Psalms 99:8

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
answeredst	עֲנִ֫יתָ֥ם 'a.Ni.Tam	H6030	properly · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
LORD	יְהוָ֣ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹהֵינוּ֮ 'e.lo.hei.Nu	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
God	אֵ֣ל 'el	H410	strength · noun, common masculine singular absolute
forgavest	נֹ֭שֵׂא No.se'	H5375	to lift · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
vengeance	וְ֝נֹקֵ֗ם ve.no.Kem	H5358	to grudge · conjunction + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
inventions	עֲלִילוֹתָֽם a.li.lo.Tam	H5949	an exploit (of God) · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Numbers 20:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shal…
Psalms 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Jeremiah 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven t…
Ecclesiastes 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Numbers 14:20-34 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Numbers 20:24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye reb…
Deuteronomy 9:19-20 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me a…
Exodus 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 99:6–end

The happiness of Israel in God's government is here further made out by some particular instances of his administration, especially with reference to those that were, in their day, the prime leaders and most active useful governors of that people - Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, in the two former of whom the theocracy or divine government began (for they were employed to form Israel into a people) and in the last of whom that form of government, in a great measure, ended; for when the people rejected Samuel, and urged him to resign, they are said to reject God himself, that he should not be so immediately their king as he had been (Sa1 8:7), for now they would have a king, like all the nations. M…

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John Gill on Psalms 99:8

Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God,.... This is repeated to show the certainty of it, and to encourage the people of God, in all ages, to pray unto him: thou wast a God that forgavest them; even Moses, Aaron, and Samuel; for, though they were great and good men, they did not live without sin, and stood in need of pardoning grace and mercy, which they had; or rather the people for whom they prayed: so the Targum, "O God, thou wast forgiving thy people for them;'' that is, through their prayers; see Numbers 14:19, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions; their sins, which are the inventions of men, Ecclesiastes 7:29. Kimchi and others interpret this of the inventions, designs,…

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John Calvin on Psalms 99:5–end

Psalm 99:5-9 5. Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at his footstool; he [117] is holy. 6. Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who call upon his name; they called upon Jehovah, and he answered them. 7. He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: [118] they kept his testimonies, and the statute which he gave them. 8. O Jehovah our God, thou wast a God that wast favorable to them, though thou didst take vengeance upon their inventions. 9. Exalt Jehovah our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for Jehovah our God is holy. 5 Exalt Jehovah our God This exhortation is properly addressed to the Church alone, because having been made a partaker of the grace of God, she ought th…

The Church Fathers

"You heard them," he says, "O Lord our God: You were forgiving to them, O God" [Psalm 99:8]. God is not said to be forgiving toward anything but sins: when He pardons sins, then He forgives. And what had He in them to punish, so that He was forgiving in pardoning them? He was forgiving in pardoning their sins, He was also forgiving in punishing them. For what follows? "And punished all their own affections." Even in punishing them You were forgiving toward them: for not in remitting, but also in punishing their sins, have You been forgiving. Consider, my brethren, what he has taught us here: attend. God is angry with him whom, when he sins, He scourges not: for unto him to whom He is truly forgiving, He not only remits sins, that they may not injure him in a future life; but also chastens him, that he delight not in continual sin.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 99

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Dictionary and topics

Anger Of God, The · Against: Sin, in saints — Against: Sin, in saints

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 99:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 99:6–end

John Gill on Psalms 99:8

John Calvin on Psalms 99:5–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 99:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 99:6–end

John Gill on Psalms 99:8

John Calvin on Psalms 99:5–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 99:6–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 99:7

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 99:8