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geneva@Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of (note:)That is, of the country of Idumea, (Lam_4:21), or bordering on it: for the land was called by the name of Uz, the son of Dishan, the son of Seir (Gen_36:28).(:note) Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and Since he was a Gentile and not a Jew and yet is pronounced upright and without hypocrisy, it declares that among the heathen God revealed himself. upright, and By this it is declared what is meant by an upright and just man. one that feared God, and eschewed evil. The Argument - In this history the example of patience is set before our eyes. This holy man Job was not only extremely afflicted in outward things and in his body, but also in his mind and conscience, by the sharp temptation of his wife and friends: who by their vehement words and subtle disputations brought him almost to despair. They set forth God as a sincere judge, and mortal enemy to him who had cast him off, therefore in vain he should seek him for help. These friends came to him under pretence of consolation, and yet they tormented him more than all his afflictions did. Even so, he constantly resisted them, and eventually succeeded. In this story we must note that Job maintains a good cause, but handles it badly. His adversaries have an evil matter, but they defend it craftily. Job held that God did not always punish men according to their sins, but that he had secret judgments, of which man knew not the cause, and therefore man could not reason against God in it, but he should be convicted. Moreover, he was assured that God had not rejected him, yet through his great torments and afflictions he speaks many inconveniences and shows himself as a desperate man in many things, and as one that would resist God, and this is his good cause which he handles well. Again the adversaries maintain with many good arguments that God punishes continually according to the trespass, grounding on God's providence, his justice and man's sins, yet their intention is evil; for they labour to bring Job into despair, and so they maintain an evil cause. Ezekiel commends Job as a just man, (Eze_14:14) and James sets out his patience for an example, (Jam_5:11).

geneva@Job:1:5 @ And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and (note:)That is, commanded them to be sanctified: meaning, that they should consider the faults that they had committed, and reconcile themselves for the same.(:note) sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and That is, he offered for each of his children an offering of reconciliation, which declared his religion toward God, and the care that he had for his children. offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and In Hebrew it is, «blessed God», which is sometimes taken for blaspheming and cursing, as it is here and in (1Ki_21:10, 1Ki_21:13). cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job While the feast lasted. continually.

geneva@Job:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the (note:)Meaning the angels, who are called the sons of God because they are willing to execute his will.(:note) sons of God came to present themselves Because our infirmity cannot comprehend God in his majesty, he is set forth to us as a King, that our capacity may be able to understand that which is spoken of him. before the LORD, and Satan This declares that although Satan is an adversary to God, yet he is compelled to obey him, and do him all homage, without whose permission and appointment he can do nothing. came also among them.

geneva@Job:1:7 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence (note:)This question is asked for our infirmity: for God knew where he had come from.(:note) comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, In this is described the nature of Satan, which is always seeking his prey, (1Pe_5:8). From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

geneva@Job:1:14 @ There came a messenger vnto Iob, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding in their places,

geneva@Job:1:16 @ While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The (note:)Which was also done by the craft of Satan, to tempt Job even more grievously, so he might see that not only men were his enemies, but that God made war against him.(:note) fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

geneva@Job:1:18 @ While he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy (note:)This last plague declares that when one plague is past which seems hard to bear, God can send us another far more grievous, to try his and teach them obedience.(:note) sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

geneva@Job:1:19 @ And behold, there came a great wind from beyonde the wildernesse, and smote the foure corners of the house, which fel vpon the children, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

geneva@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the (note:)That is, the angels, (Job_1:6).(:note) sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Read (Job_1:6). Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

geneva@Job:2:3 @ And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, (note:)He proves Job's integrity by this that he ceased not to fear God when his plagues were grievously upon him.(:note) although thou movedst me against That is, when you had nothing against him, or when you were not able to bring your purpose to pass. him, to destroy him without cause.

geneva@Job:2:13 @ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very (note:)And therefore thought that he would not have listened to their counsel.(:note) great.

geneva@Job:3:1 @ After this opened (note:)The seven days ended, (Job_2:13).(:note) Job his mouth, and Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh, (Rom_7:18) and after a manner yields yet in the end he gets victory though he was in the mean time greatly wounded. cursed his day.

geneva@Job:3:3 @ Let the day (note:)Men should not be weary of their life and curse it, because of the infinities that it is subject to, but because they are given to sin and rebellion against God.(:note) perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

geneva@Job:3:9 @ Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it (note:)Let it be always night, and never see day.(:note) see the dawning of the day:

geneva@Job:3:13 @ For now should I have (note:)The vehemency of his afflictions made him utter these words as though death was the end of all miseries, and as if there were no life after this, which he speaks not as though it were so, but the infirmities of his flesh caused him to break out in this error of the wicked.(:note) lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

geneva@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked (note:)That is, by death the cruelty of the tyrants has ceased.(:note) cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

geneva@Job:3:18 @ [There] the (note:)All they who sustain any kind of calamity and misery in this world: which he speaks after the judgment of the flesh.(:note) prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

geneva@Job:3:19 @ There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

geneva@Job:3:20 @ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and (note:)He shows that the benefits of God are not comfortable, unless the heart is joyful, and the conscience quieted.(:note) life unto the bitter [in] soul;

geneva@Job:4:7 @ Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being (note:)He concludes that Job was reproved seeing that God handles him so extremely, which is the argument that the carnal men make against the children of God.(:note) innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

geneva@Job:4:12 @ Now a thing was (note:)A thing I did not know before was declared to me by vision, that is that whoever thinks himself just will be found a sinner when he comes before God.(:note) secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

geneva@Job:4:14 @ Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones (note:)In these visions which God shows to his creatures, there is always a certain fear joined, that the authority of it might be had in greater reverence.(:note) to shake.

geneva@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] (note:)When all things were quiet or when the fear was relieved as God appeared to Elijah, (1Ki_19:12).(:note) silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],

geneva@Job:5:1 @ Call now, if there be any that will (note:)He wills Job to consider the example of all who have lived or live godly, whether any of them are like him in raging against God as he does.(:note) answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

geneva@Job:5:4 @ His (note:)Though God sometimes allows the father's to pass in this world, yet his judgments will light on their wicked children.(:note) children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the By public judgment they will be condemned and no one will pity them. gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].

geneva@Job:5:5 @ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the (note:)Though there are only two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these will be taken from him.(:note) thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

geneva@Job:5:17 @ Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

geneva@Job:5:19 @ He shall deliver thee in (note:)He will send trouble after trouble that his children may not for one time, but continually trust in him: but they sill have a comfortable issue, even in the greatest and the last, which is here called the seventh.(:note) six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

geneva@Job:6:3 @ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are (note:)My grief is so great that I lack words to express it.(:note) swallowed up.

geneva@Job:6:4 @ For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do (note:)Which declares that he was not only afflicted in body, but wounded in conscience, which is the greatest battle that the faithful can have.(:note) set themselves in array against me.

geneva@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is (note:)Can a man's taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure in affliction seeing they cannot do away with things that are unsavoury to the mouth.(:note) unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

geneva@Job:6:16 @ Which are blackish with yee, and wherein the snowe is hid.

geneva@Job:6:19 @ The troops of Tema (note:)They who pass by it to go into the hot countries of Arabia, think to find water there to quench their thirst but they are deceived.(:note) looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

geneva@Job:6:21 @ For now ye are (note:)That is, like this brook which deceives them who think to have water there in their need, as I looked for consolation from you.(:note) nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.

geneva@Job:6:24 @ Teach me, and I will (note:)Show me where I have erred, and I will confess my sin.(:note) hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

geneva@Job:6:28 @ Now therefore be content, (note:)Consider whether I speak as one who is driven to this impatience through sorrow, or as a hypocrite as you condemn me.(:note) look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.

geneva@Job:6:29 @ Turne, I pray you, let there be none iniquitie: returne, I say, and ye shall see yet my righteousnesse in that behalfe.

geneva@Job:6:30 @ Is there iniquitie in my tongue? doeth not my mouth feele sorowes?

geneva@Job:7:1 @ [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an (note:)Has not a hired servant some rest and ease? Then in this my continual torment I am worse than a hireling.(:note) hireling?

geneva@Job:7:11 @ Therefore I will not (note:)Seeing I can by no other means comfort myself I will declare my grief in words, and thus he speaks as one overcome with grief of mind.(:note) refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

geneva@Job:8:8 @ For (note:)He wills Job to examine all antiquity and he will find it true which he here says.(:note) enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

geneva@Job:8:17 @ The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.

geneva@Job:8:18 @ If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall (note:)That is, so that there remains nothing there to prove whether the tree had grown there or not.(:note) deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

geneva@Job:8:19 @ Behold, this [is] the joy (note:)To be planted in another place, where it may grow as it pleases.(:note) of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

geneva@Job:9:2 @ I know [it is] so of a truth: but how should man be (note:)Job here answers Eliphaz and Bildad's oration, touching the justice of God, and his innocency, confessing God to be infinite in justice and man to be nothing in respect.(:note) just with God?

geneva@Job:9:6 @ Which (note:)He declares the infirmity of man, by the mighty and incomprehensible power that is in God, showing what he could do if he would set forth his power.(:note) shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

geneva@Job:9:21 @ Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.

geneva@Job:9:22 @ This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the (note:)If God punishes according to his justice, he will destroy them who are counted perfect as well as them that are wicked.(:note) perfect and the wicked.

geneva@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: (note:)That they cannot see to do justice.(:note) he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who That can show the contrary? [is] he?

geneva@Job:9:33 @ Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, (note:)Who might make an accord between God and me, speaking of impatience, and yet confessing God to be just in punishing him.(:note) [that] might lay his hand upon us both.

geneva@Job:10:2 @ I will say unto God, Do not (note:)He would not that God would proceed against him by his secret justice, but by the ordinary means that he punishes others.(:note) condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

geneva@Job:10:7 @ Thou knowest that I am not (note:)By affliction you keep me as in a prison, and restrain me from doing evil, neither can any set me free.(:note) wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand.

geneva@Job:10:15 @ If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not (note:)I will always walk in fear and humility, knowing that no one is just before you.(:note) lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

geneva@Job:10:21 @ Before I go [whence] I shall not (note:)He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God's judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God, and the comfort of the resurrection.(:note) return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

geneva@Job:10:22 @ A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any (note:)No distinction between light and darkness but where there is very darkness itself.(:note) order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

geneva@Job:11:6 @ And that he would shew thee the (note:)Which is not to stand in justifying of yourself: he signifies that man will never be overcome while he reasons with another, and therefore God must break off the controversy, and stop man's mouth.(:note) secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth].

geneva@Job:11:9 @ The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.

geneva@Job:11:18 @ And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.

geneva@Job:12:16 @ With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the (note:)He shows that there is nothing done in this world without God's will and ordinance, else he would not be Almighty.(:note) deceiver [are] his.

geneva@Job:13:14 @ Wherefore do I (note:)Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented as though I should tear my own flesh, and put my life in danger?(:note) take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

geneva@Job:13:24 @ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?

geneva@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.

geneva@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

geneva@Job:14:8 @ Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, & the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,

geneva@Job:15:11 @ [Are] the consolations of God (note:)He accuses Job's pride and ingratitude, that will not be comforted by God, but by their counsel.(:note) small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

geneva@Job:15:23 @ He wandereth (note:)God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their prosperity he punishes them with a greediness to gain even more: which is as a beggary.(:note) abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

geneva@Job:15:26 @ Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.

geneva@Job:15:29 @ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the (note:)Meaning, that his sumptuous buildings would never come to perfection.(:note) perfection thereof upon the earth.

geneva@Job:15:31 @ Let not him that is (note:)He stands in his own conceit, that he will give no place to good counsel, therefore his own pride will bring him to destruction.(:note) deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

geneva@Job:15:35 @ They (note:)Therefore all their vain devises will turn to their own destruction.(:note) conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

geneva@Job:16:10 @ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the (note:)That is, has handled me contemptuously: for so slapping the cheek signified, (1Ki_22:24; Mar_14:65)(:note) cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

geneva@Job:16:11 @ God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the (note:)They have led me where they would.(:note) hands of the wicked.

geneva@Job:16:16 @ My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

geneva@Job:16:21 @ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man (note:)Thus by his great torments he is carried away, and breaks out into passions, and speaks unadvisedly, as though God would intreat man more gently, seeing he has only a short time here to live.(:note) [pleadeth] for his neighbour!

