“ Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. ”
Ye have shamed - The address here is made directly to the wicked themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and, perhaps, in connection with the previous verse, to show them what...
Ye have (e) shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge. (e) You mock them who put their trust in God.
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...
poor . an oppressed one. Compare Psalms 9 and Psalms 10 .
6. Ye deride the counsel of the poor. He inveighs against those giants who mock at the faithful for their simplicity, in calmly expecting, in their distresses, that God will show himself to...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - Instead of תבישו tabishu, "Ye have shamed," Bishop Horsley proposes to read תבישם ta...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor— Will ye shame the counsel of the afflicted? —"Will ye now shame, or laugh at the poor oppressed people, for making God their refuge? Psalms 14:7 . O that I...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - understand, to accord with the first clause of Psalms 14:5 , to which this cl...
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...
Counsel. — This confidence, this piety, this appeal addressed to the supreme Protector, is in this verse called the “counsel,” the “plan” of the sufferer, and the poet asks, “Would ye then make 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...
You have shamed the counsel of the poor ,.... The poor saints, the Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the poor of this world; poor in spirit, and an afflicted people:...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge. Ver. 6. You have shamed the counsel of the poor ] And thought to mock him out of his confidence, as Sennacherib did by Hez...
You have shamed the counsel of the poor Ye have desired and endeavoured to bring to shame, or to disappoint, the course which the godly poor man takes, and the resolution which he adopts, which is...
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...
Shamed, i.e. desired and endeavoured to bring it to shame, or disappoint it. Compare Psalms 6:10 . Or, ye have reproached or derided it, as a foolish thing. The counsel of the poor, i.e. the...
‘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...
Daniel 3:15 ; Ezekiel 35:10 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Isaiah 37:10 ; Isaiah 37:11 ; Matthew 27:40-43 ; Nehemiah 4:2-4 ; Psalms 22:7 ; Psalms 22:8 ; Psalms 3:2 ; Psalms 4:2 ; Psalms 42:10 ; Psalms...
Because — This was the ground of their contempt, that he lived by faith in God's promise and providence.