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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:1:15 @ And the (note:)That is, the Arabians.(:note) Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

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:1:20 @ Then Job arose, and (note:)Which came not from impatience, but declares that the children of God are not insensible like blocks, but that in their patience they feel affliction and grief of mind: yet they do not rebel against God as the wicked do.(:note) rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

geneva@Job:2:9 @ Then said his (note:)Satan uses the same instrument against Job, as he did against Adam.(:note) wife unto him, Dost thou Meaning, what do you gain from serving God, seeing he thus plagues you, as though he were your enemy? This is the most grievous temptation for the faithful, when their faith is assailed, and when Satan goes about to persuade them that they trust in God in vain. still retain thine integrity? For death was appointed to the blasphemer and so she meant that he would quickly be rid of his pain. curse God, and die.

geneva@Job:2:11 @ Now when Job's three (note:)Who were men of authority, wise and learned, and as the Septuagint writes, kings, and came to comfort him, but when they saw how he was visited, they conceived an evil opinion of him, as though he was a hypocrite and so justly plagued by God for his sins.(:note) friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

geneva@Job:2:12 @ And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled (note:)This was also a ceremony which they used in those countries as the renting of their clothes in sign of sorrow etc.(:note) dust upon their heads toward heaven.

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:3:3 @ 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:3:5 @ Let darkness and the (note:)That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death that they are in it.(:note) shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

geneva@Job:3:14 @ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built (note:)He notes the ambition of them who for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would by this make their names immortal.(:note) desolate places for themselves;

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:3:21 @ Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

geneva@Job:3:22 @ Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.

geneva@Job:4:8 @ Even as I have seen, they that (note:)They who do evil cannot but receive evil.(:note) plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

geneva@Job:4:9 @ By the (note:)He shows that God needs no great preparation to destroy his enemies: for he can do it with the blast of his mouth.(:note) blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

geneva@Job:4:18 @ Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his (note:)If God finds imperfection in his angels when they are not maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay folly to man's charge when he would justify himself against God?(:note) angels he charged with folly:

geneva@Job:4:20 @ They are destroyed from (note:)They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them.(:note) morning to evening: they perish for ever No man for all this considers it. without any regarding [it].

geneva@Job:4:21 @ Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without (note:)That is, before any of them were so wise, as to think of death.(:note) wisdom.

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:5:12 @ He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

geneva@Job:5:14 @ They meet with (note:)In things plain and evident they show themselves fools instead of wise men.(:note) darkness in the daytime, and This declares that God punishes the worldly wise as he threatened in (Deu_28:29). grope in the noonday as in the night.

geneva@Job:5:16 @ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity (note:)If the wicked are compelled by God's works to shut their mouths, how much more they who profess God.(:note) stoppeth her mouth.

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:6:5 @ Doth the (note:)Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want.(:note) wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

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:6:15 @ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a (note:)He compares friends who do not comfort us in our misery to a brook which in summer when we need water is dry, in winter is hard frozen and in the time of rain when we have no need overflows with water.(:note) brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;

geneva@Job:6:17 @ But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places,

geneva@Job:6:18 @ Or they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish.

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:6:20 @ But they were confounded: when they hoped, they came thither and were ashamed.

geneva@Job:6:25 @ How (note:)He who has a good conscience does not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, unless they are able to persuade him by reason.(:note) forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

geneva@Job:8:10 @ Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

geneva@Job:8:22 @ They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine.

geneva@Job:9:5 @ He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath.

geneva@Job:9:14 @ How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out (note:)How should I be able to answer him by eloquence? By which he notes his friends, who although they were eloquent in talk, did not believe in their hearts, that which they spoke.(:note) my words [to reason] with him?

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:9:25 @ My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

geneva@Job:9:26 @ They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

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:11:14 @ If iniquity [be] in thine (note:)Renounce your own evil works and see that they do not offend God, over whom you have charge.(:note) hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

geneva@Job:11:15 @ For then shalt thou lift up thy (note:)He declares the quietness of conscience and success in all things that they shall have who turn to God in true repentance.(:note) face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

geneva@Job:11:20 @ But the eyes (note:)He shows that contrary things will come to them who do not repent.(:note) of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.

geneva@Job:12:4 @ I am (note:)He reproves his friends for two faults: one, that they thought they had better knowledge than they did: and the other, that instead of true consolation, they derided and despised their friend in his adversity.(:note) [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he Who being a mocker and a wicked man, thinks that no man is in God's favour but he, because he has all things that he desires. answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.

geneva@Job:12:6 @ The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.

geneva@Job:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, (note:)He declares to them that disputed against him, that their wisdom is common to all, and such as the very brute beasts teach daily.(:note) and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

geneva@Job:12:8 @ Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.

geneva@Job:12:15 @ Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.

geneva@Job:12:23 @ He (note:)In this discourse of God's wonderful works, Job shows that whatever is done in this world both in the order and change of things, is by God's will and appointment, in which he declares that he thinks well of God, and is able to set forth his power in words as they that reasoned against him were.(:note) increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again].

geneva@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken ma.

geneva@Job:13:7 @ Will ye speak (note:)He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor regarded they to comfort him, but always granted on God's justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, unless they had undertaken the probation of it.(:note) wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

geneva@Job:13:16 @ He also [shall be] my salvation: for an (note:)By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him.(:note) hypocrite shall not come before him.

geneva@Job:14:21 @ And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,

geneva@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man utter (note:)That is, vain words, and without consolation?(:note) vain knowledge, and fill his belly Meaning, with matters that are of no importance, which are forgotten as soon as they are uttered, as the East wind dries up moisture as soon as it falls. with the east wind?

geneva@Job:15:18 @ Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:

geneva@Job:15:24 @ Trouble and (note:)He shows the weapons God uses against the wicked, who lift up themselves against him, that is, terror of conscience and outward afflictions.(:note) anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

geneva@Job:15:33 @ He shall shake off his unripe (note:)As one who gathers grapes before they are ripe.(:note) grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

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: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:17:8 @ Upright [men] shall be astonied at (note:)That is, when they see the godly punished: but in the end they will come to understanding and know what will be the reward of the hypocrite.(:note) this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

geneva@Job:17:12 @ They change the (note:)That is, have brought me sorrow instead of comfort.(:note) night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.

geneva@Job:18:20 @ They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his (note:)When they will see what came to him.(:note) day, as they that went before were affrighted.

geneva@Job:19:18 @ The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.

geneva@Job:19:19 @ All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.

geneva@Job:19:23 @ Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

geneva@Job:19:24 @ That they were graven with (note:)He protests that despite his sore passions his religion is perfect and that he in not a blasphemer as they judged him.(:note) an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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:20:8 @ He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

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:21:11 @ They send forth their little ones (note:)They have healthy children and in those points he answers to that which Zophar alleged before.(:note) like a flock, and their children dance.

geneva@Job:21:12 @ They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

geneva@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment (note:)Not being tormented with long sickness.(:note) go down to the grave.

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:21:18 @ They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

geneva@Job:21:26 @ They shall lie down alike in (note:)As concerning their bodies: and this he speaks according to the common judgment.(:note) the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

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:22:12 @ [Is] not God in the (note:)He accuses Job of impiety and contempt of God, as thought he would say, If you pass not for men, yet consider the height of God's majesty.(:note) height of heaven? and behold the height of the That so much the more by that excellent work you may fear God, and reverence him. stars, how high they are!

geneva@Job:22:16 @ Which were (note:)He proves God's providence by the punishment of the wicked, whom he takes away before they can bring their wicked purposes to pass.(:note) cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

geneva@Job:24:1 @ Why, seeing times (note:)Thus Job speaks in his passions, and after the judgment of the flesh: that is, that he does not see the things that are done at times, nor yet has a peculiar care over all, because he does not punish the wicked or avenge the godly.(:note) are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his When he punishes the wicked and rewards the good. days?

geneva@Job:24:3 @ They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

geneva@Job:24:4 @ They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves (note:)And for cruelty and oppression dare not show their faces.(:note) together.

geneva@Job:24:5 @ Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; (note:)That is, spares diligence.(:note) rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness He and his live by robbing and murdering. [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

geneva@Job:24:6 @ They reap [every one] (note:)Meaning the poor man's.(:note) his corn in the field: and they gather the Signifying that one wicked man will not spoil another, but for necessity. vintage of the wicked.

geneva@Job:24:7 @ They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

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:24:10 @ They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

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:24:16 @ They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

geneva@Job:24:17 @ But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

geneva@Job:24:18 @ He [is] swift as the (note:)He flees to the waters for his succour.(:note) waters; their They think that all the world is bent against them and dare not go by the highway. portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

geneva@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] (note:)As the dry ground is never full with waters, so will they never cease sinning till they come to the grave.(:note) have sinned.

