Sálmarnir 73:21

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21 Þegar beiskja var í hjarta mínu og kvölin nísti hug minn,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my heart: Psalms 73:3, Psalms 37:1, Psalms 37:7

in my: Job 16:13, Lamentations 3:13

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:38 - the plague Psalms 16:7 - my reins

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus my heart was grieved,.... Not with his own sins, nor with the sins of the wicked, but at their prosperity; for this is an account of himself, while under the temptation, and before he went into the sanctuary of the Lord; or when he was "leavened" r, with the old leaven of wickedness, and envy, and indignation; he was in a ferment, so Plautus s uses the phrase for being in anger and wrath; he swelled, as what is leavened does, against God and his providence: or was "soured" t; he was out of humour and angry with God, or was exasperated and provoked at the favours bestowed upon the wicked. Some render it "inflamed" u, made hot; not with the love of God, and meditation upon it, but with wrath and indignation:

and I was pricked in my reins; disturbed and distracted in his thoughts, felt a great deal of pain in his mind, while he was considering the prosperity of the wicked; which was as a sword in his bones, and as an arrow shot into his reins; see Lamentations 3:13.

r יתחמץ "effervesceret fermenti instar", Tigurine version; "in fermento esset", Cocceius; so Ainsworth. s Casina, Act. 2. Sc. 5. v. 17. t Acescet Montanus; "quasi aceto acri perfundebatur", Vatablus. u "Inflammatum est", V. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thus my heart was grieved - literally, and more expressively, “was soured.” The meaning is, that his heart was grieved, pained, dissatisfied. His mind was embittered, and he was rendered unhappy, by the views which he cherished about God, as doubting the wisdom and justice of his dealings with people - and about people, as being envious at their prosperity.

And I was pricked in my reins - The reins are often in the Scriptures represented as the seat of the thoughts or affections. See the notes at Psalms 7:9. The word rendered “pricked” means to sharpen, as a sword; and then, to pierce and penetrate as a sword does. The idea is, that these thoughts, so distressing and painful, seemed to be like a sharp sword penetrating to the seat of life.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 73:21. Thus may heart was grieved — The different views which I got of this subject quite confounded me; I was equally astonished at their sudden overthrow and my own ignorance. I felt as if I were a beast in stupidity. I permitted my mind to be wholly occupied with sensible things, like the beasts that perish, and did not look into a future state; nor did I consider, nor submit to, the wise designs of an unerring Providence.