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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 73 A Psalm of Asaph. It seems by the title that Asaph was the penman of this psalm, as it is certain that he was a composer of psalms and hymns; see 2 Chronicles 29:30, though it may be rendered, "a psalm for Asaph", or "unto Asaph" (a); and might have David for its author, as some think, who, having penned it, sent it to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 privileges, civil and religious; in giving them his word, statutes, and ordinances, as he did not to other nations: or, spiritually understood, the...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This psalm, and the ten that next follow it, carry the name of Asaph in the titles of them. If he was the penman of them (as many think), we rightly call them psalms of Asaph. If he was only the chief musician, to whom they were delivered, our marginal reading is right, which calls them psalms for Asaph. It is probable that he penned them; for we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly God is good to Israel, — Settle that matter in your hearts, whatever doubts may distress or disturb your mind, fix this point as certain: “Truly God is good to Israel,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. He was a good man, one of the leaders in Israel, yet he had to make this confession, “My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. That must be true. Whatever we have seen or felt, it cannot be doubted but what God must become a good God to his own people, “Such as are of a clean heart.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. The psalmist knows that it must be so; he cannot doubt it, he lays it down as a proposition not to be disputed. Assuredly, “Truly, God is good to Israel.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. It must be so. Whatever argument my son may hold about it, I will set that down, to begin with, as a certainty—“Truly, God is good to Israel.” He cannot be unkind or unfaithful to his own people. It cannot be possible, after all—however things may look—that God is an ill-God and an...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Truly, or, more correctly, only, God is good to Israel. He is only good, nothing else but good to his own covenanted ones. He cannot act unjustly, or unkindly to them; his goodness to them is beyond dispute, and without mixture. Even to such as are of a clean heart. These are the true Israel, not the ceremonially clean but the really so;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But as for me,.... Who am one of the Israel of God whose heart has been renewed and purified by the grace of God, and to whom he has been kind and good in a thousand instances; yet, ungrateful creature that I am, my feet were almost gone; out of the good ways of God, the ways of truth and holiness just upon the turn, ready to forsake them, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. I began to envy those whom God hates, and to think that it would be better for me to have been one of them.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. “I was almost seduced to sin; I seemed as if I must fall into iniquity.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh dipped. Am I, then, one of his people or not? I know he is good to them; but how about myself? Perhaps some here will never question themselves in that way, and if they were led to do so, they would think it was of the devil. I do not think so. I think it is rather of the devil to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I was envious at the foolish,.... The atheists, as in Psalms 14:1, who deny the creation, as Arama; the wicked, as after explained, as all wicked men are, how wise soever they may be in things natural and civil, yet in religious things, in things of a spiritual nature, they have no understanding; they are proud boasters, glory in themselves,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. Many of them have so stifled conscience that it does not trouble them even in that last dread hour, and they pass into eternity with blinded eyes, self-deluded to the last.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. It really looked as if the big rogues did prosper, as if the great infidels were happy, as if, after all, religion brought trouble, and irreligion brought pleasure.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. I know that wicked men are fools. Asaph and David had often said that before. Yet says he, “I was a greater fool, still, that I was envious of these fools—when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For there are no bands in their death,.... Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of body, but die at once, suddenly, in a moment, wholly at ease and quiet, without any bitterness of soul; see Job 21:13, or "there are no bands until their death" (f); they have no straits nor difficulties...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. Their unbelief helps them to die in peace, mocking at God even to the last.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength was firm. Some of them so stifle conscience that they even die stupefied, with no sense of the dreadful wrath that is coming upon them: “There are no bands in their death.”