George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 79:10
Sight. Hebrew, "Thou didst dig before it," (Montanus) making the ground ready. (Calmet) --- The cloud went before the Israelites. (Worthington) --- Land of promise. (Haydock)
Sight. Hebrew, "Thou didst dig before it," (Montanus) making the ground ready. (Calmet) --- The cloud went before the Israelites. (Worthington) --- Land of promise. (Haydock)
Verse Psalms 79:10. _WHERE_ IS _THEIR GOD?_] Show _where_ thou art by rising up for our redemption, and the infliction of deserved punishment upon our enemies....
WHEREFORE SHOULD THE HEATHEN SAY WHERE IS THEIR GOD? - The nations. Why should such a course of forbearance toward them be pursued as to lead them to ask the question whether God is able to punish the...
Psalms 79 Lamentation and Prayer on Account of the Enemy _ 1. The Enemy in Jerusalem (Psalms 79:1)_ 2. How Long, Lord? (Psalms 79:5) Zion, the place He loves, mentioned in the preceding Psalm, is...
LXXIX. THE SANCTUARY PROFANED. The Ps. is of the same date as Psalms 74. It does not suit the earlier destruction of the city and the Temple in 586 B.C. The words war, overthrow, and the like do not o...
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Compare Psalms 79:5. BY. Supply Ellipsis from the preceding line: "[Let] the avenging... [be known]", &c....
Repeated prayers for deliverance for the honour of God's Name....
_Wherefore_&c. The same plea in Psalms 115:2 (cp. also Psalms 115:1 with Psalms 79:9); Joel 2:17. Cp....
LET HIM BE KNOWN AMONG THE HEATHEN— _Make thyself known among the nations._ Green....
PSALMS 79 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Invasion, Desecration, Demolition, Massacre and Derision call forth Lamentation, Expostulation, Petition and Pleading; and the Hope of Deliverance evokes a Promise of Per...
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. WHEREFORE SHOULD THE HEATHEN SAY,...
For the occasion and date of this Ps. see intro. to Psalms 74. It gives a pathetic picture of the calamities that have fallen upon God's people (Psalms 79:1), entreats God to withdraw His anger from t...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ FOR THE *GLORY OF YOUR NAME PSALMS 79 For the *kingdom is always yours and the power is always yours and the *glory is always yours ...
WHEREFORE. — Taken from Joel 2:17. LET HIM BE KNOWN. — Better, _Let it be known, i.e.,_ where God is. Let the answer to the question be given in vengeance, and let us see it....
לָ֤מָּה ׀ יֹאמְר֣וּ הַ גֹּויִם֮ אַיֵּ֪ה אֱֽלֹהֵ֫יהֶ֥ם...
Psalms 79:1 THE same national agony which was the theme of Psalms 74:1, forced the sad strains of this psalm from the singer's heart. There, the profanation of the Temple and here, the destruction of...
“HELP US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION” Psalms 79:1 It was the period of the Chaldean invasion. This cry of horror went forth from the heart of the Chosen People, who had looked upon the sacred shrine as i...
This is a cry of distress. The conditions described are those of overwhelming national calamity. The country and the city of God are overrun and spoiled by ruthless enemies. The people have been slain...
Here is another most glorious argument for the church, or the sinner s to take to the mercy-seat; and furnishes another testimony that it is dictated by the Spirit of God. Joshua 7:6....
10._Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? _Here the people of God, in urging his name as a plea at the throne of grace: do so in a different sense from that in which they had urged it before...
Psalms 79 refers, in the plainest terms, to the inroad of the heathen, especially the northern army (Joel 2 refers to a second attack, in which the cry of the psalm is answered; Isaiah speaks of both)...
WHEREFORE SHOULD THE HEATHEN SAY, WHERE IS THEIR GOD?.... They boast of, and put their confidence in, and expect salvation from? he does not appear for them, he is not with them; he has forsaken them,...
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the blood of thy servants [which is] shed. Ver. 10. _Where is their God?_...
_Help us, O God of our salvation_ From whom we have often received, and from whom alone we now expect salvation, that is, deliverance, or protection; _for the glory of thy name_ Which is now obscured...
Wherefore should the heathen, in taking note of the desolation of the Church, SAY, WHERE IS THEIR GOD? the doubt expressed in their derision being a form of blasphemy. LET HIM BE KNOWN AMONG THE HEATH...
PRAYER IN THE MIDST OF OPPRESSION. A psalm of Asaph, similar in tone and content to Psalms 74, though any special event which might have occasioned the writing of this hymn is not known....
REVENGING: _ Heb._ vengeance...
6-13 Those who persist in ignorance of God, and neglect of prayer, are the ungodly. How unrighteous soever men were, the Lord was righteous in permitting them to do what they did. Deliverances from t...
THEIR GOD; he whom they served, and of whom they boasted. He is lost and gone, or grown impotent or idle. LET HIM BE KNOWN AMONG THE HEATHEN, by the execution of his judgments upon them, according to...
Psalms 79:10 nations H1471 say H559 (H8799) God H430 known H3045 (H8735) nations H1471 sight H5869 avenging...
CONTENTS: The deplorable condition of God's people and prayer for relief. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: If God's people degenerate through sin from what their father's were, they may expect th...
Title. _A psalm of Asaph,_ an elegy over the slain, as is supposed, when Shishak king of Egypt invaded Judea with a great army, besieging the cities and slaughtering the people. Sir Isaac Newton think...
_Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God?_ A BAD SPIRIT AND A THEOLOGICAL ERROR I. A bad spirit. “Where is their God?” 1. There is a tendency in wicked men to deal in it. This spirit a...
_O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance._ THE INHUMANITY OF MAN AND THE MIXTURE OF GOOD AND EVIL I. Here is a fact revealing the inhumanity of man and the permissive government of God....
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 79:1. This is a community lament. It was occasioned by a great disaster, most likely the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon. It has many similarities to...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 79:8 The singer now faces the basic problem: God’s people have been untrue to him and must seek his forgiveness. The psalm weaves two themes together. The first is the understanda...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—_“A Psalm of Asaph_. “See Introduction to Psalms 74. _Occasion_.—This Psalm is closely related to the 74th, and both most probably refer to the devastation and desecrat...
EXPOSITION THIS is "a psalm of complaint, closely parallel to Psalms 74:1." (Cheyne), and must, like that psalm, be referred to the time of the Babylonian conquest. It shows us the Holy Land occupied...
O God, heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps (Psalms 78:1). So this goes out to the future to the time when the temple was laid...
Exodus 6:7; Exodus 7:5; Ezekiel 36:23; Ezekiel 39:21; Ezekiel 39:22;...