Psalms 73:1
What meaning of the psalms 73:1 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 73:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart."
What does Psalms 73:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart."
PSALM LXXIII _The psalmist speaks of God's goodness to his people_, 1; _shows how much he was stumbled at the prosperity of the wicked,_ _and describes their state_, 2-12; _details the process of...
TRULY GOD IS GOOD TO ISRAEL - That is, to his people; to the righteous; to those who serve him. That is, God is the “real” friend of the righteous. He has not forgotten them. He does not abandon them....
III. THE LEVITICUS SECTION: BOOK THREE: PSALM 73-89 The third division of the book of Psalms corresponds in character to the third book of the Pentateuch, the book of Leviticus. That is the book of t...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after death...
TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ See App-65. OF ASAPH. The second of Asaph's twelve Psalms, Psalms 50 being the first. See App-63. TRULY, &C.. Nothing but good is God to Israel. Occurs three times i...
_Truly_ It is possible to render with R.V. marg., _Only good is God_. Though He permits His people to suffer, He is wholly loving-kindness toward them. Cp. Lamentations 3:25. But it is preferable to r...
DISCOURSE: 623 THE GOODNESS OF GOD TO ISRAEL Psalms 73:1. _Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart._ THE aversion which men usually feel to a vindication of God’s absolute s...
_The Prophet, prevailing in a temptation, sheweth the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked, the wound given thereby, diffidence; the victory over it, knowledge of god's purpose, in destroyin...
THE PSALMS BOOK THE THIRD Psalms 73 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Temptation, arising from the Prosperity of the Lawless, Triumphantly Overcome. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 73:1-5, Under Protest, the Psalmist...
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Psalms 73:1.-God is always good to the true Israel (Psalms 73:1); contrary appearances once shook his faith: the ungodly prosper i...
The conclusion reached by faith precedes the account of the struggle with doubt. OF A CLEAN HEART] a spiritual rather than a merely national conception of Israel....
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE PSALMS OF DAVID (BOOK 3). NOW I UNDERSTAND PSALMS 73 JESUS SAID, "MAKE SURE THAT YOUR VALUABLE THINGS ARE IN *HEAVEN". (MATTHEW 6:20) (*Heaven is the home of...
TRULY. — See Note, Psalms 62:2. This particle often, like the Latin _at,_ introduces a rejoinder to some supposed statement. Dryden’s lines express the feeling of this opening — “Yet sure the gods a...
מִזְמֹ֗ור לְ אָ֫סָ֥ף אַ֤ךְ טֹ֭וב לְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל אֱלֹהִ֗ים לְ בָרֵ֥י לֵבָֽב׃...
Psalms 73:1 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 49:1. It tells how the prosperity of the godless,...
DECEPTIVE PROSPERITY Psalms 73:1 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30. The r.v. margin substitutes _only_ for _surely_ in Psalms 73:1. There is none g...
The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tell...
"A Psalm of Asaph." Truly (a) God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart. (a) As it were between hope and despair he bursts forth into this affection, being assured that God woul...
_Understanding. Psalm xxxi. (Haydock) --- We behold here the destruction of the tabernacle by the Philistines, (Grotius) or rather of the temple, by Nabuzardan, (4 Kings xxv. 8., and Jeremias lii. 12....
CONTENTS The Prophet is engaged, in this Psalm, in a subject which hath called forth the astonishment of pious minds in all ages of the church; namely, the seeming prosperity of the wicked, and the a...
As to the author of this psalm, I am not disposed to contend very strongly, although I think it probable that the name of Asaph was prefixed to it because the charge of singing it was committed to him...
BOOK 3 - PSALMS 73-89 In the Third Book we get out into a larger sphere than the state of the residue of the Jews in the last days, whether in Jerusalem or driven out; and hence we find much less of t...
TRULY GOD IS GOOD TO ISRAEL,.... To Israel, literally understood; in choosing them to be his people above all people on earth; in bringing them into a good land; in favouring them with many external p...
Psalms 73:1 «A Psalm of Asaph. » Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart. _A Psalm of Asaph_] Who was not only an excellent musician, but a prophet also, an orator, and...
_Truly_, or _nevertheless_, &c. The beginning is abrupt, and sufficiently intimates that he had a great conflict within himself about the matter here spoken of, and that many doubts and objections wer...
Truly, God is good to Israel, only good, nothing but kindness and mercy, EVEN TO SUCH AS ARE OF A CLEAN HEART, for all members of the spiritual Israel have their hearts cleansed by faith, so that they...
TRULY: Or, yet OF A CLEAN HEART: _ Heb._ clean of heart...
1-14 The psalmist was strongly tempted to envy the prosperity of the wicked; a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many saints. But he lays down the great principle by which he resolved...
PSALM 73 THE ARGUMENT The subject of this Psalm is the same with PSA 77, concerning the promiscuous carriage of God's providence towards good and bad men Or, _for Asaph_, the famous musician, to whom...
Psalms 73:1 Psalm H4210 Asaph H623 God H430 good H2896 Israel H3478 pure H1249 heart H3824 Truly - or, Yet, Psalms 2:6, Psalms 42:11 God - Psalms 73:18-28, Psalms 84:11; Isaiah 63:7-9;...
Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly, o...
You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1....
CONTENTS: The temptation to envy the prosperity of wicked people and how to fortify ones self against it. The awful fate of the ungodly. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: Observing that many wicke...
The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:1. Eleven other psalms bear his name. Hezek...
_Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart._ THE TROUBLE OF ASAPH In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they shoul...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 73:1. This is a wisdom psalm. God’s people should trust him even when it seems unbelievers do not suffer because of their sin. They should remember the contrasting outcomes...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,”_ or, as in the margin, “_for Asaph_.” See introduction to Psalms 50. _Subject_.—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tempora...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by a great...
Psa 73:1-28 begins with an affirmation of a basic foundational truth concerning God. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart (Psalms 73:1). It is important that we have basi...
1 Chronicles 15:17; 1 Chronicles 16:37; 1 Chronicles 16:7; 1 Chronicles 25:1; 1 Chronicles 6:39; 2 Chronicles 29:30; Isaiah 63:7; James 4:8; Jeremiah 4:14;...
A clean heart — To all true Israelites, who love God, and serve him in spirit and truth....