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 of God in Christ to a nature like ours, that is crushed before the moth!
Verse Psalms 78:38. _BUT HE_, BEING _FULL OF COMPASSION_] Feeling for them as a _father_ for his children. _FORGAVE_ THEIR _INIQUITY_] יחפר _yechapper_, made an _atonement_ for their iniquity. _AND...
BUT HE, BEING FULL OF COMPASSION - literally, “But he, merciful,” That is, he was ready to forgive them. FORGAVE THEIR INIQUITY - literally, Atoned for, expiated, covered over their iniquity. There i...
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...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah_. App-44. DESTROYED. laid waste....
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....
This verse describes the general attributes of God, in virtue of which (Psalms 78:39) He spared Israel in spite of their guilt. Render: But he, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity and destro...
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...
WHEN HE SLEW THEM, &C.— _When he slew them, and they sought him, and returned,_ &c.—Ver. 35. _And remembered,_ &c.—Ver. 36. _Though they did flatter him—and lied,_ &c.—Ver. 37. _And their heart,_ &c.—...
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
The verbs in the first clause should be in the present, _But he, the compassionate, forgives iniquity, and doth not destroy, and many a time he turned away, &c. _...
וְ ה֤וּא רַח֨וּם ׀ יְכַפֵּ֥ר עָוֹן֮ וְֽ לֹא
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,...
But he, [being] full of compassion, (x) forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. (x) Because he would always h...
38._Yet he, being merciful, expiated their iniquity. _To show the more fully that no means had succeeded in bending the Israelites, and causing them to return to a sound state of mind, we are now info...
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...
BUT HE, BEING FULL OF COMPASSION,.... Or merciful; having bowels of mercy, as a tender mother to the son of her womb; a word from the same root as this signifies the womb: the mercies of God are tende...
But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. Ver. 38. _But he, being full of c...
_But he, being full of compassion_ Of pity for them amidst their sins and miseries; _forgave their iniquity_ Not simply and absolutely, for in that sense it is undeniably certain from the Holy Scriptu...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
But He, being full of compassion, of merciful patience, FORGAVE THEIR INIQUITY AND DESTROYED THEM NOT, especially since Moses interceded for them time and again; YEA, MANY A TIME TURNED HE HIS ANGER A...
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...
FORGAVE THEIR INIQUITY; not simply and absolutely, for so it is undeniably certain from the Holy Scriptures that God pardons none but true penitents, such as these were not; but respectively, and so f...
Psalms 78:38 compassion H7349 forgave H3722 (H8762) iniquity H5771 destroy H7843 (H8686) time H7235 (H8689) turned
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...
_But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not._ ALL GOOD REWARDED The whole Book of Judges may be said to be a commentary on these words, for it is a record of suc...
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...
1 Kings 21:29; Exodus 34:6; Isaiah 44:21; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 48:9;...