The world is full of dark sayings; it is hieroglyphic all, you feel the incongruity and the contradiction, but you have never felt it so clearly as the Bible has stated it, and especially the psalmists; they perpetually — Asaph, David and others — saw and uttered their sense of the ...
For, look, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.Webster's Bible TranslationFor lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go astray from thee.World English BibleFor, behold, those who are ...
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? &c.] These are the words of the psalmist, representing the church of God, under sore persecutions from the antichristian party; called "evildoers", because of their thefts, murders, idolatries, sorceries, and all manner of wickedness committ...
In Psalm 88:4, the expression is parallel to “My life draweth nigh unto the grave;” pit (bôr) is either the sepulchre (as Isaiah 14:19), or the world of the dead (Psalm 88:4). The two significations pass one into the other. This expression suggests that the psalmist was on ...
25-29 draw attention to God’s characteristic actions. Based on his experience, the psalmist generalizes about God’s just dealings with people (vv. 25-27) and about the way in which God typically empowers him on the battlefield (vv. 28-29). The Hitpael stem is used in vv. 26-27 ...
truths, or delighting in his service; they form a Divinely appointed standard of experience, by which we may judge ourselves. Their value, in this view, is very great, and the use of them will increase with the growth of the power of true religion in the heart. By the psalmist's expr...
The metaphor comes from metallurgy; “slag” is the substance left over after the metallic ore has been refined. Psalm 119:119 sn As he explains in the next verse, the psalmist’s fear of judgment motivates him to obey God’s rules. Psalm 119:120 tn Heb“my flesh.” Psalm 119:120 ...
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible The Lord, that made heaven and earth, bless thee out of Zion. These are not the words of the priests blessing the people in this form, as some; but rather, as others, the wish of the servants of the Lord, that he would bless him that exhorted...
are port cities located in modern Lebanon on the Mediterranean coast. Scholars believe that Sidon has existed prior to 2000 BC, with Tyre being just a little younger. The Tanakh mentions Israel’s dealings with these cities, including the Israelites’ failure to conquer Sidon in the conquest of...
Daniel: The Prophet Who Was Not a Prophet In Christian Bibles, Daniel is honoured as the fourth of the so-called “greater” prophets (rather than placed among the “minor” prophets). The original Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is comprised of the Torah (first five books of Moses), Nevi’im (...