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:24:24 @ They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.

geneva@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these [are] parts of his ways: but (note:)If these few things which we see daily with our eyes, declare his great power and providence, how much more would they appear, if we were to comprehend all his works.(:note) how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

geneva@Job:27:2 @ [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my (note:)He has so sore afflicted me that men cannot judge my uprightness; for they judge only by outward signs.(:note) judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

geneva@Job:27:13 @ This [is] the (note:)Thus will God order the wicked, and punish him even to his posterity.(:note) portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

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:28:4 @ The flood breaketh out from the (note:)Meaning, him that dwells by it.(:note) inhabitant; [even the waters] Which a man cannot wade through. forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

geneva@Job:28:11 @ He bindeth the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe, and the thing that is hid, bringeth he to light.

geneva@Job:29:6 @ When I washed my steps (note:)By these comparisons he declares the great prosperity that he was in, so that he had no opportunity to be such a sinner as they accused him.(:note) with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

geneva@Job:29:22 @ After my words they spake not again; and my speech (note:)That is, was pleasant to them.(:note) dropped upon them.

geneva@Job:29:23 @ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide (note:)As the dry ground thirsts for the rain.(:note) [as] for the latter rain.

geneva@Job:29:24 @ [If] I (note:)That is, they thought it not to be a rest, or they did not think that I would condescend to them.(:note) laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they They were afraid to offend me and cause me to be angry. cast not down.

geneva@Job:30:1 @ But now [they that are] younger than I (note:)That is, my estate is changed and while before the ancient men were glad to revere me, the young men now contemn me.(:note) have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the Meaning to be my shepherds or to keep my dogs. dogs of my flock.

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:30:3 @ For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

geneva@Job:30:4 @ They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate.

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:30:6 @ Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.

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

geneva@Job:30:8 @ They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

geneva@Job:30:9 @ And now am I their (note:)They make songs of me, and mock my misery.(:note) song, yea, I am their byword.

geneva@Job:30:10 @ They abhorre me, & flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.

geneva@Job:30:11 @ Because he hath loosed my (note:)God has taken from me the force, credit, and authority with which I kept them in subjection.(:note) cord, and afflicted me, He said that the young men when they saw him, hid themselves as in (Job_29:8), and now in his misery they were impudent and licentious. they have also let loose the bridle before me.

geneva@Job:30:12 @ Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the (note:)That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.(:note) ways of their destruction.

geneva@Job:30:13 @ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no (note:)They need no one to help them.(:note) helper.

geneva@Job:30:14 @ They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the (note:)By my calamity they took an opportunity against me.(:note) desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

geneva@Job:30:15 @ Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.

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:31:13 @ If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they (note:)When they thought themselves evil intreated by me.(:note) contended with me;

geneva@Job:31:15 @ Did not he that made me in the womb make (note:)He was moved to show pity to servants, because they were God's creatures as he was.(:note) him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

geneva@Job:32:3 @ Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not finde an answere, and yet condemned Iob.

geneva@Job:32:4 @ Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because (note:)That is, the three mentioned before.(:note) they [were] elder than he.

geneva@Job:32:15 @ Then they fearing, answered no more, but left off their talke.

geneva@Job:32:16 @ When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more)

geneva@Job:34:18 @ [Is it fit] to say to a king, [Thou art] (note:)If man by nature fears to speak evil of such as have power, then they should be much more afraid to speak evil of God.(:note) wicked? [and] to princes, [Ye are] ungodly?

geneva@Job:34:19 @ How much lesse to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, & regardeth not the rich, more then the poore? for they be all the worke of his handes.

geneva@Job:34:20 @ In a moment shall they die, (note:)When they look not for it.(:note) and the people shall be troubled at midnight, The messengers of visitation that God will send. and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

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:34:27 @ Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

geneva@Job:34:28 @ So that they cause the cry of the poor to (note:)By their cruelty and extortion.(:note) come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

geneva@Job:35:9 @ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] (note:)The wicked may hurt man and cause him to cry, who if he sought God who lends comfort would be delivered.(:note) to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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:36:7 @ He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with (note:)He prefers the godly to honour.(:note) kings [are they] on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

geneva@Job:36:8 @ And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,

geneva@Job:36:9 @ Then he sheweth them their (note:)He will move their hearts to feel their sins that they may come to him by repentance as he did Manasseh.(:note) work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

geneva@Job:36:10 @ He openeth also their eare to discipline, and commandeth them that they returne fro iniquity.

geneva@Job:36:11 @ If they obey and serue him, they shal end their dayes in prosperity, & their yeres in pleasures.

geneva@Job:36:12 @ But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die (note:)That is, in their folly or obstinacy, and so shall cause their own destruction.(:note) without knowledge.

geneva@Job:36:13 @ But the hypocrites (note:)Which are maliciously bent against God, and flatter themselves in their vices.(:note) in heart heap up wrath: they When they are in affliction they do not seek God for help, as Asa in (2Ch_16:12). cry not when he bindeth them.

geneva@Job:36:14 @ They die in (note:)They die of some vile death, and that before they come to age.(:note) youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.

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:37:1 @ At this also my heart (note:)At the marvelling of the thunder and lightnings: by which he declares that the faithful are lively touched with the majesty of God, when they behold his works.(:note) trembleth, and is moved out of his place.

geneva@Job:37:12 @ And it is turned about by his gouernment, that they may doe whatsoeuer he commandeth them vpon the whole worlde:

geneva@Job:38:14 @ It is turned as clay [to] the seal; (note:)The earth which seemed in the night to have no form by the rising of the sun, is as it were created anew, and all things in it clad with new beauty.(:note) and they stand as a garment.

geneva@Job:38:32 @ Canst thou bring forth (note:)Certain stars so called, some think they were the twelve signs.(:note) Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide The north star with those that are about him. Arcturus with his sons?

geneva@Job:38:35 @ Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?

geneva@Job:38:40 @ {\cf2 (39:2)} When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

geneva@Job:38:41 @ Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones (note:)Read (Psa_147:9).(:note) cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

geneva@Job:39:2 @ Canst thou number the months [that] they (note:)That is, how long they go with young?(:note) fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

geneva@Job:39:3 @ They bow themselves, they (note:)They bring forth with great difficulty.(:note) bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

geneva@Job:39:4 @ {\cf2 (39:7)} Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.

geneva@Job:39:14 @ Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and (note:)They write that the ostrich covers her eggs in the sand, and because the country is hot and the sun still keeps them warm, they are hatched.(:note) warmeth them in dust,

geneva@Job:39:16 @ She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is (note:)If he should take care of them.(:note) in vain without fear;

geneva@Job:40:8 @ Wilt thou also disannul (note:)Signifying that they who justify themselves condemn God as unjust.(:note) my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

geneva@Job:41:6 @ {\cf2 (40:25)} Shall the companions baket with him? shal they deuide him among the marchants?

geneva@Job:41:17 @ {\cf2 (41:8)} One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered.

geneva@Job:41:23 @ {\cf2 (41:14)} The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued.

geneva@Job:41:25 @ {\cf2 (41:16)} The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.

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:3:1 @ «A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.» LORD, how are they (note:)This was a token of his stable faith, that for all his troubles he turned to God.(:note) increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.

geneva@Psalms:4:7 @ Thou hast giuen mee more ioye of heart, then they haue had, when their wheate and their wine did abound.

geneva@Psalms:5:9 @ For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

geneva@Psalms:5:10 @ Destroy thou them, O God; let them (note:)Let their devices come to nothing.(:note) fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

geneva@Psalms:7:9 @ Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the (note:)Though they pretend a just cause against me, yet God will judge their hypocrisy.(:note) hearts and reins.

geneva@Psalms:9:3 @ For that mine enemies are turned backe: they shall fall, and perish at thy presence.

geneva@Psalms:9:10 @ And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lorde, hast not failed them that seeke thee.

geneva@Psalms:9:15 @ The heathen are (note:)For God overthrows the wicked in their enterprises.(:note) sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

geneva@Psalms:9:20 @ Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] (note:)Which they cannot learn without the fear of your judgment.(:note) men. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:10:2 @ The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

geneva@Psalms:11:2 @ For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

geneva@Psalms:11:6 @ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, (note:)As in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.(:note) fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the Which they will drink even to the dregs, (Eze_23:34). portion of their cup.

geneva@Psalms:12:2 @ They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] (note:)He means the flatters of the court which hurt him more with their tongues than with their weapons.(:note) flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

geneva@Psalms:12:4 @ Who have said, (note:)They think themselves able to persuade whatever they take in hand.(:note) With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?

geneva@Psalms:12:8 @ The wicked walk on every side, (note:)For they suppress the godly and maintain the wicked.(:note) when the vilest men are exalted.

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:14:3 @ 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:14:4 @ Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? They call not vpon the Lord.

geneva@Psalms:17:10 @ They are inclosed in their own (note:)They are puffed up with pride, as the stomach that is choked with fat.(:note) fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

geneva@Psalms:17:11 @ They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

geneva@Psalms:17:14 @ From men [which are] thy (note:)By your heavenly power.(:note) hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their And not feel the pain that God's children often do. portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.

geneva@Psalms:18:3 @ I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be (note:)For no one can obtain their request from God if they do not join his glory with their petition.(:note) praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

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:18:18 @ They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.

geneva@Psalms:18:38 @ I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

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:18:44 @ As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall (note:)Or lie: signifying a subjection constrained and not voluntary.(:note) submit themselves unto me.

geneva@Psalms:19:10 @ More to be (note:)Unless God's word is esteemed above all worldly things, it is contemned.(:note) desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

geneva@Psalms:20:3 @ Remember all thy offerings, and (note:)In token that they are acceptable to him.(:note) accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

geneva@Psalms:21:11 @ For they (note:)They laid as it were their nets to make God's power bend to their wicked enterprises.(:note) intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

geneva@Psalms:22:4 @ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them.

geneva@Psalms:22:5 @ They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

geneva@Psalms:22:7 @ All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,

geneva@Psalms:22:10 @ I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother's (note:)For unless God's providence preserves the infants, they would perish a thousand times in the mother's womb.(:note) belly.

geneva@Psalms:22:12 @ Many bulls have compassed me: strong (note:)He means that his enemies were so fat, proud and cruel that they were more like beasts than men.(:note) [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.

geneva@Psalms:22:13 @ They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

geneva@Psalms:22:16 @ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they (note:)Thus David complained as though he were nailed by his enemies in both hands and feet, but this was accomplished in Christ.(:note) pierced my hands and my feet.

geneva@Psalms:22:17 @ I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.

geneva@Psalms:22:18 @ They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.

geneva@Psalms:22:23 @ Ye that fear the LORD, (note:)He promises to exhort the Church that they by his example might praise the Lord.(:note) praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

geneva@Psalms:22:25 @ My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my (note:)Which were sacrifices of thanksgiving which they offered by God's commandment, when they were delivered out of any great danger.(:note) vows before them that fear him.

