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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 73:1-28

The third book of Hebrew psalms begins here. It opens with a psalm of Asaph, the noble singer and musician of the temple. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 25:1. Eleven other psalms bear his name. Hezekiah commanded the levites to sing in the words of David, and of Asaph the seer, the ancient name of a prophet. 2 Chronicles 29:30. On this account his compositions are admitted, and deservedly so, into the sacred canon. The language here approximates to Psalms 4, 36, 37, 39, 49. The psalm under... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:1-28

Psalms 73:1-28Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.The trouble of AsaphIn human biographies men are wont to cover up their heroes’ imperfections. They see no reason why they should be recalled, but many why they should not. And in religious biographies what evident exaggeration there often is. But this can never be said of the lives of the men told of in the Bible. They are evidently men like ourselves. They have known our misery, passed through our struggles, and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:15-28

Psalms 73:15-28If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of Thy children.Searching and finding relief in the right direction. Searching for relief in the right direction (Psalms 73:16-17) He went where the mind of God was to be met with, where he obtained such ideas from the great Fountain of wisdom as calmed his agitation and solved his difficulties. Whenever God speaks to us, whether in providential events, or in the works of nature, or in sacred writings, or... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:25-26

Psalms 73:25-26Whom have I in heaven but Thee?end there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee. God the only portion“Whom have I in heaven but Thee?” Not “what.” Not in things, but in persons, the personal soul must find its portion. Not in many, but in One, to whom the soul can look, and to whom, as here, it can lift up its cry.I. God alone can meet our sinfulness. This is our first need, for we are sinners, and this fact affects everything else. There may be any amount of slumbering... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:26

Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.ImmortalityThe especial point of this whole psalm lies in the contrast between the present and the future, between the transitory and the eternal. His bodily frame, or “flesh,” the psalmist feels, is breaking up. For the moment it might seem that his “heart” was partaking in the depressing sense of coming dissolution. The “heart” with the Hebrews means, speaking generally, the centre or inner... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 73:26

Psa 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Ver. 26. My flesh faileth, and my heart faileth ] Some think that the psalmist, through egression of affection unto God, having spent and exhaled his spirits, fell into a swoon; out of which he recovered again by the joy of the Lord, which was his strength, even the rock of his heart. The Greek saith, The God of my heart. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 73:26

flesh: Psalms 63:1, Psalms 84:2, Psalms 119:81, Psalms 119:82, Job 13:15, 2 Corinthians 4:8-2 Samuel :, 2 Corinthians 4:16-Job :, Philippians 1:21, 2 Timothy 4:6-Ruth :, 2 Peter 1:14 but: Psalms 18:2, Psalms 27:14, Psalms 138:3, Isaiah 40:29-Obadiah :, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10 strength: Heb. rock portion: Psalms 16:5, Psalms 16:6, Psalms 119:57, Psalms 142:5, Lamentations 3:24, Revelation 21:3, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 21:7 Reciprocal: Numbers 18:20 - I am thy part 2... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:26

26. My flesh and my heart faileth “Flesh” and “heart” contrasted, as here, embrace the total makeup of man. In biblical psychology “heart” is used for the innermost, or central, life of man, and must comprehend here the united psychical and spirit life, as “flesh” does the physical and organic. Faileth The word is used variously for to come to an end, to faint, to pine, to languish. The failing of the “flesh” would be the going out of animal life, and the failing of the “heart”... read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 73:1-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:1-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:15-28

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:25-26

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 73:26

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 73:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 73:26

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:26

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