PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Psalms
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 746,590 words · 1615 reading sections
Psalms 69:4
Psalms 69:4 Ver. 4. They that hate me without a cause,.... As the Jews did; see Joh 15:18; for he did no injury to the persons or properties of men; but went about continually doing good, both to their souls and bodies; so that he merited their highest esteem and love, and not their hatred; and yet they were his impla…
407 wordsSECTION 722Psalms 69:5
Psalms 69:5 Ver. 5. O God, thou knowest my foolishness,.... Not that there was real foolishness in him, who, as man, from his infancy was filled with wisdom, and increased in it; and, as Mediator, had the spirit of wisdom on him, and the treasures of wisdom in him; and, as a divine Person, he is the Wisdom of God, and…
360 wordsSECTION 723Psalms 69:6
Psalms 69:6 Ver. 6. Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake,.... Of their expectation of redemption and salvation by the Messiah, they have been waiting upon the Lord for; when they shall see him in suffering circumstances, and even dead and laid in the grave, without any hope of hi…
265 wordsSECTION 724Psalms 69:7
Psalms 69:7 Ver. 7. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach,.... Being reckoned a sinner, called a deceiver, said to be a Samaritan, and to have a devil; with many other reproaches, which he bore patiently for the sake of the word and worship of God, and for the sake of the glory of God, which he all along sought; …
115 wordsSECTION 725Psalms 69:8
Psalms 69:8 Ver. 8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren,.... Not only to the Jews in general, who were his own people and nation, to whom he came, and of whom he came; who received him not, hid as it were their faces from him, and rejected him as the Messiah; but also to such who were still nearer akin to him, acc…
196 wordsSECTION 726Psalms 69:9
Psalms 69:9 Ver. 9. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up,.... Of the house of the sanctuary, as the Targum; that is, the temple, which was Christ's Father's house, where he was worshipped and dwelt; and zeal for his Father, and his glory in it, and indignation against those that made it an house of merchandise…
458 wordsSECTION 727Psalms 69:10
Psalms 69:10 Ver. 10. When I wept,.... Because of the sins of his people imputed to him; the hardness and unbelief of the Jews that rejected him; their impiety and profaneness in polluting the temple with their merchandise: he wept at the grave of Lazarus, and over the city of Jerusalem, on account of the blindness of…
8,048 wordsSECTION 728Psalms 70:1
Psalms 70:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 70 To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring to remembrance. This psalm, according to Kimchi, was composed by David when he fled from Saul, or from Absalom; so Theodoret; but if at either of those times, it is most likely to be the latter, since the following psalm, it is c…
395 wordsSECTION 729Psalms 70:2
Psalms 70:2 Ver. 2. Let them be ashamed and confounded,.... In Ps 40:14 it is added, "together"; See Gill on "Ps 40:14"; that seek after my soul; or "life"; in Ps 40:14 it is added, "to destroy it"; for that was the end of their seeking after it; let them be turned backward, &c. See Gill on "Ps 40:14".…
64 wordsSECTION 730Psalms 70:3
Psalms 70:3 Ver. 3. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame,.... In Ps 40:15 it is, "let them be desolate"; which seems to respect their land and houses, here their persons; See Gill on "Ps 40:15"; that say; in Ps 40:15 it is added, "to me"; not to his people, but himself, aha, aha: rejoicing at his cala…
90 wordsSECTION 731Psalms 70:4
Psalms 70:4 Ver. 4. Let all those that seek thee,.... The Targum is, "that seek doctrine (or instruction) from thee.'' rejoice and be glad in thee; the Targum paraphrases it, "rejoice and be glad in thy word.'' and let such as love thy salvation say continually, let God be magnified; the Targum is, "let the glory…
82 wordsSECTION 732Psalms 70:5
Psalms 70:5 Ver. 5. But I [am] poor and needy,.... In Ps 40:17 it follows, yet "the Lord thinketh on me"; instead of which it is here, See Gill on "Ps 40:17"; make haste unto me, O God; which repeats for sense the same petition as in Ps 71:1; thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying; in Ps 40:17…
