Psalms 79:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? ”

• Psalms 79:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  How long, Lord? - See Psalms 74:1 , note; Psalms 74:10 , note; and Psalms 77:7-9 , notes. This is the language, not of impatience, but of anxiety; not of complaining, but of wonder. It is lang...

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• Psalms 79:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy (e) burn like fire? (e) Will you completely consume us for our sins, before you take us to mercy?

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  How long... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Compare ( Psalms 79:5 ) with ( Psalms 79:10 ).

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• Psalms 79:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  5 How long, O Jehovah! wilt thou be wroth for ever? I have already observed that these two expressions, how long and for ever, when joined together, denote a lengthened and an uninterr...

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• Psalms 79:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? How long, Lord? - Wilt thou continue thine anger against us, and suffer us to be insulted, and thyself blasphemed?

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• Psalms 79:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? How long Lord? wilt thou be angry - ( Psalms 74:10 .) Thine anger against thy people, though justly merited, an...

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• Psalms 79:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  For the occasion and date of this Ps. see intro. to Psalms 74 . It gives a pathetic picture of the calamities that have fallen upon God's people ( Psalms 79:1-4 ), entreats God to withdraw His anger...

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• Psalms 79:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  How long, Lord? — The dominant cry of the Maccabæan age. (See Psalms 74:9 .)

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This forms a sweet prayer. The Holy Ghost puts a number of those how longs in the heart of the earliest praying believer. The kingdom of God is taken by violence.

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• Psalms 79:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? for ever ?.... That is, how long wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see Psalms 85:4 , for though what was done, or to be done, as before related, was or w...

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• Psalms 79:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Ver. 5. How long wilt thou be angry? &c. ] Or, how long? wilt thou be angry for ever? The psalmist knew that the...

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - 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...

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• Psalms 79:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Prayer in the Midst of Oppression. A psalm of Asaph, similar in tone and content to Psalms 74, though any special event which might have occasioned the writing of this hymn is not known.

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• Psalms 79:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Deuteronomy 32:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:22 ; Ezekiel 36:5 ; Isaiah 64:9 ; Micah 7:18 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 13:2 ; Psalms 74:1 ; Psalms 74:10 ; Psalms 74:9 ; Psalms 80:4 ;...

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