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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64....
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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_ Cp...
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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...
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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 fo...
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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...
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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 ...
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“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...
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וַ אֲנַ֤חְנוּ עַמְּךָ֨ ׀ וְ צֹ֥אן
מַרְעִיתֶךָ֮...
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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...
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“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 i...
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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...
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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...
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_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._...
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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...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! do not fail, from the perusal of this short but sweet Psalm,
to remark how the church hath been exercised from age to age, and what
a correspondence there is, and ever hath been, b...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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So we, Thy people and sheep of Thy pasture, who have submitted
themselves absolutely to the guidance of their great Shepherd,
trusting implicitly in His power for protection, WILL GIVE THEE THANKS
FOR...
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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....
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TO ALL GENERATIONS:
_ Heb._ to generation and generation...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 79:13 people H5971 sheep H6629 pasture H4830 thanks H3034
(H8686) forever H5769 forth H5608 (H8762) praise...
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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...
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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...
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_We will show forth Thy praise to all generations._
GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD SPEAK GOD’S PRAISE
Dr. Parkhurst says he loves to think that every man is sent into the
world with something to tell. “That is...
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_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....
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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...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 79:11 Verses Psalms 79:8 prayed for
forgiveness. Here, the effect of that forgiveness is that God will
PRESERVE THOSE of his people who are...
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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...
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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...
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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...