Psalms 74:1
SMOKE] Like a dark thunder-cloud threatening a flock: see Psalms 18:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
SMOKE] Like a dark thunder-cloud threatening a flock: see Psalms 18:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
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), and the Israelites ruthlessly slaughtered (Psalms 79) by a heathen enemy. The occasion described must... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ROD.. REDEEMED] RV 'which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance.'... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFT UP THY FEET UNTO] Hasten to see.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR ENSIGNS] either military standards or religious emblems: see 1Ma 1:47, 1Ma 1:54-55, 1Ma 1:59.... [ Continue Reading ]
A _MAN.._ LIFTED UP] RP 'They seemed as men that lifted up.' THE THICK TREES] RV 'a thicket of trees.'... [ Continue Reading ]
SYNAGOGUES] The mention of these points to the later date for the Ps., as they only arose after the return from the Babylonian exile.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 penalties: see 1Ma 1:45, 1Ma 1:48, 1Ma 1:50. NO MORE ANY PROPHET, etc.] This hardly applies to the Babyl... [ Continue Reading ]
The last clause is condensed in the original. RV adds to the last clause, _and_ consume _them_.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEA] THE RED SEA: EXODUS 14:21. THE DRAGONS] 'sea monsters,' a figure for Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEVIATHAN] probably the crocodile, another figure for Egypt: cp. Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:1 THE PEOPLE INHABITING THE WILDERNESS] the wild beasts of the desert.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. 16, 17. The signs of God's presence in nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FOOLISH PEOPLE] RV 'a foolish people,' a heathen nation: see Deuteronomy 32:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE EARTH] better, 'of the land,' the hiding-places to which the Israelites were pursued by their enemies: see 1Ma 1:53; 1Ma 2:27-38.... [ Continue Reading ]
INCREASETH] RV 'ascendeth.'... [ Continue Reading ]