“ He destroyedh their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. ”
He destroyed their vines with hail - Margin, killed. See Exodus 9:22-26 . In the account in Exodus the hail is said to have smitten man and beast, the herb, and the tree of the field. In the psa...
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,...
destroyed . killed. hail. The seventh plague ( Exodus 9:18 ). frost. Word occurs nowhere else. Probably. hailstones.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. He destroyed their vines with hail - Though the vine was never plentiful in Egypt, yet they have some; and the wine made in th...
He destroyed their vines— Egypt is not by any means a wine country, nor ever was; so far from it, that they were forced to use a sort of beer for common drink, and do so to this day, made of barley...
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! -The Israelites in the time of the Judges tempted God by forgetting His judgments in Egypt in Israel's behalf, whi...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32 . It traces the course of God's relations with His people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells...
Vines. — In the history of the plagues ( Exodus 9:13-25 ) no mention is made either of vines or sycamores or of fig-trees, as in Psalms 105:33 , and some consider that the poem reflects a Palestin...
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...
“Signs in Egypt” Psalms 78:38-48 God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. The Spirit… helpeth our infirmities , Romans 8:26 . In the words of Hosea, God teaches us “to...
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...
Here, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian bondage, and gives some of the striking examples of the Lord's...
He destroyed their vines with hail ,.... Or "killed" k them; for there is a vegetative life in plants: this was the seventh plague of Egypt, attended with thunder and lightning, and was very terribl...
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. Ver. 47. He destroyed their vines with hail ] Heb. He killed, Quia planta habet animam vegetativain, ut Job 14:8 , saith...
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt Here the Psalm goes back to the subject of Israelitish ingratitude, (mentioned Psalms 78:11-12 ,) in order to introduce an account of the miracles wrought in...
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel. 40 How oft did they p...
Sycomore trees; or, wild fig trees , which were there in great plenty. Under these and the vines all other trees are comprehended. And this hail and frost did destroy the fruits of the trees, and...
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...
This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflected. Psalms 78:9 . The children of Ephraim, bei...
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...
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...
The Narrative of God's Deeds
Exodus 9:18-34 ; Psalms 105:32 ; Psalms 105:33
Sycamore — trees — Under these and the vines, all other trees are comprehended. This hail and frost destroyed the fruit of the trees, and sometimes the trees themselves.