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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Psalms
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 746,590 words · 1615 reading sections
Psalms 79:10
Psalms 79:10 Ver. 10. Wherefore should the Heathen say, where is their God?.... They boast of, and put their confidence in, and expect salvation from? he does not appear for them, he is not with them; he has forsaken them, and will not help them; than which nothing can be more afflicting and distressing to the Lord's …
239 wordsSECTION 842Psalms 79:11
Psalms 79:11 Ver. 11. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee,.... Such as were so in a literal or spiritual sense; and the sighs and groans of such are not hid from the Lord; they come up into his ears as did the sighing and groaning of the children of Israel when in Egypt, Ex 2:23, according to the greatne…
223 wordsSECTION 843Psalms 79:12
Psalms 79:12 Ver. 12. And render unto our neighbours seven fold into their bosom, ec.] Not seven fold for one, as the Targum paraphrases it, or a seven fold punishment for one sin; but that he would recompense their sins, or punish for them, and take vengeance on them, largely, abundantly, though not beyond measure, o…
130 wordsSECTION 844Psalms 79:13
Psalms 79:13 Ver. 13. So we thy people, and sheep of thy pasture,.... Who were the people of God, not by creation and providence only, as all men are, being his creatures, and provided for by him; but by special choice, and by covenant grace: and "the sheep of his pasture"; whom he feeds as a shepherd does his flock, …
191 wordsSECTION 845Psalms 80:1
Psalms 80:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 80 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Of the word "shoshannim", See Gill on "Ps 45:1", and of "shushaneduth", See Gill on "Ps 60:1" which seems to be the same with this here, and is thought by some to be the name of a musical instrument now unknown, as Kimc…
1,311 wordsSECTION 846Psalms 80:2
Psalms 80:2 Ver. 2. Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up thy strength,.... Which Christ did in the public ministry of the word, speaking as one having authority, and not as the Scribes and Pharisees; and in the performance of miracles, openly, and in the sight of all; and in his sufferings and death for the…
250 wordsSECTION 847Psalms 80:3
Psalms 80:3 Ver. 3. Turn us again, O God,.... From our captivity, as the Targum, into our own land; or return us backsliding sinners to thyself by repentance; turn us, and we shall be turned; for the prayer shows it was not in their power, but must be effected by the grace of God; or restore our souls, which have been…
144 wordsSECTION 848Psalms 80:4
Psalms 80:4 Ver. 4. O Lord God of hosts,.... Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe, that the word "Elohe" is here understood, and the words to be read, "O Lord God, the God of hosts"; of the armies above and below, against whom there is no standing, nor any before him when he is angry: how long wilt thou be angry against the …
250 wordsSECTION 849Psalms 80:5
Psalms 80:5 Ver. 5. Thou feedest them with the bread of tears,.... With tears instead of bread, having none to eat; or their bread is mingled with their tears, "dipped" therein, as the Targum; such was their constant grief, and the occasion of it, that they could not cease from tears while they were eating their meals…
239 wordsSECTION 850Psalms 80:6
Psalms 80:6 Ver. 6. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours,.... Either obliges us to contend with them for our defence and safety; or having given us into their hands, they strive and contend one with another about dividing the spoil: and our enemies laugh among themselves; at us, and because there is no help fo…
75 wordsSECTION 851Psalms 80:7
Psalms 80:7 Ver. 7. Turn us again, O God of hosts,.... The same with Ps 80:3, only instead of God there, here it is "the God of hosts"; the repetition of these words shows what was uppermost on the minds of God's people; what they were longing for, and most desirous of, namely, the light of God's countenance.…
60 wordsSECTION 852Psalms 80:8
Psalms 80:8 Ver. 8. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt,.... The house of Israel, who are like unto a vine, as the Targum paraphrases it; and to a vine or vineyard are they often compared; see Isa 5:1 Jer 2:21. These were in Egypt awhile, where they were grievously oppressed and trampled upon; and yet the more they …
