Psalms 74:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. ”

• Psalms 74:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached - Has used opprobrious and abusive words in regard to thee, and to thy people. The idea is, that religion - the true religion - had been reproached b...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. Thy name . Thee. See note on Psalms 20:1 .

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• Psalms 74:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. Remember this. The prophet having encouraged the hearts of the godly by magnifying the divine power and goodness, now returns to the prosecution of his prayer. He first complains that th...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. Remember this - The heathen not only deny these things, but give the honor of them to...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. -The prayer ( Psalms 74:1-2 ) resumed and expanded. Verse 18. Remember this - a...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ),...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (16-18) An appeal from the God of history to the God of nature. Not only did He work wonders, but even the universe is the work of His hand.

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• Psalms 74:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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,...

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• Psalms 74:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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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• Psalms 74:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The prophet, here appealing for the church's safety, makes use of an additional argument, namely, God's own honour and glory. For who is blasphemed, but the Lord? Whose name is abused, but the Lord's...

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• Psalms 74:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord ,.... Or "hath reproached the Lord", as the Septuagint version and others render it, and very rightly; though not so well the former part of the...

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• Psalms 74:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. Ver. 18. Remember this ] Forgetfulness befalleth not the Lord; nevertheless he give...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached thee Though we deserve to be forgotten and destroyed, yet remember thyself, and do not suffer thine and our enemies to reproach and blaspheme the name...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Earnest Supplications; Pleading with God.       18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O L ORD , and that the...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Though we deserve to be forgotten and destroyed, yet remember thyself, and do not suffer thine and our enemies to reproach and blaspheme the name of that great and glorious God, the Creator and sover...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 74:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 74:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 74:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:27 ; Ezekiel 20:14 ; Isaiah 37:23 ; Isaiah 37:24 ; Isaiah 62:6 ; Isaiah 62:7 ; Psalms 39:8 ; Psalms 41:1 ; Psalms 94:2-8 ; Psalms 137:7 ; Psalms 74:22 ; Psalms 89:50 ; Psa...

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• Psalms 74:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Remember — Though we deserve to be forgotten, yet do not suffer our enemies to reproach the name of the great and glorious God.

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