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:22:31 @ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath (note:)That is, God has fulfilled his promise.(:note) done [this].

geneva@Psalms:23:4 @ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the (note:)Though he was in danger of death, as the sheep that wanders in the dark valley without his shepherd.(:note) shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

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:25:6 @ Remember, O Lorde, thy tender mercies, and thy louing kindnesse: for they haue beene for euer.

geneva@Psalms:25:19 @ Consider mine (note:)The greater that his afflictions were and the more that his enemies increased, the more near he felt God's help.(:note) enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

geneva@Psalms:26:4 @ I have not (note:)He declares that they cannot walk in simplicity before God, that delight in the company of the ungodly.(:note) sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

geneva@Psalms:27:2 @ When the wicked, euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon mee to eate vp my flesh; they stumbled and fell.

geneva@Psalms:28:5 @ Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall (note:)Let them be utterly destroyed as in (Mal_1:4).(:note) destroy them, and not build them up.

geneva@Psalms:29:10 @ The LORD sitteth upon the (note:)To moderate the rage of the tempests and waters that they not destroy all.(:note) flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

geneva@Psalms:31:4 @ Pull me out of the (note:)Preserve me from the crafty counsels and subtle practise of my enemies.(:note) net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.

geneva@Psalms:31:11 @ I was a (note:)My enemies had drawn all men to their part against me, even my chief friends.(:note) reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

geneva@Psalms:31:13 @ For I have heard the slander of (note:)They who were in authority condemned me as a wicked doer.(:note) many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

geneva@Psalms:31:17 @ Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be (note:)Let death destroy them to the intent that they may hurt no more.(:note) silent in the grave.

geneva@Psalms:31:19 @ [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou (note:)The treasures of God's mercy are always laid up in store for his children, even at all times they do not enjoy them.(:note) hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

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:32:6 @ For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a (note:)When necessity causes him to seek you for help, (Isa_55:6).(:note) time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters That is, the waters and great dangers. they shall not come nigh unto him.

geneva@Psalms:32:9 @ Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose (note:)If men can rule brute beasts, do they think that God will not bridle and tame their rage?(:note) mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

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:34:5 @ They (note:)They will be bold to flee to you for help, when they see your mercies toward me.(:note) looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

geneva@Psalms:34:10 @ The young (note:)The godly by their patient obedience profit more than they who ravage and spoil.(:note) lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not If they abide the last trial. want any good [thing].

geneva@Psalms:34:12 @ What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may (note:)Seeing all men naturally desire happiness, he wonders why they cast themselves willingly into misery.(:note) see good?

geneva@Psalms:34:13 @ Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

geneva@Psalms:34:18 @ The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a (note:)When they seem to be swallowed up with afflictions, then God is at hand to deliver them.(:note) broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

geneva@Psalms:34:21 @ Evil shall slay the (note:)Their wicked enterprises will turn to their own destruction.(:note) wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

geneva@Psalms:34:22 @ The LORD (note:)For when they seem to be overcome with great dangers and death itself, then God shows himself as their redeemer.(:note) redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

geneva@Psalms:35:5 @ Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD (note:)Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward.(:note) chase [them].

geneva@Psalms:35:7 @ For (note:)Showing that we may not call God to be a revenger but only for his glory, and when our cause is just.(:note) without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

geneva@Psalms:35:12 @ They rewarded me evil for good [to] the (note:)To have taken from me all comfort and brought me into despair.(:note) spoiling of my soul.

geneva@Psalms:35:13 @ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and (note:)I prayed for them with inward affection, as I would have done for myself: or, I declared my affection with bowing down my head.(:note) my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

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:35:16 @ With hypocritical mockers in (note:)The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his death.(:note) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

geneva@Psalms:35:20 @ For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

geneva@Psalms:35:21 @ Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, (note:)They rejoiced as though they had now seen David overthrown.(:note) our eye hath seen [it].

geneva@Psalms:35:26 @ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion (note:)That is, at once, were they never so many or mighty.(:note) together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed This prayer will always be verified against them who persecute the faithful. with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

geneva@Psalms:35:27 @ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, (note:)That at least favour my right, though they are not able to help me.(:note) that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the He exhorts the Church to praise God for the deliverance of his servants, and for the destruction of his adversaries. prosperity of his servant.

geneva@Psalms:36:8 @ They shall be abundantly (note:)Only God's children have enough of all things both concerning this life and the life to come.(:note) satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

geneva@Psalms:36:10 @ O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that (note:)He shows who God's children are, that is, they who know him, and live their lives uprightly.(:note) know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

geneva@Psalms:37:2 @ For they shall soon be (note:)For God's judgment cuts down their state in a moment.(:note) cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

geneva@Psalms:37:8 @ Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: (note:)Meaning, unless he moderates his affection, he will be led to do as they do.(:note) fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

geneva@Psalms:37:9 @ For euill doers shalbe cut off, and they that wait vpon the Lord, they shall inherite the land.

geneva@Psalms:37:19 @ They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall (note:)For God will give them contented minds, and that which will be necessary.(:note) be satisfied.

geneva@Psalms:37:20 @ But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the (note:)They will vanish away suddenly for they are fed for the day of slaughter.(:note) fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

geneva@Psalms:37:22 @ For such as be blessed of God, shall inherite the lande, and they that be cursed of him, shalbe cut off.

geneva@Psalms:37:28 @ For the Lord loueth iudgement, and forsaketh not his Saintes: they shall be preserued for euermore: but the seede of the wicked shall be cut off.

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:37:40 @ For the Lord shall helpe them, and deliuer them: he shall deliuer them from the wicked, and shall saue them, because they trust in him.

geneva@Psalms:38:4 @ For mine (note:)He confesses his sins, God's justice, and makes prayer his refuge.(:note) iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

geneva@Psalms:38:11 @ My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my (note:)Partly for fear and partly for pride, they denied all duty and friendship.(:note) kinsmen stand afar off.

geneva@Psalms:38:12 @ They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.

geneva@Psalms:38:16 @ For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: (note:)That is, if they see that you do not help me in time, they will mock and triumph as though you had forsaken me.(:note) when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

geneva@Psalms:38:19 @ But mine (note:)In my greatest misery they most rejoice.(:note) enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

geneva@Psalms:38:20 @ They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow [the thing that] (note:)He would rather have the hatred of all the world, than fail in any part of his duty to God.(:note) good [is].

geneva@Psalms:39:8 @ Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the (note:)Do not make me a laughing stock to the wicked, wrap me up with the wicked when they are put to shame.(:note) foolish.

geneva@Psalms:40:5 @ Many, (note:)David goes from one king of God's favour to the contemplation of his providence over all, and confesses that his counsels toward us are far above our capacities, we cannot so much as tell them in order.(:note) O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.

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:40:15 @ Let them be (note:)Let the same shame and confusion come on them, which they intended to have brought on me.(:note) desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

geneva@Psalms:41:7 @ All they that hate me, whisper together against me: euen against me do they imagine mine hurt.

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:44:3 @ For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a (note:)God's free mercy and love is the only fountain and beginning of the Church, (Deu_4:37).(:note) favour unto them.

geneva@Psalms:44:9 @ But thou hast cast off, and put us to (note:)As they confessed before that their strength came from God, so now they acknowledge that this affliction came by his just judgment.(:note) shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

geneva@Psalms:44:10 @ Thou makest vs to turne backe fro the aduersary, & they, which hate vs, spoile for theselues.

geneva@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast given us (note:)Knowing God to be author of this calamity, they murmur not, but seek remedy at his hands who wounded them.(:note) like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

geneva@Psalms:44:17 @ All this is come upon us; yet have we not (note:)They boast not of their virtues, but declare that they rest on God in the midst of their affliction: who did not punished their sins now, but by hard afflictions called them to the consideration of the heavenly joys.(:note) forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

geneva@Psalms:44:20 @ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a (note:)They show that they honoured God correctly, because they trusted in him alone.(:note) strange god;

geneva@Psalms:44:21 @ Shall not God (note:)They take God to witness that they were upright toward him.(:note) search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

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:45:15 @ With ioy & gladnes shall they be brought, and shall enter into the Kings palace.

geneva@Psalms:45:16 @ Instead of thy fathers shall be thy (note:)They will have greater graces than their fathers.(:note) children, whom thou mayest make princes He signifies the great compass of Christ's kingdom, which will be sufficient to enrich all his members. in all the earth.

geneva@Psalms:46:7 @ The LORD of hosts [is] (note:)They are assured that God can and will defend his Church from all dangers and enemies.(:note) with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:46:10 @ Be (note:)He warns them who persecute the Church to cease their cruelty: for also they will feel that God is too strong for them against whom they fight.(:note) still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

geneva@Psalms:47:3 @ He shall (note:)He has made the Jews who were the keepers of the law and prophets, schoolmasters to the Gentiles, that they would with gladness obey them.(:note) subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

geneva@Psalms:48:4 @ For, lo, the kings were (note:)They conspired and went against God's people.(:note) assembled, they passed by together.

geneva@Psalms:48:5 @ They saw [(note:)The enemies were afraid at the sight of the city.(:note) it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away.

