Psalms 79:7

For they have devoured Jacob - literally, “They have eaten.” That is, they have eaten up what the land produced.

And laid waste his dwelling-place - His home; his habitation; the residence of Jacob, or of the people of Israel.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 79:7

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

they have. So some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. Compare Jeremiah 10:25 . But other codices read "he hath": i.e. the en...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. Laid waste his dwelling-place - The Chaldee understands this of the temple. This, by...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste. In the Hebrew "devoured" is si...
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 ( P...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(6-7) The poet prays in prophetical strain, that the fire of indignation may be turned from Israel and directed against the heathen oppressors, (For...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Dwelling place. — Literally, pasture, as in Jeremiah 23:3 ; Jeremiah 49:20 ; Jeremiah 1:19 . The figure is a favourite one in the Asaphic grou...
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. Ther...
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 th...
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 spoi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Many of the prayers we meet with of this kind are more to be considered in the form of prophecy, than of imprecation: they meant to say that God will...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they have devoured Jacob ,.... The posterity of Jacob, the people of the Jews, typical of the church of God, made havoc of by the Romish antichr...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. Ver. 7. For they have devoured Jacob ] As wolves and other ravenous creatures do...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen Though we confess that we have deserved thy wrath, yet the heathen, by whom thou hast scourged us, have deserve...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Petitions for Succor and Relief; Petitions for Deliverance. 6 Pour ou...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jacob; the posterity of Jacob, whom thou didst love, and with whom and his seed thou madest a sure and everlasting covenant; whereby thou didst eng...
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 bot...
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...
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 inhu...
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...
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 occasione...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For they have devoured Jacob, the spiritual Israel, the Church of God suffering under the oppression of its enemies, and laid waste his dwelling-pla...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:21 ; Isaiah 24:1-12 ; Isaiah 64:10 ; Isaiah 64:11 ; Isaiah 9:12 ; Jeremiah 50:7 ; Jeremiah 51:34 ; Jeremiah 51:35 ; Psalms 8...

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 79:7

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 79:7