Introduction
The psalmist speaks of God's goodness to his people, Psalm 73:1 ; shows how much he was stumbled at the prosperity of the wicked, and describes their state, Psalm 73:2-12 ; details the process of the temptation, and the pain he suffered in consequence, Psalm 73:13-16 ; shows how he was delivered, and the dismal reverse of the state of the once prosperous ungodly man, by which his own false views were corrected, Psalm 73:17-22 ; his great confidence in God, and the good consequences of it, Psalm 73:23-28 .
This is the commencement of the Third Book of the Psalter; and the Psalm before us has for title, A Psalm of Asaph; or, as the margin has it, A Psalm for Asaph. The title in the Hebrew is לאסף מזמור mizmor leasaph ; "A Psalm of Asaph:" and it is likely that this Asaph was the composer of it; that he lived under the Babylonish captivity; and that he published this Psalm to console the Israelites under bondage, who were greatly tried to find themselves in such outward distress and misery, while a people much more wicked and corrupt than they, were in great prosperity, and held them in bondage.
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