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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 74:3

Lift up Thy feet unto = Hasten to [and see]. Compare Idiom (Genesis 29:1 ). feet. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. perpetual. Same word as "for ever", Psalms 74:1 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 74:3

"Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins,All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly;They have set up their ensigns for signs.""The perpetual ruins" (Psalms 74:3). Expressions of this kind force the conclusion that the period following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple was the time of the psalm, because in no other period of Jewish history was there anything like this. Solomon's Temple lay in ruins... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 74:3

Psalms 74:3. Lift up thy feet, &c.— Lift up thy feet because of perpetual desolations. The phrase lift up thy feet, signifies no more than come, or return. God had deserted his sanctuary, and the Shechinah had gone up from between the cherubims. See Ezekiel 10:4. In consequence of which, the heathen people had invaded that holy place, and laid it waste. The perpetual desolations, signify those ruins of the city and country which had lasted so very long. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 74:3

3. Lift . . . feet— ( :-) —that is, Come (to behold) the desolations ( :-). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 74:1-23

Psalms 74The writer appears to have written this communal lament psalm after one of Israel’s enemies destroyed the sanctuary. [Note: See Ralph W. Klein, Israel in Exile: A Theological Interpretation, pp. 19-20.] The Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 586 B.C. may therefore be the background. The writer asked the Lord to remember His people and defeat her enemies, as He had in the past, for His own glory (cf. Psalms 79; Psalms 137; Lam.)."The temple has been violated. The key... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 74:3

There is no record that any of Israel’s enemies ever destroyed Israel’s central sanctuary in David’s day, or the temple in Solomon’s, to the extent that this verse implies. Perhaps Asaph was speaking hyperbolically, namely, describing the destruction in extreme terms for the sake of the effect. Probably this description is of what took place when the Babylonians destroyed the temple in 586 B.C. This would mean the writer was an Asaph who lived much later than David’s day, or perhaps Asaph... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 74:3-9

2. A lament over the enemy’s destruction 74:3-9 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 74:1-23

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 calamity, when the Temple was profaned (Psalms 74), and the Israelites ruthlessly slaughtered (Psalms 79) by a heathen enemy. The occasion described must have been either the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar’s army (586 b.c., 2 Kings 24; 2 Chronicles 36:11 f; Jeremiah 39:1-8; Jeremiah 52:1-4), or the persecution of the Jews by Antiochus... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 74:3

(3) Lift up thy feet.—Better, Lift thy steps. A poetical expression. God is invoked to hasten to view the desolation of the Temple. A somewhat similar expression will be found in Genesis 29:1 (margin).Perpetual desolations.—The word rendered “desolations” occurs also in Psalms 73:18, where it is rendered “destruction.” Here, perhaps, we should render ruins which must be ever ruins, or complete ruins, or possibly, taking the first meaning of netsach, ruins of splendour. Isaiah 11:4 does not... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 74:1-23

Psalms 74:1-23Two periods only correspond to the circumstances described in this psalm and its companion (Psalms 79:1-13)-namely, the Chaldean invasion and sack of Jerusalem, and the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes. The general situation outlined in the psalm fits either of these; but, of its details, some are more applicable to the former and others to the later period. The later date is strongly supported by such complaints as those of the cessation of prophecy (Psalms 74:9), the... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 74:3

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 74:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 74:3

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 74:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 74:1-23

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 74:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 74:3-9

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 74:1-23

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 74:3

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 74:1-23

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