Psalms 94:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; ”

• Psalms 94:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord - “ Happy the man;” or “Oh the blessedness of the man.” See the notes at Psalms 1:1 . The word here rendered “chastenest” does not mean to chasten...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Blessed [is] the man whom thou (h) chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; (h) God has care over his, and chastised them for their own good, that they should not perish for ever with th...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  XCIV. A Prayer for Vengeance on Oppressive Rulers and for Deliverance from them. Psalms 94:1-6 . The wickedness of the arrogant. The bad rulers here are evidently Jews. They are oppressors, not i...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Blessed . Happy. See App-63. man. Hebrew. geber.

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• Psalms 94:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12 Blessed is the man whom thou hast instructed, O God! The Psalmist now passes from the language of censure to that of consolation, comforting himself and others of the Lord’s people with t...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest - תיסרנו teyasserennu, whom thou instructest; and teachest him out of thy l...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Blessed is the man— How happy the man whom thou instructest, O Lord, and teachest out of thy law, ( Psalms 94:13 .) to set him at ease from the days of evil, till the pit be digged for the wicke...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord - literally, 'Oh the blessednesses of the man whom thou dost...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This is a national Ps., written at a time when Israel was oppressed by foreign enemies. It may be connected either with the days of the exile or with some later period of national distress. The openi...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Blessed. — A far higher note than one of mere complaint, or even of trust in God, is struck here. The beatitude of suffering could not be made altogether plain in the Old Testament, though in Job t...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 94:1-23 THE theme of God the Judge is closely allied to that of God the King, as other psalms of this group show, in which His coming to judge the world is the subject of rapturous praise....

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• Psalms 94:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Lord Our Defense against Evil-Doers Psalms 94:6-23 Let us ponder all the great things that God will do for them that trust Him. He planted the ear, and will detect the sigh, sob, or broken...

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• Psalms 94:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The placing of this song immediately after the one which sets forth the fact of the enthronement of Jehovah is remarkable. It creates a contrast, while it suggests a continuity of ideas. The contrast...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here the subject takes a new turn. From appealing to men, the petitioner turns now unto the Lord; and he puts it down as an unquestionable truth, that, let men persecute how they may, or let the sorr...

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• Psalms 94:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord ,.... Much more happy now, and hereafter, than the proud insulting persecutor of him; he is chastened of the Lord, that he might not be condemned with...

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• Psalms 94:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; Ver. 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, &c. ] And thereby effectest that his vain thoughts lodge n...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest Not he that prospers in his wickedness is happy, but he whom the Lord chasteneth when he acts amiss, and thereby teaches to study and obey his law with the g...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Comfort to Suffering Saints; God the Defence of His People.       12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O L ORD , and...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And whereas these ungodly persons esteem themselves the only happy men, and conclude thy people to be of all men the most miserable, because of the manifold persecutions and afflictions which they co...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION “There is no superscription to this Psalm. There is no indication of its authorship, of the period at which it was written, or of the circumstances to which it refers. There are many of...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 94:12 I. The highest love is marked by its severity, for the absolute condition of it is that it will never rest till it has lifted up the man whom it reaches to a level with itself. The lo...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Let us read this evening the ninety-fourth Psalm, and may the Spirit of God instruct us while we read it! Psalms 94:1 . O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth,...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  This psalm was written under great oppression, in a time of war, but it bears no marks of being written in Babylon, for then they had no hope to rise against the wicked: Psalms 94:16 . Psalms 94:6...

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• Psalms 94:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth. .. show Thyself. Persecutors and their victims I. The awful condition of the wicked persecutor. The persecutors referred to ( Psalms 94:1-10 ) are repre...

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• Psalms 94:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THIS psalm is primarily ( Psalms 94:1-19 ) a "cry for vengeance on Israel's oppressors, passing into an appeal for more faith to God's own people" (Cheyne). In the latter half ( Psa...

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• Psalms 94:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Against Tyrants in the Church. The psalmist, whose name is not given, appeals to God in view of the oppression of the adversaries, who included not only the enemies from without, but also the tyra...

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• Psalms 94:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 11:32 ; Hebrews 12:5-11 ; Job 33:16-25 ; Job 5:17 ; Micah 6:9 ; Proverbs 3:11 ; Psalms 119:67 ; Psalms 119:71 ; Revelation 3:19

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• Psalms 94:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Blessed — Those afflictions which are accompanied with Divine instructions are great and true blessings.

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