515 wordsSECTION 853Psalms 80:9
Psalms 80:9 Ver. 9. Thou preparedst room before it,.... By sending the hornet before the Israelites, and driving the Canaanites out of the land, Ex 23:28 and so the Targum, "thou didst remove from before thee the Canaanites;'' which made way and room for them: and thus the Lord prepared room for his interest, church…
203 wordsSECTION 854Psalms 80:10
Psalms 80:10 Ver. 10. The hills were covered with the shadow of it,.... Alluding to the land of Canaan, which was a mountainous and hilly country, at least some part of it; hence we read of the hill country of Judea, Lu 1:39 and to the nature of vines, which delight to grow on hills and mountains {p}: in a figurative …
288 wordsSECTION 855Psalms 80:11
Psalms 80:11 Ver. 11. She sent out her boughs unto the sea,.... The Mediterranean, or midland sea, which was the border of the land of Canaan to the west: and her branches unto the river; the river Euphrates, which was its border to the east; see De 11:24. This, in the spiritual sense of it, will have its accomplishm…
109 wordsSECTION 856Psalms 80:12
Psalms 80:12 Ver. 12. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges,.... After having done all this for her; which signifies the Lord's removing his presence, power, and protection, from Israel; which were the hedge he set about them, and by which they were secured and defended from their enemies; but these being gone, th…
224 wordsSECTION 857Psalms 80:13
Psalms 80:13 Ver. 13. The boar out of the wood doth waste it,.... As Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, who carried the ten tribes captive; the title of this psalm in the Septuagint version is, a psalm for the Assyrian. Vitringa, on Isa 24:2 interprets this of Antiochus Epiphanes, to whose times he thinks the psalm refers;…
2,173 wordsSECTION 858Psalms 81:1
Psalms 81:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 81 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A [Psalm] of Asaph. Of "gittith", See Gill on "Ps 8:1". The Targum renders it, "upon the harp which came from Gath;'' and so Jarchi says it was a musical instrument that came from Gath. The Septuagint, and the versions which follow that, rende…
337 wordsSECTION 859Psalms 81:2
Psalms 81:2 Ver. 2. Take a psalm,.... Or "lift one up" {y}; hold up the book, and read and sing it; or rather, lift up the voice in singing a psalm: and bring hither the timbrel; or "give one" {z}, put the hand to one: the pleasant harp with the psaltery; make use of all these musical instruments in singing, and so …
115 wordsSECTION 860Psalms 81:3
Psalms 81:3 Ver. 3. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,.... Either in every new moon, or first day of the month, which was religiously observed by the Jews, 2Ki 4:23 or rather the new moon, or first day of the seventh month, the month Tisri, which day was a memorial of blowing of trumpets, Le 23:34, and so the Targum…
536 wordsSECTION 861Psalms 81:4
Psalms 81:4 Ver. 4. For this was a statute for Israel,.... It was not a piece of will worship, or device of the children of Israel, but was of divine institution; that the passover should be kept at the time it was; and that the trumpets should be blown on the new moon, or first of Tisri; and that the feast of taberna…
152 wordsSECTION 862Psalms 81:5
Psalms 81:5 Ver. 5. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony,.... That is, this law concerning the blowing of trumpets on the new moon, and the keeping the solemn feast at the full of the moon, was made to be observed by all Israel, who are meant by Joseph, for a testimony of God's good will to them, and of their du…
421 wordsSECTION 863Psalms 81:6
Psalms 81:6 Ver. 6. I removed his shoulder from the burden,.... These are the words of God, declaring how he had delivered the Israelites from the oppression and cruelty of the Egyptians; who made their lives bitter in hard bondage, and obliged them to carry heavy loads of bricks upon their shoulders: his hands were …
143 wordsSECTION 864Psalms 81:7
Psalms 81:7 Ver. 7. Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee,.... That is, when Israel were in trouble in Egypt, as the Targum adds, and they cried unto the Lord in their distress, he heard them, and answered them, and sent them a deliverer, and brought them out of all their troubles, Ex 3:7. I answered thee in…
