Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 74:11
Why — Why dost thou forebear the exercise of thy power? Bosom — In which thou now seemest to hide it.
Why — Why dost thou forebear the exercise of thy power? Bosom — In which thou now seemest to hide it.
Verse Psalms 74:11. _WHY WITHDRAWEST THOU THY HAND_] It has been remarked, that as the outward habit of the easterns had no sleeves, the hands and arms were frequently covered with the folds of the r...
WHY WITHDRAWEST THOU THY HAND, EVEN THY RIGHT HAND? - Why dost thou not stretch forth thy hand for our deliverance? The hand, especially the right hand, is the instrument by which we wield a sword, or...
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...
BOSOM. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Septuagint adds here "Selah". If this was in the primitive text, it marks the division of the Structure; and connects the conclusion of the prayer wit...
Once more the Psalmist expostulates with God for His inaction....
Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? (Pluck it) out of thy bosom (and) consume (them). The right hand which in days of old was stretched out to annihilate the Egyptians (Exodus 15:12...
WHY WITHDRAWEST THOU THY HAND— Their upper garments having no sleeves, the arms were wrapped up and covered under them; and consequently, when the hand was made use of, it must have been disengaged fr...
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...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. WHY WITHDRAWEST THOU ... THY RIGHT HAND? - the symbol of God's might. Why dost thou remain an inactive spectator of ou...
The last clause is condensed in the original. RV adds to the last clause, _and_ consume _them_.'...
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...
WHY WITHDRAWEST THOU. — Literally, _returnest, i.e._, into the ample folds of the Eastern robe. The poet is thinking of Exodus 4:7. PLUCK IT OUT OF THY BOSOM. — Literally, _out of the midst of thy bos...
לָ֤מָּה תָשִׁ֣יב יָ֭דְךָ וִֽ ימִינֶ֑ךָ מִ קֶּ
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...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? (g) pluck [it] out of thy bosom. (g) They join their deliverance with God's glory and power, knowing that the punishment of the enemy would be thei...
_Just. Zorobabel, (Theodoret) the figure of the Messias. The Jews were shortly after set at liberty by Cyrus, who was the scourge of their oppressors. (Calmet) --- The virtuous, who use well their fre...
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...
_GOD AS SILENT AND INACTIVE_ ‘Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand?’ Psalms 74:11 I. THIS IS A GREAT COMPLAINT, BUT IT IS A COMPLAINT OF FAITH.—Hardly a gleam of light is to be found throughout. The Psalm...
11._How long wilt thou withdraw thy hand? _It is easy to see what the prophet here intends, and yet interpreters are not agreed as to the words. Some by the word _hand, _in the first part of the verse...
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...
WHY WITHDRAWEST THOU THY HAND, EVEN THAT RIGHT HAND?.... By which is meant the power of God; by which he made the heavens and the earth, and all things therein, and supports them in their beings; by w...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom. Ver. 11. _Why withdrawest thou thy hand_] Some by hand understand the left hand, and so both hands are withdrawn, yea,...
_How long shall the adversary reproach_ Namely, _thy name_, (which is expressed in the next clause,) by saying that thou art either unkind to thy people, or unfaithful in thy covenant, or unable to de...
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...
Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand? this being the symbol of God's almighty power. PLUCK IT OUT OF THY BOSOM, where it seemed that the Lord had hidden it; He should show His might, the...
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....
WHY WITHDRAWEST THOU THY HAND? why dost thou suspend or forbear the exercise of that power, which thou hast so oft put forth on the behalf of thy people? PLUCK IT OUT OF THY BOSOM, in which thou now s...
Psalms 74:11 withdraw H7725 (H8686) hand H3027 hand H3225 of H7130 bosom H2436 (H8675) H2436 destroy...
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, how long shall the adversary reproach?_ shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever? THE LONG FORBEARANCE OF GOD 1. Men’s patience is much short of God’s longsuffering and forbearance; for...
_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 74:9 It is puzzling that God has not sent a PROPHET to instruct his people while they are in such dire distress. It is even more puzzling why God allows the enemy to continue to R...
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...
Isaiah 64:12; Lamentations 2:3; Psalms 44:23; Psalms 78:65; Psalm