“ Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. ”
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness - Offer righteous sacrifices; that is, sacrifices prompted by right motives, and in accordance with the prescriptions in the law of God. This appears to be a...
(i) Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. (i) Serve God purely, and not with outward ceremonies.
IV. An Evening Hymn by a Man High in Office whose Rule Excites Jealousy and Resistance. The Psalmist begins with an appeal to the God of his righteousness, i.e. the God who declares that his case...
Offer the sacrifices. No Art. Hebrew. zabah. App-43. sacrifices of righteousness . righteous sacrifices. Genitive of Character. How could they offer these while in rebellion against the Lord's...
5. Sacrifice ye. Many are of opinion that David exhorts his enemies to give some evidence of their repentance; and I certainly admit, that sacrifices were partly enjoined for the purpose of...
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness - Do not attempt to offer a sacrifice to God for prosperity in your present rebellious con...
Sacrifices of righteousness— True sacrifices ] Vitring. Isaiah 5:2 p. 56. 829.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness - not hypocritical sacrifices, such as Absalom offered ( 2 Samuel 15:7-9 ), but sa...
This is an evening hymn, and though no occasion is mentioned it may perhaps be referred, like Psalms 3 (its natural companion), to the time of Absalom's revolt, but to a somewhat later stage in the...
Sacrifices of righteousness. — Comp. Psalms 51:18-19 ; Deuteronomy 33:19 . The context in both places directs to the translation “right” or “due” sacrifices, i.e., sacrifices duly and religious...
Psalms 4:1-8 Psalms 3:1-8 ; Psalms 4:1-8 are a pair. They are similar in expression (my glory, there be many which say, I laid me down and slept) in the psalmist's situation, and in structure (...
Morning and Evening Prayers Psalms 3:1-8 ; Psalms 4:1-8 These psalms probably date from David's flight before Absalom, 2 Samuel 16:1-23 . It is the perfection of trust to be able to sleep whe...
This is a song of the evening. The general circumstances out of which it rises are the same as those of the previous psalm. Now, however, the day into which the singer marched with confidence is over...
Nothing can be more gracious than what is here recommended. It is as if the Holy Ghost commanded the sinner to pause over the view of his own nothingness, and then to come by faith, with Jesus and hi...
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness ,.... Offer for sacrifice things righteously gotten, for the Lord hates robbery for burnt offering, Isaiah 61:8 . Some respect may be had to the unrighteous ac...
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. Ver. 5. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness ] Confess your sins, and slay them; run to him who is the propitiation, Jesus C...
Offer Unto God, that he may be reconciled to you; the sacrifice of righteousness Righteous sacrifices; which requires that the persons offering them be righteous and do righteous things, and offe...
Expostulation with Sinners. To the chief musician on Neginoth. A psalm of David. 1 Hear me when I call, O God of my...
Offer, to wit, unto God, that he may be reconciled to you, and may pardon all your murmurings and insurrections against him and against me. For it seems plain that this, as well as the former verse...
‘Stand in awe and do not sin, Commune with your own heart on your bed and be still, Selah Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in YHWH.' In view of whom they are dealing with...
NIGHT THOUGHTS Introduction “The Psalmist prays God to deliver him from present as from past distresses ( Psalms 4:2 ). 1. He assures the haters of his regal dignity that God bestowed it, and w...
trust ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
Psalms 4 I. Everywhere, in the history of the human heart, these two things are found in the hours of our bitter pain: unfathomable desire and want of something more than earth or its love can giv...
Psalms 4:1 . Hear me, when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. Past experience is a sweet solace in the hour o...
Psalms 4:3 . Him that is godly. חסיךְ chasik, merciful. The literal reading is by far the best, because it designates godliness by the fruits of piety. Psalms 4:4 . Stand in awe. St. Paul he...
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness. A gentle remonstrance This Psalm is mainly a gentle, earnest remonstrance with antagonists, seeking to win them to a better mind. The cry for an...
EXPOSITION AGAIN the psalm has a title, "To the chief Musician on Neginoth. A Psalm of David;" literally, "to the superintendent or foreman," which, in this instance, would be the choir-lead...
Evening Prayer of a Christian in Every Kind of Trouble. David, in his flight before Absalom, had come to Mahanaim, on the east side of Jordan, 2 Samuel 17:24-26 . He had a number of faithful men...
1 Peter 4:19 ; 2 Samuel 15:12 ; Deuteronomy 33:19 ; Hebrews 13:15 ; Hebrews 13:16 ; Isaiah 1:11-18 ; Isaiah 26:3 ; Isaiah 26:4 ; Isaiah 50:10 ; Isaiah 61:8 ; Malachi 1:11-14 ; Malachi 1:8...
A Psalm of Supplication Psalms 4:1-8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The prayer of Cornelius. As an introductory to the study of Psalms 4:1-8 , which sets forth a great prayer of David, we thought we w...
Offer — Unto God, that he may be reconciled to you. Righteousness — Righteous sacrifices; which requires that the persons offering them be righteous and do righteous things, and offer them with an...