202 wordsSECTION 865Psalms 81:8
Psalms 81:8 Ver. 8. Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee,.... Of himself, his being, and perfections; what he was unto them, had done for them, and would do for them, as in the following verses: or "testify in thee" {d}, bear witness to their spirits, that they were his people, and he was their God; this is…
327 wordsSECTION 866Psalms 81:9
Psalms 81:9 Ver. 9. There shall no strange god be in thee,.... Or in the midst of thee, owned and worshipped as God; or in thine heart, for whatever engrosses the affection, or a man puts his trust and confidence in, that he makes his god, and is a strange one: thus, if any friend or relation, father or mother, wife o…
143 wordsSECTION 867Eze 14:7
Eze 14:7 neither shall thou worship any strange god; only the Lord God is to be worshipped, Mt 28:19 and there is but one God; though this is to be understood not to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit, who are with the Father the one God, and to be worshipped equally with him, and are; see Mt 28:19.…
63 wordsSECTION 868Psalms 81:10
Psalms 81:10 Ver. 10. I am the Lord thy God,.... The true Jehovah, the Being of beings, in whom all live and move and have their beings, the covenant God of his people; and is a reason why they should hear him, and worship him, and no other: which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; this, with what goes before, is…
441 wordsSECTION 869Psalms 81:11
Psalms 81:11 Ver. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice,.... Neither as exhorting them to the above duties, nor as promising the above favours; would neither hearken to the voice of the law, nor to the voice of the Gospel; but were like the deaf adder, which stops its ear to the voice of the charmer, charmin…
156 wordsSECTION 870Psalms 81:12
Psalms 81:12 Ver. 12. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust,.... Sometimes God gave them up, when they sinned, into the hands of the Moabites, or Ammonites, or Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for their chastisement; but to be delivered up unto their own hearts' lust is worse than that; nay, than to…
191 wordsSECTION 871Psalms 81:13
Psalms 81:13 Ver. 13. O that my people had hearkened unto me,.... This might have been expected from them, as they were his professing people; and it would have been to their advantage if they had hearkened to him, as well as it would have been well pleasing to him; for that is what is designed by this wish, which doe…
1,339 wordsSECTION 872Psalms 82:1
Psalms 82:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 82 A Psalm of Asaph. This psalm was written for the use of persons in power, for the instruction of kings and princes, judges and civil magistrates; according to Kimchi, it was written about the times of Jehoshaphat, who appointed new judges throughout the land; those that were befor…
686 wordsSECTION 873Psalms 82:2
Psalms 82:2 Ver. 2. How long will ye judge unjustly,.... These are the words not of the psalmist, but of the divine Person that stands in the congregation of the mighty, and judges among the gods; calling the unjust judges to an account, and reproving them for their unrighteous proceedings and perversion of justice, i…
271 wordsSECTION 874Psalms 82:3
Psalms 82:3 Ver. 3. Defend the poor and fatherless,.... Or, judge {d} them; such as have no money to enter and carry on a suit, and have no friends to assist and advise them, and abide by them; these should be taken under the care and wing of judges; their cause should be attended to, and justice done them; their pers…
205 wordsSECTION 875Psalms 82:4
Psalms 82:4 Ver. 4. Deliver the poor and needy,.... From his adversary and oppressor, who is mightier than he, and draws him to the judgment seat; when it is not in his power to defend himself against him, and get out of his hands, unless a righteous judge will show a regard to him and his cause; and sometimes even an…
102 wordsSECTION 876Psalms 82:5
Psalms 82:5 Ver. 5. They knew not,.... The Targum adds, to do well. This is to be understood of unjust judges and wicked magistrates, who know not God, and have not the fear of him before their eyes, though he stands in the midst of them, and judges among them; which is the source of their unjust judging and unrighteo…
