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Verse Psalms 74:22. _PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE_] Thy honour is concerned,
as well as our safety and salvation. _The fool_-the idolater,
_reproacheth thee daily _- he boasts of the superiority of his idols...
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ARISE, O GOD - As if God were now insensible to the wrongs and
sufferings of his people; as if he were inattentive and indisposed to
come to their help. See the notes at Psalms 3:7.
PLEAD THINE OWN CA...
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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 ...
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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...
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DISCOURSE: 628
GOD’S INTEREST IN HIS PEOPLE
Psalms 74:22. _Arise, O God! plead thine own cause._
NO one can have ever heard or read the account given us of Abraham’s
intercession for Sodom, without b...
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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...
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Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the
foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
-The prayer (Psalms 74:1) resumed and expanded.
Verse 18. REMEMBER THIS - answering to...
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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...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
KEEP YOUR PROMISE!
PSALMS 74
Jesus said, "One stone will not stay on another. They will all become
broken". (Ma
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These verses show that the psalm was actually composed amidst the dark
days it describes. It ends in expostulatory prayer, with as yet no
brighter gleam of hope than prayer itself implies — and that w...
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קוּמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים רִיבָ֣ה רִיבֶ֑ךָ
זְכֹ֥ר חֶרְפָּתְךָ֥...
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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...
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“PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE, O GOD”
Psalms 74:12
Yet! Psalms 74:12, r.v. There is always some compensating and
consolatory thought. God is in the background of our thought. Not only
_the_ King, but _my_ K...
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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...
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Arise, O God, plead thine (p) own cause: remember how the foolish man
reproacheth thee daily.
(p) He shows that God cannot permit his Church to be oppressed unless
he looses his own right....
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The prayer closeth with a repetition of the two very powerful
arguments; God's own cause, and the malice of the enemies. As if the
church should say, It matters not what becomes of us; but, Lord, thin...
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22._Arise, O God! plead thy cause. _The pious Jews again supplicate
God to ascend into his judgment-seat. He is then said _to arise,
_when, after having long exercised forbearance, he shows, in very
d...
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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...
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ARISE, O GOD, PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE,.... The church's cause being the
cause of God; and therefore she desires that he would arise and exert
himself, and take vengeance on his and her enemies: this is...
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Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man
reproacheth thee daily.
Ver. 22. _Plead thine own cause_] For if we miscarry, thou art sure to
suffer among the proud Chaldees as an...
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_O let not the oppressed return ashamed_ From thee, and from the
throne of thy grace, to which they have recourse in this their
distressed condition. “It is for the honour of God that they who
apply t...
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Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause, for it was, after all, Jehovah's
cause which was in danger on account of the action of the enemies;
REMEMBER HOW THE FOOLISH MAN REPROACHETH THEE DAILY, Jehovah's...
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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...
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18-23 The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against
their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants
will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten...
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PLEAD THINE OWN CAUSE; maintain thy honour, and worship, and service
against those that reproach thee, as it here follows, and was noted
before, PSALMS 74:10,18. As we are reviled and persecuted for t...
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Psalms 74:22 Arise H6965 (H8798) God H430 plead H7378 (H8798) cause
H7379 Remember H2142 (H8798) man...
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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 m...
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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...
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_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 men...
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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...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:18 The psalm goes on to plead with God,
REMEMBER THIS. There is no appeal to the people’s merit. Rather, the
appeal is HAVE REGARD FOR THE COVENANT and defend your
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 52:5; Psalms 79:10; Psalms 79:9; Psalms 9:19; Psalms 9:20;...