“ Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. ”
Seeing thou hatest instruction - That is, He is unwilling himself to be taught. He will not learn the true nature of religion, and yet he presumes to instruct others. Compare the notes at Romans...
Seeing thou hatest (n) instruction, and castest my words behind thee. (n) To live according to my word.
L. God Looks to Conduct rather than to Sacrifice. For the attitude to sacrifice, cf. Psalms 40*. Psalms 50:1-6 . The expected Theophany. Psalms 50:1 . Read mg. with LXX. called the e...
17. Also thou hatest correction Here hypocrites are challenged with treacherous duplicity in denying, by their life and their works, that godliness which they have professed with the lip. Th...
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Seeing thou hatest instruction - All these rejected the counsel of God against themselves; and refused to receive the instructions of...
But unto the wicked God saith— The prophet now proceeds, as from the mouth of God, to foretel the destruction of the impenitent Jews; who, having received the law of God, and entered into covenant...
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declar...
The title ( A PsALM of Asaph ) is discussed in Intro, to Book 3, where the other Pss. of Asaph are found. The present Ps. is one of solemn warning to those who attempt to serve God by formal sacrific...
(9-18) Notice the fine tone of irony that pervades this rebuke, the best weapon against ritualistic errors.
Psalms 50:1-23 This is the first of the Asaph psalms, and is separated from the other eleven ( Psalms 73:1-28 ; Psalms 74:1-23 ; Psalms 75:1-10 ; Psalms 76:1-12 ; Psalms 77:1-20 ; Psalms 78:1...
God's Warning to the Wicked Psalms 50:16-23 These searching words are for us all. We have no right to declare God's statutes, if our hearts hide wickedness in their secret chambers. We must not...
The singer addresses himself in the name of God to the whole earth, that it may hear and learn an important lesson. The call is made in the first verse. The final appeal is in verses Psalms 50:22-23...
This seems to be a solemn remonstrance and expostulation with the unbelieving and hypocritical Jews, who rested in the means, and totally overlooked and even despised the end: who, as our Lord told t...
Seeing thou hatest instruction ,.... Or "correction" z; to be reproved or reformed by the statutes and covenant they declared to others; they taught others, but not themselves, Romans 2:21 ; or eva...
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Ver. 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction ] Or discipline, thou wilt not be brought to live strictly, to exercise godliness; thou re...
Seeing thou hatest instruction Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. For though with thy mouth thou showest much love to my statutes and co...
The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that t...
Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. Though with thy mouth thou showest much love (as is said of them, Ezekiel 33:31 ) to my statutes and...
God Speaks To The ‘Wicked', The More Overt Covenant Breakers, Whom He Sees As Blatantly Hypocritical, And Outlines The Activities That Cut Them Off From His Mercy. He Points Out That He Is Coming In...
INTRODUCTION Superscription . “ A Psalm of Asaph .” Asaph was “a Levite, son of Berachiah, one of the leaders of David’s choir ( 1 Chronicles 6:39 ). Psalms 50, 73-83 are attributed to him, but pro...
Psalms 50:1-4 . The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun until the going down thereof. Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our...
Asaph, to whom this psalm is inscribed, was a seer, as well as head of the singers. He was also the author of twelve psalms, extremely beautiful, and highly prophetic. He here declares that EL ELOHIM...
The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth, from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. The first of the Asaph psalms This , the first of the Asaph psalms, is...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist announces an appearance of God to his people "out of Zion," and a pronouncement of judgment upon them, which all heaven ( Psalms 50:4 ) and earth ( Psalms 50:1 ) are ca...
Of the True Service of God. A psalm of Asaph, one of the directors of the Temple-chorus at the time of David, distinguished for musical and poetical ability, 1 Chronicles 26. The hymn shows how th...
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 ; 2 Timothy 4:3 ; 2 Timothy 4:4 ; Isaiah 5:23 ; Jeremiah 18:12 ; Jeremiah 36:23-32 ; Jeremiah 8:9 ; John 3:20 ; Nehemiah 9:26 ; Proverbs 1:28 ; Proverbs 1:29 ; Pro...