geneva@Job:17:2 @ [Are there] not (note:)Instead of comfort, being now at death's door, he had but them that mocked at him, and discouraged him.(:note) mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in I see still that they seek but to vex me. their provocation?

geneva@Job:17:4 @ For thou hast hid their heart from (note:)That these my afflictions are your just judgments, though man does not know the reason.(:note) understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

geneva@Job:17:7 @ Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.

geneva@Job:17:15 @ Where is then now mine hope? or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for?

geneva@Job:18:3 @ Wherefore are wee counted as beastes, and are vile in your sight?

geneva@Job:19:7 @ Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

geneva@Job:19:28 @ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the (note:)Though his friends thought that he was only persecuted by God for his sins, yet he declares that there was a deeper consideration that is, the trial of his faith and patience, and so to be an example for others.(:note) matter is found in me?

geneva@Job:19:29 @ Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the (note:)God will be avenged of this harsh judgment by which you condemned me.(:note) punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment.

geneva@Job:20:2 @ Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

geneva@Job:20:7 @ Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

geneva@Job:20:16 @ He shall suck the (note:)He compares ill-gotten goods to the venom of asps, which is a dangerous serpent, noting that Jobs great riches were not truly come by and therefore God plagues him justly for the same.(:note) poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

geneva@Job:20:18 @ That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [shall] the restitution [be], (note:)That is these raveners and spoilers of the poor will enjoy their theft but for a time for after God will take it from them, and cause them to make restitution so that it is only an exchange.(:note) and he shall not rejoice [therein].

geneva@Job:20:21 @ There shall none of his (note:)He will leave nothing to his posterity.(:note) meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

geneva@Job:21:4 @ As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it (note:)As though he would say, I do not talk with man but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must be troubled.(:note) were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

geneva@Job:21:5 @ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] (note:)He charges them as though they were not able to comprehend his feeling of God's judgment, and exhorts them therefore to silence.(:note) mouth.

geneva@Job:21:7 @ Wherefore do the wicked (note:)Job proves against his adversaries that God does not punish the wicked immediately, but often gives them long life and prosperity, so we must not judge God just or unjust by the things that appear to our eyes.(:note) live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

geneva@Job:21:14 @ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the (note:)They desire nothing more than to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God, thus Job shows his adversaries, that if they reason only by that which is seen by common experience the wicked who hate God are better dealt withal than they who love him.(:note) knowledge of thy ways.

geneva@Job:21:27 @ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.

geneva@Job:21:28 @ For ye say, Where [is] the (note:)Thus they called Job's house in derision concluding that it was destroyed because he was wicked.(:note) house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?

geneva@Job:21:30 @ That the wicked is reserved to the day of (note:)Though the wicked flourish here, yet God will punish him in the last day.(:note) destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

geneva@Job:21:33 @ The (note:)He will be glad to lie in a slimy pit, who before could not be content with a royal palace.(:note) clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him.

geneva@Job:21:34 @ How then comfort (note:)Saying that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked adversity.(:note) ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

geneva@Job:22:2 @ Can a man be (note:)Though man was just, yet God could not profit from this his justice; and therefore when he punished him, he had no regard to his justice, but to his sin.(:note) profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

geneva@Job:22:10 @ Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:

geneva@Job:22:20 @ Whereas (note:)That is, the state and preservation of the godly, is hid under God's wings.(:note) our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of Meaning of the wicked. them the fire consumeth.

geneva@Job:22:21 @ Acquaint now thyself (note:)He exhorts Job to repentance, and to return to God.(:note) with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

geneva@Job:23:9 @ If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

geneva@Job:23:15 @ Therefore I am troubled at his presence, & in considering it, I am afraid of him.

geneva@Job:24:2 @ Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

geneva@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the showers of the mountains, (note:)The poor are driven by the wicked into the rock and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain.(:note) and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

geneva@Job:24:9 @ They pluck the fatherless (note:)That is, they so pillage and plunder the poor widow that she cannot sustain herself that she may be able to nurse her baby.(:note) from the breast, and take a pledge of The poor are driven by the wicked into the rocks and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain. the poor.

geneva@Job:24:13 @ They are of those that rebel against the (note:)That is, God's word, because they are reproved by it.(:note) light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

geneva@Job:24:14 @ The murtherer riseth earely & killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.

geneva@Job:24:22 @ He draweth also the (note:)He declares that after the wicked have destroyed the weakest, they will do the same to the stranger, and therefore are justly punished by God's judgments.(:note) mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.

geneva@Job:25:3 @ Is there any number of his armies? (note:)Who can hide him from his presence?(:note) and upon whom doth not his light arise?

geneva@Job:26:6 @ Hell [is] (note:)There is nothing hidden in the bottom of the earth but he sees it.(:note) naked before him, and Meaning, the grave in which things putrify. destruction hath no covering.

geneva@Job:26:12 @ The sea is calme by his power, and by his vnderstanding he smiteth the pride thereof.

geneva@Job:27:19 @ The rich man shall lie down, but (note:)He means that the wicked tyrants will not have a quiet death, nor be buried honourably.(:note) he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

geneva@Job:28:1 @ Surely there is a vein for the silver, (note:)His purpose is to declare that man may attain in this world to various secrets of nature, but man is never able to comprehend the wisdom of God.(:note) and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].

geneva@Job:28:3 @ He setteth an end to darkness, (note:)There is nothing but it is compassed within certain limits, and has an end, but God's wisdom.(:note) and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

geneva@Job:28:7 @ There is a path which no foule hath knowen, neyther hath the kites eye seene it.

geneva@Job:28:8 @ The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.

geneva@Job:28:12 @ But where shall wisdom be found? (note:)Though God's power and wisdom may be understood in earthly things, yet his heavenly wisdom cannot be attained to.(:note) and where [is] the place of understanding?

geneva@Job:28:13 @ Man knoweth not (note:)It is too high a thing for man to attain to in this world.(:note) the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

geneva@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be gotten for (note:)It can neither be bought for gold nor precious stones, but is only the gift of God.(:note) gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof.

geneva@Job:28:20 @ Whence then commeth wisedome? And where is the place of vnderstanding,

geneva@Job:28:21 @ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the (note:)Meaning that there is no natural means by which man can attain heavenly wisdom: which he means by the souls, that fly high.(:note) fowls of the air.

geneva@Job:28:22 @ Destruction and death say, We haue heard the fame thereof with our eares.

geneva@Job:28:23 @ God understandeth the (note:)He makes God the only author of this wisdom, and the giver of it.(:note) way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

geneva@Job:30:2 @ Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was (note:)That is, their fathers died of hunger before they came to age.(:note) perished?

geneva@Job:30:5 @ They were (note:)Job shows that those who mocked him in his affliction were like their fathers, wicked and lewd fellows, such as he here describes.(:note) driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

geneva@Job:30:7 @ They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

geneva@Job:30:24 @ Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand (note:)No one can deliver me from there, though they lament my death.(:note) to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

geneva@Job:30:26 @ When I looked for good, then (note:)Instead of comforting they mocked me.(:note) evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

geneva@Job:30:31 @ Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.

geneva@Job:31:17 @ Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

geneva@Job:31:38 @ If my land (note:)As though I had withheld their wages that laboured in it.(:note) cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

geneva@Job:31:39 @ If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused (note:)Meaning, that he was not a briber or extortioner.(:note) the owners thereof to lose their life:

geneva@Job:32:5 @ So when Elihu saw, that there was none answere in the mouth of the three men, his wrath was kindled.

geneva@Job:32:6 @ Therefore Elihu the sonne of Barachel, the Buzite answered, & sayd, I am yong in yeres, and ye are ancient: therefore I doubted, and was afraide to shewe you mine opinion.

geneva@Job:32:8 @ But [there is] a spirit in man: (note:)It is a special gift of God that man has understanding and comes neither from nature nor by age.(:note) and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

geneva@Job:32:10 @ Therefore I say, Heare me, and I will shew also mine opinion.

geneva@Job:32:12 @ Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:

geneva@Job:32:20 @ Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.

geneva@Job:33:1 @ Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes.

geneva@Job:33:4 @ The (note:)I confess the power of God, and am one of his, therefore you should hear me.(:note) Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

geneva@Job:33:9 @ I am (note:)He repeats Job's words, by which he protested his innocency in various places, but especially in the 13th, 16th and 30th chapters.(:note) clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me.

geneva@Job:33:23 @ If there be a (note:)A man sent from God to declare his will.(:note) messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, A singular man, and as one chosen out of a thousand, who is able to declare the great mercies of God to sinners: and in which man's righteousness stands, which is through the justice of Jesus Christ. to shew unto man his uprightness:

geneva@Job:34:10 @ Therefore hearken vnto me, ye men of wisedome, God forbid that wickednesse should be in God, and iniquitie in the Almightie.

geneva@Job:34:22 @ There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein.

geneva@Job:34:25 @ Therefore he knoweth their (note:)Make it known that they are wicked.(:note) works, and he overturneth [them] in the Declare the things that were hid. night, so that they are destroyed.

geneva@Job:34:33 @ [Should it be] according to (note:)Will God use your counsel in doing his works?(:note) thy mind? he will recompense Thus he speaks in the person of God, as though Job should chose and refuse affliction at his pleasure. it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

geneva@Job:35:10 @ But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?

geneva@Job:35:12 @ There they cry, (note:)Because they pray not in faith, as feeling God's mercies.(:note) but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

geneva@Job:35:14 @ Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, (note:)God is just, however you judge him.(:note) [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.

geneva@Job:35:16 @ Therefore doth Job (note:)For if he punished you as you deserved, you would not be able to open your mouth.(:note) open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

geneva@Job:36:6 @ He (note:)Therefore he will not preserve the wicked, but to the humble and afflicted heart he will show grace.(:note) preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

geneva@Job:36:16 @ Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and (note:)If you had been obedient to God, he would have brought you to freedom and wealth.(:note) that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.

geneva@Job:36:27 @ For he maketh small the drops of water: they (note:)That is, the rain comes from those drops of water which he keeps in the clouds.(:note) pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

geneva@Job:37:24 @ Let men therefore feare him: for he will not regarde any that are wise in their owne conceit.

geneva@Job:38:4 @ Where wast thou when I (note:)Seeing he could not judge those things which were done so long before he was born, he was not able to comprehend all God's works: much less the secret causes of his judgments.(:note) laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

geneva@Job:38:5 @ Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

geneva@Job:38:6 @ Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:

geneva@Job:38:9 @ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a (note:)As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of God to turn to and fro.(:note) swaddlingband for it,

geneva@Job:38:11 @ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be (note:)That is, God's decree and commandment as in (Job_38:10).(:note) stayed?

geneva@Job:38:19 @ Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

geneva@Job:38:20 @ That thou (note:)That you might appoint its highways and limits.(:note) shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths [to] the house thereof?

geneva@Job:38:26 @ To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?

geneva@Job:38:33 @ Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the (note:)Can you cause the heavenly bodies to have any power over the earthly bodies?(:note) dominion thereof in the earth?

geneva@Job:39:6 @ Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the (note:)That is, the barren ground where no good fruit grows.(:note) barren land his dwellings.

geneva@Job:39:30 @ {\cf2 (39:33)} His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she.

geneva@Job:40:20 @ {\cf2 (40:15)} Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.

geneva@Job:41:33 @ {\cf2 (41:24)} In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare.

geneva@Job:42:3 @ Who [is] he that hideth counsel without (note:)Is there any but I? for this God laid to his charge, (Job_38:2).(:note) knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, I confess in this my ignorance, and that I spoke of what I did not know. which I knew not.

geneva@Job:42:6 @ Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

geneva@Job:42:8 @ Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall (note:)When you have reconciled yourselves to him for the faults that you have committed against him, he will pray for you, and I will hear him.(:note) pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job.

