5<\/strong>. Commit<\/em> &c.] Lit. Roll thy way upon Jehovah:<\/em> shake off and devolve upon Him all the burden of anxiety for life’s course. Cp. Pro 16:3<\/span>; 1Pe 5:7<\/span>.<\/p>\n and he shall bring<\/em> it to pass<\/em> ] With forcible brevity in the Heb. simply, and HE (emphatic) will do ( ipse faciet<\/em>, Vulg.) all that is needful. Cp. Psa 52:9<\/span>; Psa 119:126<\/span>: 1Th 5:24<\/span>. This verse combines Psa 37:8<\/em><\/span> ; Psa 37:31<\/em><\/span><\/em> of Psalms 22<\/span>.<\/p>\n 5, 6<\/strong>. Stanza of Gimel<\/em>. The reward of faith.<\/p>\n Commit thy way unto the – <\/B>Lord. Margin, as in Hebrew, Roll thy way upon, the Lord. Compare the notes at Psa 22:8<\/span>, where the marg., as the Hebrew, is, He rolled himself on the Lord. See also 1Pe 5:7<\/span>. The idea is that of rolling a heavy burden from ourselves on another, or laying it upon him, so that he may bear it. The burden which we have not got strength to bear we may lay on God. The term way means properly the act of treading or going; then, a way or path; then, a course of life, or the manner in which one lives; and the reference here is to the whole course of life, or all that can affect life; all our plans or conduct; all the issues or results of those plans. It is equivalent here to lot or destiny. Everything, in regard to the manner in which we live, and all its results, are to be committed to the Lord.<\/P> Trust also in him – <\/B>See Psa 37:3<\/span>.<\/P> And he shall bring it to pass – <\/B>Hebrew, He shall do it. That is, He will bring it to a proper issue; He will secure a happy result. He will take care of your interests, and will not permit you to suffer, or to be ultimately wronged. The thing particularly referred to here, as appears from the next verse, is reputation or character.<\/P><\/p>\n Psa 37:5<\/span><\/p>\n Commit thy way unto the Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Commit thy way<\/strong><\/p>\n What more appropriate motto can we select for a new year? Counsel such as this is in itself a kind of revelation. It reveals us to ourselves! Is our way such that we can commit it to the Lord? Now, such committing of our way to God means–<\/p>\n Confidence in God<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Committing our way unto the Lord, though it may be taken to signify the same as casting our burden upon Him (Psa 55:22<\/span>), and casting our care upon Him (1Pe 5:7<\/span>), yet, as way doth in Scripture use denote the course of life, the method and order of our conversation, I take it to comprehend these three things.<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> An entire obedience to the Word of God, as the rule of our actions.<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> A meek submission to the will of God, which governs human affairs.<\/p>\n (3)<\/strong> A regular walking in the duties of our particular calling; leaving the rest, as things which we are not immediately concerned in, to God Almightys disposal.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Trusting in God imports–<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> A fiducial reliance upon His wisdom and goodness in the care and conduct of our persons, and of all our concerns.<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> A declaration of that our dependence upon Him in earnest and frequent prayer.<\/p>\n (3)<\/strong> And withal honest endeavours of our own for our preservation, in the use of all lawful means; holding ourselves still in that station wherein God hath placed us, and leaving the event to Him. (A. Littleton, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The believers present and future<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Acceptance in the Beloved (Psa 89:33<\/span>). He may distress, but He will not disown.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Imperfection. He is, indeed, under the Holy Spirits transforming hand. While justification is complete, sanctification is progressive, and therefore at every stage but the last, imperfect.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Sorrow (Rom 7:21<\/span>; Gal 5:17<\/span>). The time for unmingled joy is not yet. Besides this, the refinement of the feelings which the Gospel produces frequently prepares the heart to feel, more acutely than many others, the usual crosses, losses, trials or bereavements which are the common lot of all.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Obscurity. The same unbelief which rejected the Saviour, with all the evidence He produced of His divine mission, serves the disciples as it served their Lord. Besides, the Christian is a mixture of opposites, and therefore we wonder not that he should appear in a doubtful light even to himself and his fellow-believers.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>Eager expectancy (Heb 9:28; 2Pe 3:12<\/span>; Luk 21:28<\/span>; Php 4:5; 2Co 5:2-4<\/span>; Rom 8:28<\/span>).<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Unity.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Holiness.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Resurrection glory. (R. J. Rowton, M. A.