Psalms 79:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. ”

Psalms 79:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance - The nations; a foreign people. See Psalms 2:1 , note; Psalms 2:8 ; note; Psalms 78:55 , note. The term is one that would be applicable to t...
Psalms 79:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

"A Psalm of Asaph." O God, (a) the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. (a) The people cry to God against the barbarous tyra...
Psalms 79:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXIX. The Sanctuary Profaned. The Ps. is of the same date as Psalms 74. It does not suit the earlier destruction of the city and the Temple in 586 B.C. The words war, overthrow, and the like do no...
Psalms 79:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Title.. Psalm. Hebrew mizmor. See App-65. of Asaph. The eighth of the twelve Asaph Psalms. Compare Psalms 74 , the second of the third book. See App-10. The Psalm is said to have "hardly any...
Psalms 79:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. O God! the heathen have come into thy inheritance. Here the prophet, in the person of the faithful, complains that the temple was defiled, and the city destroyed. In the second and third...
Psalms 79:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The heathen are come into thine inheritance - Thou didst ca...
Psalms 79:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Psalmist complaineth of the desolation of Jerusalem: he prayeth for deliverance, and promiseth thankfulness. A Psalm of Asaph. Title. ףּלאס מזמור mizmor leasaph. — This psalm was probab...
Psalms 79:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. Psalms 79:1-13 .-THE COMPLAIG the pagan have seized God's land, desec...
Psalms 79:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem on heaps ] This is truer of the Babylonian captivity than of the time of Antiochus Epiphanes.
Psalms 79:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Inheritance. — Probably intended to embrace both land and people. ( Exodus 15:17 ; Psalms 74:2 , &c.) Heaps — i.e., ruins. (Comp. Micah 3:12 ; Jeremiah 26:18 ; and in singular, Mic...
Psalms 79:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 79:1-13 THE same national agony which was the theme of Psalms 74:1-23 , forced the sad strains of this psalm from the singer's heart. There, the profanation of the Temple and here, the des...
Psalms 79:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Help Us, O God of Our Salvation” Psalms 79:1-13 It was the period of the Chaldean invasion. This cry of horror went forth from the heart of the Chosen People, who had looked upon the sacred sh...
Psalms 79:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a cry of distress. The conditions described are those of overwhelming national calamity. The country and the city of God are overrun and spoiled by ruthless enemies. The people have been slai...
Psalms 79:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The church is here described as under great affliction. The burden of the complaint is to this effect; the Psalmist looks up to the throne for deliverance, and makes use of the strong plea...
Psalms 79:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O God, the Heathen are come into thine inheritance ,.... The land of Canaan, divided among the children of Israel by lot and line for an inheritance, out of which the Heathen were cast, to make room...
Psalms 79:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 79:1 «A Psalm of Asaph. » O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. A Psalm ] Of like subject with Psalms...
Psalms 79:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O God, the heathen are come As invaders and conquerors; into thine inheritance Into Canaan and Judea, which thou didst choose for thine inheritance. Thy holy temple have they defiled By enterin...
Psalms 79:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. A psalm of Asaph. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have th...
Psalms 79:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PSALM 79 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was doubtless composed upon the sad occasion of the destruction of Judea and Jerusalem, either by Antiochus, or rather by the Chaldeans; as may be gathered from /A...
Psalms 79:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .— “A Psalm of Asaph . “See Introduction to Psalms 74 . Occasion .—This Psalm is closely related to the 74th, and both most probably refer to the devastation and desec...
Psalms 79:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. A psalm of Asaph, an elegy over the slain, as is supposed, when Shishak king of Egypt invaded Judea with a great army, besieging the cities and slaughtering the people. Sir Isaac Newton thin...
Psalms 79:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance. The inhumanity of man and the mixture of good and evil I. Here is a fact revealing the inhumanity of man and the permissive government of God...
Psalms 79:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS is "a psalm of complaint, closely parallel to Psalms 74:1-19 ." (Cheyne), and must, like that psalm, be referred to the time of the Babylonian conquest. It shows us the Holy L...
Psalms 79:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance, the Holy Land, including both the city of the Sanctuary and the Temple itself, Exodus 15:17 , being referred to; Thy holy Temple have they defile...
Psalms 79:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:17 ; 2 Chronicles 36:19 ; 2 Chronicles 36:3 ; 2 Chronicles 36:4 ; 2 Chronicles 36:6 ; 2 Chronicles 36:7 ; 2 Kings 21:12-16 ; 2 Kings 24:13 ; 2 Kings 25:10 ; 2 Kings 25:4-10...

Psalms 79:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 79:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 79:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 79:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 79:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 79:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 79:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 79:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 79:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 79:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 79:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 79:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 79:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 79:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 79:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge