1 Kings 5:6; 2 Chronicles 2:14; Jeremiah 46:22; Jeremiah 46:23
A man was famous - literally, “He is known;” or, shall be known. That is, he was or shall be celebrated. According as he had lifted up axes -...
[A man] was famous according as he had (d) lifted up axes upon the thick trees. (d) He commends the temple for the costly matter, the excellent work...
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...
was . used to be [considered]. The contrast is with "now" in the next line. Axes. Compare Jeremiah 46:22 ; Jeremiah 46:23 .
5. He who lifted up the axe upon the thick trees was renowned. The prophet again aggravates still more the barbarous and brutal cruelty of t...
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
A man was famous, &c.— They shew themselves as one lifts up axes an high, in the thicket of the trees. Psalms 74:6 . But now, &c. Houb...
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...
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...
A man.. lifted up ] RP 'They seemed as men that lifted up.' The thick trees] RV 'a thicket of trees.'
The Authorised Version, with the ancient versions, has entirely mistaken the meaning of this verse, though, unlike the LXX. and Vulgate, it has the m...
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...
A man was famous ,.... Or, "it was", or "is known" m; the desolations the enemy made, the wickedness they committed, the terror they spread, and the...
Psalms 74:5 [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. Ver. 5. A man was famous according as, &c. ] i.e....
A man was famous , &c. The meaning, according to this translation, is this: The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to a...
Mournful Complaints. Maschil of Asaph. 1 O God, why hast thou cast...
So the meaning is this, The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work, th...
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...
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. The axe and the altar Shall we regard the text as an epitaph on the h...
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...
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees, or, He, the enemy, shows himself, makes known himself, as one who raises ax...
Famous — The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work, though it were...
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.