Signs — Those tokens of God's gracious presence, which we used to enjoy. The temple and ark, and sacrifices, and solemn feasts, were signs between God and his people. Prophet — Who can foretell things to come. Probably Ezekiel and Jeremiah were dead when this psalm was composed; and David was involved in civil affairs, and did not teach the people as a prophet. Knoweth — How long their captivity should continue.
Verse Psalms 74:9. _WE SEE NOT OUR SIGNS_] "They have taken away all our trophies, and have left us no memorial that God has been among us. Even thou thyself hast left us destitute of all those _supe...
WE SEE NOT OUR SIGNS - The emblems of worship, or the national emblems or banners, which we have been accustomed to see. There are no signals or tokens of our nationality in the land. All have been re...
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...
SIGNS: i.e. the signs of God _'_. presence and power, or miraculous signs. Compare "their" of Psalms 74:4 with "our", Psalms 74:9. PROPHET. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for p...
A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen enemies of Israel....
_our signs_ The outward and visible symbols of our religion, such as sabbath and festival, which God "had caused to be forgotten in Zion" (Lamentations 2:6). The sabbath is spoken of as a sign in Exod...
WE SEE NOT OUR SIGNS— _Any token of they divine presence among us._ Bishop Patrick concludes from the next clause, that this psalm was composed towards the end of the captivity, because the writer com...
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...
OUR SIGNS] either God's miraculous interpositions, or Jewish religious customs such as sacrifice, circumcision, and sabbath-observance, all of which Antiochus Epiphanes forbade under the heaviest pena...
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
WE SEE NOT OUR SIGNS... — It is natural to take this statement in direct contrast to what Psalms 74:4 (see Note) says of the heathen signs. While these abominations — rallying points of savage profani...
אֹֽותֹתֵ֗ינוּ לֹ֥א רָ֫אִ֥ינוּ אֵֽין ־עֹ֥וד נָבִ֑יא...
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...
We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth (f) how long. (f) They lamented that they had no prophet among them to show them how long their mise...
Drink. The just themselves shall suffer something. But their part will be comparatively the clear wine, while sinners shall have the dregs. Many suppose that God holds in his had two cups, which he mi...
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...
9._We see not our signs. _Here the pious Jews show that their calamities were aggravated from the circumstance that they had no consolation by which to alleviate them. It is a powerful means of encour...
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...
WE SEE NOT OUR SIGNS,.... Either such miracles as were formerly wrought to support the faith of God's people in distress, and for their deliverance out of it, as when they were in Egypt, and brought f...
We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long. Ver. 9. _We see not our signs_] Those testimonies of God's special favour, the public ordi...
_We see not our signs_ Those tokens of God's gracious presence with us, which we and our ancestors used to enjoy. _There is no more any prophet_ Either, 1st, Any public teacher. We have few or none le...
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...
We see not our signs, the customs of regular worship had been discontinued; THERE IS NO MORE ANY PROPHET, this lament containing a true description not only of the last centuries of the pre-Christian...
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....
OUR SIGNS, i.e. those tokens of God's gracious presence which we and our ancestors formerly used to enjoy; either, 1. Miracles wrought for us, which are called SIGNS, PSALMS 78:43, PSALMS 135:9. Or,...
Psalms 74:9 see H7200 (H8804) signs H226 prophet H5030 knows H3045 (H8802) long H5704 We see -...
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...
_We see not our signs._ SIGNS OF LIFE This psalm is clearly not one written by David. Verses 6, 7 prove that; but it is one of the psalms of the Exile. The signs here meant, which the writer mourns t...
_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...
1 Samuel 3:1; Amos 8:11; Exodus 12:13; Exodus 13:10; Exodus 13:9;...