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William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 32:1-11

Psalms 32:1-11ONE must have a dull ear not to hear the voice of personal experience in this psalm. It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from a heart tasting the sweetness of the new joy of forgiveness. It is hard to believe that the speaker is but a personification of the nation, and the difficulty is recognised by Cheese’s concession that we have here "principally, though not exclusively, a national psalm." The old opinion that it records David’s experience in the dark time when,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 32:1-11

Psalms 32:0 Fullest Blessing 1. The blessedness of righteousness imputed (Psalms 32:1-5 ) 2. The blessedness of hiding-place (Psalms 32:6-7 ) 3. The blessedness of guidance and preservation (Psalms 32:8-11 ) Psalms 32:1-5 . This is the first of the 13 Maschil Psalms, the Psalms of special instruction. They tell us of the understanding which the godly in Israel will have in spiritual things (Daniel 12:10 ). All these Maschil Psalms have reference to the last days. The foundation of this... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 32:9

32:9 Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose {i} mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.(i) If men can rule brute beasts, do they think that God will not bridle and tame their rage? read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 32:1-11

Psalms 25:0 In the Hebrew this prayer is arranged as an acrostic, i.e., the first word of each verse begins with a letter in alphabetical order from A-to-Z. Hereafter we shall not give as much attention to every psalm as we have thus far, but trust the reader to do the analyzing after the examples given. The purpose of this book is not so much textual explanation as a stimulus to Bible study in a broader sense, and it is assumed that the reader has been studying the Bible side by side with the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 32:8-11

All these expressions, if accepted in reference to what went before, are to the same effect, and directed to the same purpose. God will guide his people with his counsel, and compass them about with mercy. So that there is always cause for the children of God to triumph; while sinners, unreclaimed, and who refuse divine teachings, will find cause for continual sorrow. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 32:9

Created. Hebrew, "on foot," to express God's absolute dominion. (Calmet) --- This passage shews that bra means properly created out of nothing, Genesis i. Matter did not exist before God spoke. (Berthier) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 32:8-11

8-11 God teaches by his word, and guides with the secret intimations of his will. David gives a word of caution to sinners. The reason for this caution is, that the way of sin will certainly end in sorrow. Here is a word of comfort to saints. They may see that a life of communion with God is far the most pleasant and comfortable. Let us rejoice, O Lord Jesus, in thee, and in thy salvation; so shall we rejoice indeed read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 32:1-11

Of the Justification of a Poor Sinner. A psalm of David, Maschil, a contemplation, written probably after David had been restored to the grace of God, a little more than a year after his great sin with Bathsheba, 2 Samuel 11:21. The psalm pictures sin in the fullness of its terror and shows that no man may be just before God in his own person, being dependent entirely upon the grace and mercy of God in Christ Jesus. v. 1. Blessed is he, literally, "O the blessings of him," those which he... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 32:1-11

Psalms 32:0A Psalm of David, Maschil1          Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.2     Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity,And in whose spirit there is no guile.3     When I kept silence, my bones waxed oldThrough my roaring all the day long.4     For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:My moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.5     I acknowledged my sin unto thee,And mine iniquity have I not hid.I said, I will... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 32:1-11

the Song of the Forgiven Psalms 32:1-11 David wrote this psalm, Romans 4:6-8 . Maschil means “to give instruction.” We are deeply instructed as to the working of conscience. Compare with Psalms 51:1-19 . This was one of Luther’s favorites. For some time after his sin, David withheld confession and suffered terribly. But when the wound was opened and the poison pressed from it, he burst out in the words with which the psalm opens: Oh, the blessedness! Sin means missing the mark; iniquity... read more

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