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A MAN WAS FAMOUS - literally, “He is known;” or, shall be known.
That is, he was or shall be celebrated.
ACCORDING AS HE HAD LIFTED UP AXES - literally, “As one raising on
high axes;” that is, as one...
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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 (Psalms 74:10)
This is a Psalm...
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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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WAS. used to be [considered]. The contrast is with "now" in the next
line.
AXES. Compare Jeremiah 46:22; Jeremiah 46:23....
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A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen
enemies of Israel....
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A MAN WAS FAMOUS, &C.— _They shew themselves as one lifts up axes an
high, in the thicket of the trees._ Psalms 74:6. _But now,_ &c.
Houbigant renders it in the perfect tense; and, instead of _the car...
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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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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the
enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
-The enemy has destroyed God's sanctuary and synagogues, and there are
no tokens of God...
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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". (MATTHEW 25:2)
PSALMS 74
(This is) a *maskil for *Asa...
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The Authorised Version, with the ancient versions, has entirely
mistaken the meaning of this verse, though, unlike the LXX. and
Vulgate, it has the merit of being intelligible. Literally the words
run...
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יִ֭וָּדַע כְּ מֵבִ֣יא לְ מָ֑עְלָה
בִּֽ סֲבָךְ ־עֵ֝֗ץ קַרְדֻּמֹּֽות׃...
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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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[A man] was famous according as he had (d) lifted up axes upon the
thick trees.
(d) He commends the temple for the costly matter, the excellent
workmanship and beauty of it, which nonetheless the ene...
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_Wickedly. This is an epitome of Christian doctrine. (Worthington) ---
God had severely punished Nabuchodonosor, Baltassar, and the priests
of Bel. Yet the people would not attend to these salutary ad...
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The pleading soul here takes up many strong and unanswerable arguments
to plead with God. He first sets out with reminding Jehovah, that the
anger God hath manifested is against his people. Now, saith...
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5._He who lifted up the axe upon the thick trees was renowned. _The
prophet again aggravates still more the barbarous and brutal cruelty
of the enemies of his countrymen, from the circumstance, that t...
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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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A MAN WAS FAMOUS,.... Or, "it was", or "is known" m; the desolations
the enemy made, the wickedness they committed, the terror they spread,
and the signs they set in the sanctuary of the Lord:
ACCORD...
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Psalms 74:5 [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon
the thick trees.
Ver. 5. _A man was famous according as, &c._] _i.e._ Time was when the
workmen got them a name, by cutting down...
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_A man was famous_, &c. The meaning, according to this translation, is
this: The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour
to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work,...
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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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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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So the meaning is this, The temple was so noble a structure, that it
was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of
the work, though it were but in cutting down the trees of Leban...
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Psalms 74:5 seem H3045 (H8735) up H935 (H8688) H4605 Axes H7134 thick
H5442 trees H6086
1 Kings 5:6; 2 Chronicles 2:14; Jeremiah 46:22-23...
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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...
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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 me...
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SUCH IS FAME
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick
trees. Psalms 74:5 (AV).
If you looked up the Revised Version of the Bible you would find that
this verse was quite t...
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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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1 Kings 5:6; 2 Chronicles 2:14; Jeremiah 46:22; Jeremiah 46:23...
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Famous — The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great
honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work,
though it were but in cutting down the trees of Lebanon....