81 wordsSECTION 733Psalms 71:1
Psalms 71:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 71 This psalm is without a title, but is thought to be David's: the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, and all the Oriental ones, ascribe it to him; and both the subject and style show it to be his. According to the title of the Syriac version, it was composed by him when Saul ma…
255 wordsSECTION 734Psalms 71:2
Psalms 71:2 Ver. 2. Deliver me in thy righteousness,.... By it, or "for the sake of [it]" {q}; See Gill on "Ps 31:1"; and cause me to escape; present danger, and out of the hands of enemies, as well as wrath to come, and eternal death; which nothing but the righteousness of God can deliver from, or cause to escape; …
100 wordsSECTION 735Psalms 71:3
Psalms 71:3 Ver. 3. Be thou my strong habitation,.... This is very appropiately said, when David was driven out of his dwelling place, and palace at Jerusalem, by his son, as Kimchi observes. When God's people have no certain dwelling place, which is sometimes their case, they always find one in the Lord; particularly…
415 wordsSECTION 736Psalms 71:4
Psalms 71:4 Ver. 4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,.... Meaning Absalom his son, as Arama, who had risen up in rebellion against him; and he may not only intend him, but all those wicked men that had joined with him: it was David's mercy he had a covenant God to go to, and could claim his interest…
154 wordsSECTION 737Psalms 71:5
Psalms 71:5 Ver. 5. For thou [art] my hope, O Lord God,.... The object, ground, and foundation of it, even of present deliverance, and of future and eternal salvation; [thou art] my trust from my youth; in whom he trusted in his youthful days, of which there is an eminent instance in 1Sa 17:33.…
56 wordsSECTION 738Psalms 71:6
Psalms 71:6 Ver. 6. By thee have I been holden up from the womb,.... Supported in being, upheld in life, and sustained with food and raiment, and followed with the mercies and blessings of life from thence to this present moment; which the psalmist takes notice of, as he does of what goes before and follows after, to …
234 wordsSECTION 739Psalms 71:7
Psalms 71:7 Ver. 7. I am as a wonder unto many,.... To the multitude, to the populace, or "to the great" {u} and mighty; and indeed to both: which respects not his wonderful preservation from the womb, he had before observed; nor his being in a wonderful manner raised to the throne of Israel; nor the wonderful things …
303 wordsSECTION 740Psalms 71:8
Psalms 71:8 Ver. 8. Let my mouth be filled [with] thy praise,.... Or "thy praise shall fill my mouth" {x}; which shows that his heart was affected with the goodness of God to him, and that he had a deep impression and sense of it upon him; for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks; and for the mouth to be…
177 wordsSECTION 741Psalms 71:9
Psalms 71:9 Ver. 9. Cast me not off in the time of old age,.... The Lord never casts off nor casts away his people, whom he foreknew; they are near unto him; they are on his heart, and are engraven on the palms of his hands; and they shall never be removed from his heart's love, nor out of his arms, nor out of his cov…
185 wordsSECTION 742Psalms 71:10
Psalms 71:10 Ver. 10. For mine enemies speak against, me,.... Or "say unto me" {y} what is expressed in the following verse, "God hath forsaken him"; and so these words are a reason of the above petitions: or "mine enemies speak to me"; or "of me" {z}; not good, but evil, and so the Targum paraphrases it, "for mine e…
224 wordsSECTION 743Psalms 71:11
Psalms 71:11 Ver. 11. Saying, God hath forsaken him,.... Good men may seem to others to be forsaken of God; and they themselves may sometimes think they are; and they may be forsaken for a small moment, when God withdraws his gracious presence, or does not afford immediate help; but never finally and totally. This Dav…
181 wordsSECTION 744Psalms 71:12
Psalms 71:12 Ver. 12. O God, be not far from me,.... God is everywhere, at hand and afar off, with regard to his being, power, and providence; his glorious presence is in heaven, his gracious presence is with his people; but, when he hides his face, he seems to be at a distance; and this they cannot bear, and therefor…
163 wordsSECTION 745Psalms 71:13
