“ Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. ”
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain - That is, There is no advantage in all my efforts to become pure and holy. It does not assist me in obtaining the favor of God; and it would be just as we...
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...
Verily. See note on "Truly", Psalms 73:1 . I have cleansed. This is the result of occupation with others. Distraction. Compare Structure, above.
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. I have cleansed my heart in vain - It is no advantage to us to worship the true God, to walk according to the law of right...
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. -The mental conflict which resulted in the Psalmist's mind from the anomalous prosperity of sinners. Verse 12...
Book 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of...
(11-14) The mutual relation of these verses has been the subject of many conflicting opinions. The following is the arrangement that seems preferable — “And people say, How shall God know? And does...
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...
He here draws the outlines of the prosperity of the wicked: they have all carnal enjoyments, the good things brought forth by the sun, and the precious things put forth by the moon: they have plenty...
Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain ,.... Which supposes that his heart had been unclean, as every man's is, and which appears by what is in it, and by what comes out of it; that it was now cle...
Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocency. Ver. 13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain ] For all is to little purpose, if the cards play on this fashion, if...
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain , &c. Hence I have been tempted to think, that religion is a vain and unprofitable thing; that “all my faith, my charity, and my devotion; all my watching...
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to...
Hence I was sometimes tempted to think that religion was a vain and unprofitable thing, at least as to the happiness of this life, which yet God had promised as a reward to piety. True religion is he...
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...
Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain, in view of the offense given by the prosperity of the ungodly, and washed my hands in innocency, making diligent efforts to live a holy life before the Lor...
Hebrews 10:19-22 ; James 4:8 ; Job 21:15 ; Job 34:9 ; Job 35:3 ; Job 9:27 ; Job 9:31 ; Malachi 3:14 ; Psalms 24:4 ; Psalms 26:6 ; Psalms 51:10
In vain — Hence I was sometimes tempted, to think that religion was a vain, unprofitable thing. True religion is here described by its two principal parts, the cleansing of the heart, and the hands...