geneva@Job:42:11 @ Then came there unto him all his (note:)That is, all his kindred, read (Job_19:13).(:note) brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

geneva@Psalms:1:1 @ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the (note:)When a man has once given place to evil counsel, or to his own sin nature, he begins to forget himself in his sin, and so falls into contempt of God, which is called the seat of the scorners.(:note) counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. The Argument - This book of psalms is given to us by the Holy Spirit, to be esteemed as a precious treasure in which all things are contained that bring to true happiness in this present life as well as in the life to come. For the riches of true knowledge and heavenly wisdom, are here set open for us, to take of it most abundantly. If we would know the great and high majesty of God, here we may see the brightness of it shine clearly. If we would seek his incomprehensible wisdom, here is the school of the same profession. If we would comprehend his inestimable bounty, and approach near to it, and fill our hands with that treasure, here we may have a most lively and comfortable taste of it. If we would know where our salvation lies and how to attain to everlasting life, here is Christ our Redeemer, and Mediator most evidently described. The rich man may learn the true use of his riches. The poor man may find full contentment. He who will rejoice will know true joy, and how to keep measure in it. They who are afflicted and oppressed will see what their comfort exists in, and how they should praise God when he sends them deliverance. The wicked and the persecutors of the children of God will see how the hand of God is always against them: and though he permits them to prosper for a while, yet he bridles them, so much so that they cannot touch a hair of ones head unless he permits them, and how in the end their destruction is most miserable. Briefly here we have most present remedies against all temptations and troubles of mind and conscience, so that being well practised in this, we may be assured against all dangers in this life, live in the true fear and love of God, and at length attain the incorruptible crown of glory, which is laid up for all who love the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

geneva@Psalms:1:5 @ Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the (note:)But tremble when they see God's wrath.(:note) judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

geneva@Psalms:3:2 @ Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. (note:)Selah here signifies a lifting up of the voice, to cause us to consider the sentence as a thing of great importance.(:note) Selah.

geneva@Psalms:4:6 @ [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] (note:)The multitude seeks worldly wealth, but David sets his happiness in God's favour.(:note) good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

geneva@Psalms:4:8 @ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, (note:)This word in Hebrew may be referred to God, as it is here translated, or to David, signifying that he should dwell as joyfully alone, as if he had many about him, because the Lord is with him.(:note) only makest me dwell in safety.

geneva@Psalms:5:8 @ Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness (note:)Because you are just, therefore lead me out of the dangers of my enemies.(:note) because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

geneva@Psalms:6:5 @ For in (note:)He laments that opportunity should be taken from him to praise God in the congregation.(:note) death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

geneva@Psalms:7:2 @ Lest (note:)He desires God to deliver him from the rage of cruel Saul.(:note) he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.

geneva@Psalms:7:3 @ O LORD my God, if I have done (note:)With which Cush charges me.(:note) this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

geneva@Psalms:7:7 @ So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore (note:)Not only for mine, but for your Church's sake declare your power.(:note) return thou on high.

geneva@Psalms:10:4 @ The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.

geneva@Psalms:10:5 @ His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.

geneva@Psalms:10:13 @ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not (note:)Therefore you must punish their blasphemy.(:note) require [it].

geneva@Psalms:14:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.» The fool hath said in his heart, (note:)He shows that the cause of all wickedness if forgetting God.(:note) [There is] no God. They are There is nothing but disorder and wickedness among them. corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.

geneva@Psalms:14:2 @ The Lord looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstand, and seeke God.

geneva@Psalms:14:3 @ They are (note:)David here makes comparisons between the faithful and the reprobate, but Paul speaks the same of all men naturally, (Rom_3:10).(:note) all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.

geneva@Psalms:16:9 @ Therefore (note:)That is, I rejoice both in body and in soul.(:note) my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

geneva@Psalms:16:11 @ Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy (note:)Where God favours there is perfect happiness.(:note) presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:18:8 @ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and (note:)He shows how horrible God's judgments will be to the wicked.(:note) fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

geneva@Psalms:18:17 @ He delivered me from my (note:)That is, Saul.(:note) strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were Therefore God sent me help. too strong for me.

geneva@Psalms:18:20 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my (note:)David was sure of his righteous cause and good behaviour toward Saul and his enemies and therefore was assured of God's favour and deliverance.(:note) righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

geneva@Psalms:18:24 @ Therefore the Lorde rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, and according to the purenes of mine hands in his sight.

geneva@Psalms:18:25 @ With the (note:)Here he speaks of God according to our capacity, who shows mercy to his and punishes the wicked, as is also said in (Lev_26:21, Lev_26:24).(:note) merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

geneva@Psalms:18:41 @ They (note:)They who reject the cry of the afflicted, God will also reject them when they cry for help, for either pain or fear causes those hypocrites to cry.(:note) cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

geneva@Psalms:18:49 @ Therefore will (note:)This prophecy belongs to the kingdom of Christ and calling of the Gentiles, as in (Rom_15:9).(:note) I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

geneva@Psalms:19:3 @ [There is] no speech nor (note:)The heavens are a schoolmaster to all nations, no matter how barbarous.(:note) language, [where] their voice is not heard.

geneva@Psalms:19:6 @ His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof.

geneva@Psalms:19:11 @ Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great (note:)For God accepts our endeavour though it is far from perfect.(:note) reward.

geneva@Psalms:19:12 @ Who can understand [his] (note:)Then there is no reward of duty, but of grace: for where sin is, there death is the reward.(:note) errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].

geneva@Psalms:21:12 @ Therefore shalt thou make them (note:)As a mark to shoot at.(:note) turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.

geneva@Psalms:22:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.» My (note:)Here appears that horrible conflict, which he sustained between faith and desperation.(:note) God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my Being tormented with extreme anguish. roaring?

geneva@Psalms:22:11 @ Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me.

geneva@Psalms:22:29 @ All [they that be] fat (note:)Though the poor are first named as in (Psa_22:26) yet the wealthy are not separated from the grace of Christ's kingdom.(:note) upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: In whom there is no hope that he will recover life: so neither poor nor rich, quick nor dead will be rejected from his kingdom. and none can keep alive his own soul.

geneva@Psalms:24:1 @ A Psalme of Dauid. The earth is the Lordes, and all that therein is: the worlde and they that dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:25:8 @ Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he (note:)That is, call them to repentance.(:note) teach sinners in the way.

geneva@Psalms:26:1 @ «[A Psalm] of David.» Judge me, (note:)He flees to God to be the judge of his just cause, seeing there is no equity among men.(:note) O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.

geneva@Psalms:26:8 @ O Lorde, I haue loued the habitation of thine house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

geneva@Psalms:26:11 @ But I will walke in mine innocencie: redeeme me therefore, and be mercifull vnto me.

geneva@Psalms:26:12 @ My foot standeth in (note:)I am preserved from my enemies by the power of God, and therefore will praise him openly.(:note) an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:27:9 @ Hide not therefore thy face from mee, nor cast thy seruat away in displeasure: thou hast bene my succour: leaue me not, neither forsake mee, O God of my saluation.

geneva@Psalms:29:8 @ The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of (note:)In places most desolate, where it seems there is no presence of God.(:note) Kadesh.

geneva@Psalms:30:9 @ What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the (note:)David means that the dead are not profitable to the congregation of the Lord here in the earth: therefore he would live to praise his Name, which is the end of man's creation.(:note) dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

geneva@Psalms:31:3 @ For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake directe mee and guide me.

geneva@Psalms:31:20 @ Thou shalt hide them in the (note:)That is, in a place where they will have your comfort, and be hid safely from the enemies pride.(:note) secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

geneva@Psalms:31:21 @ Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a (note:)Meaning, there was no city strong enough to preserve him, as the defence of God's favour.(:note) strong city.

geneva@Psalms:32:2 @ Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lorde imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile.

geneva@Psalms:33:7 @ He (note:)By the creation of the heavens and beautiful ornament with the gathering also of the waters, he sets forth the power of God, that all creatures might fear him.(:note) gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

geneva@Psalms:33:15 @ He (note:)Therefore he knows their wicked enterprises.(:note) fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

geneva@Psalms:33:16 @ There is no (note:)If kings and the mighty of the world cannot be saved by worldly means, but only by God's providence, what do others have to trust in, who have not similar means?(:note) king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

geneva@Psalms:34:2 @ My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the (note:)They who are beaten down with the experience of their own evils.(:note) humble shall hear [thereof], and be glad.

geneva@Psalms:35:10 @ All my (note:)He attributes his deliverance only to God, praising him therefore both in soul and body.(:note) bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

geneva@Psalms:35:15 @ But in mine (note:)When they thought me ready to slip and as one that limped for infirmity.(:note) adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear With their railing words. [me], and ceased not:

geneva@Psalms:36:1 @ «To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD.» The transgression of the wicked saith (note:)I see evidently by his deeds, that sin pushes forward the reprobate from wickedness to wickedness, even though he goes about to cover his impiety.(:note) within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.

geneva@Psalms:36:7 @ How excellent is thy mercy, O God! therefore the children of men trust vnder the shadowe of thy wings.

geneva@Psalms:37:29 @ The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein (note:)They will continually be preserved under God's wings, and have at least inward rest.(:note) for ever.

geneva@Psalms:38:3 @ [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my (note:)David acknowledges God to be just in his punishments, because his sins had deserved much more.(:note) sin.

geneva@Psalms:38:7 @ For my reines are full of burning, and there is nothing sound in my flesh.

geneva@Psalms:38:13 @ But I, as a (note:)For I can have no audience before men, and therefore patiently wait for the help of God.(:note) deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.

geneva@Psalms:40:6 @ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; (note:)You have opened my ears to understand the spiritual meaning of the sacrifices: and here David esteems the ceremonies of the law as nothing in respect to the spiritual service.(:note) mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

geneva@Psalms:40:10 @ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy (note:)David here numbers three degrees of our salvation: God's mercy, by which he pities us, his righteousness which signifies his continual protection and his truth, by which appears his constant favour, so that from this our salvation proceeds.(:note) faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

geneva@Psalms:40:12 @ For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart (note:)Concerning the judgment of the flesh, I was utterly destitute of all counsel, yet faith inwardly moved my heart to pray.(:note) faileth me.

geneva@Psalms:41:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» Blessed [is] he that (note:)Not condemning him as accused whom God visits, knowing that there are various reasons why God lays his hand on us, yea and afterwards he restores us.(:note) considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:41:4 @ Therefore I saide, Lorde haue mercie vpon me: heale my soule, for I haue sinned against thee.

geneva@Psalms:41:6 @ And if he come to see [me], he speaketh (note:)For pretending to comfort me, he conspires my death in his heart, and brags of it.(:note) vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

geneva@Psalms:41:10 @ Therefore, O Lord, haue mercy vpon mee, and raise me vp: so I shall reward them.

geneva@Psalms:42:6 @ O my God, my soul is cast down within me: (note:)That is, when I remember you in this land of my banishment among the mountains.(:note) therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

geneva@Psalms:42:10 @ [As] with a sword in my (note:)That is, I am most grievously tormented.(:note) bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?

geneva@Psalms:44:4 @ Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for (note:)Because you are our king, therefore deliver your people from their misery.(:note) Jacob.

geneva@Psalms:44:8 @ Therefore will wee praise God continually, and will confesse thy Name for euer. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:44:24 @ Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?

geneva@Psalms:44:25 @ For our soul is (note:)There is no hope of recovery, unless you raise us up with your hand.(:note) bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

geneva@Psalms:45:2 @ Thou art (note:)Solomon's beauty and eloquence to win favour with his people, and his power to overcome his enemies, is here described.(:note) fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

geneva@Psalms:45:5 @ Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee.

geneva@Psalms:45:7 @ Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath (note:)Has established your kingdom as the figure of Christ, which is the peace and joy of the Church.(:note) anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

geneva@Psalms:45:8 @ All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, (note:)In which the people made you joyful to see them give thanks and rejoice for you.(:note) whereby they have made thee glad.

geneva@Psalms:45:12 @ And the (note:)He signifies that many of those who are rich will be benefactors to the Church, although they do not give perfect obedience to the Gospel.(:note) daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; [even] the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

geneva@Psalms:45:13 @ The king's daughter [is] all glorious (note:)There is nothing feigned or hypocritical but she is glorious both within and without: and even though the Church has not always had this outward glory, the fault is to be imputed only to their own ingratitude.(:note) within: her clothing [is] of wrought gold.

