Psalms 73:10

Old Testament Poetry/Hymns ASV (1901)

What does Psalms 73:10 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.
Psalms 73:10 — American Standard Version

Context — Psalms 73

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
10Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.

What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“Therefore his people return hither, etc.] Either the true people of God, and so the Targum, the people of the Lord, and whom the psalmist owned for his people; for the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, read “my people”; who seeing the prosperity of the wicked, and feeling their own afflictions, return to the same way of thinking, and fall by the same snare and temptation as the psalmist did; or such who were only the people of God by profession, but hypocrites, who observing the trouble that attends a religious life, and the prosperity of wicked men, return from the good ways of God they have outwardly walked in for some time, to the conversation of these men,…”
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Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“Therefore his people - Those that truly love God; the pious in the earth. Return hither - Return to this subject. In their musings - their meditations on divine things - they come back to this inquiry. The subject occupies their minds, and they recur to it as a subject which perplexes them; as a thing that is incomprehensible. They think it over again and again, and are more and more perplexed and embarrassed. The difficulties which these facts suggest about God and his government are such that they cannot solve them. And waters of a full cup are wrung out to them - literally, “waters of fullness;” or, full waters. The Chaldee renders this, “Many tears flow from them.” The Septuagint, and…”
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley (1703–1791) · Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament and Old Testament notes · 18th-century historical commentary
“Turn - To this wicked company. Waters - And partake of the same prosperity with their leaders. God seems to give them a full cup of consolation, as if he would wring out all his blessings upon them. Psalms 73:12”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“waters: Psa 75:8 Psalms 73:11”
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