9<\/strong>. saints<\/em> ] Not the word commonly so rendered, e.g. in Psa 30:4<\/span>; Psa 31:23<\/span>; but as in Psa 16:3<\/span>, holy ones<\/em>: those whose character corresponds to their calling as members of the holy nation (Exo 19:6<\/span>; Lev 11:44-45<\/span>).<\/p>\n want<\/em> ] A word found here only in the Psalter, but eight times in Proverbs.<\/p>\n 9, 10<\/strong>. His saints want for nothing.<\/p>\n O fear the Lord – <\/B>Reverence him; honor him; confide in him. Compare Psa 31:23<\/span>.<\/P> Ye his saints – <\/B>His holy ones. All who profess to be his friends. This exhortation is addressed especially to the saints, or to the pious, because the speaker professed to be a friend of God, and had had personal experience of the truth of what he is here saying. It is the testimony of one child of God addressed to others, to encourage them by the result of his own experience.<\/P> For there is no want to them that fear him – <\/B>All their needs will be abundantly supplied. Sooner or later all their real necessities will be met, and God will bestow upon them every needed blessing. The statement here cannot be regarded as absolutely and universally true – that is, it cannot mean that they who fear the Lord will never, in any instance, be hungry or thirsty, or destitute of raiment or of a comfortable home; but it is evidently intended to be a general affirmation, and is in accordance with the other statements which occur in the Bible about the advantages of true religion in securing temporal as well as spiritual blessings from God. Thus, in 1Ti 4:8<\/span>, it is said, Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Thus, in Isa 33:16<\/span>, it is said of the righteous man, Bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.<\/P> And so, in Psa 37:25<\/span>, David records the result of his own observation at the end of a long life, I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. But while these statements should not be interpreted as affirming absolutely that no child of God will ever be in need of food, or drink, or raiment, or home, or friends, yet it is generally true that the needs of the righteous are supplied, often in an unexpected manner, and from an unexpected source. It is true that virtue and religion conduce to temporal prosperity; and it is almost universally true that the inmates of charity-houses and prisons are neither the pious, nor the children of the pious. These houses are the refuge, to a great extent, of the intemperate, the godless, and the profligate – or of the families of the intemperate, the godless, and the profligate; and if all such persons were to be discharged from those abodes, our almshouses and prisons would soon become tenantless. A community could most easily provide for all those who have been trained in the ways of religion, but who are reduced to poverty by fire, or by flood, or by ill health; and they would most cheerfully do it. Nothing can be more true than that if a man wished to do all that could be done in the general uncertainty of human affairs to secure prosperity, it would be an advantage to him to be a virtuous and religious man. God never blesses or prospers a sinner as such, though he often does it notwithstanding the fact that he is a sinner; but he does and will bless and prosper a righteous man as such, and because he is righteous. Compare the notes at 1Ti 4:8<\/span>.<\/P><\/p>\n Psa 34:9<\/span><\/p>\n O fear the Lord, ye His saints.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n A noble cowardice<\/strong><\/p>\n This <\/em>means that the fear of God does not indicate a defect of the nature. Blindness is a defect; deafness, lameness–these involve privation. But the fear of God does not involve privation; it implies possession. When I go into a picture gallery, and gaze on a work of some master, and say, I fear I shall never come up to that, does that indicate want on my part? Nay, it is participation. It is the testimony that I am already an artist. My fear is the shadow of my love; the cloud into which I enter is born of my transfigured glory. I would not part with my cloud–not for sunbeams, not for worlds. It tells me that I have seen regions beyond. It is by the artists soul that I know my own inartisticness. My night has come from day; it is not want that makes me fear. Oh, Thou Divinely Beautiful, create within me the artists fear. Give me the sense that I cannot come near Thee, that I am following afar off. Let me feel that Thou art in heaven and I on the earth. Let me tremble before Thy beauty–tremble with the impossibility of ever being worthy of Thee. My trembling is my triumph; my crouching is my crown; my day of judgment is my year of jubilee, for my cry has come from the taste of Thy glory, there is no want in them that fear Thee. (G. Matheson, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 9<\/span>. There is <\/B>no want to them that fear him.<\/B><\/I>] He who truly fears<\/I> God loves<\/I> him; and he who loves<\/I> God obeys<\/I> him, and to him who fears, loves<\/I>, and obeys God, there can be no want of things essential to his happiness, whether spiritual or temporal, for this life or for that which is to come. This verse is wanting in the Syriac<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n i.e. Reverence and serve him, and trust in him; for fear is commonly put for all the parts of Gods worship. <\/P> <\/p>\n 9. that fear him<\/B>who arepiousfear and love (Pro 1:7<\/span>;Pro 9:10<\/span>). <\/P> saints<\/B>consecrated toHis service (Isa 40:31<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n O fear the Lord, ye his saints<\/strong>,…. Who are sanctified by his Spirit, and so are openly and manifestly his; these are exhorted to fear the Lord with reverence and godly fear; and great reason there is why they should fear him, since he is King of saints, and fear is due to him from them; and seeing they have received many instances of grace and goodness from him, and therefore should fear him for his goodness’s sake; and besides they, and they only, know him, and have the grace of fear in them, and so only can exercise it on him;<\/p>\n for [there is] no want to them that fear him<\/strong>; not in spirituals, since so much goodness is laid up for them; the heart of God is towards them, his secret is with them, his eye is upon them, and the sun of righteousness arises on them; and both grace and glory are given to them; nor in temporals, since godliness, or the fear of God, has the promise of this life, as well as of that which is to come.