PSALM 79 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was doubtless composed upon the sad occasion of the destruction of Judea and Jerusalem, either by Antiochus, or rather by the Chaldeans; as may be gathered from /APC 1MA 7:16,17, where, in the relation of the persecution of Antiochus, the second and third verses of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_ Of thy servants_; either, 1. Of thy faithful and holy servants, whom they used as cruelly as the worst of the people. Or, 2. Of the Jews, whom, though the generality of them were very wicked, he calleth God's servants and saints, because they were all such by profession, and some of them were re... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE WATER; plentifully and contemptuously, valuing it no more than common water. NONE TO BURY THEM, because their friends, who should have done it, were either slain or fled, or were not permitted, or durst not undertake, to perform that office to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
We, who were their terror and scourge, are now neither feared nor pitied, but become the matter of their scoffs and reproaches. See PSALMS 80:6, PSALMS 137:7 EZEKIEL 35:2,12, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Though we confess that we have deserved thy wrath, yet the heathen, by whom thou hast scourged us, deserve it much more, as being guilty of far greater impieties than we, living in gross ignorance and contempt of God and of his worship; and therefore we pray transfer thy wrath from us to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
JACOB; the posterity of Jacob, whom thou didst love, and with whom and his seed thou madest a sure and everlasting covenant; whereby thou didst engage thyself to be _an enemy to their enemies_, EXODUS 23:22. Besides, thou hatest cruelty, especially when the wicked devour those who are more righteous... [ Continue Reading ]
FORMER INIQUITIES; the sins committed by our forefathers, and by us, who have filled up the measure of their sins, for which we confess thou hast most righteously brought this desolating judgment upon us. THY TENDER MERCIES; upon which all our confidence is fixed; for merit and righteousness we have... [ Continue Reading ]
O GOD OF OUR SALVATION; from whom we have oft received, and from whom alone we now expect, salvation. THY NAME; which is now obscured by the insolency and blasphemy of thine enemies, who ascribe this conquest to their idols, and triumph over thee no less than over thy people, as one unable to delive... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR GOD; he whom they served, and of whom they boasted. He is lost and gone, or grown impotent or idle. LET HIM BE KNOWN AMONG THE HEATHEN, by the execution of his judgments upon them, according to PSALMS 9:16. IN OUR SIGHT; that we may live to see it, and praise thy name for it.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE PRISONER; of thy poor people now in prison, or, at least, in captivity. THOSE THAT ARE APPOINTED TO DIE, Heb. _the children of death_, i.e. which were either designed to death, or in manifest danger of it, as being wholly in the power of their cruel and barbarous enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVENFOLD, i.e. either, 1. Abundantly, as this phrase notes, ISAIAH 65:6,7 JER 32:18 LUKE 6:38. Or, 2. Sensibly, so as it may come home to them, and fall heavily upon them in their own persons. Reproached thee, as impotent, or unfaithful, or unmerciful to his own people. So they intimate that this... [ Continue Reading ]
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