geneva Psalms:73-89
geneva@Psalms:73:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» Truly (note:)As it were between hope and despair he bursts forth into this affection, being assured that God would continue his favour toward such as were godly indeed, and not hypocrites.(:note) God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.
geneva@Psalms:73:2 @ As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had welneere slipt.
geneva@Psalms:73:3 @ For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.
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:73:5 @ They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.
geneva@Psalms:73:6 @
geneva@Psalms:73:7 @ Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.
geneva@Psalms:73:8 @ They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.
geneva@Psalms:73:9 @ They (note:)They blaspheme God, and do not fear his power and rail upon men, because they esteem themselves above all others.(:note) set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
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:73:12 @ Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.
geneva@Psalms:73:13 @ Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
geneva@Psalms:73:14 @ For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.
geneva@Psalms:73:15 @ If I say, (note:)If I give place to this wicked thought, I offend against your providence, seeing you do all things most wisely and preserve your children in their greatest dangers.(:note) I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.
geneva@Psalms:73:16 @ Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,
geneva@Psalms:73:17 @ Until I went into the (note:)Until I entered into your school and learned by your word and Holy Spirit that you order all things most wisely and justly.(:note) sanctuary of God; [then] understood I their end.
geneva@Psalms:73:18 @ Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.
geneva@Psalms:73:19 @ How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are (note:)By your fearful judgment.(:note) utterly consumed with terrors.
geneva@Psalms:73:20 @ As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when (note:)When you open our eyes to consider your heavenly happiness, we contemn all their vain pomp.(:note) thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
geneva@Psalms:73:21 @ Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:
geneva@Psalms:73:22 @ So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a (note:)For the more that man goes about by his own reason to seek out God's judgments, the more he declares himself a beast.(:note) beast before thee.
geneva@Psalms:73:23 @ Nevertheless I [am] continually (note:)By faith I was assured that your providence always watched over me to preserve me.(:note) with thee: thou hast holden [me] by my right hand.
geneva@Psalms:73:24 @ Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.
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:73:26 @ My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my (note:)He teaches us to deny ourselves, to have God our whole sufficiency, and only contentment.(:note) portion for ever.
geneva@Psalms:73:27 @ For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that (note:)That is, forsake you to seek others.(:note) go a whoring from thee.
geneva@Psalms:73:28 @ But [it is] good for me (note:)Though all the world shrinks from God, yet he promises to trust in him and to magnify his works.(:note) to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
geneva@Psalms:74:1 @ «Maschil of Asaph.» O God, (note:)The Church of God is oppressed by the tyranny, either of the Babylonians or of Antiochus, and prays to God by whose hand the yoke was laid on them for their sins.(:note) why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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:74:3 @ Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.
geneva@Psalms:74:4 @ Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they (note:)They have destroyed your true religion, and spread their banners in sign of defiance.(:note) set up their ensigns [for] signs.
geneva@Psalms:74:5 @ [A man] was famous according as he had (note:)He commends the temple for the costly matter, the excellent workmanship and beauty of it, which nonetheless the enemies destroyed.(:note) lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
geneva@Psalms:74:6 @ But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.
geneva@Psalms:74:7 @ They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.
geneva@Psalms:74:8 @ They said in their (note:)They encouraged one another to cruelty, that not only God's people might be destroyed, but also his religion utterly in all places suppressed.(:note) hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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:74:10 @ O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?
geneva@Psalms:74:11 @ Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? (note:)They join their deliverance with God's glory and power, knowing that the punishment of the enemy would be their deliverance.(:note) pluck [it] out of thy bosom.
geneva@Psalms:74:12 @ For God [is] my King of old, working salvation (note:)Meaning in the sight of all the world.(:note) in the midst of the earth.
geneva@Psalms:74:13 @ Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the (note:)That is, Pharaoh's army.(:note) dragons in the waters.
