“ For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. ”
For God is my King of old - That is, the king, or ruler of his people. The people had acknowledged him as their king and ruler, and he had showed himself to be such. This is given as a reason why...
For God [is] my King of old, working salvation (h) in the midst of the earth. (h) Meaning in the sight of all the world.
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...
salvation . deliverances. Plural of majesty. great deliverance. in the midst, &c. Compare Exodus 8:22 . (Hebrew. Psalms 74:15 ).
12. But God is my King from the beginning. In this verse, as we have often seen to be the case in other places, the people of God intermingle meditations with their prayers, thereby to acqui...
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. For God is my King of old - We have always acknowledged thee as our sovereign; and thou hast reigned as a king in the midst o...
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. For God is my king of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth - rather 'of the land'-Palestine. As King and th...
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...
“Plead Thine Own Cause, O God” Psalms 74:12-23 Yet! Psalms 74:12 , r.v. There is always some compensating and consolatory thought. God is in the background of our thought. Not only the King,...
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...
For God is my King of old ,.... Or "but God", or "verily God", c. d for these words contain the church's consolation under all the above melancholy circumstances, taken from what God was, and had be...
For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. Ver. 12. For God is my Kiny of old ] He is the same yesterday, today, and for ever. I doubt not, therefore, but he will se...
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...
Acknowledgments of Divine Power. 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou...
My King, in a singular manner: it belongs therefore to thine office to protect and save me. In the midst of the earth; in the view of the world; so saving thy people so eminently and gloriously,...
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...
1 Samuel 19:5 ; Exodus 15:2-15 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Habakkuk 3:12-14 ; Isaiah 33:22 ; Isaiah 63:8 ; Judges 4:23 ; Judges 4:24 ; Numbers 23:21 ; Numbers 23:22 ; Psalms 44:4
King — It belongs therefore to thy office to protect and save me. Midst — In the view of the world.