Luke 16:19-23; Numbers 11:33; Numbers 11:34; Numbers 22:20-22; Proverbs 1:32
They were not estranged from their lust - literally, “They were not made strangers to;” that is, in regard to their lusts or desires they were no...
They were not estranged from their (q) lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths, (q) Such is the nature of concupiscence, that the more...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
not estranged . not turned away from. their lust. What they had longed for.
The Psalmist expresses this still more clearly, by adding immediately after, (verses 30, 31,) that this pampering proved fatal to them, as if w...
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
They were not estranged from their host— But before they were averse to what they had desired, and while their meat was still in their mouths, the...
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32 . It traces the course of God's relations with His people fro...
Evidently from Numbers 11:33 , They did not yet loath in consequence of their lusts, the meat was yet in their mouths when, &c. For the expres...
Psalms 78:1-72 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1-45 ; Psalms 106:1-48 ; Psalms 107:1-43 . Like them, it treats the history of Israe...
Blessed Yet Ungrateful Psalms 78:25-37 God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His children; but too often we become so eng...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is...
What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in numberless ins...
They were not estranged from their lust ,.... By the goodness and liberality of God unto them, they were not brought to repentance for their sin of...
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths, Ver. 30. They were not estranged from their lust ] Satiat...
They were not estranged from their lust , &c. Green translates the verse, But before they were averse to what they had desired, and while their...
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; Judgments Brought on the Israelites....
The sense is either, 1. Whilst their greedy appetite yet continued, and was not fully satisfied, before, they began to loathe it, as they did after...
INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the...
This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflec...
The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards their gracious God. Psalms 78:10-16 . They kept not the covenant of God, and re...
Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to...
They were not estranged from their lust. Dissatisfaction with plenty God gave them plenty, and they ate “and were filled.” He gave them what th...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period...
The Narrative of God's Deeds
They were not estranged from their lust, they were still indulging their desire to the full; but while their meat was yet in their mouths,
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,