Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 74:21
Return ashamed from thee, and from the throne of thy grace, to which they make their resort in this their distressed condition.
Return ashamed from thee, and from the throne of thy grace, to which they make their resort in this their distressed condition.
Verse Psalms 74:21. _LET NOT THE OPPRESSED RETURN ASHAMED_] Do not permit thy people to be so diminished, that when, according to thy promise, they are restored to their own land, they may appear to b...
O LET NOT THE OPPRESSED RETURN ASHAMED - Ashamed by being disappointed, as if they had trusted in that which had no claims to confidence. Compare the notes at Job 6:20. The word rendered “oppressed,”...
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...
THE OPPRESSED. an oppressed one. Same as Psalms 74:19. RETURN. Compare Psalms 6:10. THE POOR AND NEEDY PRAISE. a poor one, and. needy one will praise....
Emboldened by his contemplation of the power of God in history and in nature the Psalmist returns to prayer....
_O let not the oppressed_&c. Let not the crushed or down-trodden (Psalms 9:9; Psalms 10:18) turn back from Thee unanswered and disappointed. _let the poor_&c. Let the afflicted have cause to praise T...
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...
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. -The prayer (Psalms 74:1) resumed and expanded. Verse 18. REMEMBER THIS - answering to...
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
OPPRESSED. — Literally, _crushed._ (See Psalms 9:9; Psalms 10:18.)...
אַל ־יָשֹׁ֣ב דַּ֣ךְ נִכְלָ֑ם עָנִ֥י וְ֝ אֶבְי
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...
God had said, For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; Psalms 12:5. Well then, saith the church, in answer to this promise, Let not the oppressed...
21._Let not him who is oppressed return with shame. _The word _return, _as it has a reference to God, is equivalent to the expression, _to go away empty. _The faithful, then, beseech Him that they may...
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...
O LET NOT THE OPPRESSED RETURN ASHAMED,.... From the throne of grace, not having an answer of their prayer, but still continuing under the oppressions of their enemies: LET THE POOR AND NEEDY PRAISE...
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. Ver. 21. _O let not the oppressed, &c._] _Contusus non revertatur confusus,_ let him not take the repulse, be disappoin...
_O let not the oppressed return ashamed_ From thee, and from the throne of thy grace, to which they have recourse in this their distressed condition. “It is for the honour of God that they who apply t...
O let not the oppressed return ashamed, on account of the Lord's refusal to give him the assistance he craved; LET THE POOR AND NEEDY, the afflicted members of His Church, PRAISE THY NAME, thanking Hi...
PRAYER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Asaph, a prophetic psalm, foretelling some of the afflictions which would befall the Church of God, in the Old Testament as wel...
18-23 The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten...
Psalms 74:21 oppressed H1790 return H7725 (H8799) ashamed H3637 (H8737) poor H6041 needy H34 praise H1984 ...
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...
_Let the poor and needy praise Thy name._ THE POOR AND NEEDY HAVE CAUSE TO PRAISE GOD’S NAME Rev. Mark Guy Pearse relates that he was walking once beside some cliffs, when he saw a father draw near w...
_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 74:18 The psalm goes on to plead with God, REMEMBER THIS. There is no appeal to the people’s merit. Rather, the appeal is HAVE REGARD FOR THE COVENANT and defend your
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...
Ezra 3:11; Isaiah 45:17; Jeremiah 33:11; Psalms 102:19; Psalms 10
Return — From the throne of thy grace, to which they make their resort....