Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 74:18
Remember — Though we deserve to be forgotten, yet do not suffer our enemies to reproach the name of the great and glorious God.
Remember — Though we deserve to be forgotten, yet do not suffer our enemies to reproach the name of the great and glorious God.
Verse Psalms 74:18. _REMEMBER THIS_] The heathen not only deny these things, but give the honour of them to their false gods, and thus blaspheme thy name....
REMEMBER THIS, THAT THE ENEMY HATH REPROACHED - Has used opprobrious and abusive words in regard to thee, and to thy people. The idea is, that religion - the true religion - had been reproached by the...
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...
LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THY NAME. Thee. See note on Psalms 20:1....
_the foolish people_ R.V. a foolish people. The epithet denotes the moral perversity of opposition to God. Cp. Psalms 14:1, note. It is applied to the heathen in Deuteronomy 32:21....
Emboldened by his contemplation of the power of God in history and in nature the Psalmist returns to prayer....
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...
74:18 foolish (l-11) Or 'vile,' 'impious.' see ver. 22 and Psalms 53:1 ....
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...
THE FOOLISH PEOPLE] RV 'a foolish people,' a heathen nation: see Deuteronomy 32:21....
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....
REMEMBER THIS. — Emphatical; the object of the enemy’s reproach is the Being who has done all these mighty works, and is the author of all this wonderful world....
זְכָר ־זֹ֗את אֹ֭ויֵב חֵרֵ֣ף ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ עַ֥ם
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...
The prophet, here appealing for the church's safety, makes use of an additional argument, namely, God's own honour and glory. For who is blasphemed, but the Lord? Whose name is abused, but the Lord's?...
18._Remember this. _The prophet having encouraged the hearts of the godly by magnifying the divine power and goodness, now returns to the prosecution of his prayer. He first complains that the enemies...
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...
REMEMBER THIS, THAT THE ENEMY HATH REPROACHED, O LORD,.... Or "hath reproached the Lord", as the Septuagint version and others render it, and very rightly; though not so well the former part of the cl...
Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. Ver. 18. _Remember this_] Forgetfulness befalleth not the Lord; nevertheless he giveth...
_Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached thee_ Though we deserve to be forgotten and destroyed, yet remember thyself, and do not suffer thine and our enemies to reproach and blaspheme the name o...
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people, the enemies gone mad with their rejection of Jehovah, HAVE BLASPHEMED THY NAME, v. 10....
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...
Though we deserve to be forgotten and destroyed, yet remember thyself, and do not suffer thine and our enemies to reproach and blaspheme the name of that great and glorious God, the Creator and sovere...
Psalms 74:18 Remember H2142 (H8798) enemy H341 (H8802) reproached H2778 (H8765) LORD H3068 foolish H5036 people...
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, 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...
Deuteronomy 32:27; Ezekiel 20:14; Isaiah 37:23; Isaiah 37:24; I