George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 74:23
PSALM LXXIV. (CONFITEBIMUR TIBI.)
There is a just judgment to come: therefore let the wicked take care.
PSALM LXXIV. (CONFITEBIMUR TIBI.)
There is a just judgment to come: therefore let the wicked take care.
Verse Psalms 74:23. _FORGET NOT THE VOICE_] While we pray to thee for our own salvation, we call upon thee to vindicate thy injured honour: and let all the nations see that thou lovest thy followers,...
FORGET NOT THE VOICE OF THINE ENEMIES - The voice of thine enemies clamoring for the destruction of thy people. Compare Psalms 137:7. The prayer is, that God would bring deserved chastisement upon the...
Psalms 74 The Enemy in the Sanctuary _ 1. The Prayer on account of the enemy (Psalms 74:1)_ 2. The work of the enemy (Psalms 74:4) 3. Intercession for intervention ...
LXXIV. The date may be fixed with certainty and that within narrow limits. The Jews are suffering extreme distress, but apparently by no fault of their own, for there is no confession of sin. The pers...
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. Al-taschith. Destroy not. See App-65....
A final appeal. Elsewhere the Psalmist prays -plead my cause" (Psalms 43:1), but Israel's cause is God's cause: His honour is at stake. _the foolish man_ The fool, the members of -the foolish people,...
Emboldened by his contemplation of the power of God in history and in nature the Psalmist returns to prayer....
_thine enemies_ Thine adversaries, as in Psalms 74:4. _increaseth_ Rather, ascendeth (R.V.), to heaven, challenging Thee to act. Cp. Isaiah 37:29....
PSALMS 74 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Ruthless Injuries to the Sanctuary and Oppression in the Land by an Enemy, call forth Expostulation with God for his quiescence. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 74:1-3 a, In...
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. -The prayer (Psalms 74:1) resumed and expanded. Verse 18. REMEMBER THIS - answering to...
INCREASETH] RV 'ascendeth.'...
Psalms 74, 79 seem to reflect the same historical situation, and are usually ascribed to the same author. Both were written in a time of national calamity, when the Temple was profaned (Psalms 74), an...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ KEEP YOUR PROMISE! PSALMS 74 Jesus said, "One stone will not stay on another. They will all become broken". (Ma
These verses show that the psalm was actually composed amidst the dark days it describes. It ends in expostulatory prayer, with as yet no brighter gleam of hope than prayer itself implies — and that w...
אַל ־תִּ֭שְׁכַּח קֹ֣ול צֹרְרֶ֑יךָ שְׁאֹ֥ון קָ֝מֶ֗יךָ...
Psalms 74:1 Two periods only correspond to the circumstances described in this psalm and its companion (Psalms 79:1)-namely, the Chaldean invasion and sack of Jerusalem, and the persecution under Anti...
“PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE, O GOD” Psalms 74:12 Yet! Psalms 74:12, r.v. There is always some compensating and consolatory thought. God is in the background of our thought. Not only _the_ King, but _my_ K...
This is a great complaint, but it is a complaint of faith. Hardly a gleam of light is found throughout. The singer sits in the midst of national desolation and pours out his soul to God in passionate...
REFLECTIONS READER, behold in this Psalm, the best and strongest arguments for the church to plead in sad times, namely, God's great name, and the security of his own honour in the salvation by Jesus....
The prayer closeth with a repetition of the two very powerful arguments; God's own cause, and the malice of the enemies. As if the church should say, It matters not what becomes of us; but, Lord, thin...
Psalms 74 complains of the hostile desolation of the sanctuary, when rebuilt in the land. God's enemies, as faith here calls them, roar in the congregations. Man's ensigns, not God's, are the signs of...
FORGET NOT THE VOICE OF THINE ENEMIES,.... Their roaring in the midst of the sanctuary and the congregation, Psalms 74:4, their reproaching and blaspheming voice, Psalms 74:10, THE TUMULT OF THOSE TH...
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. Ver. 23. _The tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth daily_] Heb. ascendeth,...
_O let not the oppressed return ashamed_ From thee, and from the throne of thy grace, to which they have recourse in this their distressed condition. “It is for the honour of God that they who apply t...
Forget not the voice of Thine enemies, their sneering blasphemies; THE TUMULT OF THOSE THAT RISE UP AGAINST THEE, in open rebellion against His sovereign rule, INCREASETH CONTINUALLY, rising up threat...
PRAYER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Asaph, a prophetic psalm, foretelling some of the afflictions which would befall the Church of God, in the Old Testament as wel...
INCREASETH: _ Heb._ ascendeth...
18-23 The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten...
THE VOICE; their insulting and reproachful expressions against time, as well as against us. THE TUMULT, i.e. the tumultuous noise of the loud clamours. INCREASETH, Heb. _ascendeth_, to wit, into heave...
Psalms 74:23 forget H7911 (H8799) voice H6963 enemies H6887 (H8802) tumult H7588 up H6965 (H8801) increases...
CONTENTS: The deplorable condition of God's people spread before Him with petition for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: The desolations of God's house cannot but grieve the believer m...
Title. _Maschil of Asaph;_ that is, instruction, as Psalms 32. The EDDA is the title of the Icelandic poem, which also signifies instruction. This mournful ode is also alleged to have been written in...
_O God, why hast Thou cast us off for ever?_ why doth Thine anger smoke against the sheep of Thy pasture? THE WAIL AND PRAYER OF A TRUE PATRIOT I. The wail (Psalms 74:1). 1. Some communities of men...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:1. This psalm, a community lament, is a cry of anguish over the destruction of the temple. It recounts God’s mighty deeds in the past, especially the exodus. Past events...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:18 The psalm goes on to plead with God, REMEMBER THIS. There is no appeal to the people’s merit. Rather, the appeal is HAVE REGARD FOR THE COVENANT and defend your
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“A Maschil of Asaph,” i.e., an Instruction of Asaph, a Didactic Song by Asaph. See introduction to Psalms 1. “But _here_ we cannot have the least idea of the authorship...
EXPOSITION "THE misery of the Jews is here at its deepest". The psalmist describes Jerusalem as fallen into "perpetual ruins" (Psalms 74:3). The temple is violated (Psalms 74:3); its carved work is ru...
Psa 74:1-23 is one of those psalms where the psalmist again is speaking of the desolation that is come, and the apparent quietness of God in the face of the desolation. God didn't do anything to stop...
Isaiah 37:29; Jonah 1:2; Lamentations 2:16; Psalms 10:11; Psalms 10:12