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Verse Psalms 79:5. _HOW LONG, LORD?_] Wilt thou continue thine anger
against us, and suffer us to be insulted, and thyself blasphemed?...
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Psalms 79
Lamentation and Prayer on Account of the Enemy
_ 1. The Enemy in Jerusalem (Psalms 79:1)_
2. How Long, Lord? (Psalms 79:5)
Zion, the place He loves, mentioned in the preceding Psalm, is...
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LXXIX. THE SANCTUARY PROFANED. The Ps. is of the same date as Psalms
74. It does not suit the earlier destruction of the city and the
Temple in 586 B.C. The words war, overthrow, and the like do not
o...
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HOW LONG... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Compare (Psalms
79:5) with (Psalms 79:10)....
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How long, Jehovah, wilt thou be angry for ever?
(How long) shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
As in Psalms 13:1, faith combines two questions into a
self-contradictory expression. _How long_and _for...
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Prayer that God will cease to be angry with His own people and will
punish their destroyers....
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PSALMS 79
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Invasion, Desecration, Demolition, Massacre and Derision call forth
Lamentation, Expostulation, Petition and Pleading; and the Hope of
Deliverance evokes a Promise of Per...
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How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn
like fire?
HOW LONG LORD? WILT THOU BE ANGRY - (.) Thine anger against thy
people, though justly merited, anger now at length tu...
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For the occasion and date of this Ps. see intro. to Psalms 74. It
gives a pathetic picture of the calamities that have fallen upon God's
people (Psalms 79:1), entreats God to withdraw His anger from t...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
FOR THE *GLORY OF YOUR NAME
PSALMS 79
For the *kingdom is always yours and the power is always yours and
the *glory is always yours ...
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HOW LONG, LORD? — The dominant cry of the Maccabæan age. (See
Psalms 74:9.)...
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עַד ־מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תֶּאֱנַ֣ף לָ נֶ֑צַח
תִּבְעַ
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Psalms 79:1
THE same national agony which was the theme of Psalms 74:1, forced the
sad strains of this psalm from the singer's heart. There, the
profanation of the Temple and here, the destruction of...
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“HELP US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION”
Psalms 79:1
It was the period of the Chaldean invasion. This cry of horror went
forth from the heart of the Chosen People, who had looked upon the
sacred shrine as i...
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This is a cry of distress. The conditions described are those of
overwhelming national calamity. The country and the city of God are
overrun and spoiled by ruthless enemies. The people have been slain...
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How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy (e)
burn like fire?
(e) Will you completely consume us for our sins, before you take us to
mercy?...
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This forms a sweet prayer. The Holy Ghost puts a number of those how
longs in the heart of the earliest praying believer. The kingdom of
God is taken by violence....
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5_How long, O Jehovah! wilt thou be wroth for ever? _I have already
observed that these two expressions, _how long _and _for ever, _when
joined together, denote a lengthened and an uninterrupted conti...
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Psalms 79 refers, in the plainest terms, to the inroad of the heathen,
especially the northern army (Joel 2 refers to a second attack, in
which the cry of the psalm is answered; Isaiah speaks of both)...
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HOW LONG, LORD, WILT THOU BE ANGRY? FOR EVER?.... That is, how long
wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see Psalms 85:4, for though
what was done, or to be done, as before related, was or will b...
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How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn
like fire?
Ver. 5. _How long wilt thou be angry? &c._] Or, how long? wilt thou be
angry for ever? The psalmist knew that the enemi...
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PRAYER IN THE MIDST OF OPPRESSION.
A psalm of Asaph, similar in tone and content to Psalms 74, though any
special event which might have occasioned the writing of this hymn is
not known....
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How long, Lord? Wilt Thou be angry forever? Shall Thy jealousy burn
like fire? His zeal in punishing His people for their sins....
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1-5 God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father
able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy
city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. G...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 79:5 LORD H3068 angry H599 (H8799) forever H5331 jealousy H7068
burn H1197 (H8799) fire H784
How
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CONTENTS: The deplorable condition of God's people and prayer for
relief.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph.
CONCLUSION: If God's people degenerate through sin from what their
father's were, they may expect th...
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Title. _A psalm of Asaph,_ an elegy over the slain, as is supposed,
when Shishak king of Egypt invaded Judea with a great army, besieging
the cities and slaughtering the people. Sir Isaac Newton think...
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_O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance._
THE INHUMANITY OF MAN AND THE MIXTURE OF GOOD AND EVIL
I. Here is a fact revealing the inhumanity of man and the permissive
government of God....
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 79:1. This is a community lament. It was
occasioned by a great disaster, most likely the destruction of
Jerusalem by Babylon. It has many similarities to...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 79:5 The right question is not, “How long
will you let us suffer like this?” After all, they suffer because
God is ANGRY about their unfaithfulness. Rather, the question is,
“How...
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—_“A Psalm of Asaph_. “See Introduction to
Psalms 74. _Occasion_.—This Psalm is closely related to the 74th,
and both most probably refer to the devastation and desecrat...
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EXPOSITION
THIS is "a psalm of complaint, closely parallel to Psalms 74:1."
(Cheyne), and must, like that psalm, be referred to the time of the
Babylonian conquest. It shows us the Holy Land occupied...
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O God, heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have
they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps (Psalms 78:1).
So this goes out to the future to the time when the temple was laid...
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Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 36:5;...