geneva@Psalms:45:17 @ I will make thy (note:)This must only be referred to Christ and not to Solomon.(:note) name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

geneva@Psalms:46:2 @ Therefore will not we (note:)That is, we will not be overcome with fear.(:note) fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

geneva@Psalms:46:3 @ [Though] the waters thereof (note:)Though the afflictions rage, yet the rivers of God's mercies bring sufficient comfort to his.(:note) roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:46:4 @ [There is] a (note:)The river of Shiloh, which passed through Jerusalem: meaning, though the defence seems small, yet if God has appointed it, it is sufficient.(:note) river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.

geneva@Psalms:47:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» O (note:)Here is figured Christ to whom all his should give willing obedience, and who would show himself terrible to the wicked.(:note) clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

geneva@Psalms:47:9 @ The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] unto God: he (note:)He praises God's highness, for that he joins the great princes of the world (whom he calls shields) to the fellowship of his Church.(:note) is greatly exalted.

geneva@Psalms:48:1 @ «(note:)Some put this difference between a song and psalm, saying that it is called a song when there is no instrument but the voice, and the song of the psalm is when the instruments begin and the voice follows.(:note) A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah.» Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the Even though God shows his wonders through all the world, yet he will be chiefly praised in his Church. city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.

geneva@Psalms:48:2 @ Beautiful for situation, the (note:)Because the word of salvation came there to all who would believe.(:note) joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

geneva@Psalms:48:6 @ Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.

geneva@Psalms:48:10 @ According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the (note:)In all places where your Name will be heard of, men will praise you when they hear of your marvellous works.(:note) earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:48:13 @ Marke well the wall thereof: beholde her towres, that ye may tell your posteritie.

geneva@Psalms:49:5 @ Wherefore should I (note:)Though wickedness reigns and enemies rage, seeing God will execute his judgments against the wicked at a suitable time.(:note) fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

geneva@Psalms:50:1 @ «A Psalm of (note:)Who was either the author, or a chief singer, to whom it was committed.(:note) Asaph.» The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the To plead against his deceitful people before heaven and earth. earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

geneva@Psalms:50:2 @ Out of Zion, the (note:)Because God had chosen it to have his Name there called on and also his image shines there in the doctrine of the law.(:note) perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

geneva@Psalms:50:8 @ I will not (note:)For I pass not for sacrifices unless the true use is there, which is to confirm your faith.(:note) reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

geneva@Psalms:50:12 @ If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

geneva@Psalms:50:22 @ Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, & there be none that can deliuer you.

geneva@Psalms:53:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)Which was an instrument or king of note.(:note) Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David.» The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] Whereas no regard is had for honesty or dishonesty, for virtue nor for vice, there the prophet pronounces that the people have no God. no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.

geneva@Psalms:53:2 @ God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did (note:)By which he condemns all knowledge and understanding that tends not to seek God.(:note) seek God.

geneva@Psalms:53:3 @ Euery one is gone backe: they are altogether corrupt: there is none that doth good, no not one.

geneva@Psalms:53:5 @ There were they in great fear, [where] no (note:)When they thought there was no opportunity to fear, the sudden vengeance of God lighted on them.(:note) fear was: for God hath scattered the No matter how great the enemies power is, or fearful the danger, yet God delivers his in due time. bones of him that encampeth [against] thee: thou hast put [them] to shame, because God hath despised them.

geneva@Psalms:55:3 @ Because of the (note:)For the threatenings of Saul and his adherents.(:note) voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for They have defamed me as a wicked person, or they have imagined my destruction. they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

geneva@Psalms:55:5 @ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath (note:)There was no part of him that was not astonished with extreme fear.(:note) overwhelmed me.

geneva@Psalms:55:10 @ Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: (note:)All laws and good orders are broken and only vice and dissolution reigns under Saul.(:note) mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.

geneva@Psalms:55:11 @ Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

geneva@Psalms:55:18 @ He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me: for there were (note:)Even the angels of God fought on my side against my enemies, (2Ki_6:16).(:note) many with me.

geneva@Psalms:55:19 @ God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they (note:)But their prosperous estate still continues.(:note) have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

geneva@Psalms:57:6 @ They have prepared a net for my steps; (note:)For fear, seeing the great dangers on all sides.(:note) my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:58:11 @ So that a man shall say, (note:)Seeing God governs all by his providence, he must put a difference between the godly and the wicked.(:note) Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

geneva@Psalms:59:3 @ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my (note:)For I am innocent toward them, and have not offended them.(:note) transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:59:4 @ They runne and prepare themselues without a fault on my part: arise therefore to assist me, and beholde.

geneva@Psalms:59:5 @ Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not (note:)Seeing it belongs to God's judgments to punish the wicked, he desires God to execute his vengeance on the reprobate, who maliciously persecutes his Church.(:note) merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:59:15 @ They shall runne here and there for meate: and surely they shall not be satisfied, though they tary all night.

geneva@Psalms:60:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)These were certain songs after the note of which this psalm was sung.(:note) Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Also called Sophene, which stands by Euphrates. Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.» O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast For when Saul was not able to resist the enemy, the people fled here and there: for they were not safe in their own homes. scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

geneva@Psalms:60:2 @ Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast (note:)As split with an earthquake.(:note) broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

geneva@Psalms:61:2 @ From (note:)From the place where I was banished, being driven out of the city and temple by my son Absalom.(:note) the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is To which without your help I cannot attain. higher than I.

geneva@Psalms:61:5 @ For thou, O God, (note:)There is nothing that strengthens our faith more than the memory of God's help in times past.(:note) hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the heritage of those that fear thy name.

geneva@Psalms:62:6 @ Yet is hee my strength, and my saluation, and my defence: therefore I shall not be mooued.

geneva@Psalms:63:1 @ «A Psalm of David, when he was in the (note:)That is, of Ziph (1Sa_23:14).(:note) wilderness of Judah.» O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul Though he was both hungry and in great distress, yet he made God above all meat and drink. thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

geneva@Psalms:63:3 @ For thy louing kindnesse is better then life: therefore my lippes shall prayse thee.

geneva@Psalms:63:7 @ Because thou hast bene mine helper, therefore vnder the shadow of thy wings wil I reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:63:9 @ Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:64:6 @ They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one (note:)There is no way so secret and subtle to do hurt, which they did not invent for his destruction.(:note) [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.

geneva@Psalms:65:7 @ Which stilleth the (note:)He shows that there is no part or creature in the world which is not governed by God's power and providence.(:note) noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

geneva@Psalms:65:10 @ Thou (note:)By this description he shows that all the order of nature is a testimony of God's love toward us, who causes all creatures to serve our need.(:note) waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

geneva@Psalms:66:6 @ He hath turned the Sea into drie land: they passe through the riuer on foote: there did we reioyce in him.

geneva@Psalms:66:11 @ Thou broughtest us into the (note:)The condition of the Church is here described, which is to be led by God's providence into troubles, to be subject under tyrants, and to enter into many dangers.(:note) net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

geneva@Psalms:66:13 @ I will go into thy (note:)The duty of the faithful is here described, who are never mindful to render God praise for his benefits.(:note) house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

geneva@Psalms:67:6 @ [Then] shall (note:)He shows that where God favours there will be abundance of all other things.(:note) the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, shall bless us.

geneva@Psalms:68:10 @ Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy (note:)God blessed the land of Canaan, because he had chosen that place for his Church.(:note) goodness for the poor.

geneva@Psalms:68:14 @ When the Almighty scattered kings (note:)In the land of Canaan, where his Church was.(:note) in it, it was [white] as snow in Salmon.

geneva@Psalms:68:23 @ That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies, [and] the tongue of thy dogs (note:)That is, in the blood of that great slaughter, where dogs will lap blood.(:note) in the same.

geneva@Psalms:68:27 @ There [is] (note:)Benjamin is called little, because he was the youngest son of Jacob.(:note) little Benjamin [with] their Who was some chief ruler of the tribe. ruler, the princes of Judah [and] their council, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the princes of Naphtali.

geneva@Psalms:68:30 @ Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one] (note:)He desires that the pride of the mighty may be destroyed, who were accustomed to garnishing their shoes with silver, and therefore for their glittering pomp thought themselves above all men.(:note) submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war.

geneva@Psalms:69:2 @ I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no (note:)No stable firmness to settle my feet.(:note) standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

geneva@Psalms:69:20 @ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and (note:)He shows men that it is vain to put our trust in men in our great necessity, but that our comfort only depends on God: for man increases our sorrows, then diminishes them, (Joh_19:29).(:note) I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.

geneva@Psalms:69:31 @ [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] (note:)There is no sacrifice which God values more than thanksgiving for his benefits.(:note) bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

geneva@Psalms:69:35 @ For God will saue Zion, and builde the cities of Iudah, that men may dwell there and haue it in possession.

geneva@Psalms:69:36 @ The (note:)Under the temporal promise of the land of Canaan, he comprehends the promise of everlasting life to the faithful and their posterity.(:note) seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:71:3 @ Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou (note:)You have infinite means and all creatures are at your commandment; therefore show some sign by which I will be delivered.(:note) hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my rock and my fortress.

geneva@Psalms:71:5 @ For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my (note:)He strengthens his faith by the experience of God's benefits, who not only preserved him in his mother's womb, but took him from there, and ever since has preserved him.(:note) trust from my youth.

geneva@Psalms:71:11 @ Saying, (note:)Thus the wicked both blaspheme God and triumph against his saints, as though he had forsaken them if he permits them to fall into their hands.(:note) God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for [there is] none to deliver [him].

geneva@Psalms:71:15 @ My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day; (note:)Because your benefits toward me are innumerable, I cannot but continually meditate and rehearse them.(:note) for I know not the numbers [thereof].

geneva@Psalms:71:17 @ O God, thou hast taught me fro my youth euen vntill nowe: therefore will I tell of thy wonderous workes,

geneva@Psalms:71:23 @ My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my (note:)For there is no true praising of God, unless it comes from the heart: and therefore he promises to delight in nothing, except that in which God is glorified.(:note) soul, which thou hast redeemed.

geneva@Psalms:72:16 @ There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the (note:)Under such a king will be great plenty, both of fruit and also of the increase of mankind.(:note) fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and [they] of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:73:4 @ For [there are] (note:)The wicked in this life live at pleasure and are not drawn to death like prisoners: that is, by sickness which is death's messenger.(:note) no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.

geneva@Psalms:73:10 @ Therefore his (note:)Not only the reprobate, but also the people of God often fall back seeing the prosperous estate of the wicked, and are overwhelmed with sorrows, thinking that God does not correctly consider the estate of the godly.(:note) people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them.

geneva@Psalms:73:11 @ And they (note:)Thus the flesh moves even the godly to dispute with God concerning their poor estate, and the prosperity of the wicked.(:note) say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

geneva@Psalms:73:25 @ Whom have I in (note:)He sought neither help nor comfort of any save God only.(:note) heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire beside thee.

geneva@Psalms:74:2 @ Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the (note:)Which inheritance you have measured out for yourself as with a line or rod.(:note) rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

geneva@Psalms:74:6 @ But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.

geneva@Psalms:74:9 @ We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth (note:)They lamented that they had no prophet among them to show them how long their misery would last.(:note) how long.

geneva@Psalms:74:20 @ Have respect unto the covenant: for (note:)That is, all places where your word does not shine, there reigns tyranny and ambition.(:note) the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

geneva@Psalms:75:3 @ The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars (note:)Though all things are brought to ruin, yet I can restore and preserve them.(:note) of it. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:75:8 @ For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a (note:)God's wrath is compared to a cup of strong and delicate wine, with which the wicked are made so drunk that by drinking till they come to the very dregs they are utterly destroyed.(:note) cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].

geneva@Psalms:76:3 @ There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shielde and the sword and the battell. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:76:8 @ Thou didest cause thy iudgement to bee heard from heauen: therefore the earth feared and was still,

geneva@Psalms:78:7 @ That they might (note:)He shows where the use of this doctrine exists: in faith, in the meditation of God's benefits, and in obedience.(:note) set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

geneva@Psalms:78:21 @ Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, & also wrath came vpon Israel,

geneva@Psalms:78:27 @ Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.

geneva@Psalms:78:33 @ Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

geneva@Psalms:78:46 @ He (note:)He does not repeat here all the miracles that God did in Egypt, but certain which might be sufficient to convince the people of malice and ingratitude.(:note) gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

geneva@Psalms:78:65 @ Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that (note:)Because they were drunk in their sins, they judged God's patience to be slumbering, as though he were drunk, therefore he answering their beastly judgment, says, he will awake and take sudden vengeance.(:note) shouteth by reason of wine.