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:49:6 @ They that trust in their (note:)To trust in riches is madness, seeing they can neither restore life, nor prolong it.(:note) wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

geneva@Psalms:49:11 @ Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.

geneva@Psalms:49:13 @ This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity (note:)They speak and do the same thing that their fathers did.(:note) approve their sayings. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:51:4 @ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou (note:)When you give sentence against sinners, they must confess you to be just, and themselves sinners.(:note) speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.

geneva@Psalms:51:19 @ Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of (note:)That is, just and lawful, applied to the right end, which is the exercise of faith and repentance.(:note) righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

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

geneva@Psalms:53:4 @ Have the (note:)David pronounces God's vengeance against cruel governors who having charge to defend and preserve God's people, cruelly devour them.(:note) workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

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:54:1 @ «To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?» Save me, O God, (note:)He declares that when all means fail, God will deliver even by miracle, they who call to him with an upright conscience.(:note) by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

geneva@Psalms:54:3 @ For (note:)That is, the Ziphims.(:note) strangers are risen up against me, and Saul and his army who were like cruel beasts, could not be satisfied except by his death. oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

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:55:10 @ 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:55:19 @ 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:55:21 @ The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

geneva@Psalms:55:23 @ But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out (note:)Though they sometimes live longer, yet their life is cursed by God, unquiet, and worse than any death.(:note) half their days; but I will trust in thee.

geneva@Psalms:56:5 @ Every day they wrest my (note:)All my counsels have evil success, and turn to my own sorrow.(:note) words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

geneva@Psalms:56:7 @ Shall (note:)They not only think to escape punishment, but the more wicked they are, the more impudent they grow.(:note) they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the people, O God.

geneva@Psalms:56:8 @ Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my (note:)If God stores the tears of his saints, much more will he remember their blood, to avenge it: and though tyrants burn the bones, yet they cannot blot the tears and blood out of God's register.(:note) tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?

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:58:3 @ The wicked (note:)That is, enemies to the people of God even from their birth.(:note) are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

geneva@Psalms:58:4 @ Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf (note:)They pass in malice and subtilty the crafty serpent who could preserve himself by stopping his ears from the enchanter.(:note) adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

geneva@Psalms:58:6 @ Break their (note:)Take away all opportunity and means by which they hurt.(:note) teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:58:7 @ Let them (note:)Considering God's divine power, he shows that God in a moment can destroy their force of which they brag.(:note) melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

geneva@Psalms:59:1 @ «To the chief Musician, Altaschith, (note:)Or, a certain tune.(:note) Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.» Though his enemies were even at hand to destroy him, yet he assures himself that God had ways to deliver him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

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:59:6 @ They return at evening: they make a noise like a (note:)He compares their cruelty to hungry dogs showing that they are never weary in doing evil.(:note) dog, and go round about the city.

geneva@Psalms:59:7 @ Behold, they (note:)They boast openly in their wicked devises, and every word is as a sword: for they neither fear God nor are ashamed of men.(:note) belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?

geneva@Psalms:59:12 @ [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be (note:)That in their misery and shame they may be as glasses and examples of God's vengeance.(:note) taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

geneva@Psalms:59:14 @ And at evening let them (note:)He mocks their vain enterprises, being assured that they will not bring their purpose to pass.(:note) return; [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

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:60:3 @ Thou hast (note:)You have handled your people sharply, in asking from them sense and judgment in that they aided Saul the wicked King, and punished him to whom God had given the just title of the realm.(:note) shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

geneva@Psalms:60:9 @ Who will bring me [into] the (note:)He was assured that God would give him the strong cities of his enemies, in which they thought themselves sure.(:note) strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

geneva@Psalms:62:4 @ Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:62:9 @ Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.

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:64:4 @ That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and (note:)To be without fear of God and reverence of man, is a sign of reprobation.(:note) fear not.

geneva@Psalms:64:5 @ They (note:)The more the wicked set God's children in misery, the more bold and impudent are they in oppressing them.(:note) encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

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:64:8 @ So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall (note:)To see God's heavy judgments against them, and how he has caught them in their own snares.(:note) flee away.

geneva@Psalms:64:9 @ And all men shall see it, and declare the worke of God, and they shall vnderstand, what he hath wrought.

geneva@Psalms:64:10 @ The righteous (note:)When they will consider that he will be favourable to them as he was to his servant David.(:note) shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

geneva@Psalms:65:8 @ They also, that dwell in the vttermost parts of the earth, shalbe afraide of thy signes: thou shalt make the East and the West to reioyce.

geneva@Psalms:65:12 @ They drop vpon the pastures of the wildernesse: and the hils shalbe compassed with gladnes.

geneva@Psalms:65:13 @ The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, (note:)That is, the dumb creatures will not only rejoice for a time for God's benefits, but will continually sing.(:note) they also sing.

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:67:7 @ God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth (note:)When they feel his great benefits both spiritual and corporal toward them.(:note) shall fear him.

geneva@Psalms:68:6 @ God (note:)He gives children to those who are childless, and increases their families.(:note) setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a Which is devoid of God's blessings, which before they had abused. dry [land].

geneva@Psalms:68:24 @ They have seen (note:)That is, how you who are chief King goes out with your people to war, and gives them the victory.(:note) thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

geneva@Psalms:68:25 @ The (note:)He describes the order of the people, when they went to the temple to give thanks for the victory.(:note) singers went before, the players on instruments [followed] after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.

geneva@Psalms:69:4 @ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies (note:)Condemning me as guilty.(:note) wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I They judged me a thief, though innocent, and gave my goods to others, as though I had stolen them. took not away.

geneva@Psalms:69:12 @ They that (note:)The more he sought to win them to God, the more they were against him both the poor and the rich.(:note) sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.

geneva@Psalms:69:21 @ For they gaue me gall in my meate, and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke.

geneva@Psalms:69:23 @ Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their (note:)Take both judgment and power from them, (Act_1:20).(:note) loins continually to shake.

geneva@Psalms:69:26 @ For they persecute him, whome thou hast smitten: and they adde vnto the sorrowe of them, whome thou hast wounded.

geneva@Psalms:69:27 @ Add (note:)By their continuance and increasing in their sins, let it be known that they are of the reprobate.(:note) iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:69:28 @ Let them be blotted out of the (note:)They who seemed by their profession to have been written in your book, yet by their fruits prove the contrary, let them be known as reprobates.(:note) book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

geneva@Psalms:69:32 @ The humble shall see this, and they that seeke God, shalbe glad, and your heart shall liue.

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:70:2 @ Let them be ashamed and (note:)He was assured that the more they raged, the nearer they were to destruction, and he the nearer to his deliverance.(:note) confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

geneva@Psalms:71:10 @ For mine enemies speake of mee, and they that lay waite for my soule, take their counsell together,

geneva@Psalms:71:24 @ My tongue also shal talke of thy righteousnesse daily: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame, that seeke mine hurt.

geneva@Psalms:72:5 @ They shall (note:)The people will embrace your true religion, when you give a king who rules according to your word.(:note) fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

geneva@Psalms:72:9 @ They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.

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:72:17 @ His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and [men] shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call (note:)They will pray to God for his continuance and know that God prospers them for his sake.(:note) him blessed.

geneva@Psalms:73:5 @ They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

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:73:11 @ 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:73:19 @ How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are (note:)By your fearful judgment.(:note) utterly consumed with terrors.

geneva@Psalms:73:27 @ 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: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:74:6 @ 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:74:11 @ 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: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:75:5 @ 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:75:8 @ 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:76:5 @ 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:76:10 @ 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: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: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:78:7 @ 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:78:9 @ 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:78:17 @ 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:78:22 @ 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:78:29 @ 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:78:34 @ 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:78:39 @ 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:78:44 @ And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke.

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:78:53 @ 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:78:56 @ 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:78:63 @ 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: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:79:7 @ For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.

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: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:80:4 @ 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:80:12 @ 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:80:16 @ [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: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:81:10 @ 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:81:12 @ So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnes of their heart, & they haue walked in their owne cousels.

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: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:83:8 @ 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:83:13 @ 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:83:16 @ 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:83:18 @ 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:84:4 @ Blessed are they that dwell in thine house: they will euer praise thee. Selah.

