Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 74:5
Famous — The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work, though it were but in cutting down the trees of Lebanon.
Famous — The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work, though it were but in cutting down the trees of Lebanon.
A MAN WAS FAMOUS - literally, “He is known;” or, shall be known. That is, he was or shall be celebrated. ACCORDING AS HE HAD LIFTED UP AXES - literally, “As one raising on high axes;” that is, as one...
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...
WAS. used to be [considered]. The contrast is with "now" in the next line. AXES. Compare Jeremiah 46:22; Jeremiah 46:23....
A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen enemies of Israel....
The R.V. gives the probable sense of these verses, but does not reproduce the pictorial tenses, which represent the work of destruction as though it were going on before the reader's eyes. Render: Th...
A MAN WAS FAMOUS, &C.— _They shew themselves as one lifts up axes an high, in the thicket of the trees._ Psalms 74:6. _But now,_ &c. Houbigant renders it in the perfect tense; and, instead of _the car...
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...
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. -The enemy has destroyed God's sanctuary and synagogues, and there are no tokens of God...
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...
A _MAN.._ LIFTED UP] RP 'They seemed as men that lifted up.' THE THICK TREES] RV 'a thicket of trees.'...
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
The Authorised Version, with the ancient versions, has entirely mistaken the meaning of this verse, though, unlike the LXX. and Vulgate, it has the merit of being intelligible. Literally the words run...
יִ֭וָּדַע כְּ מֵבִ֣יא לְ מָ֑עְלָה בִּֽ סֲבָךְ
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...
[A man] was famous according as he had (d) lifted up axes upon the thick trees. (d) He commends the temple for the costly matter, the excellent workmanship and beauty of it, which nonetheless the ene...
_Wickedly. This is an epitome of Christian doctrine. (Worthington) --- God had severely punished Nabuchodonosor, Baltassar, and the priests of Bel. Yet the people would not attend to these salutary ad...
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...
5._He who lifted up the axe upon the thick trees was renowned. _The prophet again aggravates still more the barbarous and brutal cruelty of the enemies of his countrymen, from the circumstance, that t...
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...
A MAN WAS FAMOUS,.... Or, "it was", or "is known" m; the desolations the enemy made, the wickedness they committed, the terror they spread, and the signs they set in the sanctuary of the Lord: ACCORD...
Psalms 74:5 [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. Ver. 5. _A man was famous according as, &c._] _i.e._ Time was when the workmen got them a name, by cutting down...
_A man was famous_, &c. The meaning, according to this translation, is this: The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work,...
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees, or, He, the enemy, shows himself, makes known himself, as one who raises axes on high in the thicket of the woods;...
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...
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....
So the meaning is this, The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work, though it were but in cutting down the trees of Leban...
Psalms 74:5 seem H3045 (H8735) up H935 (H8688) H4605 Axes H7134 thick H5442 trees H6086...
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...
_A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees._ THE AXE AND THE ALTAR Shall we regard the text as an epitaph on the headstone of some worker for God and the good of man, l...
_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...
SUCH IS FAME A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. Psalms 74:5 (AV). If you looked up the Revised Version of the Bible you would find that this verse was quite tu...
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 74:4 Considering the importance that God himself has placed on the temple, it is horrific that the Gentiles have destroyed (PROFANED) it....
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...
1 Kings 5:6; 2 Chronicles 2:14; Jeremiah 46:22; Jeremiah 46:23...