Set — Thou hast fixed the bounds of the habitable world in general, and of all the countries and people upon the earth. And as this clause shews God's power over all places, so the next displays his dominion over all times and seasons.
Verse Psalms 74:17. _THOU HAST SET ALL THE BORDERS OF THE EARTH_] Thou alone art the Author of all its grand _geographical_ divisions. _THOU HAST MADE SUMMER AND WINTER._] Thou hast appointed that pe...
THOU HAST SET ALL THE BORDERS OF THE EARTH - Thou hast established all the boundaries of the world; that is, the boundaries of the earth itself; or the natural bonndaries of nations and people, made b...
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...
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....
All the fixed laws and ordinances of the natural world were established and are maintained by God....
_the borders of the earth_ The divisions of land and sea (Psalms 104:9; Job 38:8 ff.; Jeremiah 5:22), and the apportionment of the land among the nations ...
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 hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. THOU HAST SET ALL THE BORDERS OF THE EARTH - its boundaries toward the sea (, etc.; )....
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
(16-18) An appeal from the God of history to the God of nature. Not only did He work wonders, but even the universe is the work of His hand....
ALL THE BORDERS OF THE EARTH — _i.e._, earth in all directions, and to its utmost bounds; as we say, “from pole to pole.”...
אַתָּ֣ה הִ֭צַּבְתָּ כָּל ־גְּבוּלֹ֣ות אָ֑רֶץ קַ֥יִץ...
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...
Here is a beautiful acknowledgment of God, in his works of nature and providence, who had before been adored in his works of grace: and perhaps in allusion to the Lord's appearing for his people in ti...
17._Thou hast fixed _(241) _all the boundaries of the earth. _What is here stated concerning the boundaries or limits assigned to the earth, and concerning the regular and successive recurrence of sum...
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 HAST SET ALL THE BORDERS OF THE EARTH,.... Of the whole world, and each of the nations, as of the land of Canaan, so of others, Deuteronomy 32:8, and even has fixed and settled the bounds of ever...
_Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter._ Ver. 17. _Thou hast set all the borders of the earth_] Securing it from the overflowings of the sea, and appointing to...
_Thou hast set all the borders of the earth_ Thou hast fixed the bounds, both of the habitable world in general, so that the seas, though they do encompass and assault them, yet are not, and never sha...
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth, not only by dividing it from the sea, but also by fixing the natural boundaries of nations; THOU HAST MADE SUMMER AND WINTER, the seasons also being His cre...
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...
MADE: _ Heb._ made them...
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...
THOU HAST SET ALL THE BORDERS OF THE EARTH: thou hast fixed the bounds, both of the habitable world in general; so as the seas, though they do encompass and assault them, yet they shall never be able...
Psalms 74:17 set H5324 (H8689) borders H1367 earth H776 made H3335 (H8804) summer H7019 winter H2779...
Psalms 74:17 I. One of the chiefest charms of summer is its fulness. And in this fulness is its peace. Summer has the deep consciousness of fruitfulness. It knows it has done its work; it rejoices in...
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...
_Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter._ SUMMER This season so changes the whole of life, so intensifies and blesses it, that we begin to think of summer as a p...
_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...
Acts 14:17; Acts 17:26; Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 8:22; Psalms 24:1;...