geneva@Psalms:78:72 @ So (note:)He shows where a kings charge stands: that is, to provide faithfully for his people, to guide them by counsel, and defend them by power.(:note) he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

geneva@Psalms:79:3 @ Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to (note:)Their friends and relatives did not dare to bury them for fear of the enemies.(:note) bury [them].

geneva@Psalms:79:9 @ Help us, O God of our (note:)Seeing we have no other Saviour, neither can we help ourselves, and also by our salvation your Name will be praised: therefore O Lord, help us.(:note) salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

geneva@Psalms:79:10 @ Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be knowen among the heathen in our sight by the vengeance of the blood of thy seruants that is shed.

geneva@Psalms:79:12 @ And render to our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome their reproche, wherewith they haue reproched thee, O Lord.

geneva@Psalms:80:10 @ The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

geneva@Psalms:80:14 @ Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down (note:)They gave no place to temptation, knowing that even though there was no help in earth, yet God was able to help them from heaven.(:note) from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

geneva@Psalms:81:5 @ This he ordained in (note:)That is, in Israel for Joseph's family was counted the chief while before, Judah was preferred.(:note) Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] God speaks in the person of the people because he was their leader. I understood not.

geneva@Psalms:81:9 @ Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.

geneva@Psalms:82:8 @ Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit (note:)Therefore no tyrant will pluck your right and authority from you.(:note) all nations.

geneva@Psalms:83:12 @ Who said, Let us take to ourselves the (note:)That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there he dwells among them.(:note) houses of God in possession.

geneva@Psalms:84:3 @ Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine (note:)So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.(:note) altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

geneva@Psalms:86:8 @ Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord; neither (note:)He condemns all idols as they can do nothing to declare that they are gods.(:note) [are there any works] like unto thy works.

geneva@Psalms:86:9 @ All nations whom thou hast made shall come and (note:)This proves that David prayed in the Name of Christ the Messiah of whose kingdom he here prophecies.(:note) worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

geneva@Psalms:86:14 @ O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have (note:)He shows that there can be no moderation or equity where proud tyrants reign, and that the lack of God's fear is as a privilege to all vice and cruelty.(:note) sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

geneva@Psalms:87:4 @ I will make mention of (note:)That is, Egypt and these other countries will come to the knowledge of God.(:note) Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; It will be said of him who is regenerate and come to the Church, that he is as one who was born in the Church. this [man] was born there.

geneva@Psalms:87:6 @ The LORD shall count, when he (note:)When he calls them by his word into the Church, whom he had elected and written in the book.(:note) writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:87:7 @ As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my (note:)The prophet sets his whole affections and comfort in the church.(:note) springs [are] in thee.

geneva@Psalms:88:12 @ Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land (note:)That is, in the grave, where only the body lies without all sense and remembrance.(:note) of forgetfulness?

geneva@Psalms:89:11 @ The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.

geneva@Psalms:89:21 @ Therefore mine hande shall be established with him, and mine arme shall strengthen him.

geneva@Psalms:89:23 @ And I will (note:)Though there will always be enemies against God's kingdom yet he promises to overcome them.(:note) beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

geneva@Psalms:89:47 @ Remember (note:)Seeing man's life is short, and you have created man to bestow your benefits on him, unless you hasten to help, death will prevent you.(:note) how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

geneva@Psalms:89:49 @ Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swarest vnto Dauid in thy trueth?

geneva@Psalms:89:51 @ Wherewith (note:)So he calls them who persecute the Church.(:note) thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the They laugh at us who patiently wait for the coming of your Christ. footsteps of thine anointed.

geneva@Psalms:90:6 @ In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth.

geneva@Psalms:91:3 @ Surely he shall deliver thee from the (note:)That is, God's help is most ready for us, whether Satan assails us secretly which he calls a snare, or openly which is here meant by the pestilence.(:note) snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.

geneva@Psalms:91:10 @ There shall none euill come vnto thee, neither shall any plague come neere thy tabernacle.

geneva@Psalms:92:6 @ A (note:)That is, the wicked do not consider God's works nor his judgments against them, and therefore most justly perish.(:note) brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

geneva@Psalms:93:1 @ The LORD (note:)As God by his power and wisdom has made and governed the world, so must the same be our defence against all enemies and dangers.(:note) reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, [wherewith] he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

geneva@Psalms:94:5 @ They (note:)Seeing the Church was then so sore oppressed, it ought not to seem strange to us, if we see it so now, and therefore we must call to God, to take our cause in hand.(:note) break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

geneva@Psalms:94:18 @ When I said, (note:)When I thought there was no way but death.(:note) My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

geneva@Psalms:95:9 @ Where your fathers tempted me, proued me, though they had seene my worke.

geneva@Psalms:95:11 @ Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into (note:)That is, into the land of Canaan, where he promised them rest.(:note) my rest.

geneva@Psalms:96:11 @ Let the heauens reioyce, and let the earth be glad: let the sea roare, and all that therein is.

geneva@Psalms:96:12 @ Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall all the (note:)If the insensible creatures will have reason to rejoice when God appears, much more we, from whom he has taken malediction and sin.(:note) trees of the wood rejoice

geneva@Psalms:97:1 @ The (note:)He shows that where God reigns, there is all happiness and spiritual joy.(:note) LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the For the gospel will not only be preached in Judea, but through all isles and countries. multitude of isles be glad [thereof].

geneva@Psalms:97:3 @ There shall goe a fire before him, & burne vp his enemies round about.

geneva@Psalms:98:7 @ Let the sea roare, and all that therein is, the world, and they that dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:99:5 @ Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his (note:)That is, before his temple or ark, where he promised to hear when they worshipped him, as now he promises his spiritual presence, wherever his Church is assembled.(:note) footstool; [for] he [is] holy.

geneva@Psalms:101:7 @ There shal no deceitful person dwell within mine house: he that telleth lyes, shall not remaine in my sight.

geneva@Psalms:102:1 @ «A Prayer (note:)By which is signified, that even though we are in great misery, yet there is always room for prayer.(:note) of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my He declares that in our prayer we must lively feel that which we desire, and steadfastly believe to obtain. cry come unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:102:4 @ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget (note:)My sorrows were so great that I did not eat.(:note) to eat my bread.

geneva@Psalms:102:11 @ My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.

geneva@Psalms:102:14 @ For thy servants take pleasure in her (note:)The more the Church is in misery and desolation, the more the faithful should love and pity it.(:note) stones, and favour the dust thereof.

geneva@Psalms:102:18 @ This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be (note:)The deliverance of the Church is an excellent benefit, and therefore he compares it to a new creation for in their banishment the body of the Church seemed to have been dead, which by deliverance was as it were created anew.(:note) created shall praise the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:102:22 @ When the people are gathered (note:)He shows that Gad's name is never more praised, than when religion flourishes and the church increases: which is chiefly accomplished under the kingdom of Christ.(:note) together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:103:14 @ For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust.

geneva@Psalms:103:16 @ For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.

geneva@Psalms:104:4 @ Who (note:)As the prophet here shows that all visible powers are ready to serve God: so in (Heb_1:7) the angels also, are obedient to his commandment.(:note) maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

geneva@Psalms:104:12 @ By (note:)There is no part of the world so barren where most evident signs of God's blessing do not appear.(:note) them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, [which] sing among the branches.

geneva@Psalms:104:17 @ That ye birdes may make their nestes there: the storke dwelleth in the firre trees.

geneva@Psalms:104:20 @ Thou makest darkenesse, and it is night, wherein all the beastes of the forest creepe forth.

geneva@Psalms:104:25 @ So is this sea great and wide: for therein are things creeping innumerable, both small beastes and great.

geneva@Psalms:104:26 @ There goe the shippes, yea, that Liuiathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

geneva@Psalms:105:4 @ Seek the LORD, and his (note:)By the strength and face he means the ark where God declared his power and his presence.(:note) strength: seek his face evermore.

geneva@Psalms:105:31 @ He (note:)So that this vermin did not come by chance, but as God had appointed, and his prophet Moses spoke.(:note) spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their coasts.

geneva@Psalms:105:37 @ He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there was] (note:)When their enemies felt God's plagues his children by his providence were exempted.(:note) not one feeble [person] among their tribes.

geneva@Psalms:106:23 @ Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had (note:)If Moses, by his intercession, had not obtained God's favour against their rebellion.(:note) not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].

geneva@Psalms:106:26 @ Therefore (note:)That is, he swore. Sometimes also it means to punish.(:note) he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

geneva@Psalms:106:40 @ Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he abhorred his owne inheritance.

geneva@Psalms:107:2 @ Let the (note:)As was true in the Jews, so there is not one of God's elect who does not feel his help in their necessity.(:note) redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

geneva@Psalms:107:3 @ And gathered them out of the lands, from the East and from the West, from the North and from the South.

geneva@Psalms:107:8 @ Let them therefore confesse before ye Lorde his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

geneva@Psalms:107:12 @ When he humbled their heart with heauines, then they fell downe and there was no helper.

geneva@Psalms:107:15 @ Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, and his wonderfull woorkes before the sonnes of men.

geneva@Psalms:107:16 @ For he hath broken the (note:)When there seems to man's judgment no recovery, but all things are brought to despair, then God chiefly shows his mighty power.(:note) gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

geneva@Psalms:107:21 @ Let them therefore cofesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse, & his wonderful workes before the sonnes of men,

geneva@Psalms:107:25 @ For he commaundeth and raiseth the stormie winde, and it lifteth vp the waues thereof.

geneva@Psalms:107:29 @ He turneth the storme to calme, so that the waues thereof are still.

geneva@Psalms:107:34 @ And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.

geneva@Psalms:107:36 @ And there he placeth the hungrie, and they builde a citie to dwell in,

geneva@Psalms:107:40 @ He poureth (note:)For their wickedness and tyranny he causes the people and subjects to contemn them.(:note) contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.

geneva@Psalms:109:12 @ Let there be none to extende mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.

geneva@Psalms:109:19 @ Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.

geneva@Psalms:110:7 @ He shall (note:)Under this comparison of a captain that is so eager to destroy his enemies that he will not scarce drink by the way, he shows how God will destroy his enemies.(:note) drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

geneva@Psalms:111:2 @ The works of the LORD [are] (note:)He shows that God's works are a sufficient reason for us to praise him, but chiefly his benefits toward his Church.(:note) great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

geneva@Psalms:112:4 @ Unto the (note:)The faithful in all their adversities know that all will go well with them for God will be merciful and just.(:note) upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is] gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

geneva@Psalms:112:5 @ A good man sheweth favour, and (note:)He shows what the fruit of mercy is, to lend freely and not for gain, and so to measure his doings that he may be able to help where need requires and not to bestow all on himself.(:note) lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

geneva@Psalms:112:8 @ His heart is stablished: therefore he will not feare, vntill he see his desire vpon his enemies.

geneva@Psalms:113:4 @ The LORD [is] high above all (note:)If God's glory shines through all the world, and therefore of all ought to be praised, what great condemnation were it to his people, among whom chiefly it shines, if they should not earnestly extol his Name?(:note) nations, [and] his glory above the heavens.

geneva@Psalms:115:1 @ Not (note:)Because God promised to deliver them, not for their sakes, but for his Name, (Isa_48:11), therefore they ground their prayer on this promise.(:note) unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.

geneva@Psalms:115:2 @ Wherefore should the heathen say, (note:)When the wicked see that God does not always accomplish his promise as they imagined, they think there is no God.(:note) Where [is] now their God?

geneva@Psalms:115:4 @ Their idols [are] (note:)Seeing that neither the matter nor the form can commend their idols it follows that there is no reason that they should be esteemed.(:note) silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

geneva@Psalms:115:15 @ Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which (note:)And therefore still governs and continues all things in it.(:note) made heaven and earth.

geneva@Psalms:115:17 @ The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that (note:)Though the dead set forth God's glory, yet he means here, that they praise him not in his Church and congregation.(:note) go down into silence.

geneva@Psalms:116:2 @ Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon [him] (note:)That is in convenient time to seek help, which was when he was in distress.(:note) as long as I live.

