“ Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. ”
Give ear, O my people - This is not an address of God, but an address of the king or ruler of the people, calling their attention to an important subject; to wit, his right to rule over them, or...
" (a) Maschil of Asaph." Give ear, O my people, [to] my (b) law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. (a) Read ( Psalms 32:1 ). (b) The prophet under the name of a teacher calls the people h...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary,...
Title. Mascbil . Instruction. The tenth of thirteen so named. See note on Title, Psalms 82 , and App-65. of Asaph . by, or for Asaph. Asaph was. "seer" or prophet ( 2 Chronicles 29:30 ). This Psa...
1. Give ear, O my people! to my law. From the close of the psalm, it may with probability be conjectured, that it was written long after the death of David; for there we have celebrated the...
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Give ear, O my people - This is the exordium of this very pathetic and instructive discourse.
An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. The history of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David. Mas...
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Psalms 78:1-72 .-God's address, through Asaph, to Israel to hear His law and His parabolic instruction. His past...
Law] RM 'teaching.'
For the formal opening see Psalms 49:1 , Note. My people. — An expression pointing to a position of weight and authority. My law. — Here, rather instruction, or doctrine.
Psalms 78:1-72 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1-45 ; Psalms 106:1-48 ; Psalms 107:1-43 . Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and especially the Exodus and wilderness wander...
Learning from the Fathers Psalms 78:1-12 This psalm is said to have arisen, from a strong controversy between Judah and Ephraim as to the location of God's sanctuary, and its final transfer wit...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the psalm...
CONTENTS This Psalm, as the title sets forth, is a Maschil, that is, a Psalm of instruction. It contains, in an historical method of relation, God's gracious dealings with Israel as a people. In rea...
Give ear, O my people ,.... The Jews were Christ's people, he descending from their fathers according to the flesh; they were his own, to whom he came, though rejected by them; they were his nation...
Psalms 78:1 «Maschil of Asaph. » Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Maschil of Asaph ] Ode didasealiea Asaphi. The six first verses are proemial, w...
Give ear, O my people In these words “the psalmist opens his commission, and speaks as one having authority from above to instruct the world. He demands a large and attentive audience, while, by a...
The Importance of Religious Instruction. Maschil of Asaph. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears t...
PSALM 78 THE ARGUMENT The scope of this Psalm is plainly expressed Psalms 78:6-8 , and is this, that the Israelites might learn to hope and trust in God, and steadfastly to keep his laws and cov...
INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the celebrated Asaph in the time of David. Occasion...
Maschil Maschil, instruction.
Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice...
Give ear, O My people, to My law; incline your ears to the words of My mouth. The obligation to obey God’s law I. It is the law of your nature. The foundation of morality is laid deep in human...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed...
Give ear, O my people, to my law, the religious teacher calling attention to his instruction which he is now about to begin; incline your ears to the words of my mouth, in the attitude of most care...
2 Chronicles 16:14 ; Isaiah 51:4 ; Isaiah 55:3 ; Judges 5:3 ; Matthew 13:9 ; Proverbs 8:4-6 ; Psalms 49:1-3 ; Psalms 51:4 ; Psalms 74:1
My law — The doctrine which I am about to deliver.