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: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.

geneva@Psalms:85:5 @ Wilt thou be angry with us (note:)As in times past they had felt God's mercies, so now being oppressed by the long continuance of evil, they pray to God that according to his nature he would be merciful to them.(:note) for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

geneva@Psalms:85:8 @ I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak (note:)He will send all prosperity to his Church, when he has sufficiently corrected them, also by his punishments the faithful will learn to beware that they not return the same offences.(:note) peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

geneva@Psalms:86:2 @ Preserve my soul; for I [am] (note:)I am not an enemy to them, but I pity them even though they are cruel to me.(:note) holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

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:86:17 @ Shew a token of thy goodnes towarde me, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, O Lord, hast holpen me and comforted me.

geneva@Psalms:87:5 @ And of Zion it shall be said, (note:)Out of all quarters they will come to the Church, and be counted as citizens.(:note) This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

geneva@Psalms:88:1 @ «A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath (note:)That is, to humble. It was the beginning of a song by which tune this psalm was sung.(:note) Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.» O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night Though many cry in their sorrows, yet they cry not earnestly to God for remedy as he did whom he confessed to be the author of his salvation. before thee:

geneva@Psalms:88:10 @ Wilt thou shew (note:)He shows that the time is more convenient for God to help when men call to him in their dangers, than to tarry till they are dead, and then raise them up again.(:note) wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.

geneva@Psalms:88:17 @ They came round about me dayly like water, and compassed me together.

geneva@Psalms:89:1 @ «Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.» I will (note:)Though the horrible confusion of things might cause them to despair of God's favour, yet the manifold examples of his mercies cause them to trust in God though to man's judgment they saw no reason to.(:note) sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

geneva@Psalms:89:15 @ Blessed [is] the people that (note:)Feeling in their conscience that God is their father.(:note) know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy They will be preserved by your fatherly providence. countenance.

geneva@Psalms:89:16 @ They shall reioyce continually in thy Name, and in thy righteousnes shall they exalt them selues.

geneva@Psalms:89:17 @ For thou [art] the (note:)In that they are preserved and continue, they should give the praise and glory to you alone.(:note) glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

geneva@Psalms:89:31 @ If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

geneva@Psalms:89:37 @ It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful (note:)As long as the Sun and Moon endure, they will be witnesses to me of this promise.(:note) witness in heaven. Selah.

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:90:5 @ Thou (note:)You take them away suddenly as with a flood.(:note) carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.

geneva@Psalms:90:10 @ The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] (note:)Meaning according to the common state of life.(:note) fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

geneva@Psalms:91:8 @ Only with thine (note:)The godly will have some experience of God's judgements against the wicked even in this life, but they will see it fully at that day when all things will be revealed.(:note) eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

geneva@Psalms:91:12 @ They shall beare thee in their handes, that thou hurt not thy foote against a stone.

geneva@Psalms:92:3 @ Upon an (note:)These instruments were then permitted in the Church as also they are now. (Ed.)(:note) instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

geneva@Psalms:92:7 @ (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.

geneva@Psalms:92:12 @ The righteous shall (note:)Though the faithful seem to whither and be cut down by the wicked, yet they will grow again and flourish in the Church of God as the cedars do in mount Lebanon.(:note) flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

geneva@Psalms:92:14 @ They shall still bring forth fruit in old (note:)The children of God will have a power above nature and their age will bring forth fresh fruit.(:note) age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

geneva@Psalms:94:4 @ They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.

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:94:6 @ They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.

geneva@Psalms:94:11 @ The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man, that they are vanitie.

geneva@Psalms:94:12 @ Blessed [is] the man whom thou (note:)God has care over his, and chastised them for their own good, that they should not perish for ever with the wicked.(:note) chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

geneva@Psalms:94:20 @ Shall the throne of iniquity have (note:)Though the wicked judges pretend justice in oppressing the Church, yet they do not have the authority of God.(:note) fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

geneva@Psalms:94:21 @ They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.

geneva@Psalms:94:23 @ And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall (note:)It is a great token of God's judgment when the purpose of the wicked is broken, but most, when they are destroyed in their own malice.(:note) cut them off in their own wickedness; [yea], the LORD our God shall cut them off.

geneva@Psalms:95:6 @ O come, let us (note:)By these three words he signifies one thing: meaning that they must wholly give themselves to serve God.(:note) worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

geneva@Psalms:95:7 @ For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his (note:)That is, the flock whom he governs with his own hand. He shows how they are God's flock, that is, if they hear his voice.(:note) hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

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

geneva@Psalms:95:10 @ Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do (note:)They were without judgment and reason.(:note) err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

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:96:4 @ For the LORD [is] (note:)Seeing he will reveal himself to all nations contrary to their own expectation, they should all worship him contrary to their own imaginations, and only as he has appointed.(:note) great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be feared above all gods.

geneva@Psalms:97:10 @ Ye that (note:)He requires two things from his children: the one that they detest vice, the other, that they put their trust in God for their deliverance.(:note) love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

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:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron among his priests, (note:)Under these three he comprehends the whole people of Israel, with whom God made his promise.(:note) and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

geneva@Psalms:99:7 @ Hee spake vnto them in the cloudie pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the Lawe that he gaue them.

geneva@Psalms:100:1 @ «A Psalm of praise.» Make a (note:)He prophecies that God's benefits in calling the Gentiles will be so great that they will have wonderful opportunity to praise his mercy and rejoice.(:note) joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

geneva@Psalms:101:3 @ I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate (note:)He shows that magistrates do not do their duties, unless they are enemies to all vice.(:note) the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.

geneva@Psalms:101:6 @ Mine eyes [shall be] upon the (note:)He shows what the true use of the sword is, to punish the wicked and to maintain the good.(:note) faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

geneva@Psalms:102:8 @ Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are (note:)Have conspired my death.(:note) sworn against me.

geneva@Psalms:102:21 @ That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion, and his prayse in Ierusalem,

geneva@Psalms:102:23 @ He (note:)The church lament that they see not the time of Christ, which was promised, but have but few years and short days.(:note) weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

geneva@Psalms:104:7 @ But at thy rebuke they flee: at the voyce of thy thunder they haste away.

geneva@Psalms:104:9 @ But thou hast set them a bounde, which they shall not passe: they shall not returne to couer the earth.

geneva@Psalms:104:11 @ They give drink to every (note:)If God provides for the beasts, much more will he extend his provident care to man.(:note) beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

geneva@Psalms:104:21 @ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat (note:)That is, they only find meat according to God's providence, who cares even for the brute beasts.(:note) from God.

geneva@Psalms:104:22 @ When the sunne riseth, they retire, and couche in their dennes.

geneva@Psalms:104:28 @ Thou giuest it to them, and they gather it: thou openest thine hand, and they are filled with good things.

geneva@Psalms:104:29 @ Thou (note:)As by your presence all things have life; so if you withdraw your blessings they all perish.(:note) hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

geneva@Psalms:104:30 @ Thou (note:)As the death of creatures shows that we are nothing of ourselves: so their generation declares that we receive all things from our Creator.(:note) sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

geneva@Psalms:104:32 @ He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they (note:)God's merciful face gives strength to the earth, but his severe countenance burns the mountains.(:note) smoke.

geneva@Psalms:105:11 @ Saying, (note:)He shows that they would not enjoy the land of Canaan by any other means, but by reason of his covenant made with their fathers.(:note) Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

geneva@Psalms:105:12 @ Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,

geneva@Psalms:105:18 @ They helde his feete in the stockes, and he was laide in yrons,

geneva@Psalms:105:27 @ They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham.

geneva@Psalms:105:28 @ He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they (note:)Meaning, Moses and Aaron.(:note) rebelled not against his word.

geneva@Psalms:105:38 @ Egypt was (note:)For God's plagues caused them to prefer to depart with the Israelites rather than with their lives.(:note) glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

geneva@Psalms:105:44 @ And gaue them the lands of the heathen, and they tooke the labours of the people in possession,

geneva@Psalms:105:45 @ That they might (note:)This is the reason why God preserves his Church, because they should worship and call on him in this world.(:note) observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:106:3 @ Blessed [are] they that (note:)He shows that it is not enough to praise God with the mouth, unless the whole heart agrees to it, and all our life framed after it.(:note) keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

geneva@Psalms:106:6 @ We have (note:)By earnest confession of their sins and of their father's, they show that they hoped that God according to his promise would pity them.(:note) sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

geneva@Psalms:106:7 @ Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.

geneva@Psalms:106:8 @ Nevertheless he (note:)The inestimable goodness of God appears in this, that he would rather change the order of nature than have his people not be delivered, even though they were wicked.(:note) saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

geneva@Psalms:106:12 @ Then (note:)The wonderful words of God caused them to believe for a time, and to praise him.(:note) believed they his words; they sang his praise.

geneva@Psalms:106:13 @ They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his (note:)The would prevent his wisdom and providence.(:note) counsel:

geneva@Psalms:106:16 @ They enuied Moses also in the tentes, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

geneva@Psalms:106:17 @ The earth opened and (note:)By the greatness of the punishment the heinousness of the offence may be considered: for they who rise against God's ministers rebel against him.(:note) swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

geneva@Psalms:106:19 @ They made a calfe in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

geneva@Psalms:106:20 @ Thus they changed their (note:)He shows that all idolaters renounce God to be their glory when instead of him, they worship any creature much more wood, stone, metal or calves.(:note) glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

geneva@Psalms:106:21 @ They forgate God their Sauiour, which had done great things in Egypt,

geneva@Psalms:106:24 @ Yea, they despised (note:)That is Canaan, which acted as a promise of the heavenly inheritance to come, though it was only worth a penny in comparison to the value of the inheritance itself.(:note) the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

geneva@Psalms:106:28 @ They joined themselves also unto (note:)Which was the idol of the Moabites.(:note) Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the Sacrifices offered to the dead idols. dead.

geneva@Psalms:106:29 @ Thus they (note:)Signifying that whatever man invents of himself to serve God by, is detestable and provokes his anger.(:note) provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

geneva@Psalms:106:32 @ They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with (note:)If so notable a prophet of God does not escape punishment, though others provoked him to sin, how much more will they be subject to God's judgment, who cause God's children to sin?(:note) Moses for their sakes:

geneva@Psalms:106:33 @ Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.

