“ There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. ”
There were they in great fear - Margin, as in Hebrew, “they feared a fear.” The idea is, that they were in great terror or consternation. They were not calm in their belief that there was no God....
(d) There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous. (d) Where they think themselves most sure.
Psa 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text p...
were they in great fear. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6. Hebrew they feared. fear. generation . circle. Hebrew. dor, company, or class. righteous . righteous man.
5. There did they tremble with fear, The prophet now encourages himself and all the faithful with the best of all consolations, namely, that God will not forsake his people even to the end,...
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. There were they in great fear - This is a manifest allusion to the history of the Canaanitish nations; they were struck...
Have all the workers &c.— Do they not observe, all the dealers in vanity, devourers of my people? They eat bread, they called not upon the Lord: Psalms 14:5 . They were upon the spot, in a...
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. There - in the very place of their sin, their punishment overtakes them. He points to them as though present....
This Ps., like Psalms 12 , gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7 , which...
There were they. — Literally, there they feared a fear, i.e., terror overtook them. Psalms 53 adds, “which was no fear.” The local “there” brings the scene before us as in a picture. We see the...
Psalms 14:1-7 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1-18 ; Psalms 12:1-8 . It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the former in its attribution to "the fool" o...
the Bounty of God and the Folly of Men Psalms 13:1-6 ; Psalms 14:1-7 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1 . Four times the persecuted soul cr...
Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is...
The sad blindness of men's minds in their denying the existence of God, is here very strongly described; and the contradiction of such unbelief, as strongly pointed out in the fear of such a guilty m...
There were they in great fear ,.... This, shows that they had some knowledge of God, and consciousness of guilt, which they endeavoured to banish out of their minds by their fears of punishment; and...
There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous. Ver. 5. There were they in great fear ] There? and they? and in great fear? where? and who? and what kind of fear wa...
There were they in great fear In the place, or upon the spot where they practised these insolences: or, then , that is, in the height of their tyranny and prosperous impiety, when they seemed to h...
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the L ORD . 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of t...
There, i.e. in the place, or upon the spot, where they practised these insolences, God struck them with a panic fear. Or, then , i.e. in the height of their tyranny and prosperous impiety, when th...
‘Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who devour my people as they eat bread, And call not on YHWH? There were they in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous. You pu...
INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may...
Psalms 14:1 . The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of la...
Psalms 14:1 . The fool, the Nabal, devoid of foresight, says, there is no God; no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. The practical denial of God the root of all evil The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and starts a train of thought...
EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7 , that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by Da...
Of the Corruption of Natural Man and the Lord's Salvation. This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the oppres...
1 Peter 2:9 ; Esther 8:7 ; Exodus 15:16 ; Isaiah 12:6 ; Isaiah 41:10 ; Isaiah 43:1 ; Isaiah 43:2 ; Isaiah 8:10 ; Matthew 1:23 ; Proverbs 1:26 ; Proverbs 1:27 ; Proverbs 28:1 ; Psalms 112...
There — Upon the spot, where they practised these insolences, God struck them with a panick fear. For — God is on their side, and therefore their enemies have cause to tremble.