Psalms 74:3
What meaning of the psalms 74:3 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 74:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary."
What does Psalms 74:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary."
Verse Psalms 74:3. _LIFT UP THY FEET_] Arise, and return to us, our desolations still continue. Thy sanctuary is profaned by thine and our enemies....
LIFT UP THY FEET - That is, Advance, or draw near. Come and look directly and personally on the desolations which now exist in the holy city. UNTO THE PERPETUAL DESOLATIONS - Hebrew, “the ruins of pe...
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...
LIFT UP THY FEET UNTO. Hasten to [and see]. Compare Idiom (Genesis 29:1). FEET. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ PERPETUAL. Same word as "for ever", Psalms 74:1....
An appeal to God, Who seems to have abandoned and forgotten the people and city of His choice....
LIFT UP THY FEET, &C.— _Lift up thy feet because of perpetual desolations._ The phrase _lift up thy feet,_ signifies no more than _come,_ or _return._ God had deserted his sanctuary, and the _Shechina...
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...
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. -The enemy has destroyed God's sanctuary and synagogues, and there are no tokens of God...
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...
LIFT UP THY FEET. — Better, _Lift thy steps._ A poetical expression. God is invoked to hasten to view the desolation of the Temple. A somewhat similar expression will be found in Genesis 29:1 (margin)...
הָרִ֣ימָה פְ֭עָמֶיךָ לְ מַשֻּׁאֹ֣ות נֶ֑צַח כָּל ־הֵרַ֖ע אֹויֵ֣ב בַּ † קֹּֽדֶשׁ׃...
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...
_When I shall take time. In proper times: particularly at the last day, when the earth shall melt away at the presence of the great judge: the same who originally laid the foundations of it, and, as i...
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...
3._Lift up thy strokes. _Here the people of God, on the other hand, beseech him to inflict a deadly wound upon their enemies, corresponding to the cruelty with which they had raged against his sanctua...
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...
LIFT UP THY FEET UNTO THE PERPETUAL DESOLATIONS,.... That is, arise, hasten, move swiftly, and in the greatness of strength, and come and see the desolations made by the enemy, which look as if they w...
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Ver. 3. _Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations_] _i.e._ Make haste to help,...
_Lift up thy feet_ This is spoken after the manner of men, and means, Come speedily to our rescue, and do not delay, as men do when they sit or stand still; _unto_ Or rather, _because of, the perpetua...
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...
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....
LIFT UP THY FEET, i.e. come speedily for our rescue, and do not sit or stand still, as hitherto thou seemest to do. UNTO THE PERPETUAL DESOLATIONS; or rather, because of (as this prefix oft signifies)...
Psalms 74:3 up H7311 (H8685) feet H6471 perpetual H5331 desolations H4876 enemy H341 (H8802) damaged H7489 (H8689) sanctuary H6944 Lift - Psalms 44:23, Psalms 44:26; Joshua 10:24;...
Psalms 74:3 This Psalm contains (1) a complaint; (2) a prayer; (3) several pleas for that prayer. I. The complaint. It was a complaint of desolation and oppression. God's temple was lying waste; God...
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 22:39; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 8:11; Daniel 9:17; Daniel 9:27; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 63:3; Isaiah 64:10; Isaiah 64:11;...
Lift up — Come speedily to our rescue. Because — Because otherwise our destruction is irrecoverable....