Psalmen 74
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Al-taschith--(See on Psa 57:1, title). In impending danger, the Psalmist, anticipating relief in view of God's righteous government, takes courage and renders praise. (Psa 75:1-10) God's name or perfections are set forth by His wondrous works.
Quelle öffnen ↗O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?..... This the church supposed because of the prevalence, oppression, and triumph of the enemy, because of the hardships and afflictions she laboured under, and because of the hidings of the face of God from her, which unbelief interpreted of a casting off; see Psa 77:7 when in reality it was not so, only in appearance, and according to a wrong judgment made of things; for God never did nor never will cast off, nor cast away, his people whom he foreknew, Rom 11:1, why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? the people of God are called "sheep", because subject to go astray, not only before conversion, but after; and because harmless and inoffensive in their lives and conversations; and because, though exposed to the insults and persecutions of men, and their butcheries and barbarities, and therefore called "the flock of slaughter", Zac 11:4, yet bear all patiently, as the sheep before her shearers is dumb; and because like sheep they are weak and timorous, unable to defend themselves; are clean, and so distinguished from dogs and swine; and are profitable, though not to God, yet to men, and one another; and like sheep are sociable, and love to be together: and they are called the sheep of the Lord's pasture; because he provides good pasture for them, leads them into it, and feeds them himself with Christ, the bread of life, the tree of life, and hidden manna; with covenant grace and promises, even the sure mercies of David; with discoveries of his love and grace, and with his word and ordinances; and yet these, when under afflictions and desertions, are ready to conclude that God is angry with them, yea, is very angry; that his anger burns against them, and his fierce wrath goes over them, signified by smoking;…
Quelle öffnen ↗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 befo…
Quelle öffnen ↗This psalm is entitled Maschil - a psalm to give instruction, for it was penned in a day of affliction, which is intended for instruction; and this instruction in general it gives us, That when we are, upon any account, in distress, it is our wisdom and duty to apply to God by faithful and fervent prayer, and we shall not find it in vain to do so. Three things the people of God here complain of: - I. The displeasure of God against them, as that which was the cause and bitterness of all their calamities. They look above the instruments of their trouble, who, they knew, could have no power against them unless it were given them from above, and keep their eye upon God, by whose determined counsel they were delivered up into the hands of wicked and unreasonable men. Observe the liberty they take to expostulate with God (Psa 74:1), we hope not too great a liberty, for Christ himself, upon the cross, cried out, My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me? So the church here, O God! why hast thou forsaken us for ever? Here they speak according to their present dark and melancholy apprehensions; for otherwise, Has God cast away his people? God forbid, Rom 11:1. The people of God must not think that because they are cast down they are therefore cast off, that because men cast them off therefore God does, and that because he seems to cast them off for a time therefore they are really cast off for ever: yet this expostulation intimates that they dreaded God's casting them off more than any thing, that they desired to be owned of him, whatever they suffered from men, and were desirous to know wherefore he thus contended with them: Why does thy anger smoke? that is, why does it rise up to such a degree that all about us take notice of it, and ask, What means the heat of this great ange…
Quelle öffnen ↗Ps 74 The psalmist laments the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (586 BC) with vivid imagery, questions, fresh memories, and a direct appeal for the Lord to act (74:19-23). 74:1-2 In the aftermath of Jerusalem’s fall, it seemed that God had forgotten his special covenant relationship with his people. 74:1 God rejected his people because their sin aroused his anger (106:34-46). • Like a tender shepherd, God cares for his people, the sheep of his pasture (Pss 23; 100:3).
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מַשְׂכִּיל (maskîyl, H4905) — instructive, i.e. a didactic poem אָסָף (ʼÂçâph, H623) — Asaph, the name of three Israelites, and of the family of the first אֱלֹהִים (ʼĕlôhîym, H430) — gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with… זָנַח (zânach, H2186) — reject, forsake, fail נֶצַח (netsach, H5331) — properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence… אַף (ʼaph, H639) — properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the… עָשַׁן (ʻâshan, H6225) — to smoke, whether literal or figurative צֹאן (tsôʼn, H6629) — a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men) מִרְעִית (mirʻîyth, H4830) — pasturage; concretely, a flock
Quelle öffnen ↗זָכַר (zâkar, H2142) — properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention;… עֵדָה (ʻêdâh, H5712) — a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd) קָנָה (qânâh, H7069) — to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively,… קֶדֶם (qedem, H6924) — the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity);… שֵׁבֶט (shêbeṭ, H7626) — a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking,… נַחֲלָה (nachălâh, H5159) — properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom;… גָּאַל (gâʼal, H1350) — to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow,… הַר (har, H2022) — a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively) צִיּוֹן (Tsîyôwn, H6726) — Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem שָׁכַן (shâkan, H7931) — to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)
Quelle öffnen ↗רוּם (rûwm, H7311) — to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively) פַּעַם (paʻam, H6471) — a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow) נֶצַח (netsach, H5331) — properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence… מַשּׁוּאָה (mashshûwʼâh, H4876) — ruin אֹיֵב (ʼôyêb, H341) — hating; an adversary רָעַע (râʻaʻ, H7489) — properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good… קֹדֶשׁ (qôdesh, H6944) — a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
Quelle öffnen ↗צָרַר (tsârar, H6887) — to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive שָׁאַג (shâʼag, H7580) — to rumble or moan קֶרֶב (qereb, H7130) — properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial… מוֹעֵד (môwʻêd, H4150) — properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival;… שׂוּם (sûwm, H7760) — to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and… אוֹת (ʼôwth, H226) — a signal (literally or figuratively), as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy,…
