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Verse Psalms 74:12. _FOR GOD_ IS _MY KING OF OLD_] We have always
acknowledged thee as our sovereign; and thou hast reigned as a king in
the midst of our land, dispensing salvation and deliverance fro...
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FOR GOD IS MY KING OF OLD - That is, the king, or ruler of his people.
The people had acknowledged him as their king and ruler, and he had
showed himself to be such. This is given as a reason why he s...
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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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SALVATION. deliverances. Plural of majesty. great deliverance.
IN THE MIDST, &C. Compare Exodus 8:22. (Hebrew. Psalms 74:15)....
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_For_ Better as R.V., Yet. In spite of His present inactivity God has
been and still is Israel's King. The Psalmist speaks in the name of
the nation. Cp. Exodus 15:18; Psalms 44:4; Habakkuk 1:12.
_sal...
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Yet God's mighty works of Redemption and Creation attest His power to
interpose for the deliverance of His people. Cp. Psalms 77:10 ff....
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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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For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
earth.
FOR GOD IS MY KING OF OLD, WORKING SALVATION IN THE MIDST OF THE
EARTH - rather 'of the land'-Palestine. As King and therefor...
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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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(10-15) ln the true prophetic spirit, as Moses brought the cries of
distress “by reason of their bondage” from the oppressed
Israelites to God (Exodus 5:22), so this poet carries to the same God
the p...
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FOR. — Better, _and,_ or _and yet._
MY KING. — The poet speaks for Israel. (Comp. Psalms 44:4; Habakkuk
1:12.)
IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH. — Or, as we might say, “on the great
theatre of the world.” C...
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וֵ֭ אלֹהִים מַלְכִּ֣י מִ קֶּ֑דֶם
פֹּעֵ֥ל יְ֝ש
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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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For God [is] my King of old, working salvation (h) in the midst of the
earth.
(h) Meaning in the sight of all the world....
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The pleading soul here takes up many strong and unanswerable arguments
to plead with God. He first sets out with reminding Jehovah, that the
anger God hath manifested is against his people. Now, saith...
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12._But God is my King from the beginning. _In this verse, as we have
often seen to be the case in other places, the people of God
intermingle meditations with their prayers, thereby to acquire renewe...
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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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FOR GOD IS MY KING OF OLD,.... Or "but God", or "verily God", c. d for
these words contain the church's consolation under all the above
melancholy circumstances, taken from what God was, and had been...
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For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
earth.
Ver. 12. _For God is my Kiny of old_] He is the same yesterday, today,
and for ever. I doubt not, therefore, but he will see...
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_How long shall the adversary reproach_ Namely, _thy name_, (which is
expressed in the next clause,) by saying that thou art either unkind
to thy people, or unfaithful in thy covenant, or unable to de...
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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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For God is my King of old, in spite of the gloominess of the present
outlook the poet clings to this trust, WORKING SALVATION IN THE MIDST
OF THE EARTH, that is, throughout the habitable world He make...
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12-17 The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for
his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It
was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This provide...
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MY KING, in a singular manner: it belongs therefore to thine office to
protect and save me. IN THE MIDST OF THE EARTH; in the view of the
world; so saving thy people so eminently and gloriously, that...
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Psalms 74:12 God H430 King H4428 old H6924 Working H6466 (H8802)
salvation H3444 midst H7130 earth H776...
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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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_For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
earth._
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
I. Loyally acknowledged. “My King.”
II. Of ancient date. “Of old.”
III. Beneficent in operation. “Wo...
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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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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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1 Samuel 19:5; Exodus 15:2; Exodus 19:5; Exodus 19:6; Habakkuk 3:12;...
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King — It belongs therefore to thy office to protect and save me.
Midst — In the view of the world....