Psalms 74:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increasethg continually. ”

• Psalms 74:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Forget not the voice of thine enemies - The voice of thine enemies clamoring for the destruction of thy people. Compare Psalms 137:7 . The prayer is, that God would bring deserved chastisement u...

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• Psalms 74:23 - 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 74:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  To the chief Musician. See App-64. Al-taschith. Destroy not. See App-65.

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• Psalms 74:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. Forget not the voice - While we pray to thee for our own salvation, we call upon thee to v...

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• Psalms 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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...

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• Psalms 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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...

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• Psalms 74:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Forget not the voice of thine enemies ,.... Their roaring in the midst of the sanctuary and the congregation, Psalms 74:4 , their reproaching and blaspheming voice, Psalms 74:10 , the tumult of...

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• Psalms 74:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. Ver. 23. The tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth daily ] Heb. ascendet...

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• Psalms 74:23 - 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...

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• Psalms 74:23 - 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 74:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The voice; their insulting and reproachful expressions against time, as well as against us. The tumult, i.e. the tumultuous noise of the loud clamours. Increaseth, Heb. ascendeth , to wit, int...

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• Psalms 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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 74:23 - 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 74:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 37:29 ; Jonah 1:2 ; Lamentations 2:16 ; Psalms 10:11 ; Psalms 10:12 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 2:1 ; Psalms 2:2 ; Psalms 74:4 ; Revelation 17:14

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