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Quiet trust<\/strong><\/p>\n After the fearful defeat of Jena in 1806, when Prussia went down before the cruel and reckless ambition of Napoleon, on no one did the throe of a nations fall come with a more agonizing sense of ruin than on the young and beautiful Queen Louise. When she heard the news of the battle of Jena, and that she must leave her beloved home, she burst into uncontrollable weeping. How did she calm her anguish? It was the pious custom in Germany, when a pupil left school, to accompany the boy singing the thirty-seventh Psalm, of which the fifth verse is, Fret not thyself because of evil-doers. Commit thy way unto the Lord, and He will bring it to pass. The young queen sat down to her piano and softly sang the psalm. When she rose her eye was clear, her spirit was tranquil. That same verse was also the comfort of David Livingstone during all his perils and fevers and lastings in scorching Africa and its desert wastes. (Dean Farrar.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 5<\/span>. Commit thy way unto the Lord<\/B><\/I>] gol al<\/I> Yehovah<\/I>, ROLL thy way upon the Lord<\/I>: probably, a metaphor taken from the camel<\/I>, who lies down till his load be rolled<\/I> upon him.<\/P> <\/P> He shall bring<\/B><\/I> it <\/B>to pass.<\/B><\/I>] yaaseh<\/I>, “He will work<\/I>.” Trust God, and he will work for thee.<\/P> <\/p>\n Thy way, <\/B>i.e. all thy cares and business, thy desires and necessities. Commend them to God by fervent prayer, referring them to his good will, and expecting a happy issue of all from him. <\/P> He shall bring it to pass, <\/B>Heb. he shall do<\/I>, or work<\/I>, to wit, for thee, or what is fit to be done, or what thou desirest in the sense given on Psa 37:4<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n 5. Commit thy way<\/B> (Pr16:3<\/span>). Works<\/I>what you have to do and cannot set forth asa burden. <\/P> trust . . . in him<\/B>literally,”on Him.” He will do<\/I> what you cannot (comparePsa 22:8<\/span>; Psa 31:6<\/span>).He will not suffer your character to remain under suspicion.<\/P><\/p>\n Commit thy way unto the Lord<\/strong>,…. Or “thy works”, as in<\/p>\n Pr 16:3<\/span>; that is, all the affairs and business of life, which are a man’s ways in which he walks; not that men should sit still, be inactive, and do nothing, and leave all to be done by the Lord; but should seek direction of God in everything engaged in, and for strength and assistance to perform it, and go on in it, and depend upon him for success, and give him all the glory, without trusting to any thing done by them: or, as some render the words, “reveal thy way unto the Lord” n; not that God is ignorant of the ways of men, and of their affairs, and of their wants and necessities, but it is their duty to ask, and it is his delight to hear; they may come and use freedom with him, and tell him their whole case, and leave it with him, believing he will supply all their need: or, as others render it, “roll thy way on the Lord” o; see Ps 55:22<\/span>; meaning not the burden of sin, nor the weight of affliction, but any affair of moment and importance that lies heavy upon the mind;<\/p>\n trust also in him<\/strong>; it is an ease to the mind to spread it before the Lord, who sympathizes with his people, supports them under and brings them through their difficulties;<\/p>\n and he shall bring [it] to pass<\/strong>; as he does whatever he has appointed and determined shall be, and whatever he has promised, and whatever will be for his own glory and his people’s good.<\/p>\n n , Sept. “revela”, V. L. Junius Tremellius, Piscator so the Targum, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis. o “Devolve super Jehovam”, Tigurine version.<\/p>\n The lxx erroneously renders (= , Psa 22:9<\/span>) by instead of , 1Pe 5:7<\/span>: roll the burden of cares of thy life’s way upon Jahve, leave the guidance of thy life entirely to Him, and to Him alone, without doing anything in it thyself: He will gloriously accomplish (all that concerns thee): , as in Ps 22:32; 52:11; cf. Pro 16:3<\/span>, and Paul Gerhardt’s Befiehl du deine Wege<\/em>, “Commit thou all thy ways,” etc. The perfect in Psa 37:6<\/span> is a continuation of the promissory . , as in Jer 51:10<\/span>, signifies to set forth: He will bring to light thy misjudged righteousness like the light (the sun, Job 31:26<\/span>; Job 37:21<\/span>, and more especially the morning sun, Pro 4:18<\/span>), which breaks through the darkness; and thy down-trodden right ( is the pausal form of the singular beside Mugrash<\/em>) like the bright light of the noon-day: cf. Isa 58:10<\/span>, as on Psa 37:4<\/span>, Isa 58:14<\/span>.<\/p>\n 5. Roll (22) thy ways upon Jehovah. Here David illustrates and confirms the doctrine contained in the preceding verse. In order that God may accomplish our desires, it behoves us to cast all our cares upon him in the exercise of hope and patience. Accordingly, we are taught from this passage how to preserve our minds in tranquillity amidst anxieties, dangers, and floods of trouble. There can be no doubt, that by the term ways we are here to understand all affairs or businesses. The man, therefore, who, leaving the issue of all his affairs to the will of God, and who, patiently waiting to receive from his hand whatever he may be pleased to send, whether prosperity or adversity, casts all his cares, and every other burden which he bears, into his bosom; or, in other words, commits to him all his