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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 73
God is good to Israel—The wicked and ungodly prosper in this
world—They shall be consumed with terrors hereafter—Those who
turst in the Lord shall be received up unto glory.
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A Psalm of Asaph.
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1 TRULY God is
good to Israel, even to such as are of a aclean
heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
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3 For I was aenvious at the
foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
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6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a
achain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with
afatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly
concerning oppression: they speak aloftily.
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9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God
aknow? and is there knowledge in the most High?
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12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who
aprosper in the bworld; they increase
in riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in
vain, and awashed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the
asanctuary of God; then understood I their
bend.
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18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh;
so, O Lord, when thou aawakest, thou shalt
bdespise their image.
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21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was
apricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant:
I was as a abeast before
theea.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with
thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
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22a I was as a beast before
thee This 'beast' is that of the natural man of the flesh of this
mortality whose flesh lust after the desires of the flesh and of the world.
So was David or any who have so sinned been but 'beasts' of the natural man
and not of the spirit which is in man after the nature of God. David so states
that his flesh and heart did fail in that he had so sinned after the
wretchedness of the beast of the natural man. Still the strength of the spirit
within, that portion of the heart after the nature of God did in David still
seek after God of Heaven and he did seek to turn unto to him for there is no
other to whom we may seek that we may be redeemed, only in the Lord is
redemption and salvation to be found.
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24 Thou shalt aguide me with
thy bcounsel, and afterward receive me to
cglory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
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26 My aflesh and my heart
bfaileth: but God is the
cstrength of my heart, and my dportion
for ever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
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