Psalm 78:21-31

21 Daarom hoorde de HEERE, en werd verbolgen; en een vuur werd ontstoken tegen Jakob, en toorn ging ook op tegen Israel;

22 Omdat zij in God niet geloofden, en op Zijn heil niet vertrouwden.

23 Daar Hij den wolken van boven gebood, en de deuren des hemels opende;

24 En regende op hen het Man om te eten, en gaf hun hemels koren.

25 Een iegelijk at het brood der Machtigen; Hij zond hun teerkost tot verzadiging.

26 Hij dreef den oostenwind voort in den hemel, en voerde den zuidenwind aan door Zijn sterkte;

27 En regende op hen vlees als stof, en gevleugeld gevogelte als zand der zeeen;

28 En deed het vallen in het midden zijns legers, rondom zijn woningen.

29 Toen aten zij, en werden zeer zat; zodat Hij hun hun lust toebracht.

30 Zij waren nog niet vervreemd van hun lust; hun spijs was nog in hun mond,

31 Als Gods toorn tegen hen opging, dat Hij van hun vetsten doodde, en de uitgelezenen van Israel nedervelde.

Psalm 78:21-31 Meaning and Commentary

Maschil of Asaph. Or for "Asaph" {f}; a doctrinal and "instructive" psalm, as the word "Maschil" signifies; see Psalm 32:1, which was delivered to Asaph to be sung; the Targum is, "the understanding of the Holy Spirit by the hands of Asaph." Some think David was the penman of it; but from the latter part of it, in which mention is made of him, and of his government of the people of Israel, it looks as if it was wrote by another, and after his death, though not long after, since the account is carried on no further than his times; and therefore it is probable enough it was written by Asaph, the chief singer, that lived in that age: whoever was the penman of it, it is certain he was a prophet, and so was Asaph, who is called a seer, the same with a prophet, and who is said to prophesy, 2 Chronicles 29:30 and also that he represented Christ; for that the Messiah is the person that is introduced speaking in this psalm is clear from Matthew 13:34 and the whole may be considered as a discourse of his to the Jews of his time; giving them an history of the Israelites from their first coming out of Egypt to the times of David, and in it an account of the various benefits bestowed upon them, of their great ingratitude, and of the divine resentment; the design of which is to admonish and caution them against committing the like sins, lest they should be rejected of God, as their fathers were, and perish: some Jewish writers, as Arama observes, interpret this psalm of the children of Ephraim going out of Egypt before the time appointed.