Quelle öffnen ↗יָדַע (yâdaʻ, H3045) — to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses,… בּוֹא (bôwʼ, H935) — to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) מַעַל (maʻal, H4605) — properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from… קַרְדֹּם (qardôm, H7134) — an axe סְבָךְ (çᵉbâk, H5442) — a copse עֵץ (ʻêts, H6086) — a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
Quelle öffnen ↗הָלַם (hâlam, H1986) — to strike down; by implication, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband פִּתּוּחַ (pittûwach, H6603) — sculpture (in low or high relief or even intaglio) יַחַד (yachad, H3162) — properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly כַּשִּׁיל (kashshîyl, H3781) — properly, a feller, i.e. an axe כֵּילַף (kêylaph, H3597) — a club or sledge-hammer
Quelle öffnen ↗שָׁלַח (shâlach, H7971) — to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications) אֵשׁ (ʼêsh, H784) — fire (literally or figuratively) מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdâsh, H4720) — a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of… חָלַל (châlal, H2490) — properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane… מִשְׁכָּן (mishkân, H4908) — a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave;… שֵׁם (shêm, H8034) — an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority,… אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, H776) — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Quelle öffnen ↗אָמַר (ʼâmar, H559) — to say (used with great latitude) לֵב (lêb, H3820) — the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the… יָנָה (yânâh, H3238) — to rage or be violent; by implication, to suppress, to maltreat יַחַד (yachad, H3162) — properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly שָׂרַף (sâraph, H8313) — to be (causatively, set) on fire מוֹעֵד (môwʻêd, H4150) — properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival;… אֵל (ʼêl, H410) — strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity) אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, H776) — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Quelle öffnen ↗רָאָה (râʼâh, H7200) — to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied,… אוֹת (ʼôwth, H226) — a signal (literally or figuratively), as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy,… נָבִיא (nâbîyʼ, H5030) — a prophet or (generally) inspired man יָדַע (yâdaʻ, H3045) — to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses,… עַד (ʻad, H5704) — as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until)…
Quelle öffnen ↗אֱלֹהִים (ʼĕlôhîym, H430) — gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with… צַר (tsar, H6862) — narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble ;… חָרַף (châraph, H2778) — to pull off, i.e. (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth… אֹיֵב (ʼôyêb, H341) — hating; an adversary נָאַץ (nâʼats, H5006) — to scorn; שֵׁם (shêm, H8034) — an appellation, as amark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority,… נֶצַח (netsach, H5331) — properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence…
Quelle öffnen ↗שׁוּב (shûwb, H7725) — to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not… יָד (yâd, H3027) — a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), יָמִין (yâmîyn, H3225) — the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more… כָּלָה (kâlâh, H3615) — to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete,… קֶרֶב (qereb, H7130) — properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial… חֵיק (chêyq, H2436) — the bosom (literally or figuratively)
Quelle öffnen ↗אֱלֹהִים (ʼĕlôhîym, H430) — gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with… מֶלֶךְ (melek, H4428) — a king קֶדֶם (qedem, H6924) — the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity);… פָּעַל (pâʻal, H6466) — to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise יְשׁוּעָה (yᵉshûwʻâh, H3444) — something saved, i.e. (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity קֶרֶב (qereb, H7130) — properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial… אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, H776) — the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Quelle öffnen ↗פָּרַר (pârar, H6565) — to break up (usually figuratively), i.e. to violate, frustrate יָם (yâm, H3220) — a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the… עֹז (ʻôz, H5797) — strength in various applications (force, security, majesty, praise) שָׁבַר (shâbar, H7665) — to burst (literally or figuratively) רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh, H7218) — the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of… תַּנִּין (tannîyn, H8577) — a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal מַיִם (mayim, H4325) — water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
Quelle öffnen ↗רָצַץ (râtsats, H7533) — to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively רֹאשׁ (rôʼsh, H7218) — the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of… לִוְיָתָן (livyâthân, H3882) — a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large… נָתַן (nâthan, H5414) — to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.) מַאֲכָל (maʼăkâl, H3978) — an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit) עַם (ʻam, H5971) — a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence… צִיִּי (tsîyîy, H6728) — a desert-dweller, i.e. nomad or wild beast
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und der HERR wird ihn aus allen Stämmen Israels zum Unglück absondern, gemäß allen Flüchen des Bundes, die in dem Buche dieses Gesetzes geschrieben sind;
Wir aber, dein Volk und die Schafe deiner Weide, wollen dir ewiglich danken und deinen Ruhm erzählen von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht.
Erkennet, daß der HERR Gott ist; er hat uns gemacht, nicht wir uns selbst, zu seinem Volk und zu Schafen seiner Weide.
Gottes rühmen wir uns alle Tage, und deinen Namen loben wir ewig. (Pause.)
Und ihr seid meine Herde; ihr Menschen seid die Schafe meiner Weide! Ich bin euer Gott, spricht Gott, der HERR.
Wehe den Hirten, welche die Schafe meiner Weide verderben und zerstreuen! spricht der HERR.
Wie lange soll das noch währen, o HERR? Willst du ewiglich zürnen? Soll dein Eifer wie Feuer brennen?
Denn er ist unser Gott, und wir sind das Volk seiner Weide und die Schafe seiner Hand.
So spricht der HERR: Wenn man den Himmel droben messen kann und die Grundfesten der Erde drunten zu erforschen vermag, so will ich auch den ganzen Samen Israels verwerfen wegen alles dessen, was sie verübt haben, spricht der HERR.
Fürchte dich nicht, du kleine Herde; denn es hat eurem Vater gefallen, euch das Reich zu geben!