Isaiah 29:7; Isaiah 29:8; Job 20:8; Psalms 39:6; Psalms 7:6; Psalms 78:65; Psalms 90:5
As a dream when one awaketh - Their prosperity is like the visions of a dream; the reality is seen when one awakes. A man in a dream may imagine...
As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when (k) thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. (k) When you open our eyes to consider your heav...
BOOK III. PSS. LXXIII.- LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality. Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believe...
LORD *. One of the 134 emendations of the Sopherim by which they changed Jehovah, of the primitive text, to Adonai. App-32. awakest . ariseth....
20. As it were a dream after a man is awakened. This similitude is often to be met with in the Sacred Writings. Thus, Isaiah, ( Isaiah 29:7...
As a dream when one awaketh; so , O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. As a dream when one awaketh - So their goods fled awa...
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. -The victory which he gained over his doubts in the sanctuary when he und...
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...
When thou awakest ] better, 'when Thou stirrest up Thyself.' Their image ] not themselves. The end of the wicked is nothingness. It is only a shado...
As a dream. — Better, “As a man on waking (despises) his dream, So, O Lord, on rousing thyself, thou wilt Despise their shadow.” an image of 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...
Reader! do mark what it was which the Lord blessed to the mind of his servant: namely, his visits to the sanctuary. It is in God's house that we are...
As a dream when one awaketh ,.... So will be all the temporal felicity of wicked men, all an illusion, all a dream; when they lift up their eyes in...
As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Ver. 20. As a dream when one awaketh ] Such is the...
They are brought to desolation as in a moment Their fall is wonderful, both for its greatness, and for its suddenness. They are utterly consumed w...
The End of the Wicked. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I shou...
Their happiness is like that in a dream, wherein a man seems to be highly pleased and transported with ravishing delights, but when he awakes he find...
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...
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...
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...
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...
«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...
As a dream when one awaketh. The sleep and dream of ungodly men I. The ungodly are asleep. Not physically but spiritually. II. In this sleep...
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
As a dream when one awaketh, from the moment when a person arouses himself from his sleep, so, O Lord, when Thou awakest, Thou shalt despise their i...
They awake — Out of the pleasant dream of this vain life. Despise — Thou shalt make them despicable both to themselves and to all others; raise the...
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.