78:38 But he, [being] full of compassion, {x} forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.(x) Because he would always have some remnant of a Church to praise his Name in earth, he did not permit their sins to overcome his mercy. read more
78:41 Yea, they {y} turned back and tempted God, and {z} limited the Holy One of Israel.(y) That is, they often tempted him.(z) As they all do who measure the power of God by their capacity. read more
78:42 They {a} remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.(a) The forgetfulness of God’s benefits is the root of rebellion and all vice. read more
78:45 He sent {b} divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.(b) This word signifies a confused mixture of flies and venomous worms. Some take it for all sorts of serpents: some for all wild beasts. read more
78:46 He {c} gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.(c) He does not repeat here all the miracles that God did in Egypt, but certain which might be sufficient to convince the people of malice and ingratitude. read more
78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending {d} evil angels [among them].(d) So called either for the effect, that is, of punishing the wicked: or else because they were wicked spirits, whom God permitted to vex men. read more
Psalms 67:0 The first half dozen of these psalms form a group millennial and Messianic. The first is millennial. It is Israel who speaks; the psalm cannot be appreciated unless the word “us” in Psalms 67:1 is so applied. When God has mercy upon and blesses Israel in the latter days, His way and His saving health unto all nations (Psalms 67:2 ) will begin to be known. In other words, the present age is one of out-gathering, but the age to come (millennial) will be one of in-gathering. God is now... read more
Day and Night Leading Psa 78:14 Did some man imagine this? I thank him. Life is the sweeter for having such men among us. What a man it was that thought of this condescension and love on the part of the miracle-working God described in this most musical psalm! It was worth being born to imagine this conception of God. It is so tender, so fatherlike, so comforting; it is charged to the full with inspiration of the best kind; it makes all things feel securer; it brings to the soul contributions... read more
Our Lord's discourse (John 6:31-33 ) throws a complete light upon this passage, considered with reference to the typical and sacramental design of it, and plainly shows thy it was the slight that the Israelites manifested by unbelief of God's method of salvation by Christ, in which the greatness of their sin consisted. read more
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Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 78:37
78:37 For their {u} heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.(u) Whatever does not come from the pure fountain of the heart is hypocrisy. read more