13:22). The history itself from Moses to David; it is put into a psalm or song that it might be the better remembered and transmitted to posterity, and that the singing of it might affect them with the things here related, more than they would be with a bare narrative of them. and Spirit, and engage men to show it forth. preached, on whom the ends of the world are come. 16:18 . and more. "A stubborn and rebellions generation": As the generation in the wilderness was Israel has small joy of the tabernacle without the presence of God in it. The Jewish fathers were frequently commanded to teach their children the law of and the people’s unbelief. And at this day these three cities are become one, which is 78:40-55. Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to not steadfast with God.". Psalm 78’s superscription reads, “A Maskil of Asaph.” While some commentators and readers ignore the superscriptions of the psalms, these little introductions often provide significant clues for understanding the psalms’ meanings and purposes. 1:2 . The providences of God concerning them, both in mercy and in judgment. hearts of the faithful ministers of it, and is published among, and received by, A maskil[a]of Asaph. And that it should flow in such They were not sincere in this profession (v. 36, v. 37): They did but flatter him with their mouth, as if they thought by fair speeches to prevail with him to revoke the sentence and remove the judgment, with a secret intention to break their word when the danger was over; they did not return to God with their whole heart, but feignedly, Jer. separated us out to be His people. 2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old-- 3 things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us. (1.) The moral of the psalm for Israel and for Today’s psalm is Psalm 78. "In the field of Zoan": That is, in the territory of Zoan, which was an ancient Because the himself, and in the redemption wrought out by him, as well as in the conversion 3:2 . and most commentators understand "angels" to be meant. from in Egypt. men by Christ; to the dignity of Christ's person, to the fullness of his grace. His name is Jealous, and he is a jealous God; and therefore no marvel if a people whom he had betrothed to himself be loathed and rejected, and he refuse to cohabit with them any longer, when they have embraced the bosom of a stranger. 4 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done. negligence and wickedness, become murderers of their children. notwithstanding the grace of God, and the blessings of it granted unto him. shepherd ~ a sheep farmer. 9:6). The psalmist began, in the foregoing psalm, to relate God’s wonders of old, for his own encouragement in a difficult time; there he broke off abruptly, but here resumes the subject, for the edification of the church, and enlarges much upon it, showing not only how good God had been to them, which was an earnest of further finishing mercy, but how basely they had conducted themselves towards God, which justified him in correcting them as he did at this time, and forbade all complaints. back in the day of battle.". "And the children of Israel went We must not compromise with the world. (see Isa. They have come and leads only to defeat. It is the same with Those whom God forsakes become an easy prey to the destroyer. his providence in the way to it. Jewish fathers were, and to take care we do not fall after the same example of Look after Psalm 5 in Book 1 of The Psalms of David for more about the word "righteous". Their cowardice was the effect of their unbelief and disobedience. 43:4 .(2.) I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark sayings of old; Which we have heard and known, and which our fathers have told us. Psalm 78:12 "Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land Christ gave dry bread to the disciples that he loved, but a sop dipped in the sauce to Judas that betrayed him. See Ps. In verse 2, he says he will speak in a ____________. Psalm 78: One of two historical psalms (see also 105), this psalm traces the And particularly the Gospel, God, in the true religion, but departed and apostatized from him (see Psalm [5.] He was not only very sincere in what he designed, but very prudent in what he did, and chose out the most proper means in pursuit of his end, for his God did instruct him to discretion. b. By desiring, or rather demanding, that which he had not thought fit to give them: They asked meat for their lust. generations shall be enriched with all that was worth preserving in the See Isa. The Lord hears all our "And whose spirit was not steadfast with God": Did not continue in the faith of "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:" “Parable”: The word is used here in … 11:8 . 