Psalms 1:4
What meaning of the psalms 1:4 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 1:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away."
What does Psalms 1:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away."
Verse Psalms 1:4. _THE UNGODLY_ ARE _NOT SO_] The _Vulgate_ and _Septuagint_, and the versions made from them, such as the _AEthiopic_ and _Arabic_, double the last negation, and add a clause to the...
THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO - literally, “Not thus the wicked.” For the word ungodly, see the notes at Psalms 1:1. The statement that the “wicked are not so,” is a general statement applicable alike to the...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE GENESIS SECTION: BOOK ONE:Psalm 1-41 Psalm 1-8 Psalms 1 The Godly and the Ungodly _ 1. The godly, his character and his fruit (Psalms 1:1)_ 2. The ungodly in com...
BOOK I. PSS. I- XLI. I. The Jewish Saint. This and Psalms 2 (see, however, on Psalms 33) are the only Pss. in Book I. which have no title or superscription. In Acts 13:33, there is very ancient autho...
ARE NOT SO, &C.. not so the ungodly. LIKE THE CHAFF. The other comparison. See Psalms 1:3. Compare Psalms 35:5. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
In sharp contrast to the firmly-rooted, flourishing, fruitful tree is the chaff on the threshing-floor, worthless in itself, and liable to be swept away by every passing breeze. The scattering of cha...
LIKE THE CHAFF— This comparison is frequently used by the Psalmist, and it receives great illustration and emphasis, when we consider that the people of Judea had their threshing-floors on an eminence...
BOOK THE FIRST Psalms 1 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Righteous Man and the Lawless Contrasted. ANALYSIS The Righteous man DescribedPsalms 1:1-3: by what he Does NotPsalms 1:1; _by_ what he DoesPsalms 1:2...
_THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO: BUT ARE LIKE THE CHAFF WHICH THE WIND DRIVETH AWAY._ (Job 21:18; Hosea 13:3; cf. Matthew 3:12.) In the East threshing floors are placed on a height; the threshed grain is thr...
of the Messianic hope in Psalms 2, 20, 28,, 40. The following Pss. are either quoted from or distinctly referred to in NT.: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 32, 34, 40, 41. In several instances the...
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...
THE UNGODLY. — Better, _Not so the ungodly._ BUT ARE LIKE. — They shall be winnowed out of the society of the true Israel by the fan of God’s judgment. The image is a striking one, although so freque...
לֹא ־כֵ֥ן הָ רְשָׁעִ֑ים כִּ֥י אִם ־כַּ֝ † מֹּ֗ץ אֲֽשֶׁר ־תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּ רֽוּחַ׃...
Psalms 1:1 THE Psalter may be regarded as the heart's echo to the speech of God, the manifold music of its windswept strings as God's breath sweeps across them. Law and Prophecy are the two main elem...
THE TWO WAYS AND THE TWO ENDS Psalms 1:1 Like a signpost, this psalm points the road to blessedness. The opening word may be read, “Oh, the blessedness!” The psalm begins with the same message as th...
The master thought of this psalm is the law of Jehovah. The obedient and disobedient are placed in sharp contrast. This contrast is vividly seen by bringing together the first and last words of the ps...
(d) The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away. (d) Though the wicked seem to prosper in this world, yet the Lord drives them down that they shall not rise nor sta...
_Not so. Hebrew, "but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away." (Haydock) --- They are inconstant (St. Jerome) in the good resolutions which they sometimes form. (Haydock) (Job xxi. 18.) --- Th...
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Here is a sad contrast! All that are not ingrafted in Jesus, the heavenly vine, their blossom shall go up as the dust, and...
The Psalmist might, with propriety, have compared the ungodly to a tree that speedily withers, as Jeremiah likens them to the heath which grows in the wilderness, (Jeremiah 17:6) But not reckoning thi...
BOOK 1 - PSALMS 1-41 The first book may be in general thus divided into distinct parts. The first eight psalms form a whole, an introductory whole to the entire collection of Psalms. This series may b...
THE UNGODLY [ARE] NOT SO,.... They are not as the good man is; their manner and course of life are different; they walk in the counsel of ungodly men, like themselves, and take counsel against the Lor...
The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Ver. 4. _The ungodly are not so_] Not like any such tree before described, but rather like the cypress tree, which, the...
_The ungodly are not so_ Their condition is far different; _but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away_ Withered and worthless, restless and unquiet, without form or stability, blown about by...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE UNGODLY. All men are sinners: all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23. No man is able to stand before God, by virtue of his own ri...
4-6 The ungodly are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition. The ungodly are not so, ver. 4; they are led by the counsel of the wicked, in the way of sinners, to the seat of the...
THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO; their condition is far differing from the former. BUT ARE LIKE THE CHAFF; in regard either, 1. Of their sinful disposition. They are vain and frothy, unprofitable and hurtful,...
Psalms 1:4 ungodly H7563 chaff H4671 wind H7307 away H5086 (H8799) like - Psalms 35:5; Job 21:18; Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 29:5; Hosea 13:3; Matthew 3:12...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS (PSALMS 1:4). ‘Not so the wicked! They are like the chaff which the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the asse...
Psalms 1 Ver. 1. There are cases in which without a figure "ignorance is bliss." Observe that all the characters mentioned here may have their excellences and their attractions; for example, the ungo...
CONTENTS: The two ways of man. CHARACTERS: God, righteous man, ungodly man. CONCLUSION: Blessed is the man whose footsteps are ordered by the Word of God for he shall find both peace and prosperity....
Psalms 1:1. _Man,_ אישׁ _Ish,_ a prince, a ruler, a patriarchal or family man, a man of high degree, as in Psalms 62:9. This is a running word in the psalms, while _Adam,_ the word of contrast with _I...
_Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly._ THE 1ST PSALM, INTRODUCTORY This Psalm seems to have been placed first in the collection because, from its general character and s...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 1:1. The first psalm serves as the gateway into the entire book of Psalms 1:1. Those who would worship God genuinely must embrace his Law (or Torah), his covenant instructio...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm seems to have been placed first in the collection, because, from its general character and subject, it formed a suitable introduction to the rest. It treats of the blessednes...
EXPOSITION IT is remarkable that neither the first nor the second psalm has any title. Titles are so much the rule in the first and second books of the Psalter, that, when they are absent, their abse...
Shall we turn to the Psalms, beginning tonight with the first psalm. The Psalms are actually divided into five books. It was really the hymnbook for the nation of Israel. They were sung in their origi...
Hosea 13:3; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 29:5; Job 21:18; Matthew 3:12; Psalms 35:5...
THE PREFATORY PSALMS Psalms 1:1, _Psalms 2:1, and Psalms 3:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm. It gives you the k...
Ungodly — Their condition is far different. Chaff — They are restless and unquiet: their seeming felicity, hath no firm foundation, but quickly vanishes and flees away as chaff before the wind....