affairs, — such a person rolls his ways upon Jehovah Hence, David again inculcates the duty of hope and confidence in God: And trust in him By this he intimates, that we render to him the honor to which he is entitled only when we intrust to him the government and direction of our lives; and thus he provides a remedy for a disease with which almost all men are infected. Whence is it that the children of God are envious of the wicked, and are often in trouble and perplexity, and yield to excess of sorrow, and sometimes even murmur and repine, but because, by involving themselves immoderately in endless cares, and cherishing too eagerly a desire to provide for themselves irrespective of God, they plunge, as it were, into an abyss, or at least accumulate to themselves such a vast load of cares, that they are forced at last to sink under them? Desirous to provide a remedy for this evil, David warns us, that in presuming to take upon us the government of our own life, and to provide for all our affairs as if we were able to bear so great a burden, we are greatly deceived, and that, therefore, our only remedy is to fix our eyes upon the providence of God, and to draw from it consolation in all our sorrows. Those who obey this counsel shall escape that horrible labyrinth in which all men labor in vain; for when God shall once have taken the management of our affairs into his own hand, there is no reason to fear that prosperity shall ever fail us. Whence is it that he forsakes us and disappoints our expectations, if it is not because we provoke him, by pretending to greater wisdom and understanding than we possess? If, therefore, we would only permit him, he will perform his part, and will not disappoint our expectations, which he sometimes does as a just punishment for our unbelief. <\/p>\n (22) Calvin here gives the exact sense of the Hebrew verb גלל, galal. It literally signifies to roll, or to devolve; and in this passage it evidently means, Roll or devolve all thy concerns upon God; “cast thy burden upon him,” as it is in Psa 55:22<\/span>; “the metaphor being taken,” says Cresswell, “from a burden put by one who is unequal to it upon a stronger man.” But Dr Adam Clarke thinks that the idea may be taken from the camel who lies down till his load be rolled upon him. <\/p>\n (5) Commit . . .<\/strong>See margin, and Psa. 22:8<\/span>. (Comp. Pro. 16:3<\/span>.) In Psa. 55:22<\/span> the word is different.<\/p>\n 5<\/strong>. <\/strong> Commit <\/strong> Roll, devolve, <\/em> “thy way upon <\/em> the Lord.” See on 1Pe 5:7<\/span>. Psa 37:3-7<\/span> are a warm exhortation to trust alone in God, and to wait patiently his time. The words trust, delight, commit, rest, wait<\/strong>, are very emphatic.<\/p>\n Psa 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.<\/p>\n Ver. 5. Commit thy way unto the Lord<\/strong> ] Heb. Roll thy way, &c. That is, depend wholly upon him for direction and success in all thine undertakings and affairs; easing thy mind to him by prayer, and casting thyself by faith upon his care and conduct: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord,” saith David elsewhere, Volve,<\/em> i.e.<\/em> omnem necessitatem in eum exoneres<\/em> (Kimchi). <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Trust also in him<\/strong> ] Things are therefore repeated in this psalm, that they may take the better impression, and beget encouragement. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And he shall bring it to pass<\/strong> ] It, that is, whatsoever thou committest to him.<\/p>\n Commit = Roll upon, or Repose on. Compare Psa 55:22. Hebrew. galal. App-69<\/p>\n Commit: Heb. Roll thy way upon, Psa 22:8, Psa 55:22, Pro 16:3, *marg. Mat 6:25, Luk 12:22, Luk 12:29, Luk 12:30, Phi 4:6, Phi 4:7, 1Pe 5:7 <\/p>\n and: Job 22:28, Ecc 9:1, Lam 3:37, Jam 4:15 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 24:12 – I pray Gen 24:13 – I stand Gen 24:42 – prosper Gen 40:4 – the captain Gen 43:14 – And God Rth 2:11 – all that 1Sa 12:4 – General 2Ch 14:11 – rest on thee Job 5:8 – unto God Job 35:14 – trust Psa 94:15 – and all Pro 3:5 – Trust Isa 25:9 – Lo 1Ti 5:25 – cannot 1Pe 2:23 – but 1Pe 4:19 – commit<\/p>\n Psa 37:5-6. Commit thy way unto the Lord All thy cares and business, thy desires and necessities. Commend them to God by fervent prayer, referring them to his good-will, and expecting a happy issue of all from him. And he shall bring it to pass Hebrew, he shall do, or work, namely, for thee, or what is fit to be done; or what thou desirest, in the sense explained on Psa 37:4. He shall bring forth thy righteousness Namely, to the view of the world, from which it hath hitherto appeared to be hid, or eclipsed, by reproaches, and by grievous calamities, which most men are apt to mistake for tokens and punishments of great wickedness; as the light It shall be as visible to men as the light of the sun at noon-day.<\/p>\n 37:5 {d} Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.<\/p>\n (d) Do not be led by your own wisdom, but obey God and he will finish his work in you.<\/p>\n Committing one’s way to the Lord means submitting one’s life and its daily events to the will of God. If we do this, we will experience what He wants for us. Eventually God will reward our righteousness and show that our confidence was wise.