Psalms 73:6

chain. necklace.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain - Therefore they are proud, haughty, imperious. They put on the ornaments and trappings of pride...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(c) Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment. (c) They glory in their pride as some do in their chain...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believe...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. Therefore pride compasseth them as a chain. This complaint proceeds farther than the preceding; for we are here told that although God se...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. Pride compasseth them about as a chain - Perhaps there is an...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Therefore pride compasseth them, &c.— That is, They are holden, as the other translation has it, or they are wholly possessed with pride: i...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain - as...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Therefore. — Better, “Therefore pride is their necklace, And violence their mantle.” The first metaphor might have been suggested either by the f...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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-...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 sub...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 precio...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ,.] Which was the sin of the devils, and of our first parents, and of Sodom, and is the sin of anti...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment. Ver. 6. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They are not in trouble as other men They escape even common calamities. Therefore pride compasseth them about Discovers itself on every side, in...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. A psalm of Asaph....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Pride compasseth them about as a chain: this phrase notes both the extent of their pride, which appears on every side of them, in their countenance...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“A Psalm of Asaph,” or, as in the margin, “ for Asaph .” See introduction to Psalms 50 . Subject .—The mental diff...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Here you have the psalmist in a fainting fit. He has allowed the flesh to conquer the spirit. The observant eye of reason has for awhile rendered dim...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The psalmist here works out the problem of the prosperity of the wicked. He was troubled in his own mind about it; he knew that he feared God, but he...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

«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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men. The mercy of a changeful life In the first verse a fact is state...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS is the first of the "Psalms of Asaph," whereof the present book contains eleven. They are characterized by a preponderating us...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 Chron...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Therefore, because of their apparent immunity against life's usual troubles, pride compasseth them about as a chain, they lift up their necks proud...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:5 ; Daniel 4:30 ; Deuteronomy 32:15 ; Deuteronomy 8:13 ; Deuteronomy 8:14 ; Ecclesiastes 8:11 ; Esther 3:1 ; Esther 3:5 ; Esther 3...

⁶ Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 73:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:6