538 wordsSECTION 877Psalms 82:6
Psalms 82:6 Ver. 6. I have said, ye are gods,.... In the law, Ex 21:6 or they were so by his appointment and commission; he constituted them judges and magistrates, invested them with such an office, by which they came to have this title; see Ro 13:1, and so our Lord interprets these words, that they were gods "to who…
229 wordsSECTION 878Psalms 82:7
Psalms 82:7 Ver. 7. But ye shall die like men,.... As men in common do, to whom it is appointed to die, Heb 9:27 or as common men, as men in the lowest class of life: the wise man dies as the fool, the king as the peasant, high as the low, rich as the poor; death levels and makes all alike: or as Adam, as the first ma…
339 wordsSECTION 879Psalms 82:8
Psalms 82:8 Ver. 8. Arise, O God,.... These are the words of the prophet, or of the church, whom he represents, addressing Christ, who is God over all; that seeing there was such a corruption and degeneracy in the world, and such wretched perversion of justice, that he would arise and exert himself, and show himself s…
166 wordsSECTION 880Psalms 83:1
Psalms 83:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 83 A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. This is the last of the psalms that bear the name of Asaph, and some think it was written by him on occasion of David's smiting the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians, Edomites, and others, 2Sa 8:1, but these did not conjunctly, but separately, fight with D…
369 wordsSECTION 881Psalms 83:2
Psalms 83:2 Ver. 2. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult,.... Or "a noise" {d}: wicked men are commonly noisy, roaring out their blasphemies against God, belching out oaths and curses, and breathing threatenings and slaughter against the saints; especially a numerous army of them, consisting of many people and nations…
233 wordsSECTION 882Psalms 83:3
Psalms 83:3 Ver. 3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,.... The people of Israel, hereafter named, whom God had chosen and avouched to be his people; these they dealt subtlety with, as the king of Egypt had done with their forefathers; and this, agreeably to their character, being the seed of the old se…
223 wordsSECTION 883Psalms 83:4
Psalms 83:4 Ver. 4. They have said,.... Secretly in their hearts, or openly to one another, and gave it out in the most public manner, as what they had consulted and determined upon; see Ps 74:8, come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; they were not content to invade their country, take their cities, plund…
246 wordsSECTION 884Psalms 83:5
Psalms 83:5 Ver. 5. For they have consulted together with one consent,.... Or "heart" {e}; wicked men are cordial to one another, and united in their counsels against the people of God, and his interest: whatever things they may disagree in, they agree in this, to oppose the cause and interest of true religion, or to …
198 wordsSECTION 885Psalms 83:6
Psalms 83:6 Ver. 6. The tabernacles of Edom, &c] Or the Idumeans, as the Targum; the posterity of Esau, who, with the rest that joined with them, hereafter mentioned, and made the confederate army, brought their tents with them, pitched them, and encamped in them against Israel: and the Ishmaelites; or Arabians, as t…
166 wordsSECTION 886Psalms 83:7
Psalms 83:7 Ver. 7. Gebal,.... Gubleans, or Gebalites, as the Targum; the same with Giblites, Jos 23:5, or men of Gebal, Eze 27:9 the same with Byblus: these dwelt in Phoenicia, near Tyre, where Pliny {g} makes mention of a place called Gabale: the Syriac version joins it with Ammon, and renders it "the border of Ammo…
90 wordsSECTION 887Psalms 83:8
Psalms 83:8 Ver. 8. Assur also is joined with them,.... Before mentioned, or Assyria, though at so great a distance from Israel, and unprovoked by them: according to R. Joseph Kimchi, the sense is, that the Assyrians joined them, continuing in their wickedness, though their army had been destroyed by an angel in Hezek…
345 wordsSECTION 888Psalms 83:9
Psalms 83:9 Ver. 9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites,.... In the times of Gideon, who destroyed one another, trod in whose destruction the hand of the Lord was very visible, Jud 7:20, and much in the same manner was the confederate army of the Moabites, Ammonites, and others, destroyed in the times of Jehoshaphat, …
