Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 79:8
Former iniquities] RV 'the iniquities of our forefathers,' which are regarded as justly punished by the present calamities. Prevent] in the Old English sense of 'go before,' anticipate our need.
Former iniquities] RV 'the iniquities of our forefathers,' which are regarded as justly punished by the present calamities. Prevent] in the Old English sense of 'go before,' anticipate our need.
Verse Psalms 79:8. _REMEMBER NOT AGAINST US FORMER INIQUITIES_] Visit us not for the sins of our forefathers. _SPEEDILY PREVENT US_] Let them _go before us_, and turn us out of the path of destructio...
O REMEMBER NOT AGAINST US FORRMER INIQUITIES - Margin, The iniquities of them that were before us. The Hebrew may mean either former times, or former generations. The allusion, however, is substantial...
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...
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...
INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. PREVENT US. come to meet us. Eng. usage changed. Original sense obsolete....
Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers (R.V.). For these sins Israel in the Exile knew that it was suffering (Lamentations 5:7), in accordance with the warnings of the law (Exodus 2...
Prayer that God will cease to be angry with His own people and will punish their destroyers....
O REMEMBER NOT AGAINST US FORMER INIQUITIES— This may probably have an especial reference to those first sins which this people had been guilty of, after their coming out of Egypt. Such was their idol...
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...
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. O REMEMBER NOT AGAINST US FORMER INIQUITIES - rather, 'the iniquities of our fo...
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 ...
אַֽל ־תִּזְכָּר ־לָנוּ֮ עֲוֹנֹ֪ת רִאשֹׁ֫נִ֥ים מַ֭הֵר...
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...
“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...
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...
O remember not against us (f) former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. (f) Which we and our fathers have committed....
These prayers are evidently dictated by the Holy Ghost, because they are founded on God's promises. See Isaiah 43:25; Ezekiel 36:22....
_GOD THE HOPE OF THE DISTRESSED_ ‘Let Thy tender mercies speedily prevent us.’ Psalms 79:8 I. THIS IS A CRY OF DISTRESS.—The conditions described are those of overwhelming national calamity. The co...
8_Remember not against us the iniquities of former times. _The godly Jews here confirm the sentiment which they had before briefly and obscurely touched upon, namely, that they had justly deserved the...
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)...
O REMEMBER NOT AGAINST US FORMER INIQUITIES,.... Or, "our ancient iniquities", as the Septuagint; the most ancient sin of all is that of our first parents, in which we are involved, and by which we ar...
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Ver. 8. _O remember not against us former iniquities_] Or, the iniquities of them...
_Remember not against us former iniquities_ The sins committed by our forefathers, and by us who have filled up the measure of their sins, for which we confess thou hast most righteously brought this...
O remember not against us former iniquities, those of the forefathers, this statement including a confession of guilt, of apostasy in the past; LET THY TENDER MERCIES SPEEDILY PREVENT US, coming to me...
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....
FORMER INIQUITIES: Or, the iniquities of them that were before us...
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...
FORMER INIQUITIES; the sins committed by our forefathers, and by us, who have filled up the measure of their sins, for which we confess thou hast most righteously brought this desolating judgment upon...
Psalms 79:8 remember H2142 (H8799) former H7223 iniquities H5771 mercies H7356 speedily H4118 meet H6923 (H8762) broug
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...
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...
_O remember not against us former iniquities._ THE HEREDITARY PRINCIPLE IN GOD’S MORAL GOVERNMENT OF MANKIND The proper translation of this would be, “Remember not to us the iniquities of former men...
_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....
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 79:8 The singer now faces the basic problem: God’s people have been untrue to him and must seek his forgiveness. The psalm weaves two themes together. The first is the understanda...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 17:18; Daniel 9:16; Deuteronomy 28:43; Exodus 32:34; Ezekiel
Prevent — Prevent our utter extirpation....