geneva@Psalms:74:14 @ Thou brakest the heads of (note:)Which was a great monster of the sea, or whale, meaning Pharaoh.(:note) leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] His destruction rejoiced them as meat refreshes the body. meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
geneva@Psalms:74:15 @ Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.
geneva@Psalms:74:16 @ The (note:)Seeing that God by his providence governs and disposes all things, he gathers that he will take care chiefly for his children.(:note) day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
geneva@Psalms:74:17 @ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
geneva@Psalms:74:18 @ Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lorde, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.
geneva@Psalms:74:19 @ O deliver not the soul of thy (note:)He means the Church of God, which is exposed as a prey to the wicked.(:note) turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
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:74:21 @ Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.
geneva@Psalms:74:22 @ Arise, O God, plead thine (note:)He shows that God cannot permit his Church to be oppressed unless he looses his own right.(:note) own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
geneva@Psalms:74:23 @ Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.
geneva@Psalms:75:1 @ «To the chief Musician, (note:)Read (Psa_57:1).(:note) Altaschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.» Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, [unto thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near He declares how the faithful will always have opportunity to praise God, as in their need they will feel his power at hand to help them. thy wondrous works declare.
geneva@Psalms:75:2 @
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:75:4 @ I saide vnto the foolish, Be not so foolish, and to the wicked, Lift not vp the horne.
geneva@Psalms:75:5 @ Lift not up your (note:)The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them who rule wickedly.(:note) horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
geneva@Psalms:75:6 @ For to come to preferment is neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South,
geneva@Psalms:75:7 @ But God is the iudge: he maketh lowe and he maketh hie.
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:75:9 @ But I will declare for euer, and sing prayses vnto the God of Iaakob.
geneva@Psalms:75:10 @ All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of the (note:)The godly will better prosper by their innocent simplicity, than the wicked will by all their craft and subtilty.(:note) righteous shall be exalted.
geneva@Psalms:76:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph.» In Judah [is] God (note:)He declares that God's power is evidently seen in preserving his people and destroying his enemies.(:note) known: his name [is] great in Israel.
geneva@Psalms:76:2 @ In (note:)Which later was called Jerusalem.(:note) Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
geneva@Psalms:76:3 @ There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shielde and the sword and the battell. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:76:4 @ Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than (note:)He compares the kingdom full of extortion and rapine to the mountains that are full of ravening beasts.(:note) the mountains of prey.
geneva@Psalms:76:5 @ The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have (note:)God has taken their spirits and strength from them as though their hands were cut off.(:note) found their hands.
geneva@Psalms:76:6 @ At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe.
geneva@Psalms:76:7 @ Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be feared: and who may stand in thy (note:)God with a look is able to destroy all the power and activity of the enemies, no matter how many or mighty.(:note) sight when once thou art angry?
geneva@Psalms:76:8 @ Thou didest cause thy iudgement to bee heard from heauen: therefore the earth feared and was still,
geneva@Psalms:76:9 @ When God arose to judgment, to (note:)To avenge the wrongs done to your Church.(:note) save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:76:10 @ Surely the (note:)For the end will show that the enemy was able to bring nothing to pass: also you will bridle their rage that they will not accomplish their purpose.(:note) wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
geneva@Psalms:76:11 @ Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be (note:)That is, the Levites who dwell about the Tabernacle, or the people among whom he dwells.(:note) round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
geneva@Psalms:76:12 @ He shall (note:)The Hebrew word signifies «to vintage or gather grapes» meaning that he will make the counsels and enterprises of the wicked tyrants foolish and vain.(:note) cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the kings of the earth.
geneva@Psalms:77:1 @ «To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.» I cried unto God with my (note:)The prophet teaches us by his example to flee to God for help in our necessities.(:note) voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
geneva@Psalms:77:2 @ In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.