geneva@Psalms:118:5 @ I called upon the LORD in (note:)We are here taught that the more that troubles oppress us, the more ought we to be instant in prayer.(:note) distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.

geneva@Psalms:118:7 @ The Lorde is with mee among them that helpe me: therefore shall I see my desire vpon mine enemies.

geneva@Psalms:118:8 @ [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence (note:)He shows that he had trusted in vain if he had put his confidence in man, to have been preferred to the kingdom and therefore he put his trust in God and obtained.(:note) in man.

geneva@Psalms:118:14 @ The LORD [is] my strength and (note:)In that he was delivered, it came not from himself, not from the power of man, but only from God's favour, therefore he will praise him.(:note) song, and is become my salvation.

geneva@Psalms:118:28 @ Thou art my God, and I will praise thee, euen my God: therefore I will exalt thee.

geneva@Psalms:119:1 @ ALEPH. Blessed [are] (note:)Here they are not called blessed who think themselves wise in their own judgment, nor who imagine to themselves a certain holiness, but they whose conversation is without hypocrisy.(:note) the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:119:9 @ BETH. Wherewithal shall a (note:)Because youth is most given to licentiousness, he chiefly warns them to frame their lives after God's word.(:note) young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [thereto] according to thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:11 @ Thy word have I (note:)If God's word is carved in our hearts, we will be more able to resist the assaults of Satan: and therefore the prophet desires God to instruct him daily more and more in it.(:note) hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

geneva@Psalms:119:35 @ Direct mee in the path of thy commandements: for therein is my delite.

geneva@Psalms:119:42 @ So shall I (note:)By trusting in God's word he assures himself to be able to confute the slanders of his adversaries.(:note) have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:79 @ Let those that fear thee (note:)That is, be comforted by my example.(:note) turn unto me, and those that have He shows that there can be no true fear of God without the knowledge of his word. known thy testimonies.

geneva@Psalms:119:89 @ LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in (note:)Because no one should esteem God's word according to the changes of things in this world, he shows that it abides in heaven, and therefore is immutable.(:note) heaven.

geneva@Psalms:119:96 @ I (note:)There is nothing so perfect in earth, but it has an end, only God's word lasts forever.(:note) have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.

geneva@Psalms:119:104 @ By thy precepts I haue gotten vnderstanding: therefore I hate all the wayes of falshoode.

geneva@Psalms:119:119 @ Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] (note:)Which infected your people, as dross does metal.(:note) dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

geneva@Psalms:119:125 @ I am thy seruant: graunt mee therefore vnderstanding, that I may knowe thy testimonies.

geneva@Psalms:119:127 @ Therefore loue I thy commaundements aboue golde, yea, aboue most fine golde.

geneva@Psalms:119:128 @ Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false (note:)That is, whatever dissents from the purity of your word.(:note) way.

geneva@Psalms:119:129 @ PE. Thy testimonies [are] (note:)Containing high and secret mysteries, so that I am moved with admiration and reverence.(:note) wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

geneva@Psalms:119:154 @ Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy (note:)For without God's promise there is no hope of deliverance.(:note) word.

geneva@Psalms:119:165 @ Great peace have they which (note:)For their conscience assures them that they please you, whereas they who do not love you have the contrary.(:note) love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

geneva@Psalms:122:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» I (note:)He rejoices that God had appointed a place where the ark would still remain.(:note) was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:122:4 @ Whither (note:)All the tribes according to God's covenant will come and pray there.(:note) the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:122:5 @ For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of (note:)In whose house God placed the throne of justice, and made it a figure of Christ's kingdom.(:note) David.

geneva@Psalms:123:3 @ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are (note:)He declares that when the faithful are so full that they cannot endure the oppression and scorning of the wicked any more, there is always help above, if with hungry desires they call for it.(:note) exceedingly filled with contempt.

geneva@Psalms:124:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» If [it had not been] the LORD who was (note:)He shows that God was ready to help at need and that there was no other way to be saved, but by this means alone.(:note) on our side, now may Israel say;

geneva@Psalms:126:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that (note:)Their deliverance was incredible and therefore took away all excuse for ingratitude.(:note) dream.

geneva@Psalms:126:3 @ The Lord hath done great things for vs, whereof we reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:129:7 @ Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:

geneva@Psalms:130:4 @ But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou (note:)Because by nature you are merciful therefore the faithful revere you.(:note) mayest be feared.

geneva@Psalms:130:7 @ Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] (note:)He shows to whom the mercy of God belongs, that is, Israel, to the Church and not the reprobate.(:note) mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.

geneva@Psalms:132:14 @ This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have (note:)Meaning, for his own sake and not for the plentifulness of the place: for he promises to bless it, declaring before that it was barren.(:note) desired it.

geneva@Psalms:132:17 @ There will I make the (note:)Though his force for a time seemed to be broken, yet he promises to restore it.(:note) horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

geneva@Psalms:133:1 @ «A Song of degrees of David.» Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell (note:)Because the greatest part was against David, though some favoured him, yet when he was established king at length, they joined all together like brothers: and therefore he shows by these similarities the convenience of brotherly love.(:note) together in unity!

geneva@Psalms:133:3 @ As the dew of (note:)By Hermon and Zion he means the plentiful country about Jerusalem.(:note) Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for Where there is such concord. there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.

geneva@Psalms:134:2 @ Lift up your (note:)For their charge was not only to keep the temple, but to pray there and to give God thanks.(:note) hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:134:3 @ The LORD that (note:)And therefore has all power, bless you with his fatherly love declared in Zion. Thus the Levites used to praise the Lord, and bless the people.(:note) made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

geneva@Psalms:135:17 @ They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.

geneva@Psalms:136:16 @ To him which led his people through the (note:)Where for the space of forty years he showed infinite and most strange wonders.(:note) wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

geneva@Psalms:137:1 @ By the rivers of Babylon, there we (note:)That is, we abode a long time, and even though the country was pleasant, yet it could not stay our tears, nor turn us from the true service of our God.(:note) sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

geneva@Psalms:137:2 @ We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst (note:)That is, of that country.(:note) thereof.

geneva@Psalms:137:3 @ For there they that carried us away captive (note:)The Babylonians speak thus in mocking us, as though by our silence we should signify that we hoped no more in God.(:note) required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

geneva@Psalms:137:7 @ Remember, O LORD, the children of (note:)As was prophesied in (Eze_25:13, Jer_49:7, Oba_1:10), showing that the Edomites who came from Esau, conspired with the Babylonians against their brethren and kinsfolk.(:note) Edom in the When you visited Jerusalem. day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.

geneva@Psalms:139:4 @ For [there is] not a word in my (note:)You know my meaning before I speak.(:note) tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

geneva@Psalms:139:5 @ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine (note:)You so guide me with your hand, that I can turn no way, but where you appoint me.(:note) hand upon me.

geneva@Psalms:139:8 @ If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there.

geneva@Psalms:139:10 @ Even there shall thy hand (note:)Your power holds me so fast that there is no way I can escape from you.(:note) lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

geneva@Psalms:139:13 @ For thou hast (note:)You have made me in all parts and therefore must know me.(:note) possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

geneva@Psalms:139:16 @ Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; (note:)Seeing that you knew me before I was composed of either flesh or bone, much more now must you know me when you have fashioned me.(:note) and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.

geneva@Psalms:139:24 @ And see if [there be any] (note:)Or any heinous or rebellious way: meaning that though he was subject to sin, yet he was not given to wickedness, and to provoke God by rebellion.(:note) wicked way in me, and lead me in the That is, continue your favour toward me to the end. way everlasting.

geneva@Psalms:140:2 @ Which imagine mischiefs in [their] (note:)That is, by their false accusations and lies, they kindle the hatred of the wicked against me.(:note) heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.

geneva@Psalms:140:6 @ Therefore I saide vnto the Lorde, Thou art my God: heare, O Lord, the voyce of my prayers.

geneva@Psalms:140:10 @ Let burning coals fall upon them: (note:)That is by God, for David saw that they were reprobate and that there was no hope of repentance in them.(:note) let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

geneva@Psalms:141:1 @ «A Psalm of David.» LORD, I (note:)He shows that there is no other refuge in our necessity but only to flee to God for comfort of soul.(:note) cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:141:7 @ Our bones are scattered at the (note:)Here it appears that David was miraculously delivered out of many deaths as in (2Co_1:9-10).(:note) grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

geneva@Psalms:142:3 @ Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.

geneva@Psalms:142:4 @ I looked vpon my right hand, and beheld, but there was none that would knowe me: all refuge failed me, and none cared for my soule.

geneva@Psalms:143:4 @ Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my (note:)So that only by faith and by the grace of God's Spirit was he upheld.(:note) heart within me is desolate.

geneva@Psalms:143:8 @ Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the (note:)That is, speedily and in due season.(:note) morning; for in thee do I trust: Let your Holy Spirit counsel me how to come forth from these great cares and troubles. cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

geneva@Psalms:144:14 @ [That] our (note:)He attributes not only the great conveniences, but even the least also to God's favour.(:note) oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.

geneva@Psalms:145:4 @ One generation shall praise thy works to (note:)Even as the reason for man's creation and his preservation in this life is to praise God, therefore he requires that not only we ourselves do this, but cause all others to do the same.(:note) another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

geneva@Psalms:145:12 @ To make known to the sons of men his (note:)He shows that all things are out of order, only but where God reigns.(:note) mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

geneva@Psalms:145:14 @ The LORD upholdeth all that (note:)Who being in misery and affliction would faint and fall away if God did not uphold them, and therefore they should revere him who reigns in heaven and suffer themselves to be governed by him.(:note) fall, and raiseth up all [those that be] bowed down.

geneva@Psalms:146:3 @ Put not your trust in (note:)That God may have the whole praise: in which he forbids all vain confidence showing that by nature we are more inclined to put our trust in creatures, than in God the Creator.(:note) princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

geneva@Psalms:146:6 @ Which made (note:)He encourages the godly to trust only in the Lord, both in his power's ability to deliver them from all danger, and for his promise sake, as his will is most ready to do it.(:note) heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever:

geneva@Psalms:147:2 @ The LORD doth build up (note:)Because the Lord is the founder of the Church, it cannot be destroyed, though the members of it are dispersed and seem as it were for a time to be cut off.(:note) Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:147:17 @ He casteth foorth his yce like morsels: who can abide the colde thereof?

geneva@Psalms:148:4 @ Praise him, ye (note:)Not that there are various heavens, but because of the spheres and of the situation of the fixed stars and planets, he comprehends by this word the whole heavens.(:note) heavens of heavens, and ye That is, the rain which is in the middle region of the air, which he here comprehends under the name of the heavens. waters that [be] above the heavens.

geneva@Psalms:148:10 @ Beasts and all cattell, creeping things and fethered foules:

geneva@Psalms:149:2 @ Let Israel rejoice in him that (note:)In that they were preferred before all other nations, it was a new creation, and therefore (Psa_95:7) they were called the sheep of God's hands.(:note) made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their For God as he is the creator of the soul and body, so will he that both two serve him, and that his people be continually subject to him, as to their most lawful king. King.

geneva@Psalms:150:6 @ Let every thing that hath (note:)He shows that all the order of nature is bound to this duty, and much more God's children, who ought never to cease to praise him, till they are gathered into that kingdom, which he has prepared for his, where they will sing everlasting praise.(:note) breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:1:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; (note:)The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is declared in this book: for as much as the sum and effect of the whole Scriptures is here set forth in these brief sentences, which partly contain doctrine, and partly manners, and also exhortations to both: of which the first nine Chapters are as a preface full of grave sentences and deep mysteries, to assure the hearts of men to the diligent reading of the parables that follow: which are left as a precious jewel to the Church, of those three thousand parables mentioned in (1Ki_4:32) and were gathered and committed to writing by Solomon's servants and incited by him.(:note)

geneva@Proverbs:1:18 @ And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for (note:)He shows that there is no reason to move these wicked to spoil the innocent, aside from their malice and cruelty.(:note) their [own] lives.

geneva@Proverbs:1:19 @ So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away (note:)By which he concludes that the covetous man is a murderer.(:note) the life of the owners thereof.

geneva@Proverbs:1:31 @ Therefore shall they eat of the (note:)They will feel what convenience their wicked life will give them.(:note) fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

geneva@Proverbs:2:20 @ Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.

