Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 79:6
Verse Psalms 79:6. Pour out thy wrath] Bad as we are, we are yet less wicked than they. We, it is true, have been unfaithful; but they never knew thy name, and are totally abandoned to idolatry.
Verse Psalms 79:6. Pour out thy wrath] Bad as we are, we are yet less wicked than they. We, it is true, have been unfaithful; but they never knew thy name, and are totally abandoned to idolatry.
POUR OUT THY WRATH UPON THE HEATHEN - Punish, as they deserve, the nations that have risen up against thy people, and that have brought; desolation upon the land. The word rendered here pour out is us...
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...
POUR OUT. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. See note on "shed", Psalms 79:3. NOT KNOWN THEE. Compare Jeremiah 10:25....
Prayer that God will cease to be angry with His own people and will punish their destroyers....
_upon the heathen_&c. Not upon the nations as such, but upon the nations which refuse to acknowledge Jehovah, and make havoc of His people. Render with R.V., that know thee not … that call not upon th...
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...
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. POUR OUT THY WRATH UPON THE HEATHEN THAT HAVE NOT KNOWN THEE - even as they h...
Quoted from Jeremiah 10:25....
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 ...
(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.)...
שְׁפֹ֤ךְ חֲמָתְךָ֨ אֶֽל ־הַ גֹּויִם֮ אֲשֶׁ֪ר...
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...
_Measure. Hebrew shalish, "three-fold." (St. Jerome) --- The capacity of this measure is not determined. It might be the seah, or the third part of an epha, which would be very abundant, speaking of t...
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...
6._Pour out thy fury upon the heathen, who have not known thee. _This prayer is apparently inconsistent with the rule of charity; for, while we feel anxious about our own calamities, and desire to be...
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)...
POUR OUT THY WRATH UPON THE HEATHEN THAT HAVE NOT KNOWN THEE,.... Who had poured out the blood of the saints like water, and therefore it was a righteous thing with God to pour out the cup of wrath in...
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. Ver. 6. _Pour out thy wrath, &c._] Even the full vials of it. _ That have not k...
_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...
Pour out Thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known Thee, who were willingly estranged from Him, hostile to His Church, AND UPON THE KINGDOMS THAT HAVE NOT CALLED UPON THY NAME, refusing to accept...
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...
Though we confess that we have deserved thy wrath, yet the heathen, by whom thou hast scourged us, deserve it much more, as being guilty of far greater impieties than we, living in gross ignorance and...
Psalms 79:6 out H8210 (H8798) wrath H2534 nations H1471 know H3045 (H8804) kingdoms H4467 call H7121 ...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Acts 17:23; Isaiah 13:1;...