Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the (b) rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
(b) Which inheritance you have measured out for yourself as with a line or rod.
Verse Psalms 74:2. _REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION, WHICH THOU HAST PURCHASED OF_ _OLD_] We are the descendants of that people whom thou didst take unto thyself; the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob....
REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION - The word rendered “congregation” means properly an “assembly,” a “community,” and it is frequently applied to the Israelites, or the Jewish people, considered as a body or...
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...
CONGREGATION. assembly. The subject of Book II. PURCHASED. acquired as. possession. Hebrew. _kanah._ Compare Psalms 78:54. OF OLD. aforetime. Refers to Exodus 15:16. ROD. sceptre. REDEEMED. Hebrew....
An appeal to God, Who seems to have abandoned and forgotten the people and city of His choice....
_Remember_ Cp. Psalms 74:18_; Psalms 74:22_; Lamentations 5:1; Isaiah 62:6. _purchased … redeemed_ Reminiscences of the Song of M
REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION— i.e. The Israelites who are thy church, and whom, at the expence of so many miracles, thou didst make thy peculiar people. _The rod,_ in the next clause, is put for the land...
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 thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION, WHICH THOU...
74:2 redeemed (b-13) As Psalms 69:18 , c. portion (c-17) Lit. 'staff [for measuring]' or 'tribe.'...
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...
THE ROD.. REDEEMED] RV 'which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance.'...
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
PURCHASED. — Or, as in LXX., _acquired._ This word, together with the word “redeemed” in the next clause, and “right hand” in Psalms 74:11, show that Exodus 15 was in the writer’s mind. (See especiall...
זְכֹ֤ר עֲדָתְךָ֨ ׀ קָ֘נִ֤יתָ קֶּ֗דֶם גָּ֭אַלְתָּ שֵׁ֣בֶט...
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...
THE SANCTUARY OF GOD PROFANED Psalms 74:1 This psalm probably dates from the time when the Chaldeans destroyed the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. Compare Psalms 74:8 with Jeremiah 3:13. The main e...
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...
_Praise. The repetition shews the certainty of the event. Christ and his apostles, who sit as judges, praise the ways of Providence. (Worthington) --- Hebrew is more obscure. (Calmet)_...
It is blessed under afflictions to be enabled to remind God of his covenant love and engagements. Pleading with God on this ground is blessed pleading. Reader! can you explain that paradox; the humble...
2._Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed of old. _(214) Here they boast of having been the peculiar people of God, not on account of any merit of their own, but by the grace of adoption...
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...
REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION, WHICH THOU HAST PURCHASED OF OLD,.... Alluding to the redemption of the congregation of Israel out of Egypt, when they were said to be "purchased", Exodus 15:16 and as that...
Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. Ver. 2. _Remember thy congregation,...
_Remember thy congregation_ That is, the Israelites, who are thy church, and whom at the expense of so many miracles, thou didst make thy peculiar people; show by thine actions that thou hast not utte...
Remember Thy congregation, not only thinking of it in mercy, but showing His favor in deeds of kindness, WHICH THOU HAST PURCHASED OF OLD, which had become His possession by the deliverance from the s...
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...
ROD: Or, tribe...
1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him....
REMEMBER; show by thine actions that thou hast not utterly forgotten and forsaken them. THY CONGREGATION; thy church or people. _Purchased_; or, _redeemed_, as it follows; or, _bought_, as it is DEUTE...
Psalms 74:2 Remember H2142 (H8798) congregation H5712 purchased H7069 (H8804) old H6924 tribe H7626 inheritance H5159
REDEEMED Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type). (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...
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...
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...
Acts 20:28; Deuteronomy 32:9; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 9:29;...
Thy congregation — Thy people. Thine inheritance — The tribe of Judah, which thou hast in a special manner chosen for thine inheritance, and for the birth of the Messiah. Nor is it strange that he men...