“ Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. ”
Depart from evil - From all evil; from vice and crime in every form. And do good - Do good to all people, and in all the relations of life. Seek peace - Strive to live in peace with all t...
XXXIV. Yahweh's Care for His Own. An acrostic Ps., the letter Waw being omitted as in Psalms 25. Yahweh's care of the poor who fear Him. Psalms 34:5 . Read with LXX, look to him, be radiant, you...
14. Turn away from evil, and do good. Here the Psalmist commands the children of God to abstain from all evil, and to devote themselves to the work of doing good to their neighbors. This ver...
DISCOURSE: 553 THE FEAR OF GOD INCULCATED Psalms 34:11-16 . Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, th...
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Depart ... do. This verse refers to deeds. Seek peace, and pursue it - i:e., inoffensiveness toward thy neighbour, and harmony wit...
The reliability of this title ( A Psalm of David; when he feigned madness (RM) before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed) is doubtful, both because the Philistine king in question is cal...
And do good. — Negative goodness is not sufficient. Practical good must be added.
Psalms 34:1-22 THE occasion of this psalm, according to the superscription, was that humiliating and questionable episode, when David pretended insanity to save his life from the ruler of Goliath'...
the Salvation of the Contrite Psalms 34:11-22 Psalms 34:11-14 : The gist of this exhortation is quoted by Peter in his first Epistle. See 1 Peter 3:10 . We need not fret to defend ourselves...
In this psalm praise is personal. After the chorus of the last we have a solo full of feeling. It tells of the goodness of Jehovah and that in order that others may know and be helped. The opening de...
How exceedingly to be desired is it, that those who set up for instructors of children would adopt David's plan, and instead of useless sciences, falsely so called, teach that happy science, the only...
Psalms 32 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 32-34 = Day 6 ( Evening ).
Depart from evil ,.... This denotes that evil is near to men; it keeps close to them, and should be declined and shunned: and it regards all sorts of evil; evil men, and their evil company; evil thi...
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Ver. 14. Depart from evil, and do good ] For negative goodness helpeth not. A man must so abstain from evil as that he do good, or he doth...
Keep thy tongue from evil From all manner of evil speaking, from all injurious, false, and deceitful speeches; and thy lips from speaking guile Or, guileful words, contrary to truth and sincerity...
An Exhortation to Fear God; The Privileges of the Righteous. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you th...
Depart from evil, i.e. from all sin, and especially from all wicked and injurious acts and practices against try neighbour. Do good; be ready to perform all good and friendly offices to all men,...
4). He Points Out To Them The Way To True Life (12-14). Psalms 34:12-14 M ‘What man is he who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?' N Keep your tongue from evil, And your...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm is assigned by the superscription to the occasion when David, persecuted by Saul, fled to the Philistines, and being brought before Achish was driven away by him as a madman...
Psalms 34:11-15 In the first place, David sums up his advice in one grand affection, which he calls the fear of the Lord. Then he proceeds to detail what is comprehended in "the fear of the Lord."...
Psalms 34:1 . I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. «Others may do what they please, and murmur, and complain, and be filled with dread and apprehension...
Psalms 34:6 . This poor man cried. David, a prince yesterday, was poor to-day; an exile among his enemies, and destitute of friends. Yesterday, Saul sought his life, and now the friends of Goliath...
I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. A devout hymn I. an exemplification of true praise. 1. It is thorough. (1) There is no praise without conc...
EXPOSITION THIS is the third of the alphabetical psalms, and appears to have a special connection with the second of them, Psalms 25:1-19 . Like that psalm, it omits the vav , and has a seco...
David Teaches True Piety
1 Peter 3:11 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:11 ; 2 Corinthians 13:11 ; 2 Timothy 2:19 ; 3 John 1:11 ; Acts 10:38 ; Galatians 6:10 ; Hebrews 12:14 ; Hebrews 13:16 ; Isaiah 1:16 ; Isaiah 1:17 ; James...
Depart — From all sin. Do good — Be ready to perform all good offices to all men. Seek — Study by all means possible to live peaceable with all men. Pursue it — Do not only embrace it gladly when i...