PSALM LXXIX. (QUI REGIS ISRAEL.)
A prayer for the Church in tribulation, commemorating God's former favours.
River Euphrates, from the Mediterranean, Red, and Indian seas. (Haydock) (Deuteronomy xi. 24.)
Verse Psalms 79:12. _SEVENFOLD INTO THEIR BOSOM_] That is, Let them get in this world what they deserve for the cruelties they have inflicted on us. Let them suffer in captivity, who now have us in bo...
AND RENDER UNTO OUR NEIGHBORS - That is, the neighbors who had reproached them; the surrounding people who had seen these calamities come upon them, and who had regarded these calamities as proof that...
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...
Repeated prayers for deliverance for the honour of God's Name....
_our neighbours_ Cp. Psalms 79:4: the nations around, such as the Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites, which instead of sympathising rejoiced at Israel's calamity. Cp. Ezekiel 25. _sevenfold_ Cp. Genesi...
AND RENDER, &C.— This seems to respect the Edomites chiefly. See Psalms 137. REFLECTIONS.—In this world the church of Christ is in a militant state: many are the troubles of the righteous; and whithe...
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...
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. AND RENDER UNTO OUR NEIGHBOURS SEVEN-FOLD INTO THEIR BOSOM - (Isaiah 65:6.) The...
The prayer for vengeance expresses a moral sentiment less advanced than that of the NT. It springs, however, not from mere personal or national vindictiveness, but from a sincere religious indignation...
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 ...
NEIGHBOURS. — The sharpest pang of the suffering came from the taunts of “neighbours. (See Psalms 79:4.) SEVENFOLD. — As in Genesis 4:15. We naturally contrast the law of Christian forgiveness. INTO...
וְ הָ֘שֵׁ֤ב לִ שְׁכֵנֵ֣ינוּ שִׁ֭בְעָתַיִם אֶל...
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...
What is here spoken by way of prayer, is also to be considered as the language of faith. The Lord will recompense the wrongs of his people upon their enemies; and the Lord will secure the salvation of...
12_And render to our neighbors sevenfold. _We have already said enough on the subject of vengeance; and here the faithful show still more clearly, that they are not so much moved by the injuries done...
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)...
AND RENDER UNTO OUR NEIGHBOURS SEVEN FOLD INTO THEIR BOSOM, ec.] Not seven fold for one, as the Targum paraphrases it, or a seven fold punishment for one sin; but that he would recompense their sins,...
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. Ver. 12. _Into their bosom_] Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and ru...
_Let the sighing of the prisoner_ Of thy poor people now in prison, or, at least, in captivity; _come before thee_ Be taken cognizance of by thee, and be as prevalent with thee as these prayers; _acco...
and render unto our neighbors, the enemies spoken of throughout, SEVENFOLD INTO THEIR BOSOM, in exhausting His judicial punishment upon them, in making them feel the severity of His anger, THEIR REPRO...
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....
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...
SEVENFOLD, i.e. either, 1. Abundantly, as this phrase notes, ISAIAH 65:6,7 JER 32:18 LUKE 6:38. Or, 2. Sensibly, so as it may come home to them, and fall heavily upon them in their own persons. Repro...
Psalms 79:12 return H7725 (H8685) neighbors H7934 sevenfold H7659 bosom H2436 reproach H2781 reproached H2778 (H8765
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...
_And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach._ VENGEANCE This is the same spirit as is breathed out in Psalms 79:6. It is revenge. We have here two things. I. A noble in...
_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 79:11 Verses Psalms 79:8 prayed for forgiveness. Here, the effect of that forgiveness is that God will PRESERVE THOSE of his people who are...
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...
Genesis 4:15; Isaiah 65:5; Jeremiah 32:18; Leviticus 26:21;...