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Verse Psalms 79:6. _POUR OUT THY WRATH_] Bad as we are, we are yet
less wicked than they. We, it is true, have been unfaithful; but they
never knew thy name, and are totally abandoned to idolatry....
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POUR OUT THY WRATH UPON THE HEATHEN - Punish, as they deserve, the
nations that have risen up against thy people, and that have brought;
desolation upon the land. The word rendered here pour out is us...
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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...
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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...
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POUR OUT. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. See note on
"shed", Psalms 79:3.
NOT KNOWN THEE. Compare Jeremiah 10:25....
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Prayer that God will cease to be angry with His own people and will
punish their destroyers....
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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...
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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and
upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
POUR OUT THY WRATH UPON THE HEATHEN THAT HAVE NOT KNOWN THEE - even
as they...
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For the occasion and date of this Ps. see intro. to Psalms 74. It
gives a pathetic picture of the calamities that have fallen upon God's
people (Psalms 79:1), entreats God to withdraw His anger from t...
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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 (MATTHEW 6:13). (The end of a s...
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(6-7) The poet prays in prophetical strain, that the fire of
indignation may be turned from Israel and directed against the heathen
oppressors, (For the relation to Jeremiah 10:25, see Introduction.)...
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שְׁפֹ֤ךְ חֲמָתְךָ֨ אֶֽל ־הַ גֹּויִם֮
אֲשֶׁ֪ר לֹא ־יְדָ֫ע֥וּךָ וְ עַ֥ל
מַמְלָכֹ֑ות אֲשֶׁ֥ר בְּ֝ שִׁמְךָ֗...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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_Measure. Hebrew shalish, "three-fold." (St. Jerome) --- The capacity
of this measure is not determined. It might be the seah, or the third
part of an epha, which would be very abundant, speaking of t...
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Many of the prayers we meet with of this kind are more to be
considered in the form of prophecy, than of imprecation: they meant to
say that God will pour out the vials of his wrath upon prayerless
pe...
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6._Pour out thy fury upon the heathen, who have not known thee. _This
prayer is apparently inconsistent with the rule of charity; for, while
we feel anxious about our own calamities, and desire to be...
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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)...
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POUR OUT THY WRATH UPON THE HEATHEN THAT HAVE NOT KNOWN THEE,.... Who
had poured out the blood of the saints like water, and therefore it
was a righteous thing with God to pour out the cup of wrath in...
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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon
the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Ver. 6. _Pour out thy wrath, &c._] Even the full vials of it.
_ That have not...
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_Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen_ Though we confess that we have
deserved thy wrath, yet the heathen, by whom thou hast scourged us,
have deserved it much more, as being guilty of far greater impi...
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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....
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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...
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Though we confess that we have deserved thy wrath, yet the heathen, by
whom thou hast scourged us, deserve it much more, as being guilty of
far greater impieties than we, living in gross ignorance and...
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Psalms 79:6 out H8210 (H8798) wrath H2534 nations H1471 know H3045
(H8804) kingdoms H4467 call H7121 (H8804) name H8034
Pour - Psalms 69:24; Isaiah 42:25; Revelation 16:1-21
upon -...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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 Psalms 74:1. It
rec...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Acts 17:23; Isaiah 13:1;
Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 23:1; Isaiah 42:25; Isaiah 45:4; Isaiah 45:5;...