God. Hebrew tsauuar means, "neck." But the Septuagint have not seen the a, and translate against God. Literally, "the rock," which is one of his titles; (Berthier) and this seems preferable to "speak not with a stiff neck;" (Calmet) or "with the old neck:" (St. Jerome) though this sense is not contemptible, as the sinner's wonted pride rises against God. (Haydock)
BUT NOW THEY BREAK DOWN THE CARVED WORK THEREOF ... - literally, “But now the carvings of it together, at once, with sledge and hammers they beat down.” The carved work refers evidently to the ornamen...
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...
The R.V. gives the probable sense of these verses, but does not reproduce the pictorial tenses, which represent the work of destruction as though it were going on before the reader's eyes. Render: Th...
A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen enemies of Israel....
A MAN WAS FAMOUS, &C.— _They shew themselves as one lifts up axes an high, in the thicket of the trees._ Psalms 74:6. _But now,_ &c. Houbigant renders it in the perfect tense; and, instead of _the car...
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...
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. -The enemy has destroyed God's sanctuary and synagogues, and there are no tokens of God...
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
_וְ֭_†_עַתָּה_† פִּתּוּחֶ֣יהָ יָּ֑חַד בְּ כַשִּׁ֥יל וְ֝...
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...
THE SANCTUARY OF GOD PROFANED Psalms 74:1 This psalm probably dates from the time when the Chaldeans destroyed the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. Compare Psalms 74:8 with Jeremiah 3:13. The main e...
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...
The pleading soul here takes up many strong and unanswerable arguments to plead with God. He first sets out with reminding Jehovah, that the anger God hath manifested is against his people. Now, saith...
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...
BUT NOW THEY BREAK DOWN THE CARVED WORK THEREOF AT ONCE WITH AXES AND HAMMERS. Formerly it was an honour to be employed in cutting down a tree for the building of the temple; but now so little regard...
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. Ver. 6. _But now they break down the carved work thereof_] The Chaldeans did with military violence, and afterwards the...
_A man was famous_, &c. The meaning, according to this translation, is this: The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work,...
but now they break down the carved work thereof, the costly and artistic; paneling of the Temple, AT ONCE WITH AXES AND HAMMERS, in deliberate and ruthless vandalism, exactly as the present-day enemie...
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...
1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him....
SEE POOLE ON "PSALMS 74:5". AXES AND HAMMERS: it hath been ingeniously observed that these two words are not Hebrew, but Chaldee or Syriac words, to point out the time when this was done, even when th...
Psalms 74:6 down H1986 (H8799) work H6603 once H3162 axes H3781 hammers H3597 1 Kings 6:18,
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 74:4 Considering the importance that God himself has placed on the temple, it is horrific that the Gentiles have destroyed (PROFANED) it....
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...
1 Kings 6:18; 1 Kings 6:29; 1 Kings 6:32; 1 Kings 6:35...
Axes and hammers — These words are not Hebrew, but Chaldee or Syriack, to point out the time when this was done, even when the Chaldeans brought in their language, together with their arms, among the...