Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 74:12
For God [is] my King of old, working salvation (h) in the midst of the earth.
(h) Meaning in the sight of all the world.
For God [is] my King of old, working salvation (h) in the midst of the earth.
(h) Meaning in the sight of all the world.
Verse Psalms 74:12. _FOR GOD_ IS _MY KING OF OLD_] We have always acknowledged thee as our sovereign; and thou hast reigned as a king in the midst of our land, dispensing salvation and deliverance fro...
FOR GOD IS MY KING OF OLD - That is, the king, or ruler of his people. The people had acknowledged him as their king and ruler, and he had showed himself to be such. This is given as a reason why he s...
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...
SALVATION. deliverances. Plural of majesty. great deliverance. IN THE MIDST, &C. Compare Exodus 8:22. (Hebrew. Psalms 74:15)....
_For_ Better as R.V., Yet. In spite of His present inactivity God has been and still is Israel's King. The Psalmist speaks in the name of the nation. Cp. Exodus 15:18; Psalms 44:4; Habakkuk 1:12. _sal...
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....
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...
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. FOR GOD IS MY KING OF OLD, WORKING SALVATION IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH - rather 'of the land'-Palestine. As King and therefor...
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
(10-15) ln the true prophetic spirit, as Moses brought the cries of distress “by reason of their bondage” from the oppressed Israelites to God (Exodus 5:22), so this poet carries to the same God the p...
FOR. — Better, _and,_ or _and yet._ MY KING. — The poet speaks for Israel. (Comp. Psalms 44:4; Habakkuk 1:12.) IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH. — Or, as we might say, “on the great theatre of the world.” C...
וֵ֭ אלֹהִים מַלְכִּ֣י מִ קֶּ֑דֶם פֹּעֵ֥ל יְ֝ש
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 pleading soul here takes up many strong and unanswerable arguments to plead with God. He first sets out with reminding Jehovah, that the anger God hath manifested is against his people. Now, saith...
12._But God is my King from the beginning. _In this verse, as we have often seen to be the case in other places, the people of God intermingle meditations with their prayers, thereby to acquire renewe...
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...
FOR GOD IS MY KING OF OLD,.... Or "but God", or "verily God", c. d for these words contain the church's consolation under all the above melancholy circumstances, taken from what God was, and had been...
For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. Ver. 12. _For God is my Kiny of old_] He is the same yesterday, today, and for ever. I doubt not, therefore, but he will see...
_How long shall the adversary reproach_ Namely, _thy name_, (which is expressed in the next clause,) by saying that thou art either unkind to thy people, or unfaithful in thy covenant, or unable to de...
For God is my King of old, in spite of the gloominess of the present outlook the poet clings to this trust, WORKING SALVATION IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH, that is, throughout the habitable world He make...
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...
MY KING, in a singular manner: it belongs therefore to thine office to protect and save me. IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH; in the view of the world; so saving thy people so eminently and gloriously, that...
Psalms 74:12 God H430 King H4428 old H6924 Working H6466 (H8802) salvation H3444 midst H7130 earth H776...
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...
_For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth._ THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD I. Loyally acknowledged. “My King.” II. Of ancient date. “Of old.” III. Beneficent in operation. “Wo...
_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...
1 Samuel 19:5; Exodus 15:2; Exodus 19:5; Exodus 19:6; Habakkuk 3:12;...
King — It belongs therefore to thy office to protect and save me. Midst — In the view of the world....