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Psalms 74:13
Thou didst divide the sea by Thy strength, cleaving the Red Sea asunder for the passage of Israel; Thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters, the expression referring to the Egyptian tyrants.
Thou didst divide the sea by Thy strength, cleaving the Red Sea asunder for the passage of Israel; Thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters, the expression referring to the Egyptian tyrants.
Verse Psalms 74:13. _THOU DIDST DIVIDE THE SEA_] When our fathers came from Egypt. _THOU BRAKEST THE HEADS OF THE DRAGONS IN THE WATERS._] Pharaoh, his captains, and all his hosts were drowned in the...
THOU DIDST DIVIDE THE SEA BY THY STRENGTH - Margin, as in Hebrew, “break.” That is, he had by his power “broken up” the strength of the sea so that it offered no resistance to their passing through it...
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...
DIVIDE. cleave. Compare Exodus 14:21, describing. sudden vehement act. Hebrew. _parar._ DRAGONS. crocodiles. (No Art.) Symbolical of Egypt....
Yet God's mighty works of Redemption and Creation attest His power to interpose for the deliverance of His people. Cp. Psalms 77:10 ff....
_Thou_ Psalms 74:13_; Psalms 74:17_all begin with an emphatic Thou; Psalms 74:16 with Thine. It is Thou and none other, Who didst and doest all these things. The Asaphite Psalms are full of references...
DRAGONS—LEVIATHAN— The Hebrew words may mean much the same; only the latter seems to express a more distinguished kind of crocodile. It is under this character that the Egyptians and their king are de...
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...
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. THOU ... THOU. The seven-fold repetition of the emphatic "thou" stand in majestic contrast to the power...
THE SEA] THE RED SEA: EXODUS 14:21. THE DRAGONS] 'sea monsters,' a figure for Egypt....
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
(10-15) ln the true prophetic spirit, as Moses brought the cries of distress “by reason of their bondage” from the oppressed Israelites to God (Exodus 5:22), so this poet carries to the same God the p...
THOU. — Verse after verse this emphatic pronoun recurs, as if challenging the Divine Being to contradict. DIVIDE. — Literally, _break up._ DRAGONS. — Hebrew, _tannînîm,_ not to be confounded with _ta...
אַתָּ֤ה פֹורַ֣רְתָּ בְ עָזְּךָ֣ יָ֑ם שִׁבַּ֖רְתָּ...
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...
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the (i) dragons in the waters. (i) That is, Pharaoh's army....
The Holy Ghost evidently intended by these sweet and precious verses, to teach the church, in all ages, how to adopt such arguments, in all our dealings with God, when under trial. The best thing I ca...
13._Thou hast divided the sea by thy power. _The prophet now collects together certain kinds of deliverances highly worthy of remembrance; all of them, however, belonging to the first deliverance by w...
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...
THOU DIDST DIVIDE THE SEA BY THY STRENGTH,.... This and the following instances from hence to Psalms 74:18 are proofs of God's working salvation in the midst of the earth; some of them seem peculiar t...
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Ver. 13. _Thou didst divide the sea, &c._] "Thou" in this and the following verses is emphatic and excl...
_Thou didst divide the sea_, &c. “The first part of this verse alludes to that marvellous act of omnipotence which divided the Red sea for Israel to pass over; the second part to the return of its wav...
DIVIDE: _ Heb._ break DRAGONS: Or, whales...
12-17 The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This provide...
THE DRAGONS; or, _the crocodiles_. He means Pharaoh and all his mighty men, who were like these beasts in strength and cruelty. THE WATERS, to wit, of the sea, where they were drowned....
Psalms 74:13 divided H6565 (H8782) sea H3220 strength H5797 broke H7665 (H8765) heads H7218 serpents H8577 waters...
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 74:12 The next section recalls God’s mighty deeds from the past, in which he has worked SALVATION. These include the exodus from Egypt and the journey through the wilderness (vv....
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...
Exodus 14:21; Exodus 14:28; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:2; Isaiah 11:15;...
Dragons — He means Pharaoh and his mighty men....