“ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. ”
When I kept silence - The psalmist now proceeds to state his condition of mind before he himself found this peace, or before he had this evidence of pardon; the state in which he felt deeply that...
XXXII. Pardon of Sin. Psalms 32:1 f. The joy of Divine pardon. Psalms 32:3-5 . Sin remitted on confession. Psalms 32:6 f. The security of the godly. Read, in time of stress and omit sur...
kept silence: from confession. Probably during the year referred to in 2 Samuel 12:1-5 . roaring . irrepressible anguish. Not yet articulate confession.
3. When I kept silence, my bones wasted away. Here David confirms, by his own experience, the doctrine which he had laid down; namely, that when humbled under the hand of God, he felt that n...
DISCOURSE: 547 TRUE BLESSEDNESS DECLARED Psalms 32:1-6 . Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in...
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. When I kept silence - Before I humbled myself, and confessed my sin, my soul was under the deepest horror. "I roared all t...
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old— Because I kept silence, my bones were consumed. Mudge and Houb. See Proverbs 17:22 .
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. Here begins the main body of the psalm, detailing from his own case the grounds why the guilelessly-confessing and...
The subject of the Ps. is the happiness that follows the confession of sin and the experience of forgiveness. This is generally set forth at the beginning ( Psalms 32:1-2 ). Then the Psalmist relates...
When I kept. — He describes his state of mind before he could bring himself to confess his sin (the rendering of the particle ki by when, comp. Hosea 11:1 , is quite correct). Like that knight...
Psalms 32:1-11 ONE must have a dull ear not to hear the voice of personal experience in this psalm. It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from a heart tasting the sweetness of the new...
the Song of the Forgiven Psalms 32:1-11 David wrote this psalm, Romans 4:6-8 . Maschil means “to give instruction.” We are deeply instructed as to the working of conscience. Compare with Ps...
This is known as the second of the penitential psalms. It is the song of a man who is rejoicing in the assurance of restoration. Opening with a burst of praise which reveals the experimental knowledg...
I do not presume to say that Christ, as the sinner's Surety; is here speaking: but as the word Selah occurs at the close of this complaint, and as the words themselves correspond to some well-known w...
Psalms 32 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 32-34 = Day 6 ( Evening ).
When I kept silence ,.... Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it to God, being quite senseless and stupid; the Targum adds, "from the words of...
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. Ver. 3. When I kept silence ] i.e. While I, through guile of spirit (for this leaven of hypocrisy is more or less in...
When I kept silence Namely, from a full and open confession of my sins, and from pouring out my soul to God in serious and fervent prayers for pardon and peace. My bones waxed old My spirits fail...
Who Are Blessed. A psalm of David, Maschil. 1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is co...
When I kept silence, to wit, from a full and open confession of my sins, as appears from Psalms 32:5 , and from pouring out my soul to God in serious and fervent prayers for pardon and peace. Wh...
2). He Describes the Period When He Had Been Unable to Find Rest in His Heart Because God's Hand Was On Him Giving Him No Peace (3-4). Psalms 32:3-4 ‘When I kept silence, my bones wasted away,...
INTRODUCTION “This is the second of the seven penitential psalms, as they are called, which, says Selnecker, ‘St. Augustine used often to read with weeping heart and eyes, and which before his death...
Psalms 32 In this Psalm David gives to the world his experience as a sinner. I. He tells us of the blessedness of forgiveness. He is blessed (1) because his sins are taken away; (2) because his s...
A Psalm of David, giving instruction. The thirty-second Psalm is a gospel benediction. It belongs not to the law; it is a word which can only come of sovereign grace to the guilty. The very first sen...
This Psalm, as well as Psalms 51 ., is generally understood to have been composed after the prophet Nathan had alarmed the conscience of David for the sin against Uriah. It is a psalm of praise for...
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. The penitential psalms Since the time of Origen, seven of the psalms have borne the name of Penitential; namely, Psalms 6:1...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been selected by the Church for one of the "seven penitential psalms." It forms a part of the service of the synagogue on the great Day of Atonement. Yet it is almost...
Of the Justification of a Poor Sinner. A psalm of David, Maschil, a contemplation, written probably after David had been restored to the grace of God, a little more than a year after his great sin...
1 Samuel 31:13 ; 2 Samuel 11:27 ; 2 Samuel 12:1-12 ; 2 Samuel 21:12-14 ; Genesis 3:8-19 ; Hosea 7:14 ; Isaiah 51:20 ; Isaiah 57:17 ; Isaiah 59:11 ; Jeremiah 31:18 ; Jeremiah 31:19 ; Job 3...
Silence — From a full and open confession of my sins. Old — My spirit failed, and the strength of my body decayed. Roaring — Because of the continual horrors of my conscience, and sense of God's wr...