Psalms 78:39

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,.... Where they were not only at his mercy, having nothing to help themselves with, but had many singular mercies bestowed upon them; and yet were…

For he remembered that they were but flesh - That they were human; that they were weak; that they were prone to err; that they were liable to fall into temptation. In his dealings with them he took…

In these verses,

I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Psa…

For&c. And he remembered &c. Fleshdenotes the frailty of human nature, including moral as well as physical weakness: a wind&c. symbolises the transitoriness of human life. Cp. Psa 56:4; Psa 103:14…