134 wordsSECTION 889Psalms 83:10
Psalms 83:10 Ver. 10. Which perished at Endor,.... Aben Ezra and Kimchi understand this of the Midianites; but rather it is to be understood of Jabin and Sisera, and the army under them, who perished at this place, which is mentioned along with Taanach and Megiddo, Jos 17:11, which are the very places where the battle…
164 wordsSECTION 890Psalms 83:11
Psalms 83:11 Ver. 11. Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb,.... Two princes of Midian, who were slain, the one at the rock Oreb, and the other at the winepress of Zeeb, so called after their names, Jud 7:25, yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna; kings of Midian, slain by Gideon, Jud 8:21.…
60 wordsSECTION 891Psalms 83:12
Psalms 83:12 Ver. 12. Who said,.... Not the kings and princes of Midian just mentioned, but the confederate enemies of Israel, named Ps 83:6, to whom the like things are wished as to the Midianites and others, because they said what follows: let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession; not only the templ…
163 wordsSECTION 892Psalms 83:13
Psalms 83:13 Ver. 13. O my God, make them like a wheel,.... Which, as the Targum adds, is rolled, and goes on, and rests not in a declivity; let them be as fickle and inconstant as a wheel; being in high, let them be in slippery places, and brought down to desolation in a moment; like a wheel set running down hill, so…
251 wordsSECTION 893Psalms 83:14
Psalms 83:14 Ver. 14. As the fire burneth the wood,.... Or "forest" {m}; which is sometimes done purposely, and sometimes through carelessness, as Virgil {n} observes; and which is done very easily and swiftly, when fire is set to it; even all the trees of it, great and small, to which an army is sometimes compared, I…
781 wordsSECTION 894Psalms 84:1
Psalms 84:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 84 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Of "gittith", See Gill on "Ps 8:1". The Targum renders it here, as there, "to praise upon the harp that was brought from Gath;'' and of the sons of Korah, See Gill on "Ps 42:1" and the argument of this psalm is t…
942 wordsSECTION 895Psalms 84:2
Psalms 84:2 Ver. 2. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord,.... The courts of the tabernacle now at Gibeon, though the ark was in Zion, 2Ch 1:3 as the court of the priests, and the court of the Israelites, in which latter the people in common stood: after these David longed; he longed to enter …
281 wordsSECTION 896Psalms 84:3
Psalms 84:3 Ver. 3. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house,.... One or other of the houses of men, where to build its nest; or its nest itself is called an house, as it seems to be explained in the next clause: the word here used signifies any bird; we translate it a "sparrow", and so Kimchi; the Targum renders it the "…
683 wordsSECTION 897Psalms 84:4
Psalms 84:4 Ver. 4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house,.... The house of God, in his tabernacles and courts; referring to the priests and Levites, who were frequently officiating there, in their turns, night and day; and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Gibeon, where the ark and tabernacle were, who had frequ…
202 wordsSECTION 898Psalms 84:5
Psalms 84:5 Ver. 5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, &e.] Or, "for thee", as some choose to render the words; who have bodily strength from the Lord, for his worship and service, to go up to his house, and serve him: this, with what follows in the two next verses, seem to refer to the males in Israel goin…
367 wordsSECTION 899Psalms 84:6
Psalms 84:6 Ver. 6. Who passing through the valley of Baca,.... Kimchi interprets it a valley of springs, or fountains, taking the word to be of the same signification as in Job 38:16, and mention being made of a well and pools in it, or of mulberry trees, which grow, as he says, in a place where there is no water, an…
827 wordsSECTION 900Psalms 84:7
Psalms 84:7 Ver. 7. They go from strength to strength,.... Whose strength is in the Lord, and in whose heart are his ways, and who pass through the valley of Baca, and find a well of supply, and pools of blessings there; they renew their spiritual strength; they grow stronger and stronger every step they take; the way…
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