<\/p>\n "An obsession with enemies and rivals cannot be simply switched off, but it can be ousted by a new focus of attention . . . It includes a deliberate redirection of one’s emotions (4a, take delight<\/span>; cf<\/span>. Paul and Silas in prison, singing as well as praying), and an entrusting of one’s career (your way<\/span>, 5) and reputation (your vindication<\/span>, 6) to Him." [Note: Kidner, p. 149.] <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n "Creative silence is a rare commodity today, even in church worship services. People cannot tolerate silence. . . . But unless we learn to wait silently before God, we will never experience His peace." [Note: Wiersbe, The . . . Wisdom . . ., p. 165.] <\/span><\/p>\n Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass. 5. Commit &c.] Lit. Roll thy way upon Jehovah: shake off and devolve upon Him all the burden of anxiety for life’s course. Cp. Pro 16:3; 1Pe 5:7. and he shall bring it to pass ] With forcible … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 37:5”<\/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-14467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14467","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=14467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>Meditation before prayer. Meditation, says St. Ambrose, is the eye wherewith we see God, and prayer is the wing wherewith we flee to Him. Prayer is not an accidental expression that comes suddenly to the mind; it is the souls recognition of its need. And to pray aright we must have been alone with ourselves before we are alone with God. Bunyan said, In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Consciousness of ignorance. We say to God, Thou and Thou only knowest the true path of life. Our ignorance is at times very humbling to us. We want to know all, and in reality we know so little. How terrible it would be if we could not commit our way unto God. How glad, then, should we be that God invites us at all times to come to Him. As Quarles says, Heavens never deaf but when mans heart is dark.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>Conscious obedience and cheerful acquiescence in his will. Dependence must end in obedience. Owen says, He who prays as he ought will endeavour to live as he prays. Can there be a more miserable man on earth than he who knows the hypocrisy of his prayers, who is inwardly conscious of his wrong state, who knows that he is living without God, and yet feels tremulous and sad about it all? He has not really returned to God. He has not realized again the value of the Saviours friendship; he cannot forsake the indulgence of some secret sin; he cannot quite quit fellowships that are risking his immortal weal. The reverences of religion still touch him with awe, the piety of the early child-home is still a memory in his manhood; he despises men who have no religion. But his will is not obedient: it cannot be said of him that he is a follower of the Lamb. Let us not slight this aspect of the subject–committing our way means conscious obedience unto God. And not merely endurance, nor passive submission, but cheerful acquiescence. This lights the smile on the sufferers face; this gives sunlight to the gloomy Catacombs. When the soul comes away from communion with God in this spirit, the ravens of anxiety and care forsake the heart. The world may know how to provoke mirth; it may amuse with sallies of wit; it may excite with sensuous joys; but all through the ages cheerfulness has been the child of faith, and has seldom forsaken the sufferer even in lifes last hours.<\/p>\n
IV. <\/strong>Committing the end to God. When and where belong to Him. Life has been quite other than most of us thought it, and so probably will death be. It would be a mean thing to wish to commit the end to God and not all that leads to it,-to rely on some mere death-bed repentance. So to live as to feel sure that when the evening comes we shall have nothing to do but to die, this is the Christians heritage. And then let the curtains be rent suddenly, or taken down gently; let the light go out in a sharp gust, or burn down in the socket slowly; this surely is what we all wish to be able to say, Father, not as I will, but as Thou wilt. (W. M. Statham.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I. <\/strong>The case supposed. This psalm represents the case, to wit, the flourishing condition of the wicked to the great prejudice and hazard of Gods people. He persuades us, in such instances, to confidence in God and patience in well-doing; and discovers the estate of pious and ungodly men to be as different, not only in the world to come, but through Gods just judgment many times even in this life, as their principles and practices have been.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The direction, or counsel.<\/p>\n
I. <\/strong>The believers present state. It is one of–<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The expectation of the church of Christ. We live between the two advents of our Lord, and the Bible teaches us to look back to the first to know how salvation was wrought, and forward to the second to know what salvation is. The first gives the title to it, the second will give possession of it. Faith looks back to the one, hope looks forward to the other. The Church of Christ will appear in its–<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"