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Selected Verse: Psalms 74:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Ps 74:1 |
Strong Concordance |
Maschil [04905] of Asaph [0623]. O God [0430], why hast thou cast us off [02186] for ever [05331]? why doth thine anger [0639] smoke [06225] against the sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830]? |
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King James |
Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
If the historical allusions of Psa 74:6-8, &c., be referred, as is probable, to the period of the captivity, the author was probably a descendant and namesake of Asaph, David's contemporary and singer (compare Ch2 35:15; Ezr 2:41). He complains of God's desertion of His Church, and appeals for aid, encouraging himself by recounting some of God's mighty deeds, and urges his prayer on the ground of God's covenant relation to His people, and the wickedness of His and their common enemy. (Psa. 74:1-23)
cast . . . off--with abhorrence (compare Psa 43:2; Psa 44:9). There is no disavowal of guilt implied. The figure of fire to denote God's anger is often used; and here, and in Deu 29:20, by the word "smoke," suggests its continuance.
sheep . . . pasture--(Compare Psa 80:1; Psa 95:7). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? - Thou seemest to have cast us off forever, or finally. Compare Psa 44:9, note; Psa 13:1, note. "Why doth thine anger smoke." See Deu 29:20. The presence of smoke indicates fire, and the language here is such as often occurs in the Scriptures, when anger or wrath is compared with fire. See Deu 32:22; Jer 15:14.
Against the sheep of thy pasture - Thy people, represented as a flock. See Psa 79:13; Psa 95:7. This increases the tenderness of the appeal. The wrath of God seemed to be enkindled against his own people, helpless and defenseless, who needed his care, and who might naturally look for it - as a flock needs the care of a shepherd, and as the care of the shepherd might be expected. He seemed to be angry with his people, and to have cast them off, when they had every reason to anticipate his protection. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
Maschil
Maschil, instruction. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The poet begins with the earnest prayer that God would again have compassion upon His church, upon which His judgment of anger has fallen, and would again set up the ruins of Zion. Why for ever (Psa 74:10, Psa 79:5; Psa 89:47, cf. Psa 13:2)? is equivalent to, why so continually and, as it seems, without end? The preterite denotes the act of casting off, the future, Psa 74:1, that lasting condition of this casting off. למה, when the initial of the following word is a guttural, and particularly if it has a merely half-vowel (although in other instances also, Gen 12:19; Gen 27:45; Sol 1:7), is deprived of its Dagesh and accented on the ultima, in order (as Mose ha-Nakdan expressly observes) to guard against the swallowing up of the ah; cf. on Psa 10:1. Concerning the smoking of anger, vid., Psa 18:9. The characteristically Asaphic expression צאן מרעיתו is not less Jeremianic, Jer 23:1. In Psa 74:2 God is reminded of what He has once done for the congregation of His people. קדם, as in Psa 44:2, points back into the Mosaic time of old, to the redemption out of Egypt, which is represented in קנה (Exo 15:17) as a purchasing, and in גאל (Psa 77:15; Psa 78:35, Exo 15:13) as a ransoming (redemptio). שׁבט נחלתך is a factitive object; שׁבט is the name given to the whole nation in its distinctness of race from other peoples, as in Jer 10:16; Jer 51:19, cf. Isa 63:17. זה (Psa 74:2) is rightly separated from הר־ציון (Mugrash); it stands directly for אשׁר, as in Psa 104:8, Psa 104:26; Pro 23:22; Job 15:17 (Ges. 122, 2). The congregation of the people and its central abode are, as though forgotten of God, in a condition which sadly contrasts with their election. משּׁאות נצח are ruins (vid., Psa 73:18) in a state of such total destruction, that all hope of their restoration vanishes before it; נצח here looks forward, just as עולם (חרבות), Isa 63:12; Psa 61:4, looks backwards. May God then lift His feet up high (פּעמים poetical for רגלים, cf. Psa 58:11 with Psa 68:24), i.e., with long hurried steps, without stopping, move towards His dwelling - lace that now lies in ruins, that by virtue of His interposition it may rise again. Hath the enemy made merciless havoc - he hath ill-treated (הרע, as in Psa 44:3) everything (כּל, as in Psa 8:7, Zep 1:2, for חכּל or את־כּל) in the sanctuary - how is it possible that this sacrilegious vandalism should remain unpunished! |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? - Hast thou determined that we shall never more be thy people? Are we never to see an end to our calamities? |
7 For he is our God [0430]; and we are the people [05971] of his pasture [04830], and the sheep [06629] of his hand [03027]. To day [03117] if ye will hear [08085] his voice [06963],
1 To the chief Musician [05329] upon Shoshannimeduth [07802], A Psalm [04210] of Asaph [0623]. Give ear [0238], O Shepherd [07462] of Israel [03478], thou that leadest [05090] Joseph [03130] like a flock [06629]; thou that dwellest [03427] between the cherubims [03742], shine forth [03313].
