“ For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.a ”
For there are no bands in their death - The word rendered “bands” here means properly “cords tightly drawn,” Isaiah 58:6 ; then, pains, pangs, torments - “as if” one were twisted or tortured wit...
For [there are] (b) no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm. (b) The wicked in this life live at pleasure and are not drawn to death like prisoners: that is, by sickness which is death...
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...
bands: or pangs. The Massorah calls attention to this Homonym ( harzuboth ) as occurring not only twice, but in two different senses. The other case is Isaiah 58:6 . in . at. is. Supply E...
4 For there are no bands to their death. The Psalmist describes the comforts and advantages of the ungodly, which are as it were so many temptations to shake the faith of the people of God....
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. No bands in their death - Many of the godly have sore conflicts at their death. Their enemy then thrusts sore at them that they...
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. For (there are) no bands in their death - or 'even up to [lª-: note, Isaiah 7:15 ] their death. The same Hebrew occurs in...
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...
For there are no bands in their death. — This is quite unintelligible, and does not fairly render the Hebrew, which gives, For there are no bands to their death. And by analogy of the derivation...
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...
For there are no bands in their death ,.... Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of body, but die at once, suddenly, in a moment, wholly...
For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm. Ver. 4. For there are no bands in their death ] Or, no knots and knarls; they die without long sickness, or much pain, or tro...
For there are no bands in their death They are not violently dragged to an untimely death, either by the hand and sentence of the magistrate, which yet they deserve, or by any sudden and unexpected...
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to...
There are no bands in their death; they are not dragged to death, neither by the hand and sentence of the magistrate, which yet they deserve; nor by any lingering and grievous torments of mind or b...
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...
Comfort and Warning Concerning the Offense Given by the Good Fortune of the Godless. A psalm of Asaph, one of the choirmasters of David, 1 Chronicles 6:39 ; 1 Chronicles 25:2 . A Reflection u...
Ecclesiastes 2:16 ; Ecclesiastes 7:15 ; Job 21:23 ; Job 21:24 ; Job 24:20 ; Luke 16:22 ; Psalms 17:10 ; Psalms 17:14
No bands — They are not dragged to death, by the sentence of the magistrate, which they deserve.