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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 41:8
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“Something awful has overwhelmed him,and he won’t rise again from where he lies!”
"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
They say, "A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies."
They say, "He has a terrible disease. He will never get out of bed again."
They say, ‘An awful disease overwhelms him, and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.'
"A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him; And when he lies down, he will not rise up again."
"A wicked thing is poured out upon him, So that when he lies down, he will not get up again."
"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
A mischiefe is light vpon him, and he that lyeth, shall no more rise.
"A vile thing is poured out upon him,That when he lies down, he will not rise up again."
"A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!"
and they say, "You have some fatal disease! You'll never get well."
All who hate me whisper together against me, imagining the worst about me.
A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.
They say, "He did something wrong. That is why he is sick. He will never get well."
They conceive unjust accusations against me; they say, Now that he lies sick in his bed, he shall rise up no more.
They say, "He is fatally ill; he will never leave his bed again."
"A ruinous thing is poured out on him, and now that he lies down, he will not rise up again."
saying , A thing of ruin is poured out on him; and, He who lies down shall not rise again.
They haue geuen a wicked sentence vpon me: when he lyeth, he shal ryse vp nomore.
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him; And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.
All that hate me whisper together against me, against me do they devise my hurt:
An euill disease, say they, cleaueth fast vnto him; and now that he lyeth, he shall rise vp no more.
[They sayde] some great mischiefe is lyghted vpon hym: and he that lyeth sicke on his bed, shall ryse vp no more.
They denounced a wicked word against me, saying, Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again?
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Thei ordeineden an yuel word ayens me; Whether he that slepith, schal not leie to, that he rise ayen?
An evil disease, [they say], cleaves fast to him; And now that he lies he shall rise up no more.
An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast to him: and [now] that he lieth he shall rise no more.
"An evil disease," they say, "clings to him. And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more."
"He has some fatal disease," they say. "He will never get out of that bed!"
"A bad thing has come over him. When he lies down, he will not rise again."
They think that a deadly thing has fastened on me, that I will not rise again from where I lie.
An infliction of the Abandoned One hath been fixed upon him, and, now that he hath lien down, he will not again rise.
(40-9) They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
They say, "A deadly thing has fastened upon him; he will not rise again from where he lies."
A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again.
"A wicked thing is poured out upon him, That when he lies down, he will not rise up again."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
An evil disease: Heb. A thing of Belial, Psalms 38:3-7, Job 2:7, Job 2:8, Luke 13:16
and: Psalms 3:2, Psalms 71:11, Matthew 27:41-46, Matthew 27:63, Matthew 27:64
Reciprocal: Job 33:26 - pray Psalms 31:11 - especially Psalms 35:15 - in mine Psalms 38:7 - my loins Psalms 103:3 - healeth Psalms 138:7 - Though I walk Lamentations 2:16 - we have seen
Cross-References
As time went on, it happened that the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt crossed their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the head cupbearer and the head baker, and put them in custody under the captain of the guard; it was the same jail where Joseph was held. The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to see to their needs. After they had been in custody for a while, the king's cupbearer and baker, while being held in the jail, both had a dream on the same night, each dream having its own meaning. When Joseph arrived in the morning, he noticed that they were feeling low. So he asked them, the two officials of Pharaoh who had been thrown into jail with him, "What's wrong? Why the long faces?" They said, "We dreamed dreams and there's no one to interpret them." Joseph said, "Don't interpretations come from God? Tell me the dreams." First the head cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: "In my dream there was a vine in front of me with three branches on it: It budded, blossomed, and the clusters ripened into grapes. I was holding Pharaoh's cup; I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave the cup to Pharaoh." Joseph said, "Here's the meaning. The three branches are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will get you out of here and put you back to your old work—you'll be giving Pharaoh his cup just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. Only remember me when things are going well with you again—tell Pharaoh about me and get me out of this place. I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. And since I've been here, I've done nothing to deserve being put in this hole." When the head baker saw how well Joseph's interpretation turned out, he spoke up: "My dream went like this: I saw three wicker baskets on my head; the top basket had assorted pastries from the bakery and birds were picking at them from the basket on my head." Joseph said, "This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days; within three days Pharaoh will take off your head, impale you on a post, and the birds will pick your bones clean." And sure enough, on the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday and he threw a feast for all his servants. He set the head cupbearer and the head baker in places of honor in the presence of all the guests. Then he restored the head cupbearer to his cupbearing post; he handed Pharaoh his cup just as before. And then he impaled the head baker on a post, following Joseph's interpretations exactly. But the head cupbearer never gave Joseph another thought; he forgot all about him.
They said, "We dreamed dreams and there's no one to interpret them." Joseph said, "Don't interpretations come from God? Tell me the dreams."
Two years passed and Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile River. Seven cows came up out of the Nile, all shimmering with health, and grazed on the marsh grass. Then seven other cows, all skin and bones, came up out of the river after them and stood by them on the bank of the Nile. The skinny cows ate the seven healthy cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
When morning came, he was upset. He sent for all the magicians and sages of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but they couldn't interpret them to him.
The head cupbearer then spoke up and said to Pharaoh, "I just now remembered something—I'm sorry, I should have told you this long ago. Once when Pharaoh got angry with his servants, he locked me and the head baker in the house of the captain of the guard. We both had dreams on the same night, each dream with its own meaning. It so happened that there was a young Hebrew slave there with us; he belonged to the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us, each dream separately. Things turned out just as he interpreted. I was returned to my position and the head baker was impaled."
Pharaoh at once sent for Joseph. They brought him on the run from the jail cell. He cut his hair, put on clean clothes, and came to Pharaoh.
