TITLE. MASCHIL . Instruction. The ninth of thirteen so named. See note on Title, Psalms 32, and App-65 of Asaph. The third of the twelve Asaph Psalms. See App-63. Not David's Asaph, but. successor bearing the same name. GOD. Hebrew _Elohim._ App-4. WHY... ? Figure of speech. _Erotesis._ See App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONGREGATION. assembly. The subject of Book II. PURCHASED. acquired as. possession. Hebrew. _kanah._ Compare Psalms 78:54. OF OLD. aforetime. Refers to Exodus 15:16. ROD. sceptre. REDEEMED. Hebrew. _ga'al._ See note on Exodus 6:6. THIS. Shows that the writer wrote while the scenes described wer... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFT UP THY FEET UNTO. Hasten to [and see]. Compare Idiom (Genesis 29:1). FEET. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ PERPETUAL. Same word as "for ever", Psalms 74:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENEMIES. adversaries. THY CONGREGATIONS. Thine assembly. THEIR. Compare "our", Psalms 74:9. ENSIGNS FOR SIGNS. signs as signs [for us]. SIGNS. Same word as "ensigns" and "standard" in Numbers 2.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS. used to be [considered]. The contrast is with "now" in the next line. AXES. Compare Jeremiah 46:22; Jeremiah 46:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAST FIRE INTO, &C.. cast Thy holy place into the fire. SANCTUARY. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "holy places" (plural) DWELLING PLACE. Hebrew. _mishkan._ App-40 (2).... [ Continue Reading ]
TOGETHER: or, at once. SYNAGOGUES. meeting-places. See note on "congregations", Psalms 74:4. This rendering comes from the Septuagint GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIGNS: i.e. the signs of God _'_. presence and power, or miraculous signs. Compare "their" of Psalms 74:4 with "our", Psalms 74:9. PROPHET. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for prophetic utterances.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW LONG... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Compare Psalms 74:1. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_, "how long [this shall last]".... [ Continue Reading ]
BOSOM. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Septuagint adds here "Selah". If this was in the primitive text, it marks the division of the Structure; and connects the conclusion of the prayer with the wonderful ground of the plea based upon it; which, with (Psalms 74:12) and (verses: Psalms 74:... [ Continue Reading ]
SALVATION. deliverances. Plural of majesty. great deliverance. IN THE MIDST, &C. Compare Exodus 8:22. (Hebrew. Psalms 74:15).... [ Continue Reading ]
DIVIDE. cleave. Compare Exodus 14:21, describing. sudden vehement act. Hebrew. _parar._ DRAGONS. crocodiles. (No Art.) Symbolical of Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE INHABITING. inhabitants: i.e. the wild beasts.... [ Continue Reading ]
CLEAVE. sunder, open. passage. Hebrew. _baka'._ FOUNTAIN. Compare Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:11. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, for the rook from which the water flowed. flood. Compare Joshua 3:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIGHT. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "moon".... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THY NAME. Thee. See note on Psalms 20:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SOUL. the life. Hebrew. _nephesh._ MULTITUDE. company, or host; same word as "congregation" in next line. POOR. oppressed. Hebrew. _'anah._ See note on Proverbs 6:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "Thy". COVENANT. Compare Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:8. THE EARTH: or the land.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE OPPRESSED. an oppressed one. Same as Psalms 74:19. RETURN. Compare Psalms 6:10. THE POOR AND NEEDY PRAISE. a poor one, and. needy one will praise.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. Al-taschith. Destroy not. See App-65.... [ Continue Reading ]