Psalm 73:16-20 NASB,NASB

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Psalms 73:20

Psalms THE TWO AWAKINGS Psa_17:15 . - Psa_73:20 . Both of these Psalms are occupied with that standing puzzle to Old Testament worthies-the good fortune of bad men, and the bad fortune of good ones. The former recounts the personal calamities of David, its author. The latter gives us the picture of the perplexity of Asaph its writer, when he ‘saw the prosperity of the wicked.’ And as the problem in both is substantially the same, the solution also is the same. David and Asaph both point... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 73:16-28

The true place in which to form a right estimate of life is where Asaph found it-in the sanctuary of God; because from its elevation and the purity of its atmosphere, one can take into view the unseen as well as the seen, the eternal as well as the transient. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we may dwell upon our losses with disappointment and regret, 1 Corinthians 15:19 . But if the future is taken into consideration, what Lazarus would exchange his lot with Dives? Luke 16:19-31 .... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 73:1-28

The marginal reading, "Only good is God to Israel," indicates the real value of the song. Israel has no other good, and needs no other. Yet it is not always easy to realize this, and the psalmist tells how he nearly stumbled in view of the prosperity of the wicked, and how he was restored. The first half describes the perplexing vision of the prosperity of the wicked. The whole psalm was written in the light of the conviction expressed in the last half, but it describes first the things which... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 73:15-16

THE RECTIFYING INFLUENCE OF THE SANCTUARY‘Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God: then understood I the end of these men.’Psalms 73:15-Nehemiah : (Prayer Book Version)The difficulty of the writer of the psalm is a very old difficulty, and yet it seems to us to be perpetually new. The inequality of things. Up starts the question before us, the problem of suffering, the mystery of evil, the strange impossibility of reconciling the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:1-28

BOOK III.— PSS. LXXIII.– LXXXIX. LXXIII. The Hope of Immortality.— Here the Psalter reaches its highest elevation. Job, in Job 19:25 f.*, believes that God will vindicate his innocence even after death, and is confident that he himself, in spite of death, will see God. Job, however, expresses no belief that he will live for ever. He is to see God for a moment; he does not expect that he will abide with God continually. This is just what the Psalmist does expect. This belief flows from the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:16

To know this; to find out the reason of this mysterious course of thy providence. It was too painful for me; I was gravelled with the difficulty. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:17

Till I consulted with the oracle, or word of God. He alludes to the practice of those times, which was, in dark and difficult cases, to resort to God’s sanctuary, and the oracle in it, for satisfaction. Then understood I their end; there I learned that their posterity was short, and would quickly have an end, and that a most dismal and terrible one; that their fair morn would be followed with a black and dreadful evening, and an everlasting night. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:18

Their happiness hath no firm foundation; it was very unstable, like a man’s standing in very slippery ground. The same hand which raised them will cast them down into the pit of utter destruction. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:19

Their fall is wonderful, both for its soreness and for its suddenness. Consumed with terrors; either, with the horrors of their own minds; or rather, with God’s dreadful judgments unexpectedly seizing upon them. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:20

Their happiness is like that in a dream, wherein a man seems to be highly pleased and transported with ravishing delights, but when he awakes he finds himself deceived and unsatisfied. Awakest, i.e. stirrest up thyself to punish them. Or rather, when they shall awake out of the pleasant dream of this vain, sinful life by death, and the torments following it. For this seems to agree best with the metaphor here before mentioned. And the Hebrew words being only these, in awaking, may be applied... read more

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Psalms 73:20

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 73:16-28

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 73:1-28

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 73:15-16

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:1-28

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:16

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:17

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:18

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:19

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 73:20

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