geneva@Proverbs:3:14 @ For the marchandise thereof is better then the marchandise of siluer, and the gaine thereof is better then golde.

geneva@Proverbs:4:2 @ For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.

geneva@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

geneva@Proverbs:5:7 @ Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:8 @ Prepareth her meat in the sommer, & gathereth her foode in haruest.

geneva@Proverbs:6:15 @ Therefore shall his destruction come speedily: hee shall be destroyed suddenly without recouerie.

geneva@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not (note:)He shows that man by nature seeks the death of he that has abused his wife, and so concludes that neither God's law nor the law of nature admits any ransom for the adultery.(:note) spare in the day of vengeance.

geneva@Proverbs:7:9 @ In the twilight, in the evening, in the (note:)He shows that there was almost no one so impudent that they were not afraid to be seen, their consciences accusing them and causing them to seek the night to cover their filthiness.(:note) black and dark night:

geneva@Proverbs:7:10 @ And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

geneva@Proverbs:7:15 @ Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

geneva@Proverbs:7:24 @ Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:8:3 @ She crieth at (note:)Where the people resorted most and which was the place of justice.(:note) the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors.

geneva@Proverbs:8:8 @ All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.

geneva@Proverbs:8:20 @ I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of (note:)For there can be no true justice or judgment, which is not rejected by this wisdom.(:note) judgment:

geneva@Proverbs:8:24 @ When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

geneva@Proverbs:8:27 @ When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.

geneva@Proverbs:8:32 @ Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

geneva@Proverbs:9:4 @ Whoever [is] (note:)He who knows his own ignorance, and is void of malice.(:note) simple, let him turn in here: [as for] him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him,

geneva@Proverbs:9:13 @ A (note:)By the foolish woman, some understand the wicked preachers, who counterfeit the word of God: as appears in (Pro_9:16) which were the words of the true preachers as in (Pro_9:4) but their doctrine is as stolen waters: meaning that they are men's traditions, which are more pleasant to the flesh than the word of God, and therefore they themselves boast of it.(:note) foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

geneva@Proverbs:9:18 @ But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.

geneva@Proverbs:10:5 @ He that gathereth in sommer, is the sonne of wisdome: but he that sleepeth in haruest, is the sonne of confusion.

geneva@Proverbs:10:19 @ In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

geneva@Proverbs:10:22 @ The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth (note:)Meaning that all worldly things bring care and sorrow, where as they who feel the blessings of God have none.(:note) no sorrow with it.

geneva@Proverbs:11:10 @ When the righteous prosper, the city (note:)The country is blessed, where there are godly men, and they ought to rejoice when the wicked are taken away.(:note) rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, [there is] shouting.

geneva@Proverbs:11:14 @ Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the multitude of (note:)Where God gives store of men of wisdom and counsel.(:note) counsellors [there is] safety.

geneva@Proverbs:11:24 @ There is that scattereth, (note:)Meaning they who give liberally, whom God blesses.(:note) and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more That is, the miser. than is right, but [it tendeth] to poverty.

geneva@Proverbs:12:18 @ There is that speaketh like the piercings of (note:)Which seek nothing more then to provoke others to anger.(:note) a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.

geneva@Proverbs:12:21 @ There shal none iniquitie come to the iust: but the wicked are full of euill.

geneva@Proverbs:12:28 @ Life is in the way of righteousnesse, and in that path way there is no death.

geneva@Proverbs:13:7 @ There is that maketh himselfe riche, and hath nothing, and that maketh himselfe poore, hauing great riches.

geneva@Proverbs:13:23 @ Much food [is in] the fallow ground of the (note:)God blesses the labour of the poor, and consumes their goods who are negligent, because they think they have enough.(:note) poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for lack of judgment.

geneva@Proverbs:14:4 @ Where no (note:)By the ox is meant labour, and by the crib the barn, meaning, without labour there is no profit.(:note) oxen [are], the crib [is] clean: but much increase [is] by the strength of the ox.

geneva@Proverbs:14:9 @ Fools make a mock at (note:)Does not know the grievousness of it, nor God's judgments against the same.(:note) sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.

geneva@Proverbs:14:12 @ There is a way that seemeth right to a man: but the issues thereof are the wayes of death.

geneva@Proverbs:14:23 @ In all labour there is abundance: but the talke of the lippes bringeth onely want.

geneva@Proverbs:15:16 @ Better is a litle with the feare of the Lord, then great treasure, and trouble therewith.

geneva@Proverbs:15:17 @ Better is a dinner of greene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.

geneva@Proverbs:16:25 @ There is a way that seemeth right vnto man: but the issue thereof are the wayes of death.

geneva@Proverbs:16:27 @ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a (note:)For he consumes himself and others.(:note) burning fire.

geneva@Proverbs:16:33 @ The lot is cast into the lap; but its whole disposing [is] (note:)So that there is nothing that ought to be attributed to fortune: for all things are determined in the counsel of God which will come to pass.(:note) from the LORD.

geneva@Proverbs:17:1 @ Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than an house full of (note:)For where there were many sacrifices, there were many portions given to the people, with which they feasted.(:note) sacrifices [with] strife.

geneva@Proverbs:17:8 @ A bribe [is as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: wherever it (note:)The reward has great force to gain the hearts of men.(:note) turneth, it prospereth.

geneva@Proverbs:17:11 @ An evil [man] seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel (note:)By the messenger is meant such means as God uses to punish the rebels.(:note) messenger shall be sent against him.

geneva@Proverbs:17:14 @ The beginning of strife is as one that openeth the waters: therefore or the contention be medled with, leaue off.

geneva@Proverbs:17:16 @ Why [is there] a (note:)What good does it do the wicked to be rich, seeing he does not set his mind to wisdom?(:note) price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?

geneva@Proverbs:18:24 @ A man [that hath] friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer (note:)That is, often such are found who are more ready to do pleasure, than he that is more bound by duty.(:note) than a brother.

geneva@Proverbs:19:18 @ Chasten thy sonne while there is hope, and let not thy soule spare for his murmuring.

geneva@Proverbs:19:21 @ [There are] many devices in a (note:)Man's device will not have success, unless God governs it, whose purpose is unchangeable.(:note) man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

geneva@Proverbs:19:23 @ The feare of the Lord leadeth to life: and he that is filled therewith, shall continue, and shall not be visited with euill.

geneva@Proverbs:20:4 @ The slouthfull will not plowe, because of winter: therefore shal he beg in sommer, but haue nothing.

geneva@Proverbs:20:8 @ A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment (note:)Where righteous judgment is executed, there sin ceases, and vice dare not appear.(:note) scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

geneva@Proverbs:20:15 @ There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewel.

geneva@Proverbs:20:19 @ He that goeth about as a slanderer, discouereth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

geneva@Proverbs:20:21 @ An heritage is hastely gotten at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

geneva@Proverbs:21:1 @ The (note:)Though kings seem to have all things at commandment, they are not able to bring their own purposes to pass unless God has appointed: much less are the inferiors able.(:note) king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it wherever he will.

geneva@Proverbs:21:20 @ [There is] a treasure to be desired and (note:)Meaning, abundance of all things.(:note) oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

geneva@Proverbs:21:30 @ There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:22:13 @ The slothful [man] saith, (note:)He derides them that invent vain excuses, because they would not do their duty.(:note) [There is] a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets.

geneva@Proverbs:23:18 @ For surely there is an end; (note:)The prosperity of the wicked will not continue.(:note) and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

geneva@Proverbs:23:32 @ In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

geneva@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom [is] too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the (note:)In the place where wisdom should be shown.(:note) gate.

geneva@Proverbs:24:14 @ So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.

geneva@Proverbs:24:20 @ For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.

geneva@Proverbs:24:31 @ And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.

geneva@Proverbs:25:1 @ These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the (note:)Whom Hezekiah appointed for this purpose.(:note) men of Hezekiah king of Judah That is, gathered out of various books of Solomon. copied out.

geneva@Proverbs:25:2 @ [It is] the glory of God to (note:)God does not reveal the cause of his judgments to man.(:note) conceal a thing: but the honour of Because the king rules by the revealed word of God, the cause of his doings must appear, and therefore he must use diligence in trying causes. kings [is] to search out a matter.

geneva@Proverbs:25:4 @ Take away the (note:)When vice is removed from a king, he is a meet vessel for the Lord's use.(:note) dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the refiner.

geneva@Proverbs:25:8 @ Goe not foorth hastily to strife, least thou know not what to doe in the ende thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

geneva@Proverbs:26:12 @ Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] (note:)For the fool would rather be counselled than he: also the fool sins out of ignorance, and the other out of malice.(:note) more hope of a fool than of him.

geneva@Proverbs:26:13 @ The slothful [man] saith, (note:)Read (Pro_22:13).(:note) [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.

geneva@Proverbs:26:25 @ When he speaketh kindly, believe him not: for [there are] (note:)Meaning many: he uses a certain number for the uncertain.(:note) seven abominations in his heart.

geneva@Proverbs:26:27 @ He that diggeth a pit shal fall therein, and he that rolleth a stone, it shall returne vnto him.

geneva@Proverbs:27:18 @ He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eate the fruite thereof: so he that waiteth vpon his master, shall come to honour.

geneva@Proverbs:27:19 @ As in water face [answereth] to face, (note:)There is no difference between men by nature, only the grace of God makes the difference.(:note) so the heart of man to man.

geneva@Proverbs:27:25 @ The hey discouereth it selfe, and the grasse appeareth, and the herbes of the mountaines are gathered.

geneva@Proverbs:28:12 @ When righteous [men] rejoice, [there is] great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man (note:)He is known by his doings to be wicked.(:note) is hidden.

geneva@Proverbs:29:6 @ In the transgression of an evil man [there is] a (note:)He is always ready to fall into the snare that he lays for others.(:note) snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

geneva@Proverbs:29:9 @ [If] a wise man contendeth with (note:)He can hear no admonition no matter how it is spoken.(:note) a foolish man, whether he rageth or laugheth, [there is] no rest.

geneva@Proverbs:29:20 @ Seest thou a man hastie in his matters? there is more hope of a foole, then of him.

geneva@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who hath ascended into (note:)Meaning, to know the secrets of God, as though he would say, «None».(:note) heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son's name, if thou canst tell?

geneva@Proverbs:30:11 @ There is a generation that curseth their father, and doeth not blesse their mother.

geneva@Proverbs:30:12 @ There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.

geneva@Proverbs:30:13 @ There is a generation, whose eies are hautie, and their eye liddes are lifted vp.

geneva@Proverbs:30:14 @ There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.

geneva@Proverbs:30:15 @ The horseleach hath two (note:)The leach has two forks in her tongue, which here he calls her two daughters, by which she sucks the blood, and is never satisfied: even so, the covetous extortioners are insatiable.(:note) daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:

geneva@Proverbs:30:18 @ There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,

geneva@Proverbs:30:24 @ There are four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] very (note:)They contain great doctrine and wisdom.(:note) wise:

geneva@Proverbs:30:29 @ There be three thinges that order well their going: yea, foure are comely in going,

geneva@Proverbs:30:31 @ A lusty grayhound, and a goate, and a King against whom there is no rising vp.