Psalms 71:13 Ver. 13. Let them be confounded,.... See Ps 70:2; [and] consumed; like smoke; see Ps 37:20; as antichrist will be with the breath of Christ's mouth, and the brightness of his coming, 2Th 2:8;that are adversaries to my soul; that hated him with a diabolical hatred, as the devil hates the souls of men, and…
2,996 wordsSECTION 746Psalms 72:1
Psalms 72:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 72 [A Psalm] for Solomon. The title of this psalm is by some rendered, "a psalm of Solomon" {h}; as a psalm dwdl, "for David", is often rendered "a psalm of David"; and so make Solomon to be the writer of it: to which the Targum inclines, which paraphrases it, "by the hand of Solomo…
1,344 wordsSECTION 747Psalms 72:2
Psalms 72:2 Ver. 2. He shall judge thy people with righteousness,.... Or, "so shall he judge"; or, "that he may judge" {n}, as the Syriac and Arabic versions; having the judgments and righteousness of God given him, he will be thereby qualified to judge the people of God; such as are so, not by creation, but by specia…
274 wordsSECTION 748Psalms 72:3
Psalms 72:3 Ver. 3. The mountains shall bring peace to the people,.... The people of God, as before. Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret this of the nations, and kings of the nations, comparable to mountains and hills, as in Mic 6:1; that should make peace with Israel in the days of Solomon, and in the days of the King Me…
222 wordsSECTION 749Psalms 72:4
Psalms 72:4 Ver. 4. He shall judge the poor of the people,.... Of the people of God, whether among Jews or Gentiles; See Gill on "Ps 72:2"; he shall save the children of the needy; whose parents being needy, they are so too, in a spiritual sense, and in distressed circumstances. Such Christ saves from their sins; fro…
270 wordsSECTION 750Psalms 72:5
Psalms 72:5 Ver. 5. They shall fear thee,.... The King Messiah, the Judge of the poor, and the destroyer of the oppressor: either the tyrants and oppressors themselves shall fear him, and such who have been aiding and assisting to them; see Re 11:11; or rather the people of God, the poor of the people, and children of…
190 wordsSECTION 751Psalms 72:6
Psalms 72:6 Ver. 6. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass,.... That is, the King and King's Son, the Messiah, whose coming is compared to rain, and showers of it; see Ho 6:3; and may be understood of his incarnation; when, like rain, he came down from heaven; not by an illapse or entrance of the human natur…
660 wordsSECTION 752Psalms 72:7
Psalms 72:7 Ver. 7. In his days shall the righteous flourish,.... As the grass of the field, Ps 72:16; the dews and rain of grace descending upon them; and as a branch, Pr 11:28. They being branches in Christ the vine, flourish and bring forth fruit; and as the palm tree, Ps 92:12; which the more it is pressed with we…
614 wordsSECTION 753Psalms 72:8
Psalms 72:8 Ver. 8. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,.... The same is said of the Messiah in Zec 9:10; where he is manifestly spoken of as here, and regards the extent of his dominion; not over the land of Israel only, as some think; but over the Gentile world, through the preaching of the Gospel in the sev…
360 wordsSECTION 754Psalms 72:9
Psalms 72:9 Ver. 9. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him,.... In token of subjection to him, reverence and worship of him, to whom every knee shall bow, Isa 45:23. The Septuagint version, and others, render the word Myyu, "Ethiopians", who dwell in a dry land, parched and burnt with the sun; and so i…
598 wordsSECTION 755Psalms 72:10
Psalms 72:10 Ver. 10. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents,.... Tarshish either signifies the sea, as it is sometimes rendered in the Targum; and then the sense is, the kings of the sea, that is, of the islands of the sea, as it follows, shall be subject to the kingdom of Christ; and, as a token…
4,490 wordsSECTION 756Psalms 73:1
Psalms 73:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 73 A Psalm of Asaph. It seems by the title that Asaph was the penman of this psalm, as it is certain that he was a composer of psalms and hymns; see 2Ch 29:30, though it may be rendered, "a psalm for Asaph", or "unto Asaph" {a}; and might have David for its author, as some think, who…
580 wordsSECTION 757Psalms 73:2
