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( See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12).
But it is good for me to draw near to God - That is, It is pleasant; it is profitable; it is the chief good. For myself, happiness is to be found...
But [it is] good for me (q) to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. (q) Though all the world shr...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believe...
it is good for me. The Hebrew accent ( pasek ) emphasizes the Pronoun "me". Others may go "far from Thee" ( Psalms 73:27 ), but "as for me,. will d...
28. As for me, it is good for me to draw near to God. Literally the reading is, And I, etc. David speaking expressly of himself, affirms...
DISCOURSE: 627 BENEFIT OF DRAWING NEAR TO GOD Psalms 73:28 . It is good for me to draw near to God. THE dispensations of Providence are often...
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. It is good for me to draw near -...
That I may declare all thy works— The end breaks off a little abruptly, for want of what the LXX read, in the gates of the daughters of Zion....
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. -His joy in God as his portion, in contrast to the fin...
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. Th...
Works. — Not God’s doings, but works prescribed to the psalmist, messages entrusted to him; no doubt here the conclusions he had come to, or the...
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-...
The true place in which to form a right estimate of life is where Asaph found it-in the sanctuary of God; because from its elevation and the purity o...
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...
It were a pity to separate these verses, and the devout and happy frame which appears through the whole of them. Reader! what a thought is that one,...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! gather from this blessed Psalm all the instructions the Holy Ghost intended the church should derive from it, and look up and p...
But it is good for me to draw near to God ,.... In prayer, and other acts of religious worship; to attend the word and ordinances in the sanctuary,...
But [it is] good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. Ver. 28. But it is good for me...
But it is good for me to draw near to God But whatsoever they do, I am abundantly satisfied that it is, as my duty, so my interest and happiness, t...
Devout Confidence. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in...
But whatsoever they do, I am abundantly satisfied that it is, as my duty, so my interest and happiness, to cleave unto thee, by faith, and love, and...
INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,” or, as in the margin, “ for Asaph .” See introduction to Psalms 50 . Subject .—The mental diff...
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 prosperit...
Psalms 73:28 The experience of ordinary life gives proof that "nearness" is not a geographical fact. You may live positively close to a man, and y...
«A Psalm Of Asaph.» He was a great singer, but he could not always sing. In the first part of the Psalm he felt rather like groaning than singing; an...
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 Chr...
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 her...
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of Thy children. Searching and finding relief in the right direction...
It is good for me to draw near to God. An assuredly good thing When a man is sick everybody knows what is good for him. They recommend specific...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating us...
The Believer's Trust at the Realization of the Truth
But it is good for me, it is his greatest pleasure and happiness, to draw near to God, to be united with Him in the fellowship of faith; I have pu...
1 Peter 3:18 ; Hebrews 10:19-22 ; James 4:8 ; Lamentations 3:25 ; Lamentations 3:26 ; Luke 15:17-20 ; Psalms 107:22 ; Psalms 116:7 ; Psalms...
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.