geneva@Psalms:77:3 @ I remembered God, and was (note:)He shows that we must patiently abide though God does not deliver us from our troubles at the first cry.(:note) troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:77:4 @ Thou holdest mine eyes (note:)Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping.(:note) waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
geneva@Psalms:77:5 @ Then I considered the daies of olde, and the yeeres of ancient time.
geneva@Psalms:77:6 @ I call to remembrance my (note:)Of thanksgiving, which I was accustomed to sing in my prosperity.(:note) song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made Both the reasons why I was chastened, and when my sorrows would end. diligent search.
geneva@Psalms:77:7 @ Will the Lorde absent him selfe for euer? and will he shewe no more fauour?
geneva@Psalms:77:8 @ Is his (note:)As if he would say, It is impossible: by which he exhorts himself to patience.(:note) mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?
geneva@Psalms:77:9 @ Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah.
geneva@Psalms:77:10 @ And I said, This [is] my (note:)Though I first doubted of my life, yet considering that God had his years, that is, change of times, and was accustomed also to lift up them whom he had beaten, I took heart again.(:note) infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.
geneva@Psalms:77:11 @ I remembred the workes of the Lorde: certainely I remembred thy wonders of olde.
geneva@Psalms:77:12 @ I did also meditate all thy woorkes, and did deuise of thine actes, saying,
geneva@Psalms:77:13 @ Thy way, O God, [is] (note:)That is in heaven, to which we must ascend by faith, if we will know the ways of God.(:note) in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a He condemns all who worship anything save the only true God, whose glory appears through the world. God as [our] God?
geneva@Psalms:77:14 @ Thou art ye God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people.
geneva@Psalms:77:15 @ Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of Iaakob & Ioseph. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:77:16 @ The (note:)He declares how the power of God was declared when he delivered the Israelites through the Red Sea.(:note) waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
geneva@Psalms:77:17 @ The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a (note:)That is, thundered and lightninged.(:note) sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
geneva@Psalms:77:18 @ The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke.
geneva@Psalms:77:19 @ Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not (note:)For when you had brought over your people, the water returned to her course, and the enemies who thought to have followed them, could not pass through, (Exo_14:28-29).(:note) known.
geneva@Psalms:77:20 @ Thou diddest leade thy people like sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
geneva@Psalms:78:1 @ «(note:)Read (Psa_32:1).(:note) Maschil of Asaph.» Give ear, O my people, [to] my The prophet under the name of a teacher calls the people his, and the doctrine his, as Paul calls the gospel his, of which he was but the preacher, as in (Rom_2:16, Rom_16:25). law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
geneva@Psalms:78:2 @ I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.
geneva@Psalms:78:3 @ Which we have heard and known, and our (note:)Who were the people of God.(:note) fathers have told us.
geneva@Psalms:78:4 @ Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, & his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:
geneva@Psalms:78:5 @ For he established a (note:)By the testimony and law, he means your law written, which they were commanded to teach their children, (Deu_6:7).(:note) testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
geneva@Psalms:78:6 @ That the (note:)He shows how the children would be like their father's: that is, in maintaining God's pure religion.(:note) generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:
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:78:8 @ And might not be as their (note:)Though these fathers were the seed of Abraham and the chosen people, yet he shows by their rebellion, provocation, falsehood, and hypocrisy, that the children should not follow their examples.(:note) fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
geneva@Psalms:78:9 @ The children of (note:)By Ephraim he means also the rest of the tribes, because they were most in number: whose punishment declares that they were unfaithful to God, and by their multitude and authority had corrupted all others.(:note) Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
geneva@Psalms:78:10 @ They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,
geneva@Psalms:78:11 @ And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.
geneva@Psalms:78:12 @ Marvellous things did he in the sight of their (note:)He proves that not only the posterity but also their forefathers were wicked and rebellious to God.(:note) fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
geneva@Psalms:78:13 @ He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.
geneva@Psalms:78:14 @ In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.
geneva@Psalms:78:15 @ He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
geneva@Psalms:78:16 @ He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.
geneva@Psalms:78:17 @ And they (note:)Their wicked malice could be overcome by no benefits, which were great and many.(:note) sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
geneva@Psalms:78:18 @ And they tempted God in their heart by (note:)Then to require more than is necessary, and to separate God's power from his will, is to tempt God.(:note) asking meat for their lust.
geneva@Psalms:78:19 @ Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God (note:)Thus when we give place to sin, we are moved to doubt God's power, unless he is always ready to serve our lust.(:note) furnish a table in the wilderness?
geneva@Psalms:78:20 @ Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?
