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1A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Psalms 73:1

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

  • Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

  • Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

  • For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

  • Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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…

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