“ Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. ”
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? - Why dost thou not stretch forth thy hand for our deliverance? The hand, especially the right hand, is the instrument by which we wield a swor...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? (g) pluck [it] out of thy bosom. (g) They join their deliverance with God's glory and power, knowing that the punishment of the enemy would be the...
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 p...
bosom. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. Septuagint adds here "Selah". If this was in the primitive text, it marks the division of the Structure; and connects the conclusion of the prayer...
11. How long wilt thou withdraw thy hand? It is easy to see what the prophet here intends, and yet interpreters are not agreed as to the words. Some by the word hand, in the first part of...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. Why withdrawest thou thy hand - It has been remarked, that as the outward habit of the easterns had no sleeves, the ha...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand— Their upper garments having no sleeves, the arms were wrapped up and covered under them; and consequently, when the hand was made use of, it must have been disengaged...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. Why withdrawest thou ... thy right hand? - the symbol of God's might. Why dost thou remain an inactive spectator...
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 ),...
(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 th...
Psalms 74:1-23 Two periods only correspond to the circumstances described in this psalm and its companion ( Psalms 79:1-13 )-namely, the Chaldean invasion and sack of Jerusalem, and the persecutio...
the Sanctuary of God Profaned Psalms 74:1-11 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...
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...
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, sait...
GOD AS SILENT AND INACTIVE ‘Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand?’ Psalms 74:11 I. This is a great complaint, but it is a complaint of faith. —Hardly a gleam of light is to be found throughout. The...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even that right hand ?.... By which is meant the power of God; by which he made the heavens and the earth, and all things therein, and supports them in their beings; b...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom. Ver. 11. Why withdrawest thou thy hand ] Some by hand understand the left hand, and so both hands are withdrawn, ye...
How long shall the adversary reproach Namely, thy name , (which is expressed in the next clause,) by saying that thou art either unkind to thy people, or unfaithful in thy covenant, or unable to d...
Mournful Complaints. Maschil of Asaph. 1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke a...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand? why dost thou suspend or forbear the exercise of that power, which thou hast so oft put forth on the behalf of thy people? Pluck it out of thy bosom, in which thou...
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 author...
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...
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 74:1-17 ). 1. Some communi...
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 carve...
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...
Isaiah 64:12 ; Lamentations 2:3 ; Psalms 44:23 ; Psalms 78:65 ; Psalms 78:66
Why — Why dost thou forebear the exercise of thy power? Bosom — In which thou now seemest to hide it.