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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:32

For all this they sinned still - Even this did not reclaim them, and prevent their sinning. Heavy judgments do not always restrain men from sin. Not unfrequently they take occasion from such judgments to sin the more.And believed not for his wondrous works - They did not trust in His wondrous works; or, those works did not have the effect of producing faith. See Psalms 78:22-23. The same thing occurred in the life of the Saviour. John 12:37. read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:33

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity - He suffered them to spend their days - the days of that entire generation - in vain and fruitless wanderings in the desert. Instead of leading them at once to the promised land, they were kept there to wear out their life in tedious monotony, accomplishing nothing - wandering from place to place - until all the generation that had come out of Egypt had died.And their years in trouble - literally, “in terror.” Amidst the troubles, the alarms, the... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:34

When he slew them - When he came forth in his wrath and cut them down by the plague, by fiery serpents, or by their enemies.Then they sought him - Their calamities had the effect of producing temporary reformation. They became professedly penitent; they manifested a wish to know God, and expressed a purpose to serve him. It was, however, a temporary and hollow, not a deep and real reformation. This often occurs. In times of affliction, in sickness, in bereavement, in the loss of property,... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:35

And they remembered that God was their Rock - See Deuteronomy 32:4, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:31. Compare the notes at Psalms 18:2. That is, they were brought to reflect that their only security and defense was God. They were made to feel that they could not rely on themselves, or on any human power, and that their only trust was in God.And the high God their Redeemer - The God who is exalted over all; the true and living God. The truth was brought to their recollection that it was He... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:36

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth - The word rendered “flatter” means properly “to open;” and hence, “to be open; to be ingenious or frank;” and then, to be easily persuaded, to be deluded, to be beguiled; and hence, also, in an active form, to persuade, to entice, to seduce, to beguile, to delude. The meaning here is, that they attempted to deceive by their professions, or that their professions were false and hollow. Those professions were the mere result of affliction. They... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:37

For their heart was not right with him - Luther renders this, “Not fast with him.” The Hebrew word means “to fit, to prepare;” and the idea is, that the heart was not “adjusted” to such a profession, or did not “accord” with such a promise or pledge. It was a mere profession made by the lips, while the heart remained unaffected. See the notes at Psalms 78:8.Neither were they stedfast in his covenant - In maintaining his covenant, or in adhering to it. Compare Psalms 25:14; Psalms 44:17. See... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:38

But he, being full of compassion - literally, “But he, merciful,” That is, he was ready to forgive them.Forgave their iniquity - literally, Atoned for, expiated, covered over their iniquity. There is connected with the word the idea of expiation or atonement, as the ground of pardon.And destroyed them not - Did not cut them off in their repeated acts of rebellion. He bore with them, and spared them.Yea, many a time turned he his anger away - literally, He multiplied to turn his anger away. That... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:39

For he remembered that they were but flesh - That they were human; that they were weak; that they were prone to err; that they were liable to fall into temptation. In his dealings with them he took into view their fallen nature; their training; their temptations; their trials; their weaknesses; and he judged them accordingly. Compare Psalms 103:14. So it was with the Saviour in his treatment of his disciples, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak,” Matthew 26:41. God will judge... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 78:33

Psalms 78:33. Their days did he consume in vanity In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither, sometimes forward and sometimes backward, which they knew would never bring them, in their own persons, to their promised and much desired land; and their years in trouble In manifold diseases, dangers, and perplexities. In such vanity and trouble were they condemned, by an irreversible doom, for their unbelief, distrust of God, their murmurings and rebellions against him, their... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 78:34-35

Psalms 78:34-35. When he slew them Or condemned them to be slain; then they sought him Confessed their sin, begged pardon, and prayed to him to deliver them from the threatened destruction. When some were slain, others, in a fright, cried for mercy, and promised to be obedient in future: And they returned Namely, from their idols, unto the outward worship of God: or, being moved with fear, they ceased, for the present, from their grossly wicked courses, but stopped short of true... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:32

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:33

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:34

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:35

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:36

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:37

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:38

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 78:39

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 78:33

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 78:34-35

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