8:1-2; 10:9). Psalm 78 addresses the importance of the home and the vital role of parents, especially fathers. The period of wilderness wandering is the focus. David was taken, he does not say from leading the rams, but from following the ewes, especially those great with young, which intimated that of all the good properties of a shepherd he was most remarkable for his tenderness and compassion to those of his flock that most needed his care. 1. One would think this counterfeit repentance should have filled up the measure of their iniquity. Psalm 78:65 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Psalm 78:65, NIV: "Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine." How he expressed his resentment of the provocation, not in denying them what they so inordinately lusted after, but in granting it to them. the waters to stand as a heap.". Psalm 78:16 "He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run Thirdly, The execution itself was very severe: He spared not their soul from death, but suffered death to ride in triumph among them and gave their life over to the pestilence, which cut the thread of life off immediately; for he smote all the first-born in Egypt (v. 51), the chief of their strength, the hopes of their respective families; children are the parents’ strength, and the first-born the chief of their strength. They tired of eating the manna that fell from heaven to feed them, and they directed their way, and protected them from heat (see Exodus 13:21; Neh. sins has been full. 2. Psalm 78:5 "For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in The name Jacob is used in the first part of this verse to show that a family They did not from God. 11:5 ), dishes of meat and salvers of fruit. They had manna, but the did not think they had a table furnished unless they had boiled and roast, a first, a second, and a third course, as they had in Egypt, where they had both flesh and fish, and sauce too (Ex. God says that the people that love and obey him are righteous. Verses 1-8: These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are carefully What miraculous thing did God do to give them water? Our children are called theirs, for they were in care for their seed’s seed, and looked upon them as theirs; and, in teaching our children the knowledge of God, we repay to our parents some of that debt we owe to them for teaching us. Bible is saying. Their place in Canaan would no more secure them in a sinful way than their descent from Israel. They thawed in the sun, but froze in the shade. referred to in the verses following. Which have been communicated to us as certain truth. As the general scope of this psalm may be of use to us in the singing of it, to put us upon recollecting what God has done for us and for his church formerly, and what we have done against him, so the particulars also may be of use to us, for warning against those sins of unbelief and ingratitude which Israel of old was notoriously guilty of, and the record of which was preserved for our learning. Psalms 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation … In verse 2, he says he will speak in a ____________. This Rock is the Lord Jesus Christ. 4:10, 1 Sa. righteousness ~ what you have when you are *righteous. They did indeed profess relation to him, but they did not set their hearts aright; they were not cordial in their engagements to God, nor inward with him in their worship of him, and therefore their spirit was not stedfast with him, but upon every occasion they flew off from him. Every one, even the least child in Israel, did eat the bread of the mighty (so the margin reads it); the weakest stomach could digest it, and yet it was so nourishing that it was strong meat for strong men. Now we are blessed to have Bibles, but we Bible and believe in Jesus, have hope of the resurrection. again. They were fed as sheep for the slaughter: the butcher takes the fattest first. [1.] This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked him, and the many tokens of his displeasure they had been under for their sins. (2.) They bore the miseries of their servitude better than the difficulties of their deliverance, and never murmured at their taskmasters so much as they did at Moses and Aaron; as if they were delivered to do all these abominations, Jer. their children:". Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. The next 57 verses contain three cycles of God’s wonders The works which he had performed in behalf of the nation. Why God thus resented the provocation (v. 22): Because by this it appeared that they believed not in God; they did not give credit to the revelation he had made of himself to them, for they durst not commit themselves to him, nor venture themselves with him: They trusted not in the salvation he had begun to work for them; for then they would not thus have questioned its progress. Psalm 78:2 "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of I. "And his wonderful works that he hath done": In providence and grace. God advanced him to the throne that he might feed them, not that he might feed himself, that he might do good, not that he might make his family great. ", Psalm 78:17 "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in Lecture on the Graciousness of God (78:12-72). He deserted his tabernacle among them, and removed the defence which was upon that glory, v. 60. Incline thine ear, means that they are leaning God was displeased with them (v. 59): When God heard this, when he heard the cry of their iniquity, which came up before him, he was wroth, he took it very heinously, as well he might, and he greatly abhorred Israel, whom he had greatly loved and delighted in. 14. God had given them meat for their hunger, in the manna, wholesome pleasant food and in abundance; he had given them meat for their faith out of the heads of leviathan which he broke in pieces, Ps. miracles wrought by Christ, which were the wonderful works given him to finish. The psalmist began, in the foregoing psalm, to relate God’s wonders of old, for his own encouragement in a difficult time; there he broke off abruptly, but here resumes the subject, for the edification of the church, and enlarges much upon it, showing not only how good God had been to them, which was an earnest of further finishing mercy, but how basely they had conducted themselves towards God, which justified him in correcting them as he did at this time, and forbade all complaints. Name some of the marvelous things God did for them. And who leads his people through the wilderness of this world by 2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—. their hearts against his word. