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THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD - That is, the source of
the streams and the streams themselves. The main allusion is probably
to the Jordan, and the idea is, that God had, as it were, di...
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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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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. Co...
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Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent:
Thou didst dry up perennial rivers.
God's omnipotence was shewn alike in cleaving the rock so that water
flowed out (Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:8; Psalms 78:15;...
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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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MIGHTY RIVERS— _Perpetual springs._ Schultens. _Psalms 74:16. The
light_] _The luminary,_ or _receptacle of light,_ according to the
original, The word מאור _maour_ is collective, and means all the
lu...
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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 didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty
rivers.
THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD - Thou didst cause the
water of the fountain to break forth by cleaving-re...
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CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN] i.e. cleave the rock from which the fountain
flowed: see Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:8. RIVERS] the Jordan: Joshua
3:13; Joshua 4:23.
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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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THOU DIDST CLEAVE... — Another pregnant expression for “thou didst
cleave the rock, and a fountain came forth.”
FLOOD. — Better, _brook._ Heb., _nâchal._
MIGHTY RIVERS. — See margin. But, perhaps, ra...
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אַתָּ֣ה בָ֭קַעְתָּ מַעְיָ֣ן וָ נָ֑חַל
אַתָּ֥ה...
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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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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 DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD,.... That is, the rocks
at Horeb and at Kadesh, from whence water flowed as out of a fountain,
and became a flood, whereby the people of Israel were suppli...
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty
rivers.
Ver. 15. _Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood_] _i.e._
_Fontium et torrentium scatebras et latebras,_ thou didst...
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Psa. 74:15. "Flood." God, in dividing Jordan, did not only divide the
water that ordinarily belonged to the river, or the water which came
from its fountains, but also the extraordinary additional wat...
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_Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood_ That is, thou didst, by
cleaving the rock, make a fountain in it, and a flood or stream to
flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry d...
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood, in giving the Israelites
water out of the rock, Exodus 17:5; Numbers 20:11; THOU DRIEDST UP
MIGHTY RIVERS, the reference being chiefly to the passage of J...
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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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MIGHTY RIVERS:
_ Heb._ rivers of strength...
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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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THOU DIDST CLEAVE THE FOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD, i.e. thou didst by
cleaving the rock make a fountain in it, and a flood or stream to flow
from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry deserts....
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Psalms 74:15 open H1234 (H8804) fountain H4599 flood H5158 up H3001
(H8689) mighty H386 rivers H5104...
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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 74:12 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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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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2 Kings 2:14; 2 Kings 2:8; Exodus 17:5; Exodus 17:6; Habakkuk 3:9;...
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The flood — Thou didst by cleaving the rock, make a fountain and a
stream to flow from it, for the refreshment of thy people in those dry
deserts. Driedst — Jordan and the Red Sea; for the sea itself;...