Psalms 79:12

Genesis 4:15; Isaiah 65:5-7; Jeremiah 32:18; Leviticus 26:21; Leviticus 26:28; Luke 6:38; Psalms 44:16; Psalms 74:18-22

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And render unto our neighbors - That is, the neighbors who had reproached them; the surrounding people who had seen these calamities come upon th...
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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12 And render to our neighbors sevenfold. We have already said enough on the subject of vengeance; and here the faithful show still more cle...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. Sevenfold into their bosom - T...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And render, &c.— This seems to respect the Edomites chiefly. See Psalms 137 . REFLECTIONS.— In this world the church of Christ is in a mili...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. And render unto our neig...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The prayer for vengeance expresses a moral sentiment less advanced than that of the NT . It springs, however, not from mere personal or national vin...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Neighbours. — The sharpest pang of the suffering came from the taunts of “neighbours. (See Psalms 79:4 .) Sevenfold. — As in Genesis 4:15 . We...
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

What is here spoken by way of prayer, is also to be considered as the language of faith. The Lord will recompense the wrongs of his people upon their...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And render unto our neighbours seven fold into their bosom , ec.] Not seven fold for one, as the Targum paraphrases it, or a seven fold punishment f...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. Ver. 12. Into their bosom ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let the sighing of the prisoner Of thy poor people now in prison, or, at least, in captivity; come before thee Be taken cognizance of by thee, an...
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

Sevenfold, i.e. either, 1. Abundantly, as this phrase notes, Isaiah 65:6,7 Jer 32:18 Luke 6:38 . Or, 2. Sensibly, so as it may come home t...
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 Biblical Illustrator

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach. Vengeance This is the same spirit as is breathed out in Psalms 79:6...
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

and render unto our neighbors, the enemies spoken of throughout, sevenfold into their bosom, in exhausting His judicial punishment upon them, in ma...

¹² And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 79:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 79:12