Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 79:1-13
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.
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.
PSALM LXXIX _The psalmist complains of the cruelty of his enemies and the_ _desolations of Jerusalem, and prays against them_, 1-7. _He prays for the pardon and restoration of his people, and_ _pr...
O GOD, THE HEATHEN ARE COME INTO THINE INHERITANCE - The nations; a foreign people. See Psalms 2:1, note; Psalms 2:8; note; Psalms 78:55, note. The term is one that would be applicable to the Chaldean...
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...
TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew _mizmor._ See App-65. OF ASAPH. The eighth of the twelve Asaph Psalms. Compare Psalms 74, the second of the third book. See App-10. The Psalm is said to have "hardly any regular...
Cp. Jeremiah 51:51; Lamentations 1:10; and for the desecration of the Temple cp. Psalms 74:7; Ezekiel 7:21-22. _the heathen_
The Psalmist tells his grief to God: His land is overrun by heathen, His temple is desecrated, His city is in ruins, His people are slaughtered, the survivors are the scorn of their neighbours....
_The Psalmist complaineth of the desolation of Jerusalem: he prayeth for deliverance, and promiseth thankfulness._ A Psalm of Asaph. _TITLE._ ףּלאס מזמור _MIZMOR LEASAPH._— This psalm was probably occ...
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...
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. Psalms 79:1.-THE COMPLAIG the pagan have seized God's land, desecrated the...
JERUSALEM ON HEAPS] This is truer of the Babylonian captivity than of the time of Antiochus Epiphanes....
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 ...
INHERITANCE. — Probably intended to embrace both _land_ and _people._ (Exodus 15:17; Psalms 74:2, &c.) HEAPS — _i.e., ruins._ (Comp. Micah 3:12;...
מִזְמֹ֗ור לְ אָ֫סָ֥ף אֱֽלֹהִ֡ים בָּ֤אוּ גֹויִ֨ם...
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...
"A Psalm of Asaph." O God, (a) the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. (a) The people cry to God against the barbarous tyran...
Testimony, or instruction, (Calmet) and proof of the psalmist's faith. (Haydock) --- Psalm. Vatican Septuagint, St. Augustine, &c., add, "for (or against) the Assyrian:" whence some have inferred that...
CONTENTS The church is here described as under great affliction. The burden of the complaint is to this effect; the Psalmist looks up to the throne for deliverance, and makes use of the strong plea o...
It is not distinctly marked, by any parallel part of the history of the church, to what period this desolation refers. As the prophet Jeremiah who lived and ministered in the church about the time of...
1._O God! the heathen have come into thy inheritance. _Here the prophet, in the person of the faithful, complains that the temple was defiled, and the city destroyed. In the second and third verses, h...
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)...
O GOD, THE HEATHEN ARE COME INTO THINE INHERITANCE,.... The land of Canaan, divided among the children of Israel by lot and line for an inheritance, out of which the Heathen were cast, to make room fo...
Psalms 79:1 «A Psalm of Asaph. » O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. _A Psalm_] Of like subject with Psalms 74:1,...
_O God, the heathen are come_ As invaders and conquerors; _into thine inheritance_ Into Canaan and Judea, which thou didst choose for thine inheritance. _Thy holy temple have they defiled_ By entering...
1-5 God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. G...
PSALM 79 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was doubtless composed upon the sad occasion of the destruction of Judea and Jerusalem, either by Antiochus, or rather by the Chaldeans; as may be gathered from /APC 1...
Psalms 79:1 Psalm H4210 Asaph H623 God H430 nations H1471 come H935 (H8804) inheritance H5159 holy H6944 temple...
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...
_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...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Chronicles 36:19; 2 Chronicles 36:3; 2 Chronicles 36:4;...