Psalms 73:10

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
people	עַמּ֣וֹ a.Mo	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
return	יָשׁ֣וּב ya.Shuv	H7725	to turn back (hence · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
hither	הֲלֹ֑ם ha.Lom	H1988	hither · adverb
waters	וּמֵ֥י u.Mei	H4325	water · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct
full	מָ֝לֵ֗א ma.Le'	H4392	full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally) · adjective, masculine singular absolute
out	יִמָּ֥צוּ yi.Ma.tzu	H4680	to suck out · verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Psalms 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereo…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:1-14

This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he spoke by way of check to himself for what he had been thinking of. "However it be, yet God is good." Though wicked people receive many of the gifts of his providential bounty, yet we must own that he is, in a peculiar manner, good to Israel; they have favours from him which others have not. The psalmist designs an account of a temptation he was strongly assaulted with - to envy the prosperity of the wicked, a common temptation, which has tried the graces of many of the saints. Now in this accoun…

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John Gill on Psalms 73:10

Therefore his people return hither,.... Either the true people of God, and so the Targum, the people of the Lord, and whom the psalmist owned for his people; for the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, read "my people"; who seeing the prosperity of the wicked, and feeling their own afflictions, return to the same way of thinking, and fall by the same snare and temptation as the psalmist did; or such who were only the people of God by profession, but hypocrites, who observing the trouble that attends a religious life, and the prosperity of wicked men, return from the good ways of God they have outwardly walked in for some time, to the conversation of these men, a…

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John Calvin on Psalms 73:10-14

Psalm 73:10-14 10. On this account his people will return hither, and waters of a full cup will be wrung out to them. 11. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? 12. Behold! These are the ungodly, and yet they enjoy repose [or quietness] for ever: they heap up riches. 13. Surely I have purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands daily. [174] 14. And I have been scourged daily, and my chastisement has been every morning. 10. On this account his people will return hither. Commentators wrest this sentence into a variety of meanings. In the first place, as the relative his is used, without an antecedent indicating whose people are spoken of, some understand…

The Church Fathers

"Therefore there shall return hither My people" [Psalm 73:10]. Now Asaph himself is returning hither. For he saw these things abound to unrighteous men, he saw them abound to proud men: he is returning to God, and is beginning to inquire and discuss. But when? "When full days shall be found in them." What is "full days"? "But when there came the fullness of time, God sent His Son." [Galatians 4:4] This is the very fullness of time, when He came to teach men that things temporal should be despised, that they should not esteem as a great matter whatever object evil men covet, that they should suffer whatever evil men fear. He became the way, He recalled us to inward thought, admonished us of what should be sought of God. And see from what thought reacting upon itself, and in a manner recalling the waves of its impulse, he does pass over unto choosing true things.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 73

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Dictionary and topics

Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Afflictions Of The Wicked, The · Are often sudden — Are often sudden
Blindness · 21:14;22:13,14; — 21:14;22:13,14;
Cup · .Of — .Of
Drunkenness · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE
Integrity · 16:19,20; — 16:19,20;
Punishment Of The Wicked, The · In this life by: Put in slippery places — In this life by: Put in slippery places
Rich, The · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Worldliness · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 73:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:1-14

John Gill on Psalms 73:10

John Calvin on Psalms 73:10-14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 73:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:1-14

John Gill on Psalms 73:10

John Calvin on Psalms 73:10-14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 73:7-10

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 73:9

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 73:10