<\/p>\n 9. Fear Jehovah, ye his saints. Here the people of God are exhorted to the pursuit of holiness and righteousness, that they may open up a channel for divine blessings. We know that men are accustomed to provide for their wants, by resorting to fraud, plunder, and even to wrongful violence. Nor is it possible but that the faithful must feel some stirrings of a desire to imitate the wicked, and envy them in some degree in their prosperity, so that they permit themselves sometimes to howl among the wolves. And although they voluntarily abstain from all wrongful violence, yet the common way of living among those around them carries them away like a tempest; and, in the meantime, they think that the plea of necessity is sufficient to excuse them. David represses, as with a bridle, these temptations, promising that all will be well with the people of God, provided they keep themselves in the fear of God, which he opposes to all wicked and deceitful counsels; because the greater part of men reckon those to be fools who aim at simplicity, since in so doing they do not consult their own interests and profit. While, therefore, ungodly men are afraid of poverty, and carnal reason urges them to attempt whatever their fancy may suggest for keeping themselves from it, David here testifies that God takes care of the godly, so that he never suffers them to be in want. Let no fear or distrust, says he, withdraw you from the pursuit of what is right, because God never forsakes those who walk righteously before him. The Psalmist, therefore, bids them yield to God the honor of expecting more from him alone than the wicked expect from their deceitful traffic and unlawful practices. Moreover, as iniquity rages with unbridled fury everywhere throughout the world, he calls expressly upon the saints to be on their guard, because he would be of no service to the promiscuous multitude. It is a sentiment contrary to the generally received opinion among men, that while the integrity of the good and simple is exposed to the will of the wicked, there should yet be greater security in integrity than in all the resources of fraud and injustice. There is, therefore, no inconsistency in his admonishing the saints who, of their own accord, are endeavoring to walk uprightly, not to depart from the fear of God; for we know how easily the light of piety may be obscured and extinguished, when there appears no hope of living happily and prosperously, except in the pursuit of the world and its enticing pleasures. <\/p>\n Psa 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him.<\/p>\n Ver. 9. O fear the Lord, ye his saints<\/strong> ] Ye that, having tasted of God’s sweetness, are separated from the world with its lusts, and can live with a little quasi<\/em> , fear the Lord, and then you shall not need to fear want of anything; for he is all-sufficient to those who are altogether his, and withdraw not from him by mistrust or misdoing. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For there is no want to them that fear him<\/strong> ] Habent omnia, qui habent habentem omnia.<\/em> David, when captive among the Philistines, wanted not. Paul had nothing, and yet possesed all things. Contrarily, the wicked, in the fulness of his sufficiency, is in straits, Job 20:22<\/span> .<\/p>\n saints = separated ones. See note on Exo 3:5. <\/p>\n fear <\/p>\n (See Scofield “Psa 19:9”) <\/p>\n fear: Psa 22:23, Psa 31:23, Psa 89:7, Gen 22:12, Isa 8:13, Isa 8:14, Hos 3:5, Rev 15:3, Rev 15:4 <\/p>\n for: Psa 23:1, Luk 12:30-32, Rom 8:32, 1Co 3:22, 1Co 3:23, Phi 4:19 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 10:12 – fear 1Sa 30:19 – General 1Ki 17:6 – the ravens Psa 37:3 – be fed Psa 84:11 – no Psa 111:5 – hath given Psa 145:19 – fulfil Pro 10:3 – will Pro 19:23 – fear Pro 22:4 – By Isa 58:11 – and satisfy Jer 37:21 – and that Mat 6:33 – and all Luk 12:31 – General Luk 22:35 – lacked Act 4:34 – was<\/p>\n Psa 34:9-10. O fear the Lord, ye his saints Reverence, serve, and trust in him: for fear is commonly put for all the parts of Gods worship and service. For there is no want to them that fear him They shall so far have all good things, as to have no reason to complain of the want of any. As to the things of the other world, they shall have grace sufficient for the support of the spiritual life. and as to this life they shall have what is necessary for the support of it. For godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, and they that seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, shall have other things, that are needful, added to them, Mat 6:33; 1Ti 4:8. The young lions do lack, &c. All the ancient versions, says Dr. Dodd, except the Chaldee, read, great, powerful men, instead of young lions: and Houbigant renders the place, rich men are become poor and hungry; but they who seek the Lord, &c. This sense is undoubtedly good: but I see nothing to object against our own reading: for the meaning is, that if God takes care of the beasts of the field, much more will he take care of them who fear him, and much sooner suffer those to die for want of their prey, than these to perish through want of necessaries, or the failure of his protection. Shall not want any good thing Any thing necessary and truly good for them, all circumstances considered; of which God alone is a competent judge. And, therefore, although he doth usually take special care to supply the wants of good men, and hath often done it by extraordinary ways, when ordinary have failed; yet he knows that wants and crosses are sometimes more necessary for, and will be more useful to them, than those things which they may think needful, and in such cases he manifests greater mercy to them in denying them supplies than in granting them.<\/p>\n O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him. 9. saints ] Not the word commonly so rendered, e.g. in Psa 30:4; Psa 31:23; but as in Psa 16:3, holy ones: those whose character corresponds to their calling as members of the holy nation (Exo 19:6; Lev … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 34:9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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