Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 76:5
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have (d) found their hands.
(d) God has taken their spirits and strength from them as though their hands were cut off.
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have (d) found their hands.
(d) God has taken their spirits and strength from them as though their hands were cut off.
Verse Psalms 76:5. _THE STOUT-HEARTED ARE SPOILED_] The boasting blasphemers, such as Rab-shakeh, and his master Sennacherib, the king of Assyria. _THEY HAVE SLEPT THEIR SLEEP_] They were asleep in t...
THE STOUT-HEARTED ARE SPOILED - The valiant men, the men who came so confidently to the invasion. The word “spoiled” here, as elsewhere in the Scriptures, means “plundered,” not (as the word is now us...
Psalms 76 Divine Government Established and Maintained _ 1. The Prince of Peace reigns (Psalms 76:1)_ 2. The day of wrath and what it brought (Psalms 76:7) We behold the Lord now in Judah, the Lio...
LXXVI. THE MAJESTY OF GOD IN ZION: HOMAGE OF THE NATIONS. Psalms 76:2. Salem: a poetical name for Jerusalem (Genesis 14:18 *). Psalms 76:3. lightnings of the bow (_mg.), i.e._ arrows....
NONE... FOUND THEIR HANDS. Idiom for helplessness. Like losing heart or finding heart (2 Samuel 7:27). MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14....
The manifestation of God's majesty in the discomfiture of the enemy....
_The stouthearted_ For illustration cp. Isaiah 10:12 ff. _are spoiled_ Lit. _have let themselves be spoiled_. Cp. Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 33:1. _they have slept their sleep_ They slumber their (last) sle...
PSALMS 76 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song of Triumph over a Divinely-smitten Foe. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 76:1-3, By reason of a Recent Interposition in behalf of Jerusalem, God has Anew Made Himself K...
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. -The Lord is mightier than all the mighty conquerors of the earth; because he has caused the stout-hearted to sleep in death, and so...
Like the previous Ps. this is a song of national deliverance, which may have been called forth, as the title in LXX suggests, by the overthrow of Sennacherib's army (2 Kings 19:35; 2 Chronicles 32:21;...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ SING A SONG OF ZION OR THE *LION’S *DEN PSALMS 76 They got up and took Jesus out of the city. They led him to the side of a hill, where men had
ARE SPOILED. — Literally, _have let themselves be spoiled._ The picture is of men rendered powerless, at a glance, a word, from God. SLEPT THEIR SLEEP. — Better, _have sunk into a deep sleep._ NONE O...
_[Psalms 76:6]_ אֶשְׁתֹּולְל֨וּ ׀ אַבִּ֣ירֵי לֵ֭ב נָמ֣וּ שְׁנָתָ֑ם...
Psalms 76:1 IN contents and tone this psalm is connected with Psalms 46:1; Psalms 48:1. No known event corresponds so closely with its allusions as the destruction of Sennacherib's army, to which the...
“THE WRATH OF MAN SHALL PRAISE THEE” Psalms 76:1 In Psalms 76:2, _tabernacle_ may be rendered “covert,” and _dwelling-place_, “lair.” God is compared to the lion, that dreaded monarch of beasts, who...
The singer celebrates a great victory, recognizing it as the work of God. The song has three movements. In the first, God is seen as the defense of the people (verses Psa 76:1-3). In the second, His v...
My eyes. Vatican Septuagint, Arabic, and St. Augustine read, "my enemies," but our Vulgate follows the edition of Aldus and Complutensian (Berthier) very frequently, which here agree better with the H...
These verses serve to illustrate the subject of the whole Psalm, in reference to the occasion on which it is supposed to have been written. If it relates to the destruction of Sennacherib's army in th...
5._The stout-hearted were spoiled, _The power of God in destroying his enemies is here exalted by another form of expression. The verb אשתוללו _, eshtolelu, _which we translate _were spoiled, _is deri...
Psalms 76 is extremely simple in its application to the judgment of the kings, who come up against Jerusalem in their pride, and find, unlooked for, the Lord Himself there (compare Micah 4:11-13 and Z...
THE STOUT HEARTED ARE SPOILED,.... The Assyrian army, its officers and generals, that came up against Jerusalem, with great resolution and courage, and with daring impiety and blasphemy against the Go...
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. Ver. 5. _The stout-hearted are spoiled_] Heb. have yielded themselves up for prey: thos...
_The stout-hearted are spoiled_ Of all that glory and advantage which they either had already obtained, or further expected from the success of their present expedition. They became a prey to those on...
The stouthearted are spoiled, forced to deliver their weapons to the Lord, standing disarmed and disgraced, THEY HAVE SLEPT THEIR SLEEP, fallen into the sleep of death; AND NONE OF THE MEN OF MIGHT HA...
GOD THE PROTECTOR OF HIS CHURCH. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be sung in public worship to the accompaniment of stringed instruments, a psalm or song of Asaph, another hymn commemorating God...
1-6 Happy people are those who have their land filled with the knowledge of God! happy persons that have their hearts filled with that knowledge! It is the glory and happiness of a people to have God...
ARE SPOILED of all that glory and advantage which they either had already gotten, or further expected, from the success of their present expedition, which they promised to themselves. They became a pr...
Psalms 76:5 stouthearted H47 H3820 plundered H7997 (H8709) sunk H5123 (H8804) sleep H8142 mighty H2428 men...
CONTENTS: The glory of God's power celebrated. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: The hardships which God's people suffer by the wrath of their enemies will be made to redound to the glory of God w...
This is a martial ode, sung, according to the LXX, after the defeat of the Assyrian army. The Latin bible follows the LXX. The words of the psalm concerning the sleeping of the enemy, and the fall of...
_In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel._ GLORIOUS ASPECTS OF THE DIVINE CHARACTER I. As the glorious resident in the midst of His people (Psalms 76:1). God is everywhere; but is in an e...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 76:1. This hymn celebrates Zion as the place God has chosen to dwell, and the capital of the people he has chosen to bless and protect. It is a companion to...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 76:3 The past-tense verbs show that this psalm is particularly geared to celebrating an occasion in which God protected Zion from Gentile invaders (BROKE, STRIPPED, stunn
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See Introduction to Psalms 54. _A Psalm—a Song of Asaph_. (See notes on the authorship of Psalms 74) The superscription may be th...
EXPOSITION THE present psalm consists of three stanzas—the first of three verses, terminated by the pause mark, "Selah;" the second of six verses, ended similarly, and the third (like the first) of th...
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel (Psalms 76:1). Judah, of course, was the southern kingdom. Israel was the northern kingdom. In Salem also is his tabernacle [that would be Jerusalem...
Daniel 4:37; Ezekiel 30:21; Isaiah 31:8; Isaiah 37:36; Isaiah 46:12;
Sleep — Even a perpetual sleep....