Psalms 79:1

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance - The nations; a foreign people. See Psalms 2:1 , note; Psalms 2:8 ; note; Psalms 78:55 , n...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

"A Psalm of Asaph." O God, (a) the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. (a...
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

Title.. Psalm. Hebrew mizmor. See App-65. of Asaph. The eighth of the twelve Asaph Psalms. Compare Psalms 74 , the second of the third book....
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. O God! the heathen have come into thy inheritance. Here the prophet, in the person of the faithful, complains that the temple was defiled...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The heath...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Psalmist complaineth of the desolation of Jerusalem: he prayeth for deliverance, and promiseth thankfulness. A Psalm of Asaph. Title. ףּל...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. Psalms 79:1-13 .-TH...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem on heaps ] This is truer of the Babylonian captivity than of the time of Antiochus Epiphanes.
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

Inheritance. — Probably intended to embrace both land and people. ( Exodus 15:17 ; Psalms 74:2 , &c.) Heaps — i.e., ruins. (Comp. Mi...
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

CONTENTS The church is here described as under great affliction. The burden of the complaint is to this effect; the Psalmist looks up to the throne...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is not distinctly marked, by any parallel part of the history of the church, to what period this desolation refers. As the prophet Jeremiah who li...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O God, the Heathen are come into thine inheritance ,.... The land of Canaan, divided among the children of Israel by lot and line for an inheritance...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 79:1 «A Psalm of Asaph. » O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O God, the heathen are come As invaders and conquerors; into thine inheritance Into Canaan and Judea, which thou didst choose for thine inheritan...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. A psalm of Asaph. 1 O God, the heathen are co...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PSALM 79 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was doubtless composed upon the sad occasion of the destruction of Judea and Jerusalem, either by Antiochus, or ra...
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

O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance, the Holy Land, including both the city of the Sanctuary and the Temple itself, Exodus 15:17 , be...
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...

¹ O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 79:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study 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

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

Psalms 79:1