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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 Asaph, to be made use of by him in public service;...
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 Israel whom God has chosen, redeemed, and called by...
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 read of the words of David and of Asaph the seer,...
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; those who are clean in the inward parts, pure in...
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,” —
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.”
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.”
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.”
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 ill-Master to his own servants.