Psalms 32:3-13

3 cantate ei canticum novum bene psallite in vociferatione

4 quia rectum est verbum Domini et omnia opera eius in fide

5 diligit misericordiam et iudicium misericordia Domini plena est terra

6 verbo Domini caeli firmati sunt et spiritu oris eius omnis virtus eorum

7 congregans sicut in utre aquas maris ponens in thesauris abyssos

8 timeat Dominum omnis terra ab eo autem commoveantur omnes inhabitantes orbem

9 quoniam ipse dixit et facta sunt ipse mandavit et creata sunt

10 Dominus dissipat consilia gentium reprobat autem cogitationes populorum %et reprobat consilia principum;

11 consilium autem Domini in aeternum manet cogitationes cordis eius in generatione et generationem

12 beata gens cuius est Dominus Deus eius populus quem elegit in hereditatem sibi

13 de caelo respexit Dominus vidit omnes filios hominum

Psalms 32:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 32

\\<<[A Psalm], of David, Maschil>>\\. This is the first of the psalms that bears this title: some think it is the name of a musical instrument, on which this psalm was sung; others the first word of a song, to the tune of which it was sung, as Aben Ezra; some say it is so called, because it was explained by an interpreter, as Jarchi; and the Rabbins {k} say, that every psalm that is called "Maschil" was dictated by an interpreter: the Targum renders it "a good understanding"; and the word properly signifies "instruction", or "causing to understand" {l}; and it may be the apostle has some reference to this title in 1Co 14:15; It is an instructive psalm; a didascalic ode, as Junius renders it: it gives an account how the psalmist was instructed under a dispensation of Providence; and was brought to a sense of sin, and acknowledgment of it; and was favoured with a discovery of pardoning grace; and in it he takes upon him to instruct others, Ps 32:8,9, and does instruct in the doctrine of the pardon of sin by the grace of God. {k} Elias Levita in Tishbi, p. 271. {l} lykvm "erudiens", Musculus, Munster, Vatablus, Montanus; "informans", Gejerus; "an instructing psalm", Ainsworth.