geneva@Proverbs:31:31 @ Give (note:)Confess her diligent labours, and commend her therefore.(:note) her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the Forasmuch as the most honourable are clad in the apparel that she made. gates.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the (note:)Solomon is here called a preacher, or one who assembles the people, because he teaches the true knowledge of God, and how men ought to pass their life in this transitory world.(:note) Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. The Argument - Solomon as a preacher and one that desired to instruct all in the way of salvation, describes the deceivable vanities of this world: that man should not be addicted to anything under the sun, but rather inflamed with the desire of the heavenly life: therefore he confutes their opinions, which set their happiness either in knowledge or in pleasures, or in dignity and riches, wishing that man's true happiness consists in that he is united with God and will enjoy his presence: so that all other things must be rejected, save in as much as they further us to attain to this heavenly treasure, which is sure and permanent, and cannot be found in any other save in God alone.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What profit hath a man of all his (note:)Solomon does not condemn man's labour or diligence, but shows that there is no full contentment in anything under the heavens, nor in any creature, as all things are transitory.(:note) labour which he taketh under the sun?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ The (note:)By the sun, wind and rivers, he shows that the greatest labour and longest has an end, and therefore there can be no happiness in this world.(:note) wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from (note:)The sea which compasses all the earth, fills the veins of it which pour out springs and rivers into the sea again.(:note) which the rivers come, there they return again.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there any thing, whereof one may say, Beholde this, it is newe? It hath bene already in the olde time that was before vs.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ There is no memorie of the former, neither shall there be a remembrance of the latter that shalbe, with them that shall come after.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @ For in much wisdom [is] much (note:)Wisdom and knowledge cannot be come by without great pain of body and mind: for when a man has attained the highest, yet is his mind never fully content: therefore in this world is no true happiness.(:note) grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (note:)Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there was contentment in ease and pleasures.(:note) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I haue made me cisternes of water, to water therewith the woods that growe with trees.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I gathered me also silver and gold, and the special treasure of kings and of the provinces: I procured me male and female singers, and the (note:)That is, whatever men take pleasure in.(:note) delights of the sons of men, Or, the most beautiful of the women that were taken in war, as in (Jdg_5:30). [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @ Then I saw that there is profite in wisdome, more then in follie: as the light is more excellent then darkenes.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool (note:)Meaning, in this world.(:note) for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And He wonders that men forget a wise man, being dead, as soon as they do a fool. how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ Therefore I went about to cause my heart (note:)That I might seek the true happiness which is in God.(:note) to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured in it shall he (note:)Among other griefs that was not the least, to leave that which he had gotten by great travail, to one who had taken no pain therefore and whom he know not whether he were a wise man or a fool.(:note) leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should (note:)When man has all laboured, he can get no more than food and refreshing, yet he confesses also that this comes from God's blessing, as in (Ecc_3:13).(:note) make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ To every [thing there is] a (note:)He speaks of this diversity of time for two causes first to declare that there is nothing in this world perpetual: next to teach us not to be grieved, if we have not all things at once according to our desires, neither enjoy them so long as we would wish.(:note) season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that there is nothing good in them, but to reioyce, and to doe good in his life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ And moreouer I haue seene vnder the sunne the place of iudgement, where was wickednesse, and the place of iustice where was iniquitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time (note:)Meaning, with God, however man neglects his duty.(:note) there for every purpose and for every work.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should (note:)By the often repetition of this sentence as in (Ecc_2:24, Ecc_3:12, Ecc_3:22, Ecc_5:17, Ecc_8:15) he declares that man by reason can comprehend nothing better in this life than to use the gifts of God soberly and comfortably: for to know further, is a special gift of God revealed by his Spirit.(:note) rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @ So (note:)He makes here another discourse with himself concerning the tyranny of them that oppressed the poor.(:note) I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of [such as were] oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors [there was] power; but they had no comforter.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @ Wherefore I praised the (note:)Because they are no longer subject to these oppressions.(:note) dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @ For if they fal, the one wil lift vp his felow: but wo vnto him that is alone: for he falleth, and there is not a second to lift him vp.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @ Also if two sleepe together, then shall they haue heate: but to one how should there be heate?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ [There is] no (note:)They never cease by all means to creep into favour, but when they do not obtain their greedy desires they think themselves abused, as others have been in times past, and so care no more for him.(:note) end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not (note:)Either in vowing or in praying, meaning, that we should use all reverence toward God.(:note) rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be He hears you not for the sake of your many words or often repetitions, but considers your faith and servant's mind. few.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for [he that is] (note:)Meaning, that God will address these things, and therefore we must depend on him.(:note) higher than the highest regardeth; and [there are] higher than they.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ {\cf2 (5:9)} He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ {\cf2 (5:10)} When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches (note:)When covetous men heap up riches, which turn to their destruction.(:note) kept for the owners of them to their hurt.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ But those riches perish by evil labour: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his (note:)He does not enjoy his father's riches.(:note) hand.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ {\cf2 (5:18)} Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @ Also he hath not seene ye sunne, nor knowen it: therefore this hath more rest then the other.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ {\cf2 (7:1)} Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knoweth what [is] (note:)There is no state in which man can live to have perfect quietness in this life.(:note) good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ [It is] better to go to the house of (note:)Where we may see the hand of God and learn to examine our lives.(:note) mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom [is] good with an (note:)He answers to them who do not value wisdom unless riches are joined with it, showing that both are the gifts of God, but that wisdom is far more excellent and may be without riches.(:note) inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ {\cf2 (7:14)} For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his (note:)Meaning that cruel tyrants put the godly to death and let the wicked go free.(:note) righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ {\cf2 (7:22)} Surely there is no man iust in the earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ Where the word of ye King is, there is power, and who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the (note:)Man by himself is miserable, and therefore should do nothing to increase the same, but to work all things by wisdom and counsel.(:note) misery of man [is] great upon him.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ [There is] no man that hath power (note:)Man has no power to save his own life and therefore must not rashly cast himself into danger.(:note) over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own (note:)As comes often to tyrants and wicked rulers.(:note) hurt.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and (note:)That is, others as wicked as they.(:note) gone from the They who feared God and worshipped him as he had appointed. place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because sentence against an evil work is not (note:)Where justice is delayed, there sin reigns.(:note) executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just [men], to whom it happeneth according to the (note:)Who are punished as though they were wicked, as in (Ecc_7:17)(:note) work of the wicked; again, there are wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one (note:)In outward things, as riches and poverty, sickness and health, there is no difference between the godly and the wicked but the difference is that the godly are assured by faith of God's favour and assistance.(:note) event to all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a (note:)He notes the Epicurean and carnal men, who made their body their god, and had no pleasure in this life, wishing rather to be an abased and vile person in this life, then a man of authority and so to die, which is meant by the dog and lion.(:note) living dog is better than a dead lion.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the life of thy vanitie, which God hath giuen thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for this is thy portion in the life, and in thy trauaile wherein thou labourest vnder the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:10 @ All that thine hand shall finde to doe, doe it with all thy power: for there is neither worke nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ And there was founde therein a poore and wise man, and he deliuered the citie by his wisedome: but none remembred this poore man.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @ A (note:)So that he does all things well and justly, where as the fool does the contrary.(:note) wise man's heart [is] at his right hand; but a fool's heart [is] at his left.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @ There is an evil [which] I have seen under the sun, as an (note:)Meaning that it is an evil thing when they who are in authority fail and do not do their duty.(:note) error [which] proceedeth from the ruler:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @ He that remooueth stones, shall hurt himselfe thereby, and hee that cutteth wood, shall be in danger thereby.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ If the (note:)As the clouds that are full pour out rain, so the rich that have abundance must distribute it liberally.(:note) clouds are full of rain, they empty [themselves] upon the earth: and if the He exhorts to be liberal while we live: for after, there is no power. tree falleth toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Therefore remove (note:)That is, anger and envy.(:note) sorrow from thy heart, and Meaning, carnal lusts to which youth is given. put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:12 @ And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many (note:)These things cannot be comprehended in books or learned by study, but God must instruct your heart that you may only know that wisdom is the true happiness and the way to it is to fear God.(:note) books [there is] no end; and much study [is] a weariness of the flesh.

geneva@Songs:1:3 @ Because of the (note:)The feeling of your great benefits.(:note) savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the They that are pure in heart and conversation. virgins love thee.

geneva@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, (note:)The spouse feeling her fault flees to her husband only for comfort.(:note) O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of Whom you have called to the dignity of pastors, and they set forth their own dreams instead of your doctrine. thy companions?

geneva@Songs:1:9 @ I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's (note:)For your spiritual beauty and excellency there was no worldly treasure to be compared to you.(:note) chariots.

geneva@Songs:2:11 @ For, lo, the (note:)That is, sin and error is driven back by the coming of Christ, who is here described by the springtime, when all things flourish.(:note) winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone;

geneva@Songs:2:15 @ Take for us the foxes, the (note:)Suppress the heretics while they are young, that is, when they begin to show their malice, and destroy the vine of the Lord.(:note) little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes.

geneva@Songs:3:10 @ Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.

geneva@Songs:4:4 @ Thy necke is as the tower of Dauid builte for defence: a thousand shieldes hang therein, and all the targates of the strong men.

geneva@Songs:4:7 @ Thou art all faire, my loue, and there is no spot in thee.

geneva@Songs:5:1 @ I have come into my (note:)The garden signifies the kingdom of Christ, where he prepares the banquet for his elect.(:note) garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

geneva@Songs:6:1 @ Where is thy beloved gone, (note:)Hearing of the excellency of Christ, the faithful desire to know how to find him.(:note) O thou fairest among women? where is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

geneva@Songs:6:2 @ My beloved is gone down into his (note:)That is, is conversant here in earth among men.(:note) garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

geneva@Songs:6:8 @ There are (note:)Meaning that the gifts are infinite which Christ gives to his Church: or that his faithful are many in number.(:note) sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

geneva@Songs:7:12 @ Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the (note:)If the people that are called to Christ bring forth any fruit.(:note) vine flourisheth, [whether] the tender grape appeareth, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

geneva@Songs:8:2 @ I will leade thee and bring thee into my mothers house: there thou shalt teache me: and I will cause thee to drinke spiced wine, and newe wine of the pomegranate.

geneva@Songs:8:5 @ (Who is this that commeth vp out of the wildernesse, leaning vpon her welbeloued?) I raysed thee vp vnder an apple tree: there thy mother conceiued thee: there she coceiued that bare thee.

geneva@Songs:8:12 @ But my vineyarde which is mine, is before me: to thee, O Salomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of siluer, and two hundreth to them that keepe the fruite thereof.

geneva@Isaiah:1:1 @ The (note:)That is, a revelation or prophecy, which was one of the two means by which God declared himself to his servants in old times, as in (Num_12:6) and therefore the prophets were called seers, (1Sa_9:9).(:note) vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw Isaiah was chiefly sent to Judah and Jerusalem, but not only: for in this book are prophecies concerning other nations also. concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Called also Azariah, (2Ki_15:1) of these kings read (2Ki. strkjv@14:1-21:1; 2Ch. strkjv@25:1-33:1). Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The Argument - God, according to his promise in (Deu_18:15) that he would never leave his Church destitute of a prophet, has from time to time accomplished the same: whose office was not only to declare to the people the things to come, of which they had a special revelation, but also to interpret and declare the law, and to apply particularly the doctrine contained briefly in it, for the use and profit of those to whom they thought it chiefly to belong, and as the time and state of things required. Principally in the declaration of the law, they had respect to three things which were the ground of their doctrine: first, to the doctrine contained briefly in the two tables: secondly to the promises and threatenings of the law: and thirdly to the covenant of grace and reconciliation grounded on our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is the end of the law. To which they neither added nor diminished, but faithfully expounded the sense and meaning of it. As God gave them understanding of things, they applied the promises particularly for the comfort of the Church and the members of it, and also denounced the menaces against the enemies of the same: not for any care or regard to the enemies, but to assure the Church of their safeguard by the destruction of their enemies. Concerning the doctrine of reconciliation, they have more clearly entreated it than Moses, and set forth more lively Jesus Christ, in whom this covenant of reconciliation was made. In all these things Isaiah surpassed all the prophets, and was diligent to set out the same, with vehement admonitions, reprehensions, and consolations: ever applying the doctrine as he saw that the disease of the people required. He declares also many notable prophecies which he had received from God, concerning the promise of the Messiah, his office and kingdom, the favour of God toward his Church, the calling of the Gentiles and their union with the Jews. Which are principal points contained in this book, and a gathering of his sermons that he preached. Which after certain days that they had stood upon the temple door (for the manner of the prophets was to post the sum of their doctrine for certain days, that the people might the better mark it as in (Isa_8:1; Hab_2:2)) the priests took it down and reserved it among their registers. By God's providence these books were preserved as a monument to the Church forever. Concerning his person and time he was of the king's stock (for Amos his father was brother to Azariah king of Judah, as the best writers agree) and prophesied more than 64 years, from the time of Uzziah to the reign of Manasseh who was his son-in-law (as the Hebrews write) and by whom he was put to death. In reading of the prophets, this one thing among others is to be observed, that they speak of things to come as though they were now past because of the certainty of it, and that they could not but come to pass, because God had ordained them in his secret counsel and so revealed them to his prophets.


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