For they have devoured Jacob - literally, “They have eaten.” That is, they have eaten up what the land produced.
And laid waste his dwelling-place - His home; his habitation; the residence of Jacob, or of the people of Israel.
Verse Psalms 79:7. _LAID WASTE HIS DWELLING-PLACE._] The _Chaldee_ understands this of the _temple_. This, by way of eminence, was Jacob's _place_. I have already remarked that these two verses are a...
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...
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...
THEY HAVE. So some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. Compare Jeremiah 10:25. But other codices read "he hath": i.e. the enemy. JACOB. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Sub...
Prayer that God will cease to be angry with His own people and will punish their destroyers....
_his dwelling place_ R.V. his habitation, marg. _pasture_: a different word however from _pasture_in Psalms 79:13. Psalms 79:6 recur in Jeremiah 10:25. At first sight it would appear that the prophec...
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...
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. FOR THEY HAVE DEVOURED JACOB, AND LAID WASTE. In the Hebrew "devoured" is singular; whereas "laid waste" is plural. The singular imp...
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...
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 ...
DWELLING PLACE. — Literally, _pasture,_ as in Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 1:19. The figure is a favourite one in the Asaphic group of psalms. FORMER INIQUITIES. — Better, iniquities of for...
(6-7) The poet prays in prophetical strain, that the fire of indignation may be turned from Israel and directed against the heathen oppressors, (For the relation to Jeremiah 10:25, see Introduction.)...
כִּ֭י אָכַ֣ל אֶֽת ־יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְֽ אֶת ־נָוֵ֥הוּ
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...
“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...
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...
_At us. See Psalm lxxviii. 4. (Haydock) --- Such was the condition of Jeremias, xv. 10. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "have scoffed among themselves." Chaldean and St. Jerome agree with us. Scorn is more diffi...
Many of the prayers we meet with of this kind are more to be considered in the form of prophecy, than of imprecation: they meant to say that God will pour out the vials of his wrath upon prayerless pe...
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)...
FOR THEY HAVE DEVOURED JACOB,.... The posterity of Jacob, the people of the Jews, typical of the church of God, made havoc of by the Romish antichrist: and laid waste his dwelling place; both Jerusale...
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. Ver. 7. _For they have devoured Jacob_] As wolves and other ravenous creatures do the simple sheep. _ His dwellingplace_] Or, his cot...
_Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen_ Though we confess that we have deserved thy wrath, yet the heathen, by whom thou hast scourged us, have deserved it much more, as being guilty of far greater impi...
For they have devoured Jacob, the spiritual Israel, the Church of God suffering under the oppression of its enemies, AND LAID WASTE HIS DWELLING-PLACE. The enemies are purposely spoken of in the singu...
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....
6-13 Those who persist in ignorance of God, and neglect of prayer, are the ungodly. How unrighteous soever men were, the Lord was righteous in permitting them to do what they did. Deliverances from t...
JACOB; the posterity of Jacob, whom thou didst love, and with whom and his seed thou madest a sure and everlasting covenant; whereby thou didst engage thyself to be _an enemy to their enemies_, EXODUS...
Psalms 79:7 devoured H398 (H8804) Jacob H3290 waste H8074 (H8689) place H5116 For they - Psalms
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...
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...
_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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:21; Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 64:10; Isaiah 64:11; I