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:78:22 @ Because they believed not in God, and (note:)That is, in his fatherly providence, by which he cares for his, and provides sufficiently.(:note) trusted not in his salvation:
geneva@Psalms:78:23 @ Though he had commanded the (note:)So that they had that which was necessary and sufficient: but their lust made them cover that which they knew God had denied them.(:note) clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
geneva@Psalms:78:24 @ And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.
geneva@Psalms:78:25 @ Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.
geneva@Psalms:78:26 @ He caused an (note:)God used the wind to show them that all the elements were at his command, and that no distance could restrain his working.(:note) east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
geneva@Psalms:78:27 @ Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.
geneva@Psalms:78:28 @ And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.
geneva@Psalms:78:29 @ So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.
geneva@Psalms:78:30 @ They were not estranged from their (note:)Such is the nature of concupiscence, that the more it has the more it lusts.(:note) lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,
geneva@Psalms:78:31 @ The wrath of God came upon them, and slew (note:)Though others were not spared, yet chiefly they suffered, who trusted in their strength against God.(:note) the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.
geneva@Psalms:78:32 @ For all this they (note:)Thus sin by continuance makes man insensible, so that by no plagues they can be amended.(:note) sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
geneva@Psalms:78:33 @ Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
geneva@Psalms:78:34 @ When he (note:)Such was their hypocrisy, that they sought God out of fear of punishment, though in their heart they did not love him.(:note) slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
geneva@Psalms:78:35 @ And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.
geneva@Psalms:78:36 @ But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.
geneva@Psalms:78:37 @ For their (note:)Whatever does not come from the pure fountain of the heart is hypocrisy.(:note) heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
geneva@Psalms:78:38 @ But he, [being] full of compassion, (note:)Because he would always have some remnant of a Church to praise his Name in earth, he did not permit their sins to overcome his mercy.(:note) forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
geneva@Psalms:78:39 @ For he remebred that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.
geneva@Psalms:78:40 @ How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?
geneva@Psalms:78:41 @ Yea, they (note:)That is, they often tempted him.(:note) turned back and tempted God, and As they all do who measure the power of God by their capacity. limited the Holy One of Israel.
geneva@Psalms:78:42 @ They (note:)The forgetfulness of God's benefits is the root of rebellion and all vice.(:note) remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
geneva@Psalms:78:43 @ Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,
geneva@Psalms:78:44 @ And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke.
geneva@Psalms:78:45 @ He sent (note:)This word signifies a confused mixture of flies and venomous worms. Some take it for all sorts of serpents: some for all wild beasts.(:note) divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
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:78:47 @ He destroied their vines with haile, & their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.
geneva@Psalms:78:48 @ He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.
geneva@Psalms:78:49 @ He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending (note:)So called either for the effect, that is, of punishing the wicked: or else because they were wicked spirits, whom God permitted to vex men.(:note) evil angels [among them].
geneva@Psalms:78:50 @ He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,
geneva@Psalms:78:51 @ And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the (note:)The firstborn are so called, as in (Gen_49:3).(:note) chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of That is, Egypt: for it was called Mizraim, or Egypt of Mizraim that was the son of Ham. Ham:
geneva@Psalms:78:52 @ But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, & led them in the wildernes like a flocke.
