Isaiah 64:12; Lamentations 2:3; Psalms 44:23; Psalms 78:65; Psalms 78:66
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? - Why dost thou not stretch forth thy hand for our deliverance? The hand, especially the righ...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? (g) pluck [it] out of thy bosom. (g) They join their deliverance with God's glory and power, kno...
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 t...
bosom. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. Septuagint adds here "Selah". If this was in the primitive text, it marks the division of the Str...
11. How long wilt thou withdraw thy hand? It is easy to see what the prophet here intends, and yet interpreters are not agreed as to the wor...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. Why withdrawest thou thy hand - It has been remarked, that as the ou...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand— Their upper garments having no sleeves, the arms were wrapped up and covered under them; and consequently, when the...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. Why withdrawest thou ... thy right hand? - the symbol of God's...
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 cal...
The last clause is condensed in the original. RV adds to the last clause, and consume them .'
(10-15) ln the true prophetic spirit, as Moses brought the cries of distress “by reason of their bondage” from the oppressed Israelites to God ( Exod...
Why withdrawest thou. — Literally, returnest, i.e. , into the ample folds of the Eastern robe. The poet is thinking of Exodus 4:7 . Pluck it ou...
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...
the Sanctuary of God Profaned Psalms 74:1-11 This psalm probably dates from the time when the Chaldeans destroyed the Temple and the city of Je...
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 deso...
The pleading soul here takes up many strong and unanswerable arguments to plead with God. He first sets out with reminding Jehovah, that the anger Go...
GOD AS SILENT AND INACTIVE ‘Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand?’ Psalms 74:11 I. This is a great complaint, but it is a complaint of faith. —Hard...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even that right hand ?.... By which is meant the power of God; by which he made the heavens and the earth, and all th...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom. Ver. 11. Why withdrawest thou thy hand ] Some by hand understand...
How long shall the adversary reproach Namely, thy name , (which is expressed in the next clause,) by saying that thou art either unkind to thy peo...
Mournful Complaints. Maschil of Asaph. 1 O God, why hast thou cast...
Why withdrawest thou thy hand? why dost thou suspend or forbear the exercise of that power, which thou hast so oft put forth on the behalf of thy p...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“A Maschil of Asaph,” i.e., an Instruction of Asaph, a Didactic Song by Asaph. See introduction to Psalms 1 . “But...
Title. Maschil of Asaph; that is, instruction, as Psalms 32 . The EDDA is the title of the Icelandic poem, which also signifies instruction. This...
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...
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever? The long forbearance of God 1. Men’s patience is mu...
EXPOSITION " THE misery of the Jews is here at its deepest". The psalmist describes Jerusalem as fallen into "perpetual ruins" ( Psalms 74:3 )....
Prayer for the Preservation of the Church. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Asaph, a prophetic psalm, foretelling some of the afflictions which would...
Why withdrawest Thou Thy hand, even Thy right hand? this being the symbol of God's almighty power. Pluck it out of Thy bosom, where it seemed that...
Why — Why dost thou forebear the exercise of thy power? Bosom — In which thou now seemest to hide it.
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.