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Verse Psalms 74:2. _REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION, WHICH THOU HAST
PURCHASED OF_ _OLD_] We are the descendants of that people whom thou
didst take unto thyself; the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob....
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REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION - The word rendered “congregation” means
properly an “assembly,” a “community,” and it is frequently
applied to the Israelites, or the Jewish people, considered as a body
or...
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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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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....
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An appeal to God, Who seems to have abandoned and forgotten the people
and city of His choice....
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_Remember_ Cp. Psalms 74:18_; Psalms 74:22_; Lamentations 5:1; Isaiah
62:6.
_purchased … redeemed_ Reminiscences of the Song of M
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REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION— i.e. The Israelites who are thy church,
and whom, at the expence of so many miracles, thou didst make thy
peculiar people. _The rod,_ in the next clause, is put for the land...
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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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Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod
of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion,
wherein thou hast dwelt.
REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION, WHICH THOU...
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74:2 redeemed (b-13) As Psalms 69:18 , c. portion (c-17) Lit. 'staff
[for measuring]' or 'tribe.'...
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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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THE ROD.. REDEEMED] RV 'which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of
thine inheritance.'...
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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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PURCHASED. — Or, as in LXX., _acquired._ This word, together with
the word “redeemed” in the next clause, and “right hand” in
Psalms 74:11, show that Exodus 15 was in the writer’s mind. (See
especiall...
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זְכֹ֤ר עֲדָתְךָ֨ ׀ קָ֘נִ֤יתָ קֶּ֗דֶם
גָּ֭אַלְתָּ שֵׁ֣בֶט...
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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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THE SANCTUARY OF GOD PROFANED
Psalms 74:1
This psalm probably dates from the time when the Chaldeans destroyed
the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. Compare Psalms 74:8 with
Jeremiah 3:13. The main e...
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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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_Praise. The repetition shews the certainty of the event. Christ and
his apostles, who sit as judges, praise the ways of Providence.
(Worthington) --- Hebrew is more obscure. (Calmet)_...
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It is blessed under afflictions to be enabled to remind God of his
covenant love and engagements. Pleading with God on this ground is
blessed pleading. Reader! can you explain that paradox; the humble...
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2._Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed of old. _(214)
Here they boast of having been the peculiar people of God, not on
account of any merit of their own, but by the grace of adoption...
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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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REMEMBER THY CONGREGATION, WHICH THOU HAST PURCHASED OF OLD,....
Alluding to the redemption of the congregation of Israel out of Egypt,
when they were said to be "purchased", Exodus 15:16 and as that...
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Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the rod
of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion,
wherein thou hast dwelt.
Ver. 2. _Remember thy congregation,...
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_Remember thy congregation_ That is, the Israelites, who are thy
church, and whom at the expense of so many miracles, thou didst make
thy peculiar people; show by thine actions that thou hast not utte...
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Remember Thy congregation, not only thinking of it in mercy, but
showing His favor in deeds of kindness, WHICH THOU HAST PURCHASED OF
OLD, which had become His possession by the deliverance from the
s...
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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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ROD:
Or, tribe...
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1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and
the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God,
at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him....
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REMEMBER; show by thine actions that thou hast not utterly forgotten
and forsaken them. THY CONGREGATION; thy church or people.
_Purchased_; or, _redeemed_, as it follows; or, _bought_, as it is
DEUTE...
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Psalms 74:2 Remember H2142 (H8798) congregation H5712 purchased H7069
(H8804) old H6924 tribe H7626 inheritance H5159
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REDEEMED
Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type).
(_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...
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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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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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Acts 20:28; Deuteronomy 32:9; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 9:29;...
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Thy congregation — Thy people. Thine inheritance — The tribe of
Judah, which thou hast in a special manner chosen for thine
inheritance, and for the birth of the Messiah. Nor is it strange that
he men...