Psa 79 | TSK | STEP | The psalmist complains of the desolation of Jerusalem. He prays for deliverance; and promises thankfulness. A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. (Title.) A Psalm.This Psalm is supposed, with much probability, to have been written on the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. of Asaph. or, for Asaph. the heathen. into. holy. have laid.

Psalms 79

1 The psalmist complains of the desolation of Jerusalem.

8 He prays for deliverance;

13 and promises thankfulness.

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. (Title.) A Psalm.This Psalm is supposed, with much probability, to have been written on the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.

of Asaph. or, for Asaph.

74:1; *title, marg:

the heathen.

74:3,4; 80:12,13; 2Ki 21:12-16; 25:4-10; 2Ch 36:3,4,6,7,17

Lu 21:24; Re 11:2

into.

74:2; 78:71; Ex 15:17; Isa 47:6

holy.

74:7,8; 2Ki 24:13; La 1:10; Eze 7:20,21; 9:7

have laid.

2Ki 25:9,10; 2Ch 36:19; Jer 26:18; 39:8; 52:13; Mic 3:12

Jer 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 34:20

Their.

10; Mt 23:35; Ro 8:36; Re 16:6; 17:6; 18:24

and there, etc.Either there was no friend or relation left to bury them, or none was allowed to perform this last sad office. The despotism of eastern princes often proceeds to such a degree of extravagance as to fill the mind with astonishment and horror. In Morocco, no person dares to bury the body of a malefactor without an order from the emperor; and Windus, speaking of a man who was to have been sawn in two, informs us, that "his body must have remained to be eaten by the dogs, if the emperor had not pardoned him."

141:7; Jer 8:1,2; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; 25:33; 34:20; Re 11:9

become.

44:13,14; 80:6; 89:41; De 28:37; Jer 24:9; 25:18; 42:18; La 2:15,16

La 5:1; Eze 35:12; 36:3,15

scorn.

1Ki 9:7; Ne 2:19; 4:1-4

How long.

13:1,2; 74:1,9,10; 80:4; 89:46; Re 6:10

wilt.

85:5; 103:9; Isa 64:9; Mic 7:18

jealousy.

De 29:20; 32:16,22; Eze 36:5; Zep 1:18; 3:8