Psalms 74:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. ”

Psalms 74:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arise, O God - As if God were now insensible to the wrongs and sufferings of his people; as if he were inattentive and indisposed to come to their help. See the notes at Psalms 3:7 . Plead th...
Psalms 74:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arise, O God, plead thine (p) own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. (p) He shows that God cannot permit his Church to be oppressed unless he looses his own right.
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. Arise, O God! plead thy cause. The pious Jews again supplicate God to ascend into his judgment-seat. He is then said to arise, when, after having long exercised forbearance, he shows,...
Psalms 74:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 628 GOD’S INTEREST IN HIS PEOPLE Psalms 74:22 . Arise, O God! plead thine own cause. NO one can have ever heard or read the account given us of Abraham’s intercession for Sodom, wit...
Psalms 74:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. Plead thine own cause - Thy honor is concerned, as well as our safety and salvation. The fool - the idolater,...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - 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 ),...
Psalms 74:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

These verses show that the psalm was actually composed amidst the dark days it describes. It ends in expostulatory prayer, with as yet no brighter gleam of hope than prayer itself implies — and that...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - 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,...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The prayer closeth with a repetition of the two very powerful arguments; God's own cause, and the malice of the enemies. As if the church should say, It matters not what becomes of us; but, Lord, thi...
Psalms 74:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause ,.... The church's cause being the cause of God; and therefore she desires that he would arise and exert himself, and take vengeance on his and her enemies: this...
Psalms 74:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. Ver. 22. Plead thine own cause ] For if we miscarry, thou art sure to suffer among the proud Chaldees as a...
Psalms 74:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O let not the oppressed return ashamed From thee, and from the throne of thy grace, to which they have recourse in this their distressed condition. “It is for the honour of God that they who apply...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Plead thine own cause; maintain thy honour, and worship, and service against those that reproach thee, as it here follows, and was noted before, Psalms 74:10,18 . As we are reviled and persecute...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - 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...
Psalms 74:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 52:5 ; Psalms 79:10 ; Psalms 79:9 ; Psalms 9:19 ; Psalms 9:20 ; Psalms 74:18 ; Psalms 75:4 ; Psalms 75:5 ; Psalms 89:50 ; Psalms 89:51

Psalms 74:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 74:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 74:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 74:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 74:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 74:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 74:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 74:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 74:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 74:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 74:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 74:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 74:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 74:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 74:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge