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Psalms 73:21

King James Version (KJV)

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Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

Psalms 73:21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 73:21

Theological / Devotional

Thus. Or, “for.” The reason for his failure to find the solution to the problem lay in the fact that he was unable to consider the matter calmly. He “was grieved,” literally, “was soured,” the Hebrew word being used of leavening (see Ex. 12:34, 39). His heart had lost its sweetness, as if under the action of a ferment. Depressed spirits impair man’s judgment. The psalmist frankly acknowledges his error in endeavoring to solve the problem in an embittered state of mind, according to appearances, and not according to eternal values.

Reins. See on Ps. 7:9.

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