Mighty rivers— Perpetual springs. Schultens. Psalms 74:16. The light] The luminary, or receptacle of light, according to the original, The word מאור maour is collective, and means all the luminaries, with their chief the sun. The Psalmist here proceeds to shew, that God's power is manifested not only by the foregoing instances of it in particular, but also by the works of creation in general.
Verse Psalms 74:15. _THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN_] Thou didst cleave the _rock_ in the wilderness, of which all the congregation drank. _THOU DRIEDST UP MIGHTY RIVERS._] Does not this refer to the...
THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD - That is, the source of the streams and the streams themselves. The main allusion is probably to the Jordan, and the idea is, that God had, as it were, di...
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...
CLEAVE. sunder, open. passage. Hebrew. _baka'._ FOUNTAIN. Compare Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, for the rook from which the water flowed. flood. Co...
Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent: Thou didst dry up perennial rivers. God's omnipotence was shewn alike in cleaving the rock so that water flowed out (Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:8; Psalms 78:15;...
Yet God's mighty works of Redemption and Creation attest His power to interpose for the deliverance of His people. Cp. Psalms 77:10 ff....
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...
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD - Thou didst cause the water of the fountain to break forth by cleaving-re...
CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN] i.e. cleave the rock from which the fountain flowed: see Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:8. RIVERS] the Jordan: Joshua 3:13; Joshua 4:23.
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
(10-15) ln the true prophetic spirit, as Moses brought the cries of distress “by reason of their bondage” from the oppressed Israelites to God (Exodus 5:22), so this poet carries to the same God the p...
THOU DIDST CLEAVE... — Another pregnant expression for “thou didst cleave the rock, and a fountain came forth.” FLOOD. — Better, _brook._ Heb., _nâchal._ MIGHTY RIVERS. — See margin. But, perhaps, ra...
אַתָּ֣ה בָ֭קַעְתָּ מַעְיָ֣ן וָ נָ֑חַל אַתָּ֥ה...
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...
“PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE, O GOD” Psalms 74:12 Yet! Psalms 74:12, r.v. There is always some compensating and consolatory thought. God is in the background of our thought. Not only _the_ King, but _my_ K...
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...
The Holy Ghost evidently intended by these sweet and precious verses, to teach the church, in all ages, how to adopt such arguments, in all our dealings with God, when under trial. The best thing I ca...
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...
THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD,.... That is, the rocks at Horeb and at Kadesh, from whence water flowed as out of a fountain, and became a flood, whereby the people of Israel were suppli...
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. Ver. 15. _Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood_] _i.e._ _Fontium et torrentium scatebras et latebras,_ thou didst...
Psa. 74:15. "Flood." God, in dividing Jordan, did not only divide the water that ordinarily belonged to the river, or the water which came from its fountains, but also the extraordinary additional wat...
_Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood_ That is, thou didst, by cleaving the rock, make a fountain in it, and a flood or stream to flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry d...
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood, in giving the Israelites water out of the rock, Exodus 17:5; Numbers 20:11; THOU DRIEDST UP MIGHTY RIVERS, the reference being chiefly to the passage of J...
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...
MIGHTY RIVERS: _ Heb._ rivers of strength...
12-17 The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This provide...
THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD, i.e. thou didst by cleaving the rock make a fountain in it, and a flood or stream to flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry deserts....
Psalms 74:15 open H1234 (H8804) fountain H4599 flood H5158 up H3001 (H8689) mighty H386 rivers H5104...
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...
_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 74:12 The next section recalls God’s mighty deeds from the past, in which he has worked SALVATION. These include the exodus from Egypt and the journey through the wilderness (vv....
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...
2 Kings 2:14; 2 Kings 2:8; Exodus 17:5; Exodus 17:6; Habakkuk 3:9;...
The flood — Thou didst by cleaving the rock, make a fountain and a stream to flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry deserts. Driedst — Jordan and the Red Sea; for the sea itself;...