Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:15
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.Offend — By grieving, discouraging and tempting them to revolt from God. read more
Psalm 73:13-28 Niv
John Wesley
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:16
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;To know — To find out the reason of this providence. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:17
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.Until — 'Till I consulted the word of God. He alludes to the practice of those times, which was, in difficult cases to resort to God's sanctuary, and the oracle therein.Their end — There I learned that their prosperity was short. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.Terrors — With God's dreadful judgements unexpectedly seizing upon them. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.They awake — Out of the pleasant dream of this vain life.Despise — Thou shalt make them despicable both to themselves and to all others; raise them to shame, and everlasting contempt.Image — All their felicity and glory, which shall be evidently discerned to be, no real or substantial thing, but a mere image or shadow. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:21
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.Pricked — I was deeply wounded with disquieting thoughts. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.Nevertheless — Although I gave thee just cause to cast me off, yet thou didst continue thy care and kindness to me.Hast held — That my faith might not fail. read more
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:27
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.Go a whoring — Those who revolt from thee, to work wickedness; which is called whoredom in scripture. read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 73:13
13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain “Verily” has the force of wholly. Wholly in vain have I cleansed my heart. So it appeared, but this was his temptation: in Psalms 73:1; Psalms 73:22, after the temptation, he asserts the contrary. Washed my hands in innocency In protestation of innocency. The allusion is to Deuteronomy 21:6-7. Compare Matthew 27:24; Psalms 26:6. The Septuagint understands this as the language of personal experience, not as that of a representative man, and... read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 73:13
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.In vain — Hence I was sometimes tempted, to think that religion was a vain, unprofitable thing. True religion is here described by its two principal parts, the cleansing of the heart, and the hands. read more