Law] RM 'teaching.'
Give ear, O my people - This is not an address of God, but an address of the king or ruler of the people, calling their attention to an important...
" (a) Maschil of Asaph." Give ear, O my people, [to] my (b) law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. (a) Read ( Psalms 32:1 ). (b) The prop...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
Title. Mascbil . Instruction. The tenth of thirteen so named. See note on Title, Psalms 82 , and App-65. of Asaph . by, or for Asaph. Asaph was....
1. Give ear, O my people! to my law. From the close of the psalm, it may with probability be conjectured, that it was written long after the...
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Give ear, O my people - This is the exordium of thi...
An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. The history of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. The Israelites being...
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Psalms 78:1-72 .-God's address, through Asaph, to Israel to hea...
For the formal opening see Psalms 49:1 , Note. My people. — An expression pointing to a position of weight and authority. My law. — Here, rath...
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...
Learning from the Fathers Psalms 78:1-12 This psalm is said to have arisen, from a strong controversy between Judah and Ephraim as to the locat...
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...
CONTENTS This Psalm, as the title sets forth, is a Maschil, that is, a Psalm of instruction. It contains, in an historical method of relation, God's...
Give ear, O my people ,.... The Jews were Christ's people, he descending from their fathers according to the flesh; they were his own, to whom he ca...
Psalms 78:1 «Maschil of Asaph. » Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Maschil of Asaph ] Ode didasea...
Give ear, O my people In these words “the psalmist opens his commission, and speaks as one having authority from above to instruct the world. He de...
The Importance of Religious Instruction. Maschil of Asaph. 1 Give...
PSALM 78 THE ARGUMENT The scope of this Psalm is plainly expressed Psalms 78:6-8 , and is this, that the Israelites might learn to hope and trus...
INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the...
Maschil Maschil, instruction.
Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to...
Give ear, O My people, to My law; incline your ears to the words of My mouth. The obligation to obey God’s law I. It is the law of your nature....
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period...
Give ear, O my people, to my law, the religious teacher calling attention to his instruction which he is now about to begin; incline your ears to th...
A Review of Israel's History as a Source of Consolation. Maschil of Asaph, a didactic poem, intended to instruct the children of Israel in the won...
2 Chronicles 16:14 ; Isaiah 51:4 ; Isaiah 55:3 ; Judges 5:3 ; Matthew 13:9 ; Proverbs 8:4-6 ; Psalms 49:1-3 ; Psalms 51:4 ; Psalms 74:1
My law — The doctrine which I am about to deliver.
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.