Psalms 73:9

2 Chronicles 32:15; Daniel 3:15; Daniel 7:25; Exodus 5:2; James 3:6; Job 21:14; Luke 18:4; Psalms 52:4; Revelation 13:6

Related Commentaries of Psalms 73:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They set their mouth against the heavens - Compare Revelation 13:6 . Literally, “They set their mouth in heaven,” or in the heavens. The idea is...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

They (d) set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. (d) They blaspheme God, and do not fear his power and rail...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the heavens . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for God, Who dwells there. tongue walketh. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. eart...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. They have set their mouth against the heavens. Here it is declared that they utter their contumelious speeches as well against God as aga...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Set their mouth against the heavens - They blaspheme God, ridic...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They set their mouth against the heavens— i.e. They blaspheme the God of heaven; and their tongue walketh, &c. i.e. is let loose to abuse and...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. They set their mouth against the heavens. With their bl...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Against] RV 'in,' a description of pride.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They set. — The last clause is repeated here under a figure more defined: “They have set their mouth in [not against] the heavens, While their...
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

They set their mouth against the heavens ,.... Against God in heaven, see Daniel 4:26 , against his being, saying, there is no God; against his per...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Ver. 9. They set their mouth against the heavens ] They ho...
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

Against the heavens, i.e. against God, blaspheming his name, denying or deriding his providence, reviling his saints and servants. Walketh through...
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 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

They set their mouth against the heavens, to blaspheme God, and their tongue walketh through the earth, with arrogant haughtiness, with meddlesome...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Against — Against God, blaspheming his name, and deriding his providence. Walketh — Using all manner of liberty, reproaching all sorts of persons.

⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 73:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 73:9