They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together, bringing the believers into subjection with cruelty and violence; they have burned up all the synagogs of God in the land, all the places of assembly, whether the schools of prophets are here meant or the synagogs proper as they existed after the Exile.
Verse Psalms 74:8. _LET US DESTROY THEM_] Their object was totally to annihilate the political existence of the Jewish people. _THEY HAVE BURNED UP ALL THE SYNAGOGUES OF GOD IN THE LAND._] It is sup...
THEY SAID IN THEIR HEARTS - They purposed; they designed it. LET US DESTROY THEM TOGETHER - Let us destroy all these buildings, temples, towers, and walls at the same time; let us make an entire dest...
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...
TOGETHER: or, at once. SYNAGOGUES. meeting-places. See note on "congregations", Psalms 74:4. This rendering comes from the Septuagint GOD. Hebrew El. App-4....
They said in their heart, Let us crush them altogether: They burned up all the meeting places of God in the land. For the form of expression cp. Psalms 83:4. The interpretation of this verse is spe...
A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen enemies of Israel....
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...
74:8 destroy (g-8) Or 'oppress.'...
SYNAGOGUES] The mention of these points to the later date for the Ps., as they only arose after the return from the Babylonian exile....
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
ALL THE SYNAGOGUES OF GOD IN THE LAND. — This expression excludes from _moed_ either of the meanings possible for it in Psalms 74:4, “the Temple” or “the assembly.” Buildings, and these places of wors...
אָמְר֣וּ בְ֭ לִבָּם נִינָ֣ם יָ֑חַד שָׂרְפ֖וּ...
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...
They said in their (e) hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. (e) They encouraged one another to cruelty, that not only God's people might be...
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...
8._They have said in their heart, Let us destroy them all together. _To express the more forcibly the atrocious cruelty of the enemies of the Church, the prophet introduces them speaking together, and...
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...
THEY SAID IN THEIR HEARTS, LET US DESTROY THEM TOGETHER,.... The Targum is, "their children, are together;'' or "their kindred", as the Septuagint Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, takin...
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. Ver. 8. _Let us destroy them together_] "Them," that is, the saints; let us prey up...
_They have cast fire into thy sanctuary_, &c. The Chaldeans first polluted, and then set fire to Solomon's temple, and burned that stately and costly fabric down to the ground. And Antiochus set fire...
DESTROY: _ Heb._ break...
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....
DESTROY THEM TOGETHER, root and branch, one as well as another, or all at once. So they desired, and many of them intended, although afterwards, it seems, they changed their counsel, and carried some...
Psalms 74:8 said H559 (H8804) hearts H3820 destroy H3238 (H8799) altogether H3162 up H8313 (H8804) places...
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...
_They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land._ THE SYNAGOGUES OF GOD We do not know the precise circumstances under which this psalm was written. But we thank God our synagogues are no...
_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...
2 Chronicles 17:9; 2 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 4:23; Esther 3:8;...
Destroy them — All at once. So they intended, although afterwards they changed their council, and carried some away captive. Burnt up — All the public places wherein the Jews used to meet together to...