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Selected Verse: Psalms 79:8 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 79:8 |
Strong Concordance |
O remember [02142] not against us former [07223] iniquities [05771]: let thy tender mercies [07356] speedily [04118] prevent [06923] us: for we are brought [01809] very [03966] low [01809]. |
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King James |
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. |
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] |
former iniquities--literally, "iniquities of former times."
prevent us--literally, "meet us," as in Psa 21:3. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
O remember not against us forrmer iniquities - Margin, The iniquities of them that were before us. The Hebrew may mean either former times, or former generations. The allusion, however, is substantially the same. It is not their own iniquities which are particularly referred to, but the iniquity of the nation as committed in former times; and the prayer is, that God would not visit them with the results of the sins of former generations, though their own ancestors. The language is derived from the idea so constantly affirmed in the Scripture, and so often illustrated in fact, that the effects of sin pass over from one generation to the next, and involve it in calamity. See Exo 20:5; Exo 34:7; Lev 20:5; Lev 26:39-40; Num 14:18, Num 14:33; compare the notes at Rom 5:12, et seg.
Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us - literally, "Hasten; let thy tender mercies anticipate us." The word prevent here, as elsewhere in the Scriptures, does not mean to hinder, as with us, but to go before; to anticipate. See Job 3:12, note; Psa 17:13, note; Psa 21:3, note; Isa 21:14, note; Mat 17:25, note; Th1 4:15, note. The prayer here is, that God, in his tender mercy or compassion, would anticipate their ruin; would interpose before matters had gone so far as to make their destruction inevitable.
For we are brought very low - The idea in the original word is that of being pendulous, or hanging down - as vines do, or as anything does that is wilted, or withered, or as the hands do when one is weak, faint, or sick. Then it refers to a failure or exhaustion of strength; and the idea here is that their strength as a nation was exhausted. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Prevent - Prevent our utter extirpation. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Remember not against us former iniquities - Visit us not for the sins of our forefathers.
Speedily prevent us - Let them go before us, and turn us out of the path of destruction; for there is no help for us but in thee.
We are brought very low - Literally, "We are greatly thinned." Few of us remain. |
3 For thou preventest [06923] him with the blessings [01293] of goodness [02896]: thou settest [07896] a crown [05850] of pure gold [06337] on his head [07218].
15 For [1063] this [5124] we say [3004] unto you [5213] by [1722] the word [3056] of the Lord [2962], that [3754] we [2249] which [3588] are alive [2198] and remain [4035] unto [1519] the coming [3952] of the Lord [2962] shall [5348] not [3364] prevent [5348] them which [3588] are asleep [2837].
25 He saith [3004], Yes [3483]. And [2532] when [3753] he was come [1525] into [1519] the house [3614], Jesus [2424] prevented [4399] him [846], saying [3004], What [5101] thinkest [1380] thou [4671], Simon [4613]? of [575] whom [5101] do [2983] the kings [935] of the earth [1093] take [2983] custom [5056] or [2228] tribute [2778]? of [575] their own [846] children [5207], or [2228] of [575] strangers [245]?
14 The inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776] of Tema [08485] brought [0857] water [04325] to him [07125] that was thirsty [06771], they prevented [06923] with their bread [03899] him that fled [05074].
3 For thou preventest [06923] him with the blessings [01293] of goodness [02896]: thou settest [07896] a crown [05850] of pure gold [06337] on his head [07218].
13 Arise [06965], O LORD [03068], disappoint [06923] him [06440], cast him down [03766]: deliver [06403] my soul [05315] from the wicked [07563], which is thy sword [02719]:
12 Why did the knees [01290] prevent [06923] me? or why the breasts [07699] that I should suck [03243]?
12 Wherefore [1223] [5124], as [5618] by [1223] one [1520] man [444] sin [266] entered [1525] into [1519] the world [2889], and [2532] death [2288] by [1223] sin [266]; and [2532] so [3779] death [2288] passed [1330] upon [1519] all [3956] men [444], for [1909] that [3739] all [3956] have sinned [264]:
33 And your children [01121] shall wander [07462] in the wilderness [04057] forty [0705] years [08141], and bear [05375] your whoredoms [02184], until your carcases [06297] be wasted [08552] in the wilderness [04057].
18 The LORD [03068] is longsuffering [0750] [0639], and of great [07227] mercy [02617], forgiving [05375] iniquity [05771] and transgression [06588], and by no means [05352] clearing [05352] the guilty, visiting [06485] the iniquity [05771] of the fathers [01] upon the children [01121] unto the third [08029] and fourth [07256] generation.
39 And they that are left [07604] of you shall pine away [04743] in their iniquity [05771] in your enemies [0341] ' lands [0776]; and also in the iniquities [05771] of their fathers [01] shall they pine away [04743] with them.
40 If they shall confess [03034] their iniquity [05771], and the iniquity [05771] of their fathers [01], with their trespass [04604] which they trespassed [04603] against me, and that also they have walked [01980] contrary [07147] unto me;
5 Then I will set [07760] my face [06440] against that man [0376], and against his family [04940], and will cut him off [03772], and all that go a whoring [02181] after [0310] him, to commit whoredom [02181] with Molech [04432], from among [07130] their people [05971].
7 Keeping [05341] mercy [02617] for thousands [0505], forgiving [05375] iniquity [05771] and transgression [06588] and sin [02403], and that will by no means [05352] clear [05352] the guilty; visiting [06485] the iniquity [05771] of the fathers [01] upon the children [01121], and upon the children's [01121] children, unto the third [08029] and to the fourth [07256] generation.
5 Thou shalt not bow down [07812] thyself to them, nor serve [05647] them: for I the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] am a jealous [07067] God [0410], visiting [06485] the iniquity [05771] of the fathers [01] upon the children [01121] unto the third [08029] and fourth [07256] generation of them that hate [08130] me;