If you’re … I removed his shoulder from the burden. In the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is known as Psalm 126 in a slightly different numbering system. All the corruption in the world ariseth from lust in us, not from the objects which God in his providence presents to us: 2 Peter 1:4, The corruption that is in the world through lust. The gentility which lisps the tune in well bred whispers, or leaves the singing altogether to the choir, is very like a mockery of worship. — Outlines Upon Keywords of the Psalm, by Pastor C. A. Davis . The present a time for new answers as it is also for fresh tests. 13-14. Are we not also at times quite as careless and immovable? Honey out of the rock. I gave them up unto their own hearts' lusts. But we do not hesitate to say, over and over again that the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,-the immutable and unchangeable One,-the God of Sinai, is as much our God as the God of Calvary, so we delight “to make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.”. Open thy mouth wide. And with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. Ver. Joseph Francis Thrupp. 13. He was no longer compelled to carry earth, and mould it, and bake it; the earth basket was no more imposed upon the people, nor the tale of bricks exacted, for they came out into the open country where none could exact upon them. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust. and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty. i. Ver. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF C. H. SPURGEON. Unto God our strength. Through what sufferings and captivities didst thou go because thou wouldst not trust in the Lord, and how often some of God’s children have had to go through years of sorrow and spiritual captivity because of their lack of close walking with their God, and complete obedience to him! Psalm 81 - For the director of music. Psalms 81 Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is from the most widely read and often quoted preacher in history, Charles Haddon Spurgeon Thus did Jehovah usually introduce himself to his people. Title. How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? It is thus in the case in hand: if we comply with the Spirit, in his motions, and use him tenderly, he will hold on in his leading of us; but if otherwise, he will concern himself no more about us. Contributed by C. Philip Green on Oct 1, 2020. 15. 10. And Israel would none of me. This shows us by contrast how sad a thing it is for a child of God to sell himself into captivity to sin, and bring his soul into a state of famine by following after another god. Such were the laments of Jesus over Jerusalem. The deaf adder is not more grovelling. We ought to consider not only what sin takes from our present stock, but what it prevents our gaining: reflections will soon show us that sin always costs us dear. This implies. Where false gods are, their worship is sure to follow. Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre. The Lord's people in the olden time welcomed the times appointed for worship; let us feel the same exultation, and never speak of the Sabbath as though it could be other than "a delight" and "honourable." 1 of this work. By the gods they had preferred to him. Praise should be sincere. 1-3. Preface 2. Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee. Curious as this custom is, it is doubtless referred to in Psalms 81:10: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it; not with baubles of jewels, but with far richer treasure. Ver. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. On an instrument of Gath. Psalm 81 - For the director of music. Psalm 3:3. The rule of ordinances and worship; pleas for going beyond it; instances in various churches; the sin and danger of such will worship. The feast of the new moon was always proclaimed by sound of trumpet. Spurgeon recounted how in DeFoe’s book that after the shipwreck and on the island, Crusoe was about to die from illness. How typical all this is of the believer's deliverance from legal bondage, when, through faith, the burden of sin glides into the Saviour's sepulchre, and the servile labours of self righteousness come to an end for ever. He who delivered you from the burden of sin bids you open your mouth wide, and he will fill it; and after your deliverance from guilt, do you not feel that you may well ask great things of such a gracious God? What vile lusts and passions rule him, when the Spirit does not put forth his holy and gracious government over him! It should be constant: they should praise God at all times. Psalm 21 ~ 30 5. When our hearts wander from God, our answered prayers cry "shame" upon us. Joseph Caryl. Divisions. In the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation, the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 80 It should be public: "sing aloud:" "bring hither, "etc. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon. Free shipping. Ver. But my people would not hearken to my voice. Who? The party communicating this soul fill to the sinner: I, more generally, I the Lord, in opposition to strange gods. Whether the expression was meant to refer to a musical instrument, or to some direction as to the tune, is uncertain. In localities where the bare rocks of the desert alone break the sameness of the scene, and all around is suggestive of desolation and death, the traveller has God's care of his chosen people vividly brought to mind, as he sees the honey which the bees had treasured up beyond his reach, trickling in shining drops down the face of the rock. 10. Many of David's psalms begin with prayer, and end with the most animated praises. 