geneva@Psalms:106:34 @ Neither destroied they the people, as the Lord had commaunded them,

geneva@Psalms:106:37 @ Yea, they sacrificed their (note:)He shows how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which can win us to things abhorring to nature, while God's word cannot obtain small things.(:note) sons and their daughters unto devils,

geneva@Psalms:106:38 @ And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sonnes, & of their daughters, whome they offred vnto the idoles of Canaan, and the lande was defiled with blood.

geneva@Psalms:106:39 @ Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went (note:)Then true chastity is to cleave wholly and only to God.(:note) a whoring with their own inventions.

geneva@Psalms:106:41 @ And hee gaue them into the hande of the heathen: and they that hated them, were lordes ouer them.

geneva@Psalms:106:42 @ Their enemies also oppressed them, & they were humbled vnder their hand.

geneva@Psalms:106:43 @ Many (note:)The prophet shows that neither by menace nor promise we can come to God, unless we are altogether newly reformed, and his mercy covers and hides our malice.(:note) times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

geneva@Psalms:106:44 @ Yet hee sawe when they were in affliction, and he heard their crie.

geneva@Psalms:107:4 @ When they wandered in the desert and wildernesse out of the waie, and founde no citie to dwell in,

geneva@Psalms:107:6 @ Then they cried vnto the Lorde in their trouble, & he deliuered them from their distresse,

geneva@Psalms:107:7 @ And led them forth by the right way, that they might goe to a citie of habitation.

geneva@Psalms:107:10 @ They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron,

geneva@Psalms:107:11 @ Because they (note:)Then the true way to obey God is to follow his express commandment: also by this all are exhorted to descend into themselves as none are punished but for their sins.(:note) rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

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

geneva@Psalms:107:13 @ Then they (note:)He shows that the reason God punishes us extremely is because we can be brought to him by no other means.(:note) cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses.

geneva@Psalms:107:18 @ Their soule abhorreth al meat, and they are brought to deaths doore.

geneva@Psalms:107:19 @ Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliuereth them from their distresse.

geneva@Psalms:107:23 @ They that go down to the (note:)He shows by the sea what care God has over man, for when he delivers them from the great danger of the sea, he delivers them as it were from a thousand deaths.(:note) sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

geneva@Psalms:107:24 @ They see the woorkes of the Lorde, and his wonders in the deepe.

geneva@Psalms:107:26 @ They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is (note:)Their fear and danger is so great.(:note) melted because of trouble.

geneva@Psalms:107:27 @ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and (note:)When their art and means fail them, they are compelled to confess that only God's providence preserves them.(:note) are at their wits' end.

geneva@Psalms:107:28 @ Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresse.

geneva@Psalms:107:30 @ Then are they glad because they be (note:)Though before every drop seemed to fight one against the other, yet at his command they are as still as if they were frozen.(:note) quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

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

geneva@Psalms:107:38 @ For he blesseth them, & they multiplie exceedingly, and he diminisheth not their cattell.

geneva@Psalms:107:42 @ The (note:)They whose faith is lightened by God's spirit, will rejoice to see God's judgments against the wicked and ungodly.(:note) righteous shall see [it], and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

geneva@Psalms:107:43 @ Who is wise that hee may obserue these things? for they shall vnderstand the louing kindnesse of the Lord.

geneva@Psalms:108:3 @ I will praise thee, O LORD, among the (note:)He prophecies of the calling of the Gentiles: for unless they were called, they could not hear the goodness of God.(:note) people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

geneva@Psalms:109:2 @ For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

geneva@Psalms:109:3 @ They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

geneva@Psalms:109:4 @ For my love they are my adversaries: (note:)To declare that I had no other refuge, but you, in whom my conscience was at rest.(:note) but I [give myself unto] prayer.

geneva@Psalms:109:5 @ And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

geneva@Psalms:109:17 @ As he loved cursing, (note:)Thus the Lord gives to every man the thing in which he delights so that the reprobate cannot accuse God of wrong, when they are given up to their lusts and reprobate minds.(:note) so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

geneva@Psalms:109:25 @ I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

geneva@Psalms:109:27 @ And they shal know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.

geneva@Psalms:109:28 @ Let them (note:)They will gain nothing by cursing me.(:note) curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

geneva@Psalms:111:8 @ They are stablished for euer and euer, and are done in trueth and equitie.

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:114:7 @ Tremble, thou (note:)Ought then his people to be insensible when they see his power and majesty?(:note) earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

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:115:5 @ They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.

geneva@Psalms:115:6 @ They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not.

geneva@Psalms:115:7 @ They have (note:)He shows what great vanity it is to ask help from them who not only have no help in them, but lack sense and reason.(:note) hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

geneva@Psalms:115:8 @ They that make them are (note:)As much without sense as blocks and stones.(:note) like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

geneva@Psalms:115:16 @ The (note:)And they declare enough his sufficiency so that the world serves him nothing, but to show his fatherly care toward men.(:note) heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

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:116:13 @ I will (note:)In the Law they used to make a banquet when they gave solemn thanks to God, and to take the cup and drink in sign of thanksgiving.(:note) take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:118:11 @ They haue compassed mee, yea, they haue compassed mee: but in the Name of the Lorde I shall destroy them.

geneva@Psalms:118:12 @ They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.

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:119:2 @ Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies, and seeke him with their whole heart.

geneva@Psalms:119:3 @ They also do (note:)For they are ruled by God's Spirit and embrace no doctrine but his.(:note) no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

geneva@Psalms:119:45 @ And I will (note:)They who simply walk after God's word have no nets to entangle them, while they who do contrary are ever in nets and snares.(:note) walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

geneva@Psalms:119:61 @ The bands of the wicked have (note:)They have gone about to draw me into their company.(:note) robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.

geneva@Psalms:119:74 @ They that (note:)When God shows his grace toward any, he testifies to others that he does not fail them who trust in him.(:note) fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:78 @ Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.

geneva@Psalms:119:85 @ The proud have (note:)They have not only oppressed me violently but also craftily conspired against me.(:note) digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.

geneva@Psalms:119:86 @ All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; (note:)He assures himself that God will deliver his and destroy such as unjustly persecute them.(:note) help thou me.

geneva@Psalms:119:87 @ They had almost consumed (note:)Finding no help on earth, he lifts up his eyes to heaven.(:note) me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

geneva@Psalms:119:91 @ They (note:)Seeing the earth and all creatures remain in that estate in which you have created them, much more your truth remains constant and unchangeable.(:note) continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all [are] thy servants.

geneva@Psalms:119:98 @ By thy commaundements thou hast made mee wiser then mine enemies: for they are euer with mee.

geneva@Psalms:119:99 @ I have more (note:)Whoever submits himself only to God's word will not only be safe against the practises of his enemies, but also learn more wisdom than they who profess it, and are men of experience.(:note) understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.

geneva@Psalms:119:111 @ Thy testimonies have I taken as an (note:)I esteemed no worldly things, but made your word my inheritance.(:note) heritage for ever: for they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.

geneva@Psalms:119:126 @ [It is] (note:)The prophet shows that when the wicked have brought all things to confusion, and God's word to utter contempt, then it is God's time to help and send remedy.(:note) time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.

geneva@Psalms:119:130 @ The entrance of thy (note:)The simple idiots that submit themselves to God have their eyes opened and their minds illuminated, as soon as they begin to read God's word.(:note) words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

geneva@Psalms:119:136 @ Rivers of waters (note:)He shows what should be the zeal of God's children when they see his word contemned.(:note) run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

geneva@Psalms:119:148 @ Mine eyes (note:)He was more earnest in the study of God's word, than they who kept the watch were in their charge.(:note) prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

geneva@Psalms:119:150 @ They draw nigh that follow after (note:)He shows the nature of the wicked to be to persecute against their conscience.(:note) mischief: they are far from thy law.

geneva@Psalms:119:155 @ Saluation is farre from the wicked, because they seeke not thy statutes.

geneva@Psalms:119:156 @ Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy (note:)According to your promise made in the law, which because the wicked lack they have no hope of salvation.(:note) judgments.

geneva@Psalms:119:158 @ I beheld the transgressors, and was (note:)My zeal consumed me when I saw their malice and contempt for your glory.(:note) grieved; because they kept not thy 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:120:1 @ «A Song of (note:)That is, of lifting up the tune and rising in singing.(:note) degrees.» In my Even though the children of God should rejoice when they suffer for righteousness sake, yet it is a great grief to the flesh to hear evil for well doing. distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

geneva@Psalms:120:7 @ I [am for] (note:)He declares what he means by Meshech and Kedar, that is, the Israelites who had degenerated from their godly fathers, and hated and contended against the faithful.(:note) peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.

geneva@Psalms:121:6 @ The sun shall not (note:)Neither heat nor cold, nor any inconvenience will be able to destroy God's Church, even though for a time they may molest it.(:note) smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

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: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:124:3 @ Then they had swallowed us up (note:)So unable were we to resist.(:note) quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

geneva@Psalms:125:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot (note:)Though the world is subject to mutations, yet the people of God will stand sure and be defended by God's providence.(:note) be removed, [but] abideth for ever.

geneva@Psalms:125:3 @ For the (note:)Though God permits his to be under the cross lest they embrace wickedness, yet this cross will not so rest on them, that it should drive them from hope.(:note) rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

geneva@Psalms:126:2 @ Then was our mouth (note:)He shows how the godly should rejoice when God gathers his Church or delivers it.(:note) filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the If the infidels confess God's wonderful work, the faithful can never show themselves sufficiently thankful. heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

geneva@Psalms:126:5 @ They that sowe in teares, shall reape in ioy.

