Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 74:16-18
(16-18) An appeal from the God of history to the God of nature. Not only did He work wonders, but even the universe is the work of His hand.
(16-18) An appeal from the God of history to the God of nature. Not only did He work wonders, but even the universe is the work of His hand.
Verse Psalms 74:16. _THE DAY_ IS _THINE, THE NIGHT ALSO_ IS _THINE_] Thou art the Author of light, and of the sun, which is the means of dispensing it....
THE DAY IS THINE, THE NIGHT ALSO IS THINE - Thou hast universal dominion. All things are under thy control. Thou hast power, therefore, to grant what we desire of thee. THOU HAST PREPARED THE LIGHT A...
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...
LIGHT. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "moon"....
All the fixed laws and ordinances of the natural world were established and are maintained by God....
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....
_The day_&c. Thine is the day and the night is thine. _the light and the sun_ Possibly equivalent to -the moon and the sun" (Psalms 104:19); but more probably -the luminaries and especially the sun....
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...
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. THE DAY IS THINE. Not only the sea and the waters, but the day and the light are at thy sovereign control. Not...
74:16 moon (k-14) Lit. 'light-bearer,' i.e. what gives light, as Genesis 1:14-16 ; Exodus 25:6 ....
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
לְךָ֣ יֹ֭ום אַף ־לְךָ֥ לָ֑יְלָה אַתָּ֥ה הֲ֝כִ
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 (m) day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. (m) Seeing that God by his providence governs and disposes all things, he gathers that he will take care c...
Here is a beautiful acknowledgment of God, in his works of nature and providence, who had before been adored in his works of grace: and perhaps in allusion to the Lord's appearing for his people in ti...
_ALTERNATIONS AND CONSOLATIONS_ ‘The day … the night.’ Psalms 74:16 I. THE ALTERNATION OF DAY AND NIGHT IS PART OF A UNIVERSAL LAW.—(1) Everywhere in nature. (2) In our daily life. (3) In our spir...
16._The day is thine, the night also is thine. _The prophet now descends to the consideration of the divine benefits which are extended in common to all mankind. Having commenced with the special bles...
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...
THE DAY IS THINE, AND THE NIGHT ALSO IS THINE,.... He made the one and the other, and divided the one from the other; and can make them longer or shorter, clear or cloudy, as he pleases: and the day o...
The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Ver. 16. _The day is thine, the night also is thine_] He had argued with God, and strengthened his own faith f...
_The day is thine, the night also is thine_ It is not strange that thou hast done these great and wonderful works, for thou hast made the heavenly bodies, and appointed the vicissitudes of day and nig...
The day is Thine, the night also is Thine, He, as the great Sovereign, has fixed the laws governing their course; THOU HAST PREPARED THE LIGHT AND THE SUN, the light-bodies being His creatures and sub...
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...
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...
It is not strange nor incredible that thou hast done these great and wonderful works, for thou hast made the heavenly bodies, and the vicissitudes of day and night, depending upon them, which is a far...
Psalms 74:16 day H3117 night H3915 prepared H3559 (H8689) light H3974 sun H8121 The day -...
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...
_The day is Thine, the night also is Thine._ THE DAY AND THE NIGHT I. God’s ordinances. 1. Day is a Divine institution, and is strongly characterized by that wisdom and goodness which are over all G...
_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...
Genesis 1:14; Genesis 1:3; Matthew 5:45; Psalms 136:7; Psalms 19:1;...
The light — The moon, the lesser light....