Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 79:9
Verse Psalms 79:9. Purge away our sins] כפר capper, be propitiated, or receive an atonement (על חטאתינו al chattotheynu) on account of our sins.
Verse Psalms 79:9. Purge away our sins] כפר capper, be propitiated, or receive an atonement (על חטאתינו al chattotheynu) on account of our sins.
HELP US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION - On whom our salvation depends; who alone can save us. FOR THE GLORY OF THY NAME - That thy name may be honored. We are thy professed people; we have been redeemed by...
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...
PURGE AWAY. cover, or atone for. Hebrew. _kaphar._ See note on Exodus 29:33. THY NAME'S SAKE. Thine own sake. See Psalms 20:1....
_for the glory of thy name_ Lit. _for the sake of the glory of thy name_(Psalms 29:2; Psalms 66:2). If Thou art not moved by the sight of our sufferings, at least be jealous for Thine own honour, lest...
Repeated prayers for deliverance for the honour of God's Name....
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...
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. PURGE AWAY OUR SINS - or 'pardon' them (.) FOR THE GLORY OF THY NAME ......
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...
Here as in Psalms 74 God's.regard for His own glory is the Psalmist's chief plea. 10B. RV'Let the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the heathen in our sight.'...
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 ...
PURGE AWAY. — Rather, _put a cover on._ So Cicero speaks of political crimes being _covered_ by the plea of friendship. OUR SINS. — How is this to be taken in connection with Psalms 79:8? Does the psa...
עָזְרֵ֤נוּ ׀ אֱלֹ֘הֵ֤י יִשְׁעֵ֗נוּ עַל ־דְּבַ֥ר כְּבֹֽוד...
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...
Help us, O God of our (h) salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. (h) Seeing we have no other Saviour, neither can we help ourselves, and a...
_Vineyard. Thy Church and people. (Worthington) (Isaias v. 1., Osee x. 1., and Matthew xx. 2.)_...
These prayers are evidently dictated by the Holy Ghost, because they are founded on God's promises. See Isaiah 43:25; Ezekiel 36:22....
9_Help O God of our salvation! _They again repeat in this verse, that whatever afflictions they endured were to be traced to the anger of God, and that they could have no comfort under them unless He...
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)...
HELP US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION, FOR THE GLORY OF THY NAME,.... Help us out of the troubles in which we are; enable us to bear them with patience, and without murmuring, while it is thy pleasure to co...
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. Ver. 9. Help us … for the glory of thy name] A speeding argument. God will do...
_Help us, O God of our salvation_ From whom we have often received, and from whom alone we now expect salvation, that is, deliverance, or protection; _for the glory of thy name_ Which is now obscured...
Help us, O God of our salvation, in whom alone the believers of all times place their hope of redemption, FOR THE GLORY OF THY NAME, for the performance of His merciful promises would redound to His g...
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...
O GOD OF OUR SALVATION; from whom we have oft received, and from whom alone we now expect, salvation. THY NAME; which is now obscured by the insolency and blasphemy of thine enemies, who ascribe this...
Psalms 79:9 Help H5826 (H8798) God H430 salvation H3468 For H1697 glory H3519 name H8034 deliver H5337 ...
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...
_Help us, O God of our salvation._ THE HIGHEST DIVINE TITLE, AND THE HIGHEST HUMAN PRIVILEGE I. The highest Divine title. “God of our salvation.” God in creation appears transcendently great; but in...
_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 79:8 The singer now faces the basic problem: God’s people have been untrue to him and must seek his forgiveness. The psalm weaves two themes together. The first is the understanda...
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...
2 Chronicles 14:11; Daniel 9:19; Daniel 9:9; Ephesians 1:6; Ezekie