Psalms 76:4
What meaning of the psalms 76:4 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 76:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey."
What does Psalms 76:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey."
Verse Psalms 76:4. _THAN THE MOUNTAINS OF PREY._] This is an address to Mount _Zion_. Thou art more illustrious and excellent than all the mountains of prey, i.e., where wild beasts wander, and prey o...
THOU ART MORE GLORIOUS AND EXCELLENT - The word rendered glorious - נאור _na'ôr_ - is from the verb which means “to shine,” to give light, and the word would properly refer to a luminous or “shining”...
Psalms 76 Divine Government Established and Maintained _ 1. The Prince of Peace reigns (Psalms 76:1)_ 2. The day of wrath and what it brought (Psalms 76:7) We behold the Lord now in Judah, the Li...
LXXVI. THE MAJESTY OF GOD IN ZION: HOMAGE OF THE NATIONS. Psalms 76:2. Salem: a poetical name for Jerusalem (Genesis 14:18 *). Psalms 76:3. lightnings of the bow (_mg.), i.e._ arrows. Psalms 76:4....
MOUNTAINS OF PREY. The great mountain (Zion) which had become. prey: i.e.. prey seized, as in next verse; the mighty men bad become. spoil, or been plundered....
A difficult verse. Two renderings are grammatically possible: either, Illustrious art Thou, majestic, from the mountains of prey: or, more than the mountains of prey. The second rendering however appe...
THOU ART MORE GLORIOUS AND EXCELLENT THAN THE MOUNTAINS OF PREY— The meaning of this verse is, that Jehovah, who sendeth help to his people from Mount Sion, is superior to the gods of the mountains, u...
PSALMS 76 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song of Triumph over a Divinely-smitten Foe. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 76:1-3, By reason of a Recent Interposition in behalf of Jerusalem, God has Anew Made Himself K...
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. -The Lord is mightier than all the mighty conquerors of the earth; because he has caused the stout-hearted to sleep in death, and so...
Like the previous Ps. this is a song of national deliverance, which may have been called forth, as the title in LXX suggests, by the overthrow of Sennacherib's army (2 Kings 19:35; 2 Chronicles 32:21;...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ SING A SONG OF ZION OR THE *LION’S *DEN PSALMS 76 THEY GOT UP AND TOOK JESUS OUT OF THE CITY. THEY LED HIM TO THE SIDE OF A HILL, WHERE MEN HAD BUILT THEIR CITY....
THOU ART... — Better, _Splendid art thou, glorious one, from the mountains of prey._ The construction is somewhat doubtful and favours Hupfeld’s emendation (_nora, i.e., to be feared,_ as in verses 8...
_[Psalms 76:5]_ נָ֭אֹור אַתָּ֥ה אַדִּ֗יר מֵֽ הַרְרֵי ־טָֽרֶף׃...
Psalms 76:1 IN contents and tone this psalm is connected with Psalms 46:1; Psalms 48:1. No known event corresponds so closely with its allusions as the destruction of Sennacherib's army, to which the...
“THE WRATH OF MAN SHALL PRAISE THEE” Psalms 76:1 In Psalms 76:2, _tabernacle_ may be rendered “covert,” and _dwelling-place_, “lair.” God is compared to the lion, that dreaded monarch of beasts, who...
The singer celebrates a great victory, recognizing it as the work of God. The song has three movements. In the first, God is seen as the defense of the people (verses Psa 76:1-3). In the second, His v...
Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than (c) the mountains of prey. (c) He compares the kingdom full of extortion and rapine to the mountains that are full of ravening beasts....
_Delighted. Hebrew, "cried out," which many explain through sorrow. But the Septuagint seem rather to take it in a different sense, as well as the swooning, which might proceed from ecstatic joy (Bert...
If this be an address to the church, it is a lovely and a just one: Zion is glorious and excellent in her Redeemer's view; Song of Solomon 1:15. But the cause of all this loveliness is from himself. E...
It is farther added, (verse 4th,) that _God is more glorious and terrible than the mountains of prey _By _the mountains of prey, _is meant kingdoms distinguished for their violence and extortion. We k...
Psalms 76 is extremely simple in its application to the judgment of the kings, who come up against Jerusalem in their pride, and find, unlooked for, the Lord Himself there (compare Micah 4:11-13 and Z...
THOU ART MORE GLORIOUS AND EXCELLENT THAN THE MOUNTAINS OF PREY. Which is to be understood not of Zion, as some interpret it; though it is true that the mountain of Zion, or the church of Christ, his...
Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than the mountains of prey. Ver. 4. _Thou art more glorious and excellent_] Or, more bright and magnificent. Glorious God was before, but now more glorious by...
_Thou_ O God, to whom he is thought to direct his speech here, as also Psalms 76:6, _art more glorious, &c., than the mountains of prey_ Than the greatest kings and empires of the earth, which in the...
GOD THE PROTECTOR OF HIS CHURCH. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be sung in public worship to the accompaniment of stringed instruments, a psalm or song of Asaph, another hymn commemorating God...
1-6 Happy people are those who have their land filled with the knowledge of God! happy persons that have their hearts filled with that knowledge! It is the glory and happiness of a people to have God...
THOU, O God; to whom he directeth his speech here, as also PSALMS 76:6. THAN THE MOUNTAINS OF PREY; either, 1. Than the greatest kings and emperors of the earth, which in prophetical writings are oft...
Psalms 76:4 glorious H215 (H8737) excellent H117 mountains H2042 prey H2964 mountains - Jeremiah 4:7; Ezekiel 19:1-4, Ezekiel 19:6, Ezekiel 38:12-13; Daniel 7:4-8, Daniel 7:17-28
CONTENTS: The glory of God's power celebrated. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: The hardships which God's people suffer by the wrath of their enemies will be made to redound to the glory of God w...
This is a martial ode, sung, according to the LXX, after the defeat of the Assyrian army. The Latin bible follows the LXX. The words of the psalm concerning the sleeping of the enemy, and the fall of...
_In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel._ GLORIOUS ASPECTS OF THE DIVINE CHARACTER I. As the glorious resident in the midst of His people (Psalms 76:1). God is everywhere; but is in an e...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 76:1. This hymn celebrates Zion as the place God has chosen to dwell, and the capital of the people he has chosen to bless and protect. It is a companion to Psalms 46:1; Psa...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See Introduction to Psalms 54. _A Psalm—a Song of Asaph_. (See notes on the authorship of Psalms 74) The superscription may be t...
EXPOSITION THE present psalm consists of three stanzas—the first of three verses, terminated by the pause mark, "Selah;" the second of six verses, ended similarly, and the third (like the first) of th...
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel (Psalms 76:1). Judah, of course, was the southern kingdom. Israel was the northern kingdom. In Salem also is his tabernacle [that would be Jerusalem...
Daniel 7:17; Daniel 7:4; Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 19:6; Ezekiel 38:12; Ezekiel 38:13; Jeremiah 4:7...
Thou — O God. Than — The greatest kings and empires of the earth, which in prophetic writings are often compared to mountains. And they are called mountains of prey, because they generally were establ...