Psalms 73:2 Ver. 2. But as for me,.... Who am one of the Israel of God whose heart has been renewed and purified by the grace of God, and to whom he has been kind and good in a thousand instances; yet, ungrateful creature that I am, my feet were almost gone; out of the good ways of God, the ways of truth and holiness…
215 wordsSECTION 758Psalms 73:3
Psalms 73:3 Ver. 3. For I was envious at the foolish,.... The atheists, as in Ps 14:1, who deny the creation, as Arama; the wicked, as after explained, as all wicked men are, how wise soever they may be in things natural and civil, yet in religious things, in things of a spiritual nature, they have no understanding; t…
156 wordsSECTION 759Psalms 73:4
Psalms 73:4 Ver. 4. For there are no bands in their death,.... Nothing that binds and straitens them, afflicts and distresses them; they have no pain of mind nor of body, but die at once, suddenly, in a moment, wholly at ease and quiet, without any bitterness of soul; see Job 21:13, or "there are no bands until their …
244 wordsSECTION 760Psalms 73:5
Psalms 73:5 Ver. 5. They are not in trouble, as other men,.... Either of body or of mind, as the saints are, who through many tribulations enter the kingdom; or are not in "labour" {h}, do not labour for food and raiment, or get their bread by the sweat of their brow, as poor men do; nor are weary, so Arama: "neither …
104 wordsSECTION 761Psalms 73:6
Psalms 73:6 Ver. 6. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain, &.] Which was the sin of the devils, and of our first parents, and of Sodom, and is the sin of antichrist; and which, of all sins, is most hateful to God; this arises from, at least is increased by, outward prosperity. Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked;…
274 wordsSECTION 762Psalms 73:7
Psalms 73:7 Ver. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness,.... Or their face, the eyes being put for the whole face; so the Targum, "their face is changed, because of fatness;'' see Job 15:27, otherwise through fatness the eyes are almost enclosed: or "it goes forth out of the fatness of their eyes" {i}; that is, either …
270 wordsSECTION 763Psalms 73:8
Psalms 73:8 Ver. 8. They are corrupt,.... In themselves, in their principles, and in their practices, being shapen and conceived in sin, and born of the flesh; and are corrupters, or "corrupt" themselves, and their ways, and also others by their corrupt speech, evil communications, and bad examples: or "they consume a…
260 wordsSECTION 764Psalms 73:9
Psalms 73:9 Ver. 9. They set their mouth against the heavens,.... Against God in heaven, see Da 4:26, against his being, saying, there is no God; against his perfections, thinking him to be such an one as themselves; against his purposes and decrees, replying against him, and charging him with insincerity, cruelty, an…
249 wordsSECTION 765Psalms 73:10
Psalms 73:10 Ver. 10. Therefore his people return hither,.... Either the true people of God, and so the Targum, the people of the Lord, and whom the psalmist owned for his people; for the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, read "my people"; who seeing the prosperity of the wicked, and fe…
370 wordsSECTION 766Psalms 73:11
Psalms 73:11 Ver. 11. And they say, how doth God know?.... Owning there is a God, but questioning his knowledge; for the words are not an inquiry about the way and manner of his knowing things; which is not by the senses, as hearing and seeing; eyes and ears are improperly ascribed to him; nor in a discursive way, by …
272 wordsSECTION 767Psalms 73:12
Psalms 73:12 Ver. 12. Behold, these are the ungodly,.... Who say and do as before declared; such as these must be without the knowledge of God, the fear, love, and worship of him: who prosper in the world; in worldly and temporal things, in their bodies and outward estates, but not in their souls and spiritual things:…
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Psalms 73:13 Ver. 13. Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain,.... Which supposes that his heart had been unclean, as every man's is, and which appears by what is in it, and by what comes out of it; that it was now cleansed, not in an absolute and legal sense, as if it was wholly free from sin, for this no man can sa…
385 wordsSECTION 769Psalms 73:14