"The meaning is what I said earlier: God is letting Pharaoh in on what he is going to do. Seven years of plenty are on their way throughout Egypt. But on their heels will come seven years of famine, leaving no trace of the Egyptian plenty. As the country is emptied by famine, there won't be even a scrap left of the previous plenty—the famine will be total. The fact that Pharaoh dreamed the same dream twice emphasizes God's determination to do this and do it soon.
Pharaoh called in his wise men and sorcerers. The magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their incantations: each man threw down his staff and they all turned into snakes. But then Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.
But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their incantations. Still Pharaoh remained stubborn. He wouldn't listen to them as God had said. He turned on his heel and went home, never giving it a second thought. But all the Egyptians had to dig inland from the river for water because they couldn't drink the Nile water. Seven days went by after God had struck the Nile.
But again the magicians did the same thing using their incantations—they also produced frogs in Egypt.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him,.... Not any bodily one, of which they might hope he would die; much less any foul disease, the disease of sin; but, as the phrase may be rendered, "a word of Belial" y; that is, a wicked charge or accusation; a charge of sin brought against him by the sons of Belial, as of blasphemy and sedition, which they concluded would be fastened upon him, and stick by him, and in which they should succeed to their wishes; or else the shameful punishment the death of the cross, inflicted on him, which they fancied would fix an indelible mark of infamy and scandal on him, since cursed is he that hangeth on a tree;
and [now] that he lieth, let him rise up no more; has much as he was dead, of which they had full proof, and was laid in the grave, his tomb watched, and the stone rolled to it sealed; they thought all was safe, and it was all over with him, that he would never rise again, as he had given out, and his disciples incapable of committing a fraud they afterwards accused them with: this, according to the above learned writer, see Psalms 41:6, was said by Absalom, as he thinks Ahithophel is the person designed in Psalms 41:9.
y ××ר ××××¢× "verbum Belijahal", Montanus, Musculus, Cocceius, Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
An evil disease - Margin, âa thing of Belial.â The Hebrew is literally âa word of Belial.â This has been very variously understood and interpreted. The Septuagint renders it: λοÌγον ÏαÏαÌνομον logon paranomon - wicked word; âa wicked determinationâ (Thompson); that is, they formed a wicked purpose against him, to wit, by saying that he was now confined to his bed, and could not rise again. The Latin Vulgate renders it in a similar manner: Verbum iniquitum constituerunt adversum me. Luther: âThey have formed a wicked device (Bubenstuck) against me;â they behave in a knavish or wicked manner. DeWette, âDestruction (Verderben) or punishnnent (Strafe) is poured upon him.â The term rendered âdiseaseâ means properly âwordâ or âthing;â and Prof. Alexander renders it, âA word of Belial is poured upon him.â The word rendered âevil, Belial,â means literally âwithout useâ - ××××¢× belıÌyaâal - from ××× belıÌy, ânot or without,â and ××¢× yaâal, âuse or profit.â
Then it means worthlessness, wickedness, destruction; and hence, in connection with man, denotes one who is wicked, worthless, abandoned. It is difficult to determine its meaning here. The connection Psalms 41:3 would seem to suggest the idea adopted by our translators; the words themselves would seem rather to convey the idea of some reproach, or harsh saying - some vain, wicked, malicious words that were uttered against him. That there was disease in the case, and that the psalm was composed in view of it, and of the treatment which the author experienced from those who had been his professed friends when suffering under it, seems to me to be manifest from Psalms 41:1, Psalms 41:3-4, Psalms 41:8; but it is probable that the reference in this expression is not to the disease, but to the words or the conduct of his calumniators. It is evident from the pronoun him - the third person - that this refers, as our translators have indicated by the words they say to something that they said in regard to him; something which they affirmed as the result of their observations on his condition, Psalms 41:6-7. The true idea, therefore, I think is this: âThey say - that is, those who came to see me said - A âword of evilâ - âa sentence of evil or destructionâ - is poured upon him. He is suffering under such a âword of destruction;â or, such a word (that is, sentence) as will involve his destruction, by way of punishment for his sins; therefore all is over with him, and he must die. He can hope to rise no more.â This would express the idea that they regarded his death as certain, for he seemed to be under a sentence which made that sure.
Cleaveth fast unto him - Or rather, âis poured upon him.â The word used here - צ×ּק tsuÌq - means:
(1) to be narrow, straitened, compressed; and then
(2) to pour out - as metal is poured out Job 28:2, or as words are poured out in prayer Isaiah 26:16.
Here it would seem to mean that such a sentence was poured upon him, or that he had become submerged or swallowed up under it. It was like the pouring out of a torrent on him, overwhelming him with floods of water, so that he could not hope to escape, or to rise again.
And now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more - There is no hope for him; no prospect that he will ever get up again. They felt that they might indulge their remarks, therefore, freely, as he would not be able to take revenge on them, and their expectations and hopes were about to be accomplished by his death. Compare Psalms 41:5. As a part of his sufferings, all this was aggravated by the fact that they regarded those sufferings as full proof of his guilt; that he could not reply to their accusations; and that be was about to die under that imputation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 41:8. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him — ××ר ××××¢× ×צ×ק ×× debar beliyaal yatsuk bo, a thing, word, or pestilence of Belial, is poured out upon him. His disease is of no common sort; it is a diabolical malady.
He shall rise up no more. — His disease is incurable without a miracle; and he is too much hated of God to have one wrought for him. Some apply this to the death and resurrection of Christ; he lieth-he is dead and buried; he shall never rise again from the dead.
