Psalms 16:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hastena after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. ”

• Psalms 16:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Their sorrows shall be multiplied - The word here rendered “sorrows - עצבוּת ‛ atsts e bôth - may mean either idols or sorrows. Compare Isaiah 48:5 ; Psalms 139:24 ; Job 9:28 ; Psal...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Their (c) sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another [god]: (d) their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. (c) As grief of conscience and m...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  XVI. God, the Supreme Good. Psalms 16:1-3 . The Psalmist's devotion to God and His saints. Psalms 16:2 b , Psalms 16:3 . The text is corrupt; RV requires a slight emendation or we may su...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  their names: i.e. the names of their gods.

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• Psalms 16:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Psalmist now describes the true way of maintaining brotherly concord with the saints, by declaring that he will have nothing to do with unbelievers and the superstitious. We cannot be unite...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god : their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that ha...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Their sorrows, &c.— This verse is put in opposition to the foregoing one; and intimates, that the lot of the persons here mentioned shall be very different from that of the saints, who are th...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Ps. is the confident and joyous prayer of one whose highest satisfaction is in God and in good men ( Psalms 16:2-3 ), who renounces all the ways of idolatry ( Psalms 16:4 ), and who finds in God...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Their sorrows. — This verse offers also great variation in the ancient versions. The literal text runs Their sorrows [or, idols ] ( fem. ) are multiplied ( masc ) ; another they hasten [or,...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 16:1-11 THE progress of thought in this psalm is striking. The singer is first a bold confessor in the face of idolatry and apostasy ( Psalms 16:1-4 ). Then the inward sweetness of his fait...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Citizen of Zion and His Inheritance Psalms 15:1-5 ; Psalms 16:1-11 The first of these psalms was probably composed to celebrate the bringing of the Ark to Mount Zion, 1 Samuel 6:20 . It d...

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• Psalms 16:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This is a song of satisfaction. The singer is not one who is unfamiliar with peril. The opening sentence is a sigh, revealing the consciousness of peril. Toward the close, the shadows of She01 and th...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is easy to perceive to what those expressions have reference. No sacrifices could atone for sin, neither satisfy the guilty conscience. If the sacrifices under the law were offered by Israel, with...

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• Psalms 16:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Their sorrows shall be multiplied ,.... Not the sorrows of the saints and excellent ones, by seeing the idolatry of men, as Aben Ezra interprets it; but the sorrows of such [that] hasten [after] a...

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• Psalms 16:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another [god]: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. Ver. 4. Their sorrows shall be multipl...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Their sorrows , &c. Having showed his great respect and affection to the saints and servants of the true God, he now declares what an abhorrence he had for those that worshipped idols, the incre...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Believing Confidence; Consecration to God. Michtam of David.       1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.  ...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That hasten after another god; or, that present or endtoo (as this verb signifies, Exodus 22:16 ) another god, to wit, with oblations, as it follows. God is not expressed in the Hebrew text, but...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  He Has Said To YHWH, ‘You Are My Lord' (2-4). ‘You have said to YHWH, You are my Lord, I have no good beyond (apart from) you. As for the saints (holy ones) who are in the earth, They are the e...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION “The first clause contains in germ the thought of the entire psalm, namely, that the pious man has always protection with God against all his enemies. From this assurance arises the cry...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 16:1 . Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. Ah, brethren! When we think of our daily dangers, and when we remember the sinfulness of our nature, this petition may well be our...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  REFLECTIONS. This is called by the Jews the Michtam or golden psalm, which David composed during his exile, or while he reigned in Hebron. It opens with a prayer that God would preserve him; for he...

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• Psalms 16:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Preserve me, O God: for in Thee do I put my trust. Faith in the presence of God This term suggests that the Psalm is one of strongly marked, incisive thought. It is a Psalm doubly notable-- 1...

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• Psalms 16:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE sixteenth psalm is so far connected with the fifteenth that it is exclusively concerned, like the fifteenth, with the truly righteous man. It "depicts the true Israelite as rejo...

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• Psalms 16:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Prophecy of Christ's Suffering and Resurrection. According to Peter, Acts 2:25-31 , and Paul, Acts 13:35 , this psalm relates to Christ, expressing the feelings of His human nature in view of Hi...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 23:13 ; Genesis 35:14 ; Hosea 2:16 ; Hosea 2:17 ; Isaiah 57:6 ; Isaiah 65:11 ; Isaiah 66:3 ; Jeremiah 7:18 ; Jonah 2:8 ; Joshua 23:7 ; Leviticus 23:13 ; Psalms 32:10 ; Psalms 97:7...

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• Psalms 16:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Sorrows — Having shewed his affection to the servants of the true God, he now declares what an abhorrency he has for those that worship idols. Offerings — In which the Gentiles used sometimes to dr...

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