“ Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. ”
Truly God is good to Israel - That is, to his people; to the righteous; to those who serve him. That is, God is the “real” friend of the righteous. He has not forgotten them. He does not abandon...
"A Psalm of Asaph." Truly (a) God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart. (a) As it were between hope and despair he bursts forth into this affection, being assured that God wou...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after...
Title.. Psalm. Hebrew. mizmor. See App-65. of Asaph. The second of Asaph's twelve Psalms, Psalms 50 being the first. See App-63. Truly, &c. . Nothing but good is God to Israel. Occurs...
As to the author of this psalm, I am not disposed to contend very strongly, although I think it probable that the name of Asaph was prefixed to it because the charge of singing it was committed...
DISCOURSE: 623 THE GOODNESS OF GOD TO ISRAEL Psalms 73:1 . Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. THE aversion which men usually feel to a vindication of God’s abso...
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Truly God is good to Israel - Captives as they were, they still had many blessings from God; and they had prom...
The Prophet, prevailing in a temptation, sheweth the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked, the wound given thereby, diffidence; the victory over it, knowledge of god's purpose, in destroyi...
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Psalms 73:1-28 .-God is always good to the true Israel ( Psalms 73:1 ); contrary appearances once shook his faith: the ungod...
The conclusion reached by faith precedes the account of the struggle with doubt. Of a clean heart ] a spiritual rather than a merely national conception of Israel.
Truly. — See Note, Psalms 62:2 . This particle often, like the Latin at, introduces a rejoinder to some supposed statement. Dryden’s lines express the feeling of this opening — “Yet sure the g...
Psalms 73:1-28 THE perennial problem of reconciling God's moral government with observed facts is grappled with in this psalm, as in Psalms 37:1-40 ; Psalms 49:1-20 . It tells how the prosperity...
Deceptive Prosperity Psalms 73:1-15 The opening psalms of this third Book of Psalms are by Asaph; see 2 Chronicles 29:30 . The r.v. margin substitutes only for surely in Psalms 73:1 . The...
The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tel...
CONTENTS The Prophet is engaged, in this Psalm, in a subject which hath called forth the astonishment of pious minds in all ages of the church; namely, the seeming prosperity of the wicked, and the...
Truly God is good to Israel ,.... To Israel, literally understood; in choosing them to be his people above all people on earth; in bringing them into a good land; in favouring them with many externa...
Psalms 73:1 «A Psalm of Asaph. » Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart. A Psalm of Asaph ] Who was not only an excellent musician, but a prophet also, an orator,...
Truly , or nevertheless , &c. The beginning is abrupt, and sufficiently intimates that he had a great conflict within himself about the matter here spoken of, and that many doubts and objection...
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to...
PSALM 73 THE ARGUMENT The subject of this Psalm is the same with Psa 77 , concerning the promiscuous carriage of God's providence towards good and bad men Or, for Asaph , the famous musician, to...
INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,” or, as in the margin, “ for Asaph .” See introduction to Psalms 50 . Subject .—The mental difficulties arising from the contemplation of the tem...
Psalms 73 First, there is in this Psalm a description of the prosperity of the wicked, and of that hauteur and pride which they in their prosperity manifested, then of the afflictions of the godly...
You may have noticed that the 73 rd Psalm and the 37 th Psalm are on the same subject; it will help you to recall this fact if you remember that the figures are the same, only reversed. Psalms 73:1...
The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39 ; 1 Chronicles 25:1 . Eleven other psalms bear his name....
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. The trouble of Asaph In human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they sh...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating use of the name "Elohim" over that of" Jehovah," by...
Truly, God is good to Israel, only good, nothing but kindness and mercy, even to such as are of a clean heart, for all members of the spiritual Israel have their hearts cleansed by faith, so that t...
1 Chronicles 15:17 ; 1 Chronicles 16:37 ; 1 Chronicles 16:7 ; 1 Chronicles 25:1-6 ; 1 Chronicles 6:39 ; 2 Chronicles 29:30 ; Isaiah 63:7-9 ; James 4:8 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; John 1:47 ; Luke 12...
A clean heart — To all true Israelites, who love God, and serve him in spirit and truth.