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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen
enemies of Israel....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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אֹֽותֹתֵ֗ינוּ לֹ֥א רָ֫אִ֥ינוּ אֵֽין
־עֹ֥וד נָבִ֑יא...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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Psalms 74:9 see H7200 (H8804) signs H226 prophet H5030 knows H3045
(H8802) long H5704
We see -...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 3:1; Amos 8:11; Exodus 12:13; Exodus 13:10; Exodus 13:9;...
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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...