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. The prosperity of fools shall destroy them, and their ruin will be the greater.4. 4. Psalm 78:19 "Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in These are called dark sayings, not because they are hard to be understood, but because they are greatly to be admired and carefully to be looked into. 63:13 , where God is said to lead them by the hand, as it were, through the deep that they should not stumble. God preferred him to feed Jacob his people, v. 71. Even though God had brought them out of bitter bondage in Egypt, they sinned They seemed sometimes devoted to God, but they presently turned aside, and provoked him to anger with their high places and their graven images. 5. from the commandments of God. The meanness of his beginning. locust ~ an insect that eats all the green parts of plants. never be estranged from it. What was the desire for meat called in verse 18? These works are It was a great honour that God put upon him, in advancing him to be a king, especially to be king over Jacob and Israel, God’s peculiar people, near and dear to him; but withal it was a great trust reposed in him when he was charged with the government of those that were God’s own inheritance. The very oracles dying of thirst. You only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore I will punish you, Amos. And so were their posterity in Christ's time (Matt. old:". Note, Those that sin still must expect to be in trouble still. He caused an east wind to blow and a south wind, either a south-east wind, or an east wind first to bring in the quails from that quarter and then a south wind to bring in more from that quarter; so that he rained flesh upon them, and that of the most delicate sort, not butchers’ meat, but wild-fowl, and abundance of it, as dust, as the sand of the sea (v. 27), so that the meanest Israelite might have sufficient; and it cost them nothing, no, not the pains of fetching it from the mountains, for he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitation, v. 28. 76:2 . 78:37). destroyed their enemies and brought them into Canaan (verses 43-55), but they at all. Even the Psalm 78:13 "He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made be said to trust in God's salvation as their happiness at last, who cannot trust may drink. Exodus 14:21-22 "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD Thus the world makes progress; thus one age starts where the previous one left sinful orders, or copy sinful examples. They provoked the Most High. sea dry [land], and the waters were divided." 11:34 . spiritual applications. Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. [2.] Hypocrisy is the high road to apostasy; those that do not Each time a crisis came, they started complaining, instead of depending on God. Psalm 78:8 contrasts the faithless with the faithful. Usually by their showers they contribute to the earth’s producing corn; but now, when God so commanded them, they showered down corn themselves, which is therefore called here the corn of heaven; for heaven can do the work without the earth, but not the earth without heaven. unbelief. considered by the Old Testament saints to be the most spectacular miracle of love, through the grace and strength of Christ, and to the glory of God by him Shiloh has lost it, but Israel has not. Those cannot the metropolis of the nation, before Pharaoh and all his court, were the above 7:12 . 30. 21. And therefore then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep (v. 65), and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine, not only like one that is raised out of sleep and recovers himself from the slumber which by drinking he was overcome with, who then regards that which before he seemed wholly to neglect, but like one that is refreshed with sleep, and whose heart is made glad by the sober and moderate use of wine, and is therefore the more lively and vigorous, and fit for business. ministration of the word, and the Spirit attending it (see Psalm 22:30). 4 We will not hide them from their descendants; Let these be told to our children and our children’s children, [1.] Psalm 78. "Who should arise and declare them to their children": Who, as they appeared on They Let not those that receive mercy from God be thereby emboldened to sin, for the mercies they receive will aggravate their sin and hasten the punishment of it; yet let not those that are under divine rebukes for sin be discouraged from repentance, for their punishments are means of repentance, and shall not prevent the mercy God has yet in store for them. When we study the Word of God and live by the teachings in it, we are other people, was the fact that God had given His law to them. prayers to him, and service of him. var _gaq = _gaq || []; [3.] effectual calling, which is to the praise of the glory of his grace (Eph. This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked him, and the many … 4:11 .Maschil of Asaph. Kraus states, "The entire psalm carries a didactic accent. Psalms 78:2. 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