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Verse Psalms 74:14. _THE HEADS OF LEVIATHAN_] Leviathan might be
intended here as a personification of the _Egyptian government_; and
its _heads_, Pharaoh and his chief captains.
_TO THE PEOPLE INHA...
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THOU BRAKEST THE HEADS OF LEVIATHAN IN PIECES - On the meaning of the
word “leviathan,” see the notes at Job 41:1. The word is used here
as descriptive of sea monsters.
AND GAVEST HIM TO BE MEAT - Ga...
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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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PEOPLE INHABITING. inhabitants: i.e. the wild beasts....
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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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_Thou brakest_&c. Thou didst crush … thou didst give him &c. The
dead bodies of the Egyptians were cast up on the shore (Exodus 14:30)
to be devoured by the wild beasts of the desert. Cp. Ezekiel 29:3...
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DRAGONS—LEVIATHAN— The Hebrew words may mean much the same; only
the latter seems to express a more distinguished kind of crocodile. It
is under this character that the Egyptians and their king are
de...
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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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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be
meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
THOU BRAKEST THE HEADS OF LEVIATHAN IN PIECES, AND GAVEST HIM TO BE
MEAT TO THE PEO...
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74:14 leviathan, (h-9) As Job 3:8 . those (i-17) i.e. the wild beasts....
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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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LEVIATHAN] probably the crocodile, another figure for Egypt: cp.
Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:1
THE PEOPLE INHABITING THE WILDERNESS] the wild beasts of the desert....
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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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LEVIATHAN. — See last note.
AND GAVEST HIM... — The crocodile was eaten by the people of
Elephantine (Herod. ii. 69), but there is no allusion here to that
custom, nor to the _Ichthyophagi_ mentioned...
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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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Thou brakest the heads of (k) leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him
[to be] (l) meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
(k) Which was a great monster of the sea, or whale, meaning Pharaoh.
(l)...
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The Holy Ghost evidently intended by these sweet and precious verses,
to teach the church, in all ages, how to adopt such arguments, in all
our dealings with God, when under trial. The best thing I ca...
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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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THOU BREAKEST THE HEADS OF LEVIATHAN IN PIECES,.... A large fish,
generally thought to be the whale, by some the crocodile, described in
Job 41:1 to which the king of Egypt or Babylon is compared, Isa...
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to
be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Ver. 14. _Thou brakest the heads of leviathan_] _i.e._ Of Pharaoh
himself. See Is...
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_Thou didst divide the sea_, &c. “The first part of this verse
alludes to that marvellous act of omnipotence which divided the Red
sea for Israel to pass over; the second part to the return of its
wav...
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan, the crocodile, the most powerful
animal of Egypt, IN PIECES AND GAVEST HIM TO BE MEAT TO THE PEOPLE
INHABITING THE WILDERNESS, food for the wilderness dwellers, th...
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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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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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THE HEADS, i.e. the head; called _heads_, partly for the greatness of
this beast, as that great monster is called _beasts_, JOB 40:20, for
the same reason; and partly for the several heads or princes...
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Psalms 74:14 broke H7533 (H8765) heads H7218 Leviathan H3882 gave
H5414 (H8799) food H3978 people H5971 wilderness
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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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_Thou brakest the heads Of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be
meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness._
LEVIATHAN
We cannot certainly tell what animal is meant by leviathan, but
whatever...
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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 74:12 The next section recalls God’s mighty
deeds from the past, in which he has worked SALVATION. These include
the exodus from Egypt and the journey through the wilderness (vv....
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:14 LEVIATHAN here represents Egypt (see
notes on Job 3:8; Isaiah 27:1)....
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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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Exodus 12:35; Exodus 12:36; Exodus 14:30; Isaiah 27:1; Job 3:8;...
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Leviathan — Pharaoh. The people — To the ravenous birds and beasts
of the desert. These creatures are significantly called the people of
the wilderness, because they are the only people that inhabit i...