Psalms 14:6

_YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR, BECAUSE THE LORD IS HIS REFUGE._ Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - understand, to accord with the first clause of Psalms 14:5, to which this clause is parallel, therefore ye shall be put to shame yourselves. This is elegantly left to be supplied: so certain is the connection between the sin (which is expressed) and its retribution in kind (which is to be understood). Thus the clause tallies with Psalms 53:5, "thou hast put them to shame." Also thus, the "because" follows naturally, ye shall be put to shame for shaming the God-relying counsel of the poor in their trials. BECAUSE THE LORD (IS) HIS REFUGE - parallel to (Psalms 14:5) "God is in the generat

6._Ye deride the counsel of the poor. _He inveighs against those giants who mock at the faithful for their simplicity, in calmly expecting, in their distresses, that God will show himself to be their deliverer. And, certainly, nothing seems more irrational to the flesh than to betake ourselves to God when yet he does not relieve us from our calamities; and the reason is, because the flesh judges of God only according to what it presently beholds of his grace. Whenever, therefore, unbelievers see the children of God overwhelmed with calamities, they reproach them for their groundless confidence, as it appears to them to be, and with sarcastic jeers laugh at the assured hope with which they rely upon God, from whom, notwithstanding, they receive no sensible aid. David, therefore, defies and derides this insolence of the wicked, and threatens that their mockery of the poor and the wretched,...

Verse Psalms 14:6. _YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR_] Instead of תבישו _tabishu_, "Ye have shamed," Bishop _Horsley_ proposes to read תבישם _tabishem_, and translates the clause thus: "The counsel of the helpless man shall put _them_ to shame." But this is not authorized by MS. or _version_. There is no need for any change: the psalmist refers to the _confidence_ which the afflicted people professed to have in God for their deliverance, which confidence the Babylonians turned into _ridicule_. The poor people took counsel together to expect help from God, and to wait patiently for it; and this counsel ye derided, because ye did not _know _- did not _consider_, that God was in the congregation of the righteous....

YE HAVE SHAMED - The address here is made directly to the wicked themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and, perhaps, in connection with the previous verse, to show them what occasion they had for fear. The idea in the verse seems to be, that as God was the protector of the “poor” who had come to him for “refuge,” and as they had “shamed the counsel of the poor” who had done this, they had real occasion for alarm. The phrase “ye have shamed” seems to mean that they had “despised” it, or had treated it with derision, that is, they had laughed at, or had mocked the purpose of the poor in putting their trust in Yahweh. THE COUNSEL - The purpose, the plan, the act - of the poor; that is, in putting their trust in the Lord. They had derided this as vain and foolish, since they maintained that there was no God...

EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De Wette). But "captivity" is often used metaphorically in Scripture (Job 42:10; Ezekiel 16:53; Romans 7:23; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 4:8, etc.); and to "return to the captivity "—which is the expression used in...

YOU HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR,.... The poor saints, the Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the poor of this world; poor in spirit, and an afflicted people: and the counsel of them intends not the counsel which they give to others, but the counsel which they receive from the Lord, from the Spirit of counsel, which rests upon them, and with which they are guided; and this is to trust in the Lord, and to make him their refuge; and which is good advice, the best of counsel. Happy and safe are they that take it! But this is derided by wicked and ungodly men; they mock at the poor saints for it, and endeavour to shame them out of it; but hope makes not ashamed; see Psalms 22:7; BECAUSE THE LORD [IS] HIS REFUGE: he betakes himself to him when all others fail; and finds him to be a refuge from the storm of impending calamities, and from all e

Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late; for now, they not only say it in their heart, but they say with their tongues, «There is no God.» Oh, no; I have made a mistake! They do not call them «fools» now; they call them «philosophers.» That, however, is often exactly the same thing. Psalms 14:1. _They are corrupt,_ It is always so. When they will have no God, they will have no goodness «They are corrupt.» That is the secret of infidelity. The psalmist has put his finger on it: «They are corrupt.» Psalms 14:1. They ha

Psalms 14 _ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_ 2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7) Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be when the Son of Man cometh. Here we have a prophetic forecast of these coming days of corruption and violence. Iniquity abounds, wickedness is on all sides. None doeth good, none seeketh after God. While all this is used by the Spirit of God in the Epistle to the Romans to describe the condition of the race at large, here dispensationally it describes the moral conditions in the end of the age. Psalms 14

PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text presented variants and corruptions which go back beyond the present compilation of the Heb. Pss. This Ps. was inserted in an early collection, and afterwards in the Elohistic Psalter, Psalms 42-83. In this latter collection the name Yahweh seldom occurs, Elohim (God) constantly replacing it. Hence whereas in Psalms 14 Yahweh is found four times, in Psalms 53 it is always replaced by God. In Psalms 14:4 each recension is corrupt, for though EV gives good sense it is not philologically justified. The addition of one letter would make this translation possible. Either emend thus or read, though they have eaten the bread of Yahweh, on Yahweh they have not called. In...

POOR . an oppressed one. Compare Psalms 9 and Psalms 10....