THROUG...
3-7 It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and only way to peace of conscience, is, to confess ou...
WHEN I KEPT SILENCE, to wit, from a full and open confession of my sins, as appears from PSALMS 32:5, and from pouring out my soul to God in serious and fervent prayers for pardon and peace. Whilst I...
Psalms 32:3 silent H2790 (H8689) bones H6106 old H1086 (H8804) groaning H7581 day H3117 When -...
2). HE DESCRIBES THE PERIOD WHEN HE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO FIND REST IN HIS HEART BECAUSE GOD'S HAND WAS ON HIM GIVING HIM NO PEACE (3-4). Psalms 32:3 ‘When I kept silence, my bones wasted away, Throug...
Psalms 32 In this Psalm David gives to the world his experience as a sinner. I. He tells us of the blessedness of forgiveness. He is blessed (1) because his sins are taken away; (2) because his sins...
«A Psalm of David, Maschil»: that is to say, an instructive psalm: «Maschil.» I suppose that David wrote it after he had been forgiven and restored to divine favor. I think we may read it as a part o...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ No man knows the blessedness of pardoned sin but the man who has felt the weight of guilt upon his conscience. If y...
Psalms 32:1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silenc...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ That is a wonderful word, almost the same in Hebrew as in English, covered, hidden, concealed, put away, removed, d...
A Psalm of David, giving instruction. The thirty-second Psalm is a gospel benediction. It belongs not to the law; it is a word which can only come of sovereign grace to the guilty. The very first sent...
Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ The Lord can bless the man who is full of sin only when his sin is covered by the atonement the propitiation which...
This is a great psalm of grace, a psalm in which a sinner, cleansed by sovereign grace, adores and blesses the mercy of God. Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is...
In this Psalm we have the gospel of the peace of God as David knew it for himself, and wrote it for the benefit of others. Psalms 32:1. _Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is co...
«A Psalm of David, Maschil,» that is to say, an instructive Psalm. I suppose that David wrote it after he had been forgiven and restored to divine favour. I think we may read it as a part of our own e...
CONTENTS: The blessedness of those whose sin is forgiven. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The only cover that will hide our sins forever away from God's sight is that provided in the atoning dea...
This Psalm, as well as Psalms 51., is generally understood to have been composed after the prophet Nathan had alarmed the conscience of David for the sin against Uriah. It is a psalm of praise for par...
_When I kept silence, my bones waxed old._ UNCONFESSED SIN On several grounds we may set forth the urgency of the duty of making immediate and penitent confession of our sins unto God. I. every sin...
_Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered._ THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS Since the time of Origen, seven of the psalms have borne the name of Penitential; namely, Psalms 6:1; Psa...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 32:1. This is usually classified as a thanksgiving hymn. Worshipers thank God for the joy of having their sins forgiven. Since the psalm is about confession and forgiveness...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 32:3 Only those who are forgiven are truly happy. When the psalmist KEPT SILENT, refusing to confess his sins, God’s HAND was HEAVY UPON him. But this was mercif
INTRODUCTION “This is the second of the seven penitential psalms, as they are called, which, says Selnecker, ‘St. Augustine used often to read with weeping heart and eyes, and which before his death h...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been selected by the Church for one of the "seven penitential psalms." It forms a part of the service of the synagogue on the great Day of Atonement. Yet it is almost as much...
Now this next psalm is thought to have been written at the time of David's sin with Bathsheba. After the prophet of God, Nathan, had come to him and spoken to him of that sin. We will get another psal...
1 Samuel 31:13; 2 Samuel 11:27; 2 Samuel 12:1; 2 Samuel 21:12;...
Silence — From a full and open confession of my sins. Old — My spirit failed, and the strength of my body decayed. Roaring — Because of the continual horrors of my conscience, and sense of God's wrath...