geneva@Psalms:78:53 @ And he led them on safely, so that they (note:)That is, they had no opportunity to fear, even as God destroyed their enemies and delivered them falsely.(:note) feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
geneva@Psalms:78:54 @ And he brought them to the border of his (note:)Meaning, Canaan, which God had consecrated to himself and appointed to his people.(:note) sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
geneva@Psalms:78:55 @ He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
geneva@Psalms:78:56 @ Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,
geneva@Psalms:78:57 @ But turned back, and dealt (note:)Nothing more displeases God in the children, than when they continue in that wickedness, which their fathers had begun.(:note) unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
geneva@Psalms:78:58 @ For they (note:)By serving God other than he had appointed.(:note) provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
geneva@Psalms:78:59 @ God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
geneva@Psalms:78:60 @ So that he (note:)For their ingratitude he permitted the Philistines to take the Ark which was the sign of his presence, from among them.(:note) forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;
geneva@Psalms:78:61 @ And delivered his (note:)The Ark is called his power and beauty because by this he defended his people, and beautifully appeared to them.(:note) strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
geneva@Psalms:78:62 @ And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.
geneva@Psalms:78:63 @ The fire (note:)They were suddenly destroyed, (1Sa_4:10).(:note) consumed their young men; and their maidens were not They had no marriage songs: that is, they were not married. given to marriage.
geneva@Psalms:78:64 @ Their priests fell by the sword; and their (note:)Either they were slain before or taken prisoner by their enemies, and so were forbidden.(:note) widows made no lamentation.
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:78:66 @ And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.
geneva@Psalms:78:67 @ Moreover he refused the tabernacle of (note:)Showing that he did not spare the Israelites altogether, though he punished their enemies.(:note) Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
geneva@Psalms:78:68 @ But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.
geneva@Psalms:78:69 @ And he (note:)By building the temple, and establishing the kingdom, he declares that the signs of his favour were among them.(:note) built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.
geneva@Psalms:78:70 @ He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.
geneva@Psalms:78:71 @ Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.
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:79:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» O God, (note:)The people cry to God against the barbarous tyranny of the Babylonians who spoiled God's inheritance, polluted his temple, destroyed his religion, and murdered his people.(:note) the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
geneva@Psalms:79:2 @ The (note:)The prophets show to what extremities God sometimes allows his Church to fall to exercise their faith, before he sets his hand to deliver them.(:note) dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
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:79:4 @ We are become a reproach to our (note:)Of which some came from Abraham but were degenerate: and others were open enemies to your religion, but they both laughed at our miseries.(:note) neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
geneva@Psalms:79:5 @ How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy (note:)Will you completely consume us for our sins, before you take us to mercy?(:note) burn like fire?
geneva@Psalms:79:6 @ Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen that haue not knowen thee, and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy Name.
geneva@Psalms:79:7 @ For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.
geneva@Psalms:79:8 @ O remember not against us (note:)Which we and our fathers have committed.(:note) former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
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:79:11 @ Let the sighing of the (note:)Who though in respect to God they were justly punished for their sins, yet in consideration of their cause were unjustly murdered.(:note) prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou Who were captives among their enemies and could look for nothing but death. those that are appointed to die;
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:79:13 @ So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: (note:)We ought to desire no benefit from God, but on this condition to praise his name, (Isa_43:21).(:note) we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
geneva@Psalms:80:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.» Give ear, (note:)This Psalm was made as a prayer to desire God to be merciful to the ten tribes.(:note) O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the Move their hearts, that they may return to worship God properly, that is, in the place you have appointed. cherubims, shine forth.
geneva@Psalms:80:2 @ Before Ephraim and Beniamin and Manasseh stirre vp thy strength, and come to helpe vs.
geneva@Psalms:80:3 @
geneva@Psalms:80:4 @ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be (note:)The faithful fear God's anger, when they perceive that their prayers are not heard immediately.(:note) angry against the prayer of thy people?
