Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 89:32
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
32. The rod stripes ] From 2Sa 7:14, where the fuller phrases the rod of men the stripes of the children of men seem to mean correction such as even human parents know they must administer. The paternal relation involves the duty of chastisement (Pro 23:13 f.; Heb 12:9 f.).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod – They shall be punished, though my mercy shall not be wholly taken from them. God has two objects in his dealings with his backsliding and offending people;
(a) one is to show his displeasure at their conduct, or to punish them;
(b) the other is to reclaim them.
All who have been truly converted, or who are truly his people, will be recovered though they fall into sin; but it may be done, and will be likely to be done, in such a way as to show his own displeasure at their offences.
And their iniquity with stripes – The word rendercd stripes means properly a stroke, a blow; then, judgments or calamities such as God sends on mankind as a punishment for their sins. Gen 12:17; Exo 11:1; Psa 38:11.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,…. That is, of men; as in 2Sa 7:14, the Lord making use of men to chastise his people by, as he did of the neighbouring nations of the Jews, when they sinned against him; and so the Targum interprets it here,
“I will visit their transgressions by the hands of the tribes of the ungodly;”
or with such afflictions as are common to men, 1Co 10:13, in a kind, humane, moderate way, in measure, in judgment, and not in wrath and hot displeasure; or in such like manner as a man chastises his children, which is in love, De 8:5
and their iniquity with stripes; such as diseases of body, loss of relations, crosses and disappointments in the world; not with the stripes of divine vengeance, of vindictive justice, such as Christ, the surety of his people, endured for them; but with the scourges of a father, Isa 53:8.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Ver. 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod ] The sins of the saints are transgressions, yea, they are treacheries, and shall be visited with the rod; yea, with the rod of men, 2Sa 7:14 , of weak, sickly, frail men, as the word there signifieth, that have but weak hands, and can give no hard blows; such shall rather see God’s care than feel his power in their sufferings. Only they shall see that he will not pass by their sins without a sensible check.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Then will I. Compare 2Sa 7:14.
transgression = revolt. Hebrew. pasha’. App-44.
iniquity. Hebrew ‘avah. App-44.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Exo 32:34, 2Sa 7:14, 1Ki 11:6, 1Ki 11:14, 1Ki 11:31, 1Ki 11:39, Pro 3:11, Pro 3:12, Amo 3:2, 1Co 11:31, 1Co 11:32, Heb 12:6-11
Reciprocal: Lev 18:25 – therefore Deu 8:5 – as a man Job 35:15 – visited Heb 12:11 – no chastening