16. Other peoples owe their liberties to their own efforts and courage, but Israel received its Magna Charta as a free gift of divine power. God will fill the mouth with abundant thanksgivings. (Spurgeon, C. H. Lectures to my Students: Commenting and Commentaries)Rosscup adds: This is one of the more thorough older exegetical … It was long in use, for we read of it in David's time as made of fir wood (2Sa 6:55), and in Solomon's reign, of algum trees (2 Chronicles 9:11), and it was still in use in the days of Nebuchadnezzar. Ver. Verses 81-88. It is probably impossible to be sure as to what is intended by a psaltery. God stands in the congregation of the mighty: Asaph gives us the picture of God in the midst of the mighty, standing in authority. This is strongly and beautifully expressed in Psalms 119:131 : I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments. Those who plead this passage will keep such feasts as the Lord appoints, but not those which Rome or Canterbury may ordain. The Genevan version translates it viol, and the ancient viol was a six stringed guitar. He would have smitten them once, and then have dealt them a return blow with the back of his hand. 1. Psalm 8 is a hymn of praise. Consider the import of the promise: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. Ver. 12. This is a soul fill; a filling with all the fulness of God. When he went out through the land of Egypt. Psalms 81:16. If the Lord should always be swift to hear us, how slow should we be in hearing him, and while we have our desires, forget most of our duties. Ver. 8. It was what would now be called a tambourine, being played by the hand; and was specially used by women. Psalm 81:11-12 It cannot be doubted that very often when people get into wrong courses they think they shall be able to stop when they please. There should be seasons of special praise. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon. Pots, or burden baskets. God beseecheth us, and speaks entreaties to us, that his counsels and commands may be heard: Oh that my people had hearkened unto me. The Septuagint, and the versions which follow that, render it, "for the winepresses". Ver. A compassionate Father, calling to his child: O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me. 2. In strictest truth, and not merely in figure, might the Lord thus speak, since the wicked customs and idolatrous rites of Egypt were disapproved of by him, and in that sense were unknown. Ver. 1748-1810. 7. 1839, Volume one part 2, also in the quarto volume of Sermons, Salisburgi MDCLXVI. 14. Doth not the Lord cry out to his people of duty and they do not hear him? To us the same argument will apply. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. Psalm 8 Commentary: In the New Testament. 1. Do we desire fresh communications of grace, and manifestations of divine love; a renewed sense of pardoning mercy, and an application of the blood of Christ? 8-13). Can it be well with a Christian, when this is suspended or withdrawn from him? The voice of God, and the voice of the trumpet on Mount Sinai, were heard together (Exodus 19:5; Exodus 19:18-19), first the trumpet sound as the symbol, then the reality. not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the. The Jews say this blowing of trumpets was in commemoration of Isaac's deliverance, a ram being sacrificed for him, and therefore they sounded with trumpets made of ram's horns: or in remembrance of the trumpet blown at the giving of the law; though it rather was an emblem of the gospel and ministry of it, by which sinners are aroused, awakened and quickened, and souls are charmed and allured, and filled with spiritual joy and gladness. Ver. Ver. 12. If the person led shall once begin to struggle with him that leads him, and shall refuse to follow his guidance, what is then to be done, but to leave him to himself? Ver. No other god had done anything for the Jews, and therefore they had no reason for paying homage to any other. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God. God is not to be served with misery but with mirthful music, sound ye then the loud timbrel, as of old ye smote it by "Egypt's dark sea.". —Hope in depression. Thus he dealt with Abraham when he interceded for Sodom; the longer he prayed, the more submissive and yet the more importunate he became. My people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Had we stood in innocency, we had been moved according to that originally righteous nature; but since our fall we are moved according to that nature introduced into us with the expulsion of the other. God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods. III. Aben Ezra evidently considered it to be a kind of pipe, but the mass of authorities make it a stringed instrument. Of Asaph. The passover, which is probably here alluded to, was to be a standing memorial of the redemption from Egypt; and everything about it was intended to testify to all ages, and all peoples, the glory of the Lord in the deliverance of his chosen nation. lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Ver. $29.79 ... Psalms: 4 (Crossway Classic Commentaries) by Spurgeon, Charles H Book The Fast. Ver. 70. As good have no counsel from man, as none but man's. It is thrice mentioned in the Psalms 81:2 Ps 149:3 150:4. 8-10. (b) Demanded by providence on occasion of special. Others, tracing the Hebrew to its root, conceive it to mean a song for the winepress, a joyful hymn for the treaders of grapes. Honey out of the rock. It were better to be given up to lions than to our hearts' lusts. Where I heard a language that I understood not. God's leaving one soul to one lust, (One's soul to one's lust?) God doth not testify his anger for their contempt of him be sending plague, or flames, or wild beasts among them. When his people walk in the light of his countenance, and maintain unsullied holiness, the joy and consolation which he yields them are beyond conception. Ver. Ver. The mouth is. 15. EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: This psalm is a community lament in which the psalmist recounts blessings conferred on the people by the Lord (vv.