geneva@Psalms:80:5 @ Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
geneva@Psalms:80:6 @ Thou makest us a (note:)Our neighbours have continual strife and war against us.(:note) strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
geneva@Psalms:80:7 @
geneva@Psalms:80:8 @ Thou hast brought a (note:)Seeing that from your mercy you have made us a most dear possession to you, and we through our sins are made open for wild beasts to devour us, declare again my love and finish the work that you have begun.(:note) vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
geneva@Psalms:80:9 @ Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.
geneva@Psalms:80:10 @ The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.
geneva@Psalms:80:11 @ She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the (note:)That is, Euphrates.(:note) river.
geneva@Psalms:80:12 @ Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?
geneva@Psalms:80:13 @ The (note:)That is, they who hate our religion, as well as they who hate our persons.(:note) boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
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:80:15 @ And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest (note:)So that no power can prevail against it, and which as a young bud you raised up again as out of the burnt ashes.(:note) strong for thyself.
geneva@Psalms:80:16 @ [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the (note:)Only when you are angry and not of the sword of the enemy.(:note) rebuke of thy countenance.
geneva@Psalms:80:17 @ Let thy hand be upon the (note:)That is, on this vine or people, whom you have planted with your right hand, that they should be as one man or one body(:note) man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.
geneva@Psalms:80:18 @ So will not we go back from thee: (note:)For no one can call on God but such as are raised up as it were from death to life, and regenerate by the Holy Spirit.(:note) quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
geneva@Psalms:80:19 @ Turne vs againe, O Lorde God of hostes: cause thy face to shine and we shalbe saued.
geneva@Psalms:81:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)An instrument of music brought from Geth.(:note) Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph.» Sing It seems that this psalm was appointed for solemn feasts and assemblies of the people to whom for a time these ceremonies were ordained, but now under the gospel are abolished. aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
geneva@Psalms:81:2 @ Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.
geneva@Psalms:81:3 @ Blow up the trumpet in the (note:)Under this feast he comprehends all other solemn days.(:note) new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
geneva@Psalms:81:4 @ For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Iaakob.
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:81:6 @ I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the (note:)If they were never able to give sufficient thanks to God, for this deliverance from corporal bondage, how much more are we indebted to him for our spiritual deliverance from the tyranny of Satan and sin?(:note) pots.
geneva@Psalms:81:7 @ Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I (note:)By a strange and wonderful fashion.(:note) answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:81:8 @
geneva@Psalms:81:9 @ Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.
geneva@Psalms:81:10 @ I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: (note:)God accuses their incredulity, because they did not open their mouths to receive God's benefits in such abundance as he pours them out.(:note) open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
geneva@Psalms:81:11 @ But my people would not heare my voyce, and Israel would none of me.
geneva@Psalms:81:12 @ So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnes of their heart, & they haue walked in their owne cousels.
geneva@Psalms:81:13 @
geneva@Psalms:81:14 @ I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand (note:)If their sins had not.(:note) against their adversaries.
geneva@Psalms:81:15 @ The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time (note:)If the Israelites had not broken covenant with God, he would have given them victory against their enemies.(:note) should have endured for ever.
geneva@Psalms:81:16 @ He should have fed them also with the (note:)That is, with most fine wheat and abundance of honey.(:note) finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
geneva@Psalms:82:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» God standeth in the congregation of the (note:)The prophet shows that if princes and judges do not do their duty, God whose authority is above them will take vengeance on them.(:note) mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
geneva@Psalms:82:2 @ How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the (note:)For thieves and murderers find favour in judgment when the cause of the godly cannot be heard.(:note) wicked? Selah.
geneva@Psalms:82:3 @ Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.
geneva@Psalms:82:4 @ Deliver the poor and (note:)Not only when they cry for help, but when their cause requires aid and support.(:note) needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.
geneva@Psalms:82:5 @ They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the (note:)That is, all things are out of order either by their tyranny or careless negligence.(:note) foundations of the earth are out of course.
