These verses show that the psalm was actually composed amidst the dark days it describes. It ends in expostulatory prayer, with as yet no brighter gleam of hope than prayer itself implies — and that when seemingly directed to deaf ears.
Verse Psalms 74:22. _PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE_] Thy honour is concerned, as well as our safety and salvation. _The fool_-the idolater, _reproacheth thee daily _- he boasts of the superiority of his idols...
ARISE, O GOD - As if God were now insensible to the wrongs and sufferings of his people; as if he were inattentive and indisposed to come to their help. See the notes at Psalms 3:7. PLEAD THINE OWN CA...
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...
Emboldened by his contemplation of the power of God in history and in nature the Psalmist returns to prayer....
A final appeal. Elsewhere the Psalmist prays -plead my cause" (Psalms 43:1), but Israel's cause is God's cause: His honour is at stake. _the foolish man_ The fool, the members of -the foolish people,...
DISCOURSE: 628 GOD’S INTEREST IN HIS PEOPLE Psalms 74:22. _Arise, O God! plead thine own cause._ NO one can have ever heard or read the account given us of Abraham’s intercession for Sodom, without b...
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...
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. -The prayer (Psalms 74:1) resumed and expanded. Verse 18. REMEMBER THIS - answering to...
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
קוּמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים רִיבָ֣ה רִיבֶ֑ךָ זְכֹ֥ר חֶרְפָּתְךָ֥...
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...
Arise, O God, plead thine (p) own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. (p) He shows that God cannot permit his Church to be oppressed unless he looses his own right....
The prayer closeth with a repetition of the two very powerful arguments; God's own cause, and the malice of the enemies. As if the church should say, It matters not what becomes of us; but, Lord, thin...
22._Arise, O God! plead thy cause. _The pious Jews again supplicate God to ascend into his judgment-seat. He is then said _to arise, _when, after having long exercised forbearance, he shows, in very d...
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...
ARISE, O GOD, PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE,.... The church's cause being the cause of God; and therefore she desires that he would arise and exert himself, and take vengeance on his and her enemies: this is...
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. Ver. 22. _Plead thine own cause_] For if we miscarry, thou art sure to suffer among the proud Chaldees as an...
_O let not the oppressed return ashamed_ From thee, and from the throne of thy grace, to which they have recourse in this their distressed condition. “It is for the honour of God that they who apply t...
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...
Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause, for it was, after all, Jehovah's cause which was in danger on account of the action of the enemies; REMEMBER HOW THE FOOLISH MAN REPROACHETH THEE DAILY, Jehovah's...
18-23 The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten...
PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE; maintain thy honour, and worship, and service against those that reproach thee, as it here follows, and was noted before, PSALMS 74:10,18. As we are reviled and persecuted for t...
Psalms 74:22 Arise H6965 (H8798) God H430 plead H7378 (H8798) cause H7379 Remember H2142 (H8798) man...
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 74:18 The psalm goes on to plead with God, REMEMBER THIS. There is no appeal to the people’s merit. Rather, the appeal is HAVE REGARD FOR THE COVENANT and defend your
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...
Isaiah 52:5; Psalms 79:10; Psalms 79:9; Psalms 9:19; Psalms 9:20;...