Psalms 74:3

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lift up thy feet - That is, Advance, or draw near. Come and look directly and personally on the desolations which now exist in the holy city....
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 t...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lift up Thy feet unto . Hasten to [and see]. Compare Idiom ( Genesis 29:1 ). feet. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. perpetual. Same word as...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. Lift up thy strokes. Here the people of God, on the other hand, beseech him to inflict a deadly wound upon their enemies, corresponding t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Lift up thy feet - Arise, and retur...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lift up thy feet, &c.— Lift up thy feet because of perpetual desolations. The phrase lift up thy feet, signifies no more than come, or r...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. -The enemy has destroyed God's s...
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 cal...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lift up thy feet unto ] Hasten to see.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lift up thy feet. — Better, Lift thy steps. A poetical expression. God is invoked to hasten to view the desolation of the Temple. A somewhat simi...
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
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 deso...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations ,.... That is, arise, hasten, move swiftly, and in the greatness of strength, and come and see the d...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Ver. 3. Lift up thy feet unto th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lift up thy feet This is spoken after the manner of men, and means, Come speedily to our rescue, and do not delay, as men do when they sit or stand...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. Maschil of Asaph. 1 O God, why hast thou cast...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lift up thy feet, i.e. come speedily for our rescue, and do not sit or stand still, as hitherto thou seemest to do. Unto the perpetual desolations...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 74:3 This Psalm contains (1) a complaint; (2) a prayer; (3) several pleas for that prayer. I. The complaint. It was a complaint of desolat...
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...
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...
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 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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lift up Thy feet, in long and hurried steps, unto the perpetual desolations, the ruins of His spiritual Temple; even all that the enemy hath done...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lift up — Come speedily to our rescue. Because — Because otherwise our destruction is irrecoverable.

³ Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 74:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

Sermon Bible 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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 74:3