geneva@Psalms:126:6 @ He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing (note:)That is, seed which was scarce and dear: meaning, that they who trusted in God's promise to return had their desire.(:note) precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].

geneva@Psalms:127:1 @ «A Song of degrees for Solomon.» Except the LORD (note:)That is, govern and dispose all things pertaining to the family.(:note) build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the The public estate of the commonwealth. city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain.

geneva@Psalms:127:5 @ Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they (note:)Such children will be able to stop their adversaries mouths, when their godly life is maliciously accused before judges.(:note) shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

geneva@Psalms:129:1 @ «A Song of degrees.» Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may (note:)The Church now afflicted should remember how her condition has always been such from the beginning to be molested most grievously by the wicked, yet in time it has always been delivered.(:note) Israel now say:

geneva@Psalms:129:2 @ They haue often times afflicted me fro my youth: but they could not preuaile against me.

geneva@Psalms:129:5 @ They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.

geneva@Psalms:132:10 @ For thy (note:)As you first made promise to David, so continue it to his posterity that whatever they ask for their people, it may be granted.(:note) servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

geneva@Psalms:132:16 @ I will also clothe her priests with (note:)That is, with my protection, by which they will be safe.(:note) salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

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:135:12 @ And (note:)He shows what fruit the godly conceive of God's power, by which they see how he destroys his enemies, and delivers his people.(:note) gave their land [for] an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

geneva@Psalms:135:16 @ They haue a mouth, and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.

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

geneva@Psalms:135:18 @ They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

geneva@Psalms:136:6 @ To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his (note:)This was a common kind of thanksgiving, which the whole people used, when they had received any benefit from God, as in (2Ch_7:6, 2Ch_20:21), meaning that God was not only merciful to their fathers, but also continued the same to their posterity.(:note) mercy [endureth] for ever.

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:138:4 @ All the (note:)All the world will confess that you have wonderfully preserved me, and performed your promise.(:note) kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

geneva@Psalms:138:5 @ And they shall sing of the wayes of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord is great.

geneva@Psalms:138:6 @ Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth (note:)Distance of place cannot hinder God to show mercy to his, and so judge the wicked though they think that he is far off.(:note) afar off.

geneva@Psalms:139:3 @ Thou (note:)So that they are evidently known to you.(:note) compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

geneva@Psalms:139:18 @ [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, (note:)I continually see new opportunity to meditate in your wisdom, and to praise you.(:note) I am still with thee.

geneva@Psalms:139:21 @ Do not I (note:)He teaches us boldly to contemn all the hatred of the wicked and friendship of the world, when they would prevent us from serving God sincerely.(:note) hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

geneva@Psalms:139:22 @ I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

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:140:3 @ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; (note:)He shows the weapons the wicked use, when power and force fail them.(:note) adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:140:4 @ Keep (note:)He declares the remedy of the godly, when they are oppressed by the worldlings.(:note) me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

geneva@Psalms:140:8 @ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: (note:)For it is in God's hand to overthrow the counsels and enterprises of the wicked.(:note) further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.

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:141:4 @ Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their (note:)Let not their prosperity lure me to be wicked as they are.(:note) dainties.

geneva@Psalms:141:6 @ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall (note:)The people who follow their wicked rulers in persecuting the prophet will repent and turn to God, when they see their wicked rulers punished.(:note) hear my words; for they are sweet.

geneva@Psalms:141:9 @ Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

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:142:6 @ Hearken vnto my crye, for I am brought very lowe: deliuer me from my persecuters, for they are too strong for me.

geneva@Psalms:144:7 @ Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great (note:)That is, deliver me from the tumults of they who should be my people but are corrupt in their judgment and enterprises, as though they were strangers.(:note) waters, from the hand of strange children;

geneva@Psalms:144:8 @ Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand (note:)For though they shake hands, they do not keep their promises.(:note) of falsehood.

geneva@Psalms:144:10 @ [It is he] that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his (note:)Though wicked kings are called God's servants, as was Cyrus in (Isa_45:1), for he uses them to execute his judgments: yet David because of God's promise and they who rule godly are properly so called, because they do not serve their own affections, but set forth God's glory.(:note) servant from the hurtful sword.

geneva@Psalms:145:7 @ They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse.

geneva@Psalms:145:8 @ The LORD [is] gracious, and full of (note:)He describes after what sort God shows himself to all his creatures though our sins have provoked his vengeance against all: that is, merciful not only in pardoning the sins of his elect, but in doing good even to the reprobate, although they cannot feel the sweet comfort of the same.(:note) compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

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:145:19 @ He will fulfil the (note:)For they will ask or wish for nothing, but according to his will, (1Jo_5:14).(:note) desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

geneva@Psalms:146:4 @ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his (note:)As their vain opinions, by which they flattered themselves and so imagined wicked enterprises.(:note) thoughts perish.

geneva@Psalms:147:20 @ He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not (note:)The cause of this difference is God's free mercy, which has elected his in his Son Christ Jesus to salvation: and his just judgment, by which he has appointed the reprobate to eternal damnation.(:note) known them. Praise ye the LORD.

geneva@Psalms:148:2 @ Praise ye him, all (note:)Because they are members of the same body, he sets them before our eyes, who are most willing and by their prompt obedience teach us to do our duty.(:note) his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

geneva@Psalms:148:5 @ Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for he commauded, and they were created.

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:149:5 @ Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their (note:)He alludes to that continual rest and quietness which they should have if they would suffer God to rule them.(:note) beds.

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:1:9 @ For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.

geneva@Proverbs:1:11 @ If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for (note:)He speaks not only of the shedding of blood with hand, but of all crafty practises which tend to the detriment of our neighbour.(:note) blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

geneva@Proverbs:1:14 @ Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one (note:)He shows how the wicked are allured to join together, because they have everyone part of the spoil of the innocent.(:note) purse:

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:1:28 @ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not (note:)Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.(:note) find me:

geneva@Proverbs:1:29 @ Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:1:30 @ They would none of my counsel: they (note:)Showing that without faith and obedience, we cannot call on God correctly.(:note) despised all my reproof.

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:1:32 @ For (note:)That is, the prosperity and sensuality in which they delight.(:note) the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

geneva@Proverbs:2:8 @ That they may keepe the wayes of iudgement: and he preserueth the way of his Saintes)

geneva@Proverbs:2:14 @ Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight (note:)When they see any given to evil as they are.(:note) in the frowardness of the wicked;

geneva@Proverbs:2:15 @ Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.

geneva@Proverbs:2:18 @ For her (note:)Her acquaintance with her spirits and they that haunt her.(:note) house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto To them who are dead in body and soul. the dead.

geneva@Proverbs:2:19 @ All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

geneva@Proverbs:2:21 @ For the upright shall dwell in the (note:)They will enjoy the temporal and spiritual promises of God, as the wicked will be void of them.(:note) land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

geneva@Proverbs:3:2 @ For length of (note:)Long life is the blessing of God which he gives to his, so far as it is expedient for them.(:note) days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

geneva@Proverbs:3:18 @ She [is] a tree (note:)Which brings forth such fruit that they who eat of it have life and he alludes to the tree of life in paradise.(:note) of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.

geneva@Proverbs:3:22 @ So they shalbe life to thy soule, and grace vnto thy necke.

geneva@Proverbs:3:35 @ The wise shall inherite glorie: but fooles dishonour, though they be exalted.

geneva@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they (note:)Meaning that to do evil is more proper and natural to the wicked than to sleep, eat or drink.(:note) sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

geneva@Proverbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of (note:)Gotten my wicked means and cruel oppression.(:note) wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

geneva@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that (note:)Signifying that the godly increase daily in knowledge and perfection, till they come to full persecution, which is when the are joined to their head in the heavens.(:note) shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

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

geneva@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their (note:)That is, they will have health of body: under which all other blessings promised in the law are contained.(:note) flesh.

geneva@Proverbs:6:10 @ [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, (note:)He expresses the nature of the sluggards, who though they sleep long, yet never have enough, but always seek opportunity for more.(:note) a little folding of the hands to sleep:

geneva@Proverbs:7:5 @ That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

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:7:14 @ [I have] (note:)Because in peace offerings a portion is returned to them that offered, she shows him that she has meat at home to make good cheer with or else she would use some cloak of holiness till she had gotten him in her snares.(:note) peace offerings with me; this Which declares that harlots outwardly will seem holy and religious: both because they may better deceive others, and also thinking to observe ceremonies and offerings to make satisfaction for their sins. day have I paid my vows.

geneva@Proverbs:8:9 @ They [are] all (note:)Meaning that the word of God is easy to all that have a desire for it and are not blinded by the prince of this world.(:note) plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

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

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:10:6 @ Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of (note:)When their wickedness is discovered, they will be as dumb and not know what to say.(:note) the wicked.

geneva@Proverbs:10:21 @ The lips of the righteous (note:)For they speak truth and edify many by exhortations, admonition and counsel.(:note) feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom.

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:10:27 @ The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked (note:)The time of their prosperity will be short because of their great fall, though they seem to live long.(:note) shall be shortened.

geneva@Proverbs:10:30 @ The righteous shall (note:)They enjoy in this life by faith and hope, their everlasting life.(:note) never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

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:11:20 @ They that are of a froward heart, are abomination to the Lord: but they that are vpright in their way, are his delite.

geneva@Proverbs:11:23 @ The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked (note:)They can look for nothing but God's vengeance.(:note) [is] wrath.