Psalms 73:14 Ver. 14. For all the day long have I been plagued,.... "Smitten or scourged" {p}, as in Ps 73:5, that is, afflicted of God; which is no ways inconsistent with his love, nor with his covenant, nor with an interest in him, as a covenant God and Father; see Ps 89:29,and chastened every morning; not in wrath,…
3,571 wordsSECTION 770Psalms 74:1
Psalms 74:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 74 Maschil of Asaph. Some think that Asaph, the penman of this psalm, was not the same that lived in the times of David, but some other of the same name, a descendant of his {k}, that lived after the Babylonish captivity, since the psalm treats of things that were done at the time th…
793 wordsSECTION 771Psalms 74:2
Psalms 74:2 Ver. 2. Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old,.... Alluding to the redemption of the congregation of Israel out of Egypt, when they were said to be "purchased", Ex 15:16 and as that people were typical of the people of God, they may be said to be "purchased then", even of old; though …
462 wordsSECTION 772Psalms 74:3
Psalms 74:3 Ver. 3. Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations,.... That is, arise, hasten, move swiftly, and in the greatness of strength, and come and see the desolations made by the enemy, which look as if they would remain for ever; meaning either the desolations made in the city and temple of Jerusalem, eith…
263 wordsSECTION 773Psalms 74:4
Psalms 74:4 Ver. 4. Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations,.... Particular churches, gathered out of the world in Gospel order, and which meet together at particular times and places; in the midst of these, and against them their enemies, and who are the Lord's enemies, roar like lions, as Satan, and blo…
176 wordsSECTION 774Psalms 74:5
Psalms 74:5 Ver. 5. A man was famous,.... Or, "it was", or "is known" {m}; the desolations the enemy made, the wickedness they committed, the terror they spread, and the signs they set in the sanctuary of the Lord: according as he had lifted up, or "as one that lifts up" axes upon the thick trees {n}; that is, the a…
292 wordsSECTION 775Psalms 74:6
Psalms 74:6 Ver. 6. But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. Formerly it was an honour to be employed in cutting down a tree for the building of the temple; but now so little regard was paid to it, that all its fine carved work, which Solomon made, 1Ki 6:18, was demolished at once…
110 wordsSECTION 776Psalms 74:7
Psalms 74:7 Ver. 7. They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,.... Or, "thy sanctuary into the fire" {o}; which denotes the utter destruction of it by fire, which was done both by the Chaldean and Roman armies; see 2Ki 25:9, they have defiled, by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground, or "to the eart…
176 wordsSECTION 777Psalms 74:8
Psalms 74:8 Ver. 8. They said in their hearts, let us destroy them together,.... The Targum is, "their children, are together;'' or "their kindred", as the Septuagint Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, taking the word to be of Nyn, which signifies a "son"; and the sense to be, that seeing they were all to…
295 wordsSECTION 778Psalms 74:9
Psalms 74:9 Ver. 9. We see not our signs,.... Either such miracles as were formerly wrought to support the faith of God's people in distress, and for their deliverance out of it, as when they were in Egypt, and brought forth from thence; see Ps 78:43 or rather their sabbaths and sacrifices, the passover and circumcisi…
515 wordsSECTION 779Psalms 74:10
Psalms 74:10 Ver. 10. O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?.... The name of God, as in the next clause, the divine Persons and perfections, the purposes and providence of God, his people, ways, worship, truths, and ordinances: shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? The "adversary" and "enemy" being in t…
602 wordsSECTION 780Psalms 74:11
Psalms 74:11 Ver. 11. Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even that right hand?.... By which is meant the power of God; by which he made the heavens and the earth, and all things therein, and supports them in their beings; by which the work of his grace is wrought in the hearts of his people, and they are upheld; and by wh…
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