What does Psalms 79:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to allc generations."
Verse Psalms 79:13. _WE THY PEOPLE_] Whom thou hast chosen from among all the people of the earth. _AND SHEEP OF THY PASTURE_] Of whom thou thyself art the _Shepherd_. Let us not be destroyed by thos...
SO WE THY PEOPLE, AND SHEEP OF THY PASTURE - See the notes at Psalms 74:1. WILL GIVE THEE THANKS FOR EVER - Will praise thee always; will acknowledge thee as our God, and will evermore render thee th...
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...
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64....
Concluding vow of thanksgiving. Israel will then be able to render its tribute of unceasing praise to its Lord and Shepherd. _sheep of thy pasture_ Cp. Psalms 74:1, note; Psalms 80:1. _thy praise_ C...
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...
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. SO WE THY PEOPLE, AND SHEEP OF THY PASTURE - (.) will give thee thanks f...
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 (MATTHEW 6:13). (The end of a s...
“The last word of the psalm is _Tehillah;_ the one crowning privilege of God’s people; the exulting and triumphant confidence in God, which only His chosen can entertain and express. It is here placed...
וַ אֲנַ֤חְנוּ עַמְּךָ֨ ׀ וְ צֹ֥אן מַרְעִיתֶךָ֮ נֹ֤ודֶ֥ה לְּךָ֗ לְ עֹ֫ולָ֥ם לְ דֹ֥ר וָ דֹ֑ר...
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...
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...
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: (l) we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. (l) We ought to desire no benefit from God, but on this condition to pr...
_It? Thou hast withdrawn thy protection. The temple is destroyed, and all plunder with impunity, because thy vineyard has not rendered good fruit, Jeremias ii. 21._...
What is here spoken by way of prayer, is also to be considered as the language of faith. The Lord will recompense the wrongs of his people upon their enemies; and the Lord will secure the salvation of...
In the last verse, the pious Jews declare that the fruit of their deliverance will be, that _the name of God will be celebrated; _and we ought not to desire our preservation or welfare for any other e...
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)...
SO WE THY PEOPLE, AND SHEEP OF THY PASTURE,.... Who were the people of God, not by creation and providence only, as all men are, being his creatures, and provided for by him; but by special choice, an...
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. Ver. 13. So we thy people … will give thee praise] A service which the sain...
_So we thy people will give thanks for ever_ “Such is the resolution of a church under persecution; and such ought to be the practice of every church when delivered out of it, and restored to the favo...
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....
TO ALL GENERATIONS: _ Heb._ to generation and generation...
6-13 Those who persist in ignorance of God, and neglect of prayer, are the ungodly. How unrighteous soever men were, the Lord was righteous in permitting them to do what they did. Deliverances from t...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 79:13 people H5971 sheep H6629 pasture H4830 thanks H3034 (H8686) forever H5769 forth H5608 (H8762) praise H8416 all H1755 generations H1755 thy people - Psalms 74:1, Psalms 95:7, Psalms 100:3...
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 Psalms 74:1. It rec...
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...
Isaiah 43:21; Psalms 145:4; Psalms 45:17; Psalms 74:18; Psalms 74:22; Psalms 74:1; Psalms 9:1...