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:11:29 @ He that troubleth his own (note:)The covetous men who spare their riches to the hinderance of their families, will be deprived of it miserably.(:note) house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] For though the wicked are rich, yet they are only slaves to the godly, who are the true possessors of the gifts of God. servant to the wise of heart.

geneva@Proverbs:12:3 @ A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the (note:)They are so grounded in the favour of God, that their root will prosper continually.(:note) root of the righteous shall not be moved.

geneva@Proverbs:12:6 @ The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall (note:)As their conscience is upright, so will they be able to speak for themselves against their accusers.(:note) deliver them.

geneva@Proverbs:12:7 @ God ouerthroweth the wicked, and they are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

geneva@Proverbs:12:22 @ The lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deale truely are his delite.

geneva@Proverbs:13:20 @ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be (note:)As he is partaker of their wickedness, and bears with their vices, so will he be punished alike as they are.(:note) destroyed.

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:14:22 @ Doe not they erre that imagine euill? but to them that thinke on good things, shalbe mercie and trueth.

geneva@Proverbs:14:33 @ Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] (note:)Forasmuch as they are convicted by it, and silenced.(:note) in the midst of fools is made known.

geneva@Proverbs:15:6 @ In the house of the righteous [is] much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is (note:)For though they have much yet it is full of trouble and care.(:note) trouble.

geneva@Proverbs:15:8 @ The (note:)That thing is abominable before God, which the wicked think to be most excellent, and by which they think most to be accepted.(:note) sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

geneva@Proverbs:15:22 @ Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but (note:)Read (Pro_11:14).(:note) in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

geneva@Proverbs:16:11 @ A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his (note:)If they are true and just, they are God's work, and he delights in it, but otherwise if they are false, they are the work of the devil, and to their condemnation that use them.(:note) work.

geneva@Proverbs:16:12 @ [It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established (note:)They are appointed by God to rule according to equity and justice.(:note) by righteousness.

geneva@Proverbs:16:31 @ The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of (note:)That is, when it is joined with virtue, or else the older that the wicked are, the more they are to be abhorred.(:note) righteousness.

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:17:15 @ He that iustifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the iust, euen they both are abomination to the Lord.

geneva@Proverbs:18:8 @ The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the (note:)They are soon believed and enter most deeply.(:note) innermost parts of the belly.

geneva@Proverbs:18:18 @ The lot (note:)If a controversy cannot otherwise be decided, it is best to cast lots to know whose the thing will be.(:note) causeth contentions to cease, and Appeases their controversy, who are so stout that they cannot otherwise be pacified. parteth between the mighty.

geneva@Proverbs:18:21 @ Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that (note:)By the using the tongue well or evil, comes the fruit of it either good or bad.(:note) love it shall eat the fruit of it.

geneva@Proverbs:19:7 @ All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth [them (note:)To have comfort from them.(:note) with] words, [yet] they [are] lacking [to him].

geneva@Proverbs:19:25 @ Smite a scorner, and the (note:)That is, the simple and ignorant men learn when they see the wicked punished.(:note) simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.

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:21:7 @ The (note:)He means this chiefly of judges and princes who leave that calling, to which God has called them, and impoverish their subjects to maintain their lusts.(:note) robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

geneva@Proverbs:21:18 @ The (note:)God will cause that to fall on their own heads, which they intended against the just by delivering the just, and putting the wicked in their places.(:note) wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

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:22:18 @ For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

geneva@Proverbs:23:3 @ Be not desirous of his dainties: (note:)For often the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes.(:note) for they [are] deceitful food.

geneva@Proverbs:23:30 @ They that tarry long at the wine; they that go (note:)Who by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.(:note) to seek mixed wine.

geneva@Proverbs:23:35 @ They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will (note:)Though drunkenness makes them more insensible then beasts, yet they can not refrain.(:note) seek it yet again.

geneva@Proverbs:24:26 @ They shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright wordes.

geneva@Proverbs:26:7 @ As they that lift vp the legs of the lame, so is a parable in a fooles mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:26:22 @ The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.

geneva@Proverbs:26:23 @ Burning lips and (note:)They will soon break out and utter themselves.(:note) a wicked heart [are like] a potsherd covered with silver dross.

geneva@Proverbs:27:6 @ Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] (note:)They are flattering and seem friendly.(:note) deceitful.

geneva@Proverbs:28:4 @ They that forsake the Law, prayse the wicked: but they that keepe the Law, set themselues against them.

geneva@Proverbs:28:5 @ Wicked men vnderstand not iudgemnt: but they that seeke the Lord vnderstand all things.

geneva@Proverbs:28:28 @ When the wicked rise vp, men hide them selues: but when they perish, ye righteous increase.

geneva@Proverbs:30:9 @ Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, (note:)Meaning, that they who put their trust in their riches forget God and that by too much wealth men have an opportunity to the same.(:note) Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].

geneva@Proverbs:30:22 @ For (note:)These commonly abuse the state to which they are called.(:note) a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food;

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:30:25 @ The pismires a people not strong, yet prepare they their meate in sommer:

geneva@Proverbs:30:27 @ The grashopper hath no King, yet goe they forth all by bandes:

geneva@Proverbs:31:3 @ Give not thy strength to women, (note:)Meaning, that women are the destruction of kings, if they hunt them.(:note) nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

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:1:7 @ 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:1:15 @ [That which is] (note:)Man is not able by all his diligence to cause things to go other than they do: neither can he number the faults that are committed, much less remedy them.(:note) crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is lacking cannot be numbered.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with (note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man's (note:)Meaning, in this world.(:note) eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one For both die and are forgotten as in (Ecc_2:16) or they both alike have prosperity or adversity. event happeneth to them all.

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:3:13 @ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the (note:)Read (Ecc_2:24) and these places declare that we should do all things with sobriety and in the fear of God, as he gives not his gifts to the intent that they should be abused.(:note) gift of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might (note:)And made them pure in their first creation.(:note) tempt them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing (note:)Man is not able by his reason and judgment to put differences between man and beast, as concerning those things to which both are subject: for the eye cannot judge any otherwise of a man being dead than of a beast, which is dead: yet by the word of God and faith we easily know the diversity as in (Ecc_3:21).(:note) befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

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:4:3 @ Yea, (note:)He speaks according to the judgment of the flesh which cannot abide to feel or see troubles.(:note) better [is he] than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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:5:1 @ Keep thy (note:)That is, with what affection you come to hear the word of God.(:note) foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of Meaning, of the wicked, who think to please God with common uses, and have neither faith nor repentance. fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Allow not thy mouth to cause thy (note:)Do not cause yourself to sin by vowing rashly as they do who make a vow to live unmarried and such like.(:note) flesh to sin; neither say thou before the That is, before God's messenger when he will examine your doing, as though your ignorance should be a just excuse. angel, that it [was] an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

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:5:11 @ {\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:7:29 @ Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many (note:)And so are cause for their own destruction.(:note) devices.

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:8:14 @ 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:9:5 @ For the liuing knowe that they shall dye, but the dead knowe nothing at all: neither haue they any more a rewarde: for their remembrance is forgotten.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:6 @ Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuie is now perished, and they haue no more portion for euer, in all that is done vnder the sunne.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now (note:)They flatter themselves to be in God's favour, because they have all things in abundance.(:note) accepteth thy works.

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:10:6 @ Folly is set in great dignity, and the (note:)They who are rich in wisdom and virtue.(:note) rich sit in low place.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:15 @ The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the (note:)The ignorance and beastliness of the wicked is such that they know not common things, and yet will discuss high matters.(:note) city.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:19 @ They prepare bread for laughter, and wine comforteth the liuing, but siluer answereth to all.

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:11:6 @ In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening (note:)Be not weary of well doing.(:note) withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not which shall prosper, either this or That is, which of your works are most agreeable to God. that, or whether they both [shall be] alike good.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ But if a man shall live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of (note:)That is, of affliction and trouble.(:note) darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ In the day when the (note:)The hands which keep the body.(:note) keepers of the house shall tremble, and the The legs. strong men shall bow themselves, and the The teeth. grinders cease because they are few, and those that The eyes. look out of the windows shall be darkened,

geneva@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] (note:)To climb high because of their weakness, or they stoop down as though they were afraid lest anything should hide them.(:note) high, and fears [shall be] in the They will tremble as they go, as though they were afraid. way, and the almond tree shall Their head will be as white as the blossoms of an almond tree. flourish, and the They will be able to bear nothing. grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

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:1:6 @ Look not upon me, because I [am] (note:)Consider not the Church by the outward appearance.(:note) black, because the The corruption of nature through sin and afflictions. sun hath looked upon me: My own brethren who should have most favoured me. my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] my own vineyard have I not She confesses her own negligence. kept.

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: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:3:8 @ They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear (note:)He alludes to the watch which kept the temple.(:note) in the night.

geneva@Songs:5:7 @ The (note:)These are the false teachers who wound the conscience with their traditions.(:note) watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

geneva@Songs:5:8 @ I charge you, (note:)She asks of them who are godly (as the law and salvation should come out of Zion and Jerusalem) that they would direct her to Christ.(:note) O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick with love.

geneva@Songs:6:9 @ But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her & counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her.

geneva@Songs:8:7 @ Much water can not quench loue, neither can the floods drowne it: If a man should giue all the substance of his house for loue, they would greatly contemne it.

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.