Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to (c) bury [them].
(c) Their friends and relatives did not dare to bury them for fear of the enemies.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to (c) bury [them].
(c) Their friends and relatives did not dare to bury them for fear of the enemies.
Verse Psalms 79:3. THERE WAS _NONE TO BURY_ THEM.] The Chaldeans would not; and the Jews who were not slain were carried into captivity....
THEIR BLOOD HAVE THEY SHED LIKE WATER ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM - They have poured it out in such quantities that it seems to flow like water - not an uncommon occurrence in war. There was no event in the...
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...
SHED. poured out. Compare same word in Psalms 79:6....
_like water_ Freely, and as though it were of little worth. Contrast Psalms 116:15. _none to bury_them] Cp. Jeremiah 14:16. This passage is quoted freely in 1Ma 7:17 with reference to the murder of ce...
The Psalmist tells his grief to God: His land is overrun by heathen, His temple is desecrated, His city is in ruins, His people are slaughtered, the survivors are the scorn of their neighbours....
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...
_THE DEAD BODIES OF THY SERVANTS HAVE THEY GIVEN TO BE MEAT UNTO THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN, THE FLESH OF THY SAINTS UNTO THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 ...
THEIR BLOOD. — In 1Ma. 7:17, we read “The flesh of thy saints and their blood have they shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them,” introduced by “according to the word which he wrot...
שָׁפְכ֬וּ דָמָ֨ם ׀ כַּ † מַּ֗יִם סְֽבִ֘יבֹ֤ות יְֽרוּשָׁלִָ֗ם
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...
_Manasses. These three tribes followed the ark in the desert, (Numbers ii. 18.) and might better see the majesty shining over it. (Worthington) (Calmet) --- Let all be united once more in the divine s...
It is not distinctly marked, by any parallel part of the history of the church, to what period this desolation refers. As the prophet Jeremiah who lived and ministered in the church about the time of...
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)...
THEIR BLOOD HAVE THEY SHED LIKE WATER ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM,.... Without any concern of mind, or remorse of conscience; without any fear of God or man; as if it had been so much water only; and this t...
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them]. Ver. 3. _Their blood have they shed like water_] _Contemptim vel abiecte._ They made no more reckonin...
_The dead bodies of thy servants_ Either, 1st, Of thy faithful and holy servants, whom they used as cruelly as the worst of the people. Or, 2d, Of the Jews in general, whom, though most of them were w...
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, considering it utterly worthless, not feeling a single twinge of conscience on account of their violence; AND THERE WAS NONE TO BURY THEM,...
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....
1-5 God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city, when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. G...
LIKE WATER; plentifully and contemptuously, valuing it no more than common water. NONE TO BURY THEM, because their friends, who should have done it, were either slain or fled, or were not permitted, o...
Psalms 79:3 blood H1818 shed H8210 (H8804) water H4325 around H5439 Jerusalem H3389 bury H6912 (H8802)...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 14:16; Jeremiah 15:3; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 25:33;...