Psalms 74:20
What meaning of the psalms 74:20 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 74:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."
What does Psalms 74:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty."
Verse Psalms 74:20. _HAVE RESPECT UNTO THE COVENANT_] הבט לברית _habbet_ _labberith_. Pay attention to the _covenant sacrifice_; to that offered by Abraham, Genesis 15:9, c., when the contracting part...
HAVE RESPECT UNTO THE COVENANT - The covenant which thou hast made with thy people, promising, on thy part, to protect them, and to be their God. Compare Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:2; Deuteronomy...
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...
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...
THE. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "Thy". COVENANT. Compare Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:8. THE EARTH: or the land....
Emboldened by his contemplation of the power of God in history and in nature the Psalmist returns to prayer....
FOR THE DARK PLACES, &C.— _For the dark places of the land are full of lodgments of treachery;_ Mudge. i.e. "This land is now so far from being inhabited by thy people, that every dark corner of it is...
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 this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. -The prayer (Psalms 74:1) resumed and expanded. Verse 18. REMEMBER THIS - answering to...
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". (MATTHEW 25:2) PSALMS 74 (This is) a *maskil for *Asa...
HABITATIONS. — The word thus rendered is so consistently used of the “quiet resting-places” of God’s people that it seems quite impossible that the psalmist should have used the expression, “resting-...
הַבֵּ֥ט לַ † בְּרִ֑ית כִּ֥י מָלְא֥וּ מַחֲשַׁכֵּי ־אֶ֝֗רֶץ נְאֹ֣ות חָמָֽס׃...
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_...
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...
Have respect unto the covenant: for (o) the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. (o) That is, all places where your word does not shine, there reigns tyranny and ambition....
Here is the great charter of a poor sinner's plea. It is as if the soul said, Look, O Lord, unto Jesus! Behold, O God, our shield! See the Lamb in the midst of the throne! Oh! blessed argument! God hi...
20._Have regard to thy covenant. _That God may be the more inclined to show mercy, the prophet brings to his remembrance the Divine covenant; even as the refuge of the saints, when they have found the...
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...
HAVE RESPECT UNTO THE COVENANT,.... The Targum adds, "which thou hast made with our fathers;'' meaning not the covenant of works, which being broken, no good thing was to be expected from it, not li...
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. Ver. 20. _Have respect unto the covenant_] This the Church knew to be her best plea; and, ther...
_Have respect unto the covenant_ Made with Abraham, whereby thou didst give the land of Canaan to him, and to his seed for ever; and thou didst further promise, that if thy people were carried away ca...
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...
18-23 The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten...
HAVE RESPECT UNTO THE COVENANT made with Abraham, whereby thou didst give the land of Canaan to him, and to his seed for ever; and thou didst further promise, that if thy people were carried captive i...
Psalms 74:20 respect H5027 (H8685) covenant H1285 dark H4285 earth H776 full H4390 (H8804) haunts H4999 cruelty H2555 Have - Psalms 89:28, Psalms 89:34-36, Psalms 89:39, Psalms 105:8,...
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...
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 me...
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...
2 Samuel 23:5; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 9:27; Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 4:18; Exodus 24:6; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 49:5;...
The covenant — Made with Abraham, whereby thou didst give the land of Canaan to him, and to his seed for ever. Dark places — This dark and dismal land in which we live....