Psalms 74:16

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. THE DAY IS THINE. Not only the sea and the waters, but the day and the light are at thy sovereign control. Not only in history, but also in creation and in providence, God reigns. THOU HAST PREPARED THE LIGHT AND THE SUN. Science confirms revelation that light and the light-bearing body are distinct (Genesis 1:3; Genesis 1:14-1). Maa'owr (H3974) is literally a luminary or light-bearing body (Genesis 1:14). Shemesh (H8121) is...

16._The day is thine, the night also is thine. _The prophet now descends to the consideration of the divine benefits which are extended in common to all mankind. Having commenced with the special blessings by which God manifested himself to be the Father of his chosen people, he now aptly declares that God exercises his beneficence towards the whole human family. He teaches us, that it is not by chance that the days and nights succeed each other in regular succession, but that this order was established by the appointment of God. The secondary cause of these phenomena is added, being that arrangement by which God has invested the sun with the power and office of illuminating the earth; for after having spoken of _the light _he adds _the sun, _as the principal means of communicating it, and, so to speak, the chariot in which it is brought when it comes to show itself to men. (240) As then...

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 providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes....

Verse Psalms 74:16. _THE DAY_ IS _THINE, THE NIGHT ALSO_ IS _THINE_] Thou art the Author of light, and of the sun, which is the means of dispensing it....

THE DAY IS THINE, THE NIGHT ALSO IS THINE - Thou hast universal dominion. All things are under thy control. Thou hast power, therefore, to grant what we desire of thee. THOU HAST PREPARED THE LIGHT AND THE SUN - He who has made the sun - that greatest and noblest object of creation to the view of man - must have almighty power, and must be able to give what we need....

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 ruthlessly cut down (Psalms 74:6); the aid of fire has been called in to destroy it, and its walls are cast down to the ground (Psalms 74:7). Nor has Jerusalem alone suffered. The object has been to "make havoc" of Israel "altogether;" and the enemy have spread themselves, and "burnt up all the houses of God in the land" (Psalms 74:8). The pr

THE DAY IS THINE, AND THE NIGHT ALSO IS THINE,.... He made the one and the other, and divided the one from the other; and can make them longer or shorter, clear or cloudy, as he pleases: and the day of prosperity and night of adversity are at his disposal; all the times of his people and of his church are in his hands; sometimes it is a night of darkness, deadness, sleepiness, and security, as it now is; ere long there will be no more night, but bright day; the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven fold as the light of seven days; and this is to be expected from him whose is the day and the night also, Revelation 21:25. Jarchi interprets the day, of the redemption of Israel; and the night, of distresses and afflictions: THOU HAST PREPARED THE LIGHT AND THE SUN; first the light, and then the sun; for the light was

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 (Psalms 74:10) This is a Psalm for instruction, a Maschil Psalm. The enemy is seen in the sanctuary. This has been applied to the defilement of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, but prophetically it rather refers to that end-time, when the enemy will defile the temple with the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15). Then the remnant loving the sanctuary tell

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 persecution is a religious one, since we are told repeatedly (Psalms 74:10; Psalms 74:18; Psalms 74:22) that their foes blaspheme God. Synagogues, unknown in pre-exilic times, exist throughout the land. Calamities, to some extent similar, existed in 586 B.C. when the Babylonians took Jerusalem and burned down the Temple. But if the writer had lived in the time of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, he could not have complained that no prophet had arisen (Psalms 74:9

LIGHT. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "moon"....