20 The LORD [03068] will [014] not spare [05545] him, but then the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] and his jealousy [07068] shall smoke [06225] against that man [0376], and all the curses [0423] that are written [03789] in this book [05612] shall lie [07257] upon him, and the LORD [03068] shall blot out [04229] his name [08034] from under heaven [08064].
9 But [0637] thou hast cast off [02186], and put us to shame [03637]; and goest not forth [03318] with our armies [06635].
2 For thou art the God [0430] of my strength [04581]: why dost thou cast me off [02186]? why go [01980] I mourning [06937] because of the oppression [03906] of the enemy [0341]?
41 The singers [07891]: the children [01121] of Asaph [0623], an hundred [03967] twenty [06242] and eight [08083].
15 And the singers [07891] the sons [01121] of Asaph [0623] were in their place [04612], according to the commandment [04687] of David [01732], and Asaph [0623], and Heman [01968], and Jeduthun [03038] the king's [04428] seer [02374]; and the porters [07778] waited at every gate [08179]; they might not depart [05493] from their service [05656]; for their brethren [0251] the Levites [03881] prepared [03559] for them.
6 But now they break down [01986] the carved work [06603] thereof at once [03162] with axes [03781] and hammers [03597].
7 They have cast [07971] fire [0784] into thy sanctuary [04720], they have defiled [02490] by casting down the dwelling place [04908] of thy name [08034] to the ground [0776].
8 They said [0559] in their hearts [03820], Let us destroy [03238] them together [03162]: they have burned up [08313] all the synagogues [04150] of God [0410] in the land [0776].
7 For he is our God [0430]; and we are the people [05971] of his pasture [04830], and the sheep [06629] of his hand [03027]. To day [03117] if ye will hear [08085] his voice [06963],
13 So we thy people [05971] and sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830] will give thee thanks [03034] for ever [05769]: we will shew forth [05608] thy praise [08416] to all [01755] generations [01755].
14 And I will make thee to pass [05674] with thine enemies [0341] into a land [0776] which thou knowest [03045] not: for a fire [0784] is kindled [06919] in mine anger [0639], which shall burn [03344] upon you.
22 For a fire [0784] is kindled [06919] in mine anger [0639], and shall burn [03344] unto the lowest [08482] hell [07585], and shall consume [0398] the earth [0776] with her increase [02981], and set on fire [03857] the foundations [04144] of the mountains [02022].
20 The LORD [03068] will [014] not spare [05545] him, but then the anger [0639] of the LORD [03068] and his jealousy [07068] shall smoke [06225] against that man [0376], and all the curses [0423] that are written [03789] in this book [05612] shall lie [07257] upon him, and the LORD [03068] shall blot out [04229] his name [08034] from under heaven [08064].
1 To the chief Musician [05329], A Psalm [04210] of David [01732]. How long wilt thou forget [07911] me, O LORD [03068]? for ever [05331]? how long wilt thou hide [05641] thy face [06440] from me?
9 But [0637] thou hast cast off [02186], and put us to shame [03637]; and goest not forth [03318] with our armies [06635].
2 I will utterly [0622] consume [05486] all things from off the land [06440] [0127], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
7 All sheep [06792] and oxen [0504], yea, and the beasts [0929] of the field [07704];
3 For they got [03423] not the land [0776] in possession [03423] by their own sword [02719], neither did their own arm [02220] save [03467] them: but thy right hand [03225], and thine arm [02220], and the light [0216] of thy countenance [06440], because thou hadst a favour [07521] unto them.
24 They have seen [07200] thy goings [01979], O God [0430]; even the goings [01979] of my God [0410], my King [04428], in the sanctuary [06944].
11 So that a man [0120] shall say [0559], Verily there is a reward [06529] for the righteous [06662]: verily he is [03426] a God [0430] that judgeth [08199] in the earth [0776].
4 I will abide [01481] in thy tabernacle [0168] for ever [05769]: I will trust [02620] in the covert [05643] of thy wings [03671]. Selah [05542].
12 That led [03212] them by the right hand [03225] of Moses [04872] with his glorious [08597] arm [02220], dividing [01234] the water [04325] before [06440] them, to make [06213] himself an everlasting [05769] name [08034]?
18 Surely thou didst set [07896] them in slippery places [02513]: thou castedst them down [05307] into destruction [04876].