geneva@Psalms:82:6 @ I haue said, Ye are gods, and ye all are children of the most High.
geneva@Psalms:82:7 @
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:83:1 @ «A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.» Keep (note:)This psalm seems to have been composed as a form of prayer against the dangers that the Church was in, in the days of Jehoshaphat.(:note) not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
geneva@Psalms:83:2 @ For, lo, thine (note:)He calls them God's enemies, who are enemies of his Church.(:note) enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
geneva@Psalms:83:3 @ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy (note:)The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserves them from all dangers.(:note) hidden ones.
geneva@Psalms:83:4 @ They have said, Come, and let us (note:)They were not content to take the Church as prisoner: but sought to utterly destroy it.(:note) cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
geneva@Psalms:83:5 @ For they have consulted together (note:)By all secret means.(:note) with one consent: they are confederate They thought to have subverted your counsel in which the constancy of the Church was established. against thee:
geneva@Psalms:83:6 @ The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Agarims:
geneva@Psalms:83:7 @ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalech, the Philistims with the inhabitants of Tyrus:
geneva@Psalms:83:8 @ Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children (note:)The wickedness of the Ammonites and Moabites is described in that they provoked these other nations to fight against the Israelites.(:note) of Lot. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:83:9 @ Do unto them as [unto] the (note:)By these examples they were confirmed that God would not permit his people to be completely destroyed, (Jdg_7:21, Jdg_4:15).(:note) Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
geneva@Psalms:83:10 @ [Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] (note:)Trodden under foot as mire.(:note) dung for the earth.
geneva@Psalms:83:11 @ Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.
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:83:13 @ O my God, make them like a (note:)Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prays that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable and led by all winds.(:note) wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
geneva@Psalms:83:14 @ As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:
geneva@Psalms:83:15 @ So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.
geneva@Psalms:83:16 @ Fill their faces with shame; that they may (note:)That is, be compelled by your plagues to confess your power.(:note) seek thy name, O LORD.
geneva@Psalms:83:17 @ Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,
geneva@Psalms:83:18 @ That [men] may (note:)Though they do not believe, yet they may prove by experience, that it is in vain to resist against your counsel in establishing your Church.(:note) know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.
geneva@Psalms:84:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O (note:)David complains that he cannot have access to the Church of God to make profession of his faith, and to profit in religion.(:note) LORD of hosts!
geneva@Psalms:84:2 @ My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the (note:)For only the priests could enter the sanctuary and the rest of the people into the courts.(:note) courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
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:84:4 @ Blessed are they that dwell in thine house: they will euer praise thee. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:84:5 @ Blessed [is] the man whose (note:)Who trusts nothing in himself but in you only, and learns from you to rule his life.(:note) strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them].
geneva@Psalms:84:6 @ [Who] passing through the valley of (note:)So that the poor birds have more freedom than I.(:note) Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
geneva@Psalms:84:7 @ They go from (note:)They are never weary but increase in strength and courage till they come to God's house.(:note) strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.
geneva@Psalms:84:8 @ O Lorde God of hostes, heare my prayer: hearken, O God of Iaakob. Selah.
geneva@Psalms:84:9 @ Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine (note:)That is, for Christ's sake, whose figure I represent.(:note) anointed.
geneva@Psalms:84:10 @ For (note:)He would rather live one day in God's Church than a thousand in the world.(:note) a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
geneva@Psalms:84:11 @ For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no (note:)But will from time to time increase his blessings toward his more and more.(:note) good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
geneva@Psalms:84:12 @ O Lorde of hostes, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
geneva@Psalms:85:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» LORD, thou hast been (note:)They confess that God's free mercy was the cause of their deliverance because he loved the land which he had chosen.(:note) favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
geneva@Psalms:85:2 @ Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast (note:)You have buried them that they will not come into judgment.(:note) covered all their sin. Selah.![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}