17 I will shew [02331] thee, hear [08085] me; and that which I have seen [02372] I will declare [05608];
22 Hearken [08085] unto thy father [01] that begat [03205] thee, and despise [0936] not thy mother [0517] when she is old [02204].
26 There go [01980] the ships [0591]: there is that leviathan [03882], whom thou hast made [03335] to play [07832] therein.
8 They go up [05927] by the mountains [02022]; they go down [03381] by the valleys [01237] unto the place [04725] which [02088] thou hast founded [03245] for them.
2 Remember [02142] thy congregation [05712], which thou hast purchased [07069] of old [06924]; the rod [07626] of thine inheritance [05159], which thou hast redeemed [01350]; this mount [02022] Zion [06726], wherein thou hast dwelt [07931].
17 O LORD [03068], why hast thou made us to err [08582] from thy ways [01870], and hardened [07188] our heart [03820] from thy fear [03374]? Return [07725] for thy servants [05650]' sake, the tribes [07626] of thine inheritance [05159].
19 The portion [02506] of Jacob [03290] is not like them; for he is the former [03335] of all things: and Israel is the rod [07626] of his inheritance [05159]: the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] is his name [08034].
16 The portion [02506] of Jacob [03290] is not like them: for he is the former [03335] of all things; and Israel [03478] is the rod [07626] of his inheritance [05159]: The LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] is his name [08034].
13 Thou in thy mercy [02617] hast led forth [05148] the people [05971] which [02098] thou hast redeemed [01350]: thou hast guided [05095] them in thy strength [05797] unto thy holy [06944] habitation [05116].
35 And they remembered [02142] that God [0430] was their rock [06697], and the high [05945] God [0410] their redeemer [01350].
15 Thou hast with thine arm [02220] redeemed [01350] thy people [05971], the sons [01121] of Jacob [03290] and Joseph [03130]. Selah [05542].
17 Thou shalt bring [0935] them in, and plant [05193] them in the mountain [02022] of thine inheritance [05159], in the place [04349], O LORD [03068], which thou hast made [06466] for thee to dwell in [03427], in the Sanctuary [04720], O Lord [0136], which thy hands [03027] have established [03559].
2 How thou didst drive out [03423] the heathen [01471] with thy hand [03027], and plantedst [05193] them; how thou didst afflict [07489] the people [03816], and cast them out [07971].
2 Remember [02142] thy congregation [05712], which thou hast purchased [07069] of old [06924]; the rod [07626] of thine inheritance [05159], which thou hast redeemed [01350]; this mount [02022] Zion [06726], wherein thou hast dwelt [07931].
1 Woe [01945] be unto the pastors [07462] that destroy [06] and scatter [06327] the sheep [06629] of my pasture [04830]! saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
9 He bowed [05186] the heavens [08064] also, and came down [03381]: and darkness [06205] was under his feet [07272].
1 Why standest [05975] thou afar off [07350], O LORD [03068]? why hidest [05956] thou thyself in times [06256] of trouble [06869]?
7 Tell [05046] me, O thou whom my soul [05315] loveth [0157], where thou feedest [07462], where [0349] thou makest thy flock to rest [07257] at noon [06672]: for [04100] why should I be as one that turneth aside [05844] by the flocks [05739] of thy companions [02270]?
45 Until thy brother's [0251] anger [0639] turn away [07725] from thee, and he forget [07911] that which thou hast done [06213] to him: then I will send [07971], and fetch [03947] thee from thence: why [04100] should I be deprived [07921] also of you both [08147] in one [0259] day [03117]?
19 Why saidst thou [0559], She is my sister [0269]? so I might have taken [03947] her to me to wife [0802]: now therefore behold thy wife [0802], take [03947] her, and go thy way [03212].
1 Maschil [04905] of Asaph [0623]. O God [0430], why hast thou cast us off [02186] for ever [05331]? why doth thine anger [0639] smoke [06225] against the sheep [06629] of thy pasture [04830]?
2 How long shall I take [07896] counsel [06098] in my soul [05315], having sorrow [03015] in my heart [03824] daily [03119]? how long shall mine enemy [0341] be exalted [07311] over me?
47 Remember [02142] how short [02465] my time is: wherefore hast thou made [01254] all men [01121] [0120] in vain [07723]?
5 How long, LORD [03068]? wilt thou be angry [0599] for ever [05331]? shall thy jealousy [07068] burn [01197] like fire [0784]?
10 O God [0430], how long shall the adversary [06862] reproach [02778]? shall the enemy [0341] blaspheme [05006] thy name [08034] for ever [05331]?