Psalm 79 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

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.

Psa. 74:1• ¹An instruction: of Asaph. Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? (Psa. 74:1)

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Psa. 74• (Psa. 74)

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the heathen.

Psa. 74:3‑4• ³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
⁴Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs. (Psa. 74:3‑4)

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Psa. 80:12‑13• ¹²Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?
¹³The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it. (Psa. 80:12‑13)

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2 Kings 21:12‑16• ¹²therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
¹³And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipeth a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down.
¹⁴And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
¹⁵because they have done evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day.
¹⁶And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah. (2 Kings 21:12‑16)

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2 Kings 25:4‑10• ⁴And the city was broken into; and all the men of war fled by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which leads to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.
⁵And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
⁶And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,
⁷and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
⁸And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was in the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzar-adan, captain of the body-guard, servant of the king of Babylon, came unto Jerusalem;
⁹and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great man's house he burned with fire.
¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the body-guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. (2 Kings 25:4‑10)

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2 Chron. 36:3‑4,6‑7,17• ³And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and imposed a fine upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
⁴And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
⁶Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him with chains of brass to carry him to Babylon.
⁷And Nebuchadnezzar carried part of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
¹⁷And he brought up against them the king of the Chaldees, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and spared not young man nor maiden, old man nor him of hoary head: he gave them all into his hand. (2 Chron. 36:3‑4,6‑7,17)

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Luke 21:24• ²⁴And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)

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Rev. 11:2• ²And the court which is without the temple cast out, and measure it not; because it has been given up to the nations, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months. (Rev. 11:2)

into.

Psa. 74:2• ²Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. (Psa. 74:2)

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Psa. 78:71• ⁷¹From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. (Psa. 78:71)

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Ex. 15:17• ¹⁷Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place that thou, Jehovah, hast made thy dwelling, The Sanctuary, Lord, that thy hands have prepared. (Ex. 15:17)

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Isa. 47:6• ⁶I was wroth with my people, I polluted mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the aged didst thou very heavily lay thy yoke; (Isa. 47:6)

holy.

Psa. 74:7‑8• ⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
⁸They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all *God's places of assembly in the land. (Psa. 74:7‑8)

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2 Kings 24:13• ¹³And he brought out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had said. (2 Kings 24:13)

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Ezek. 7:20‑21• ²⁰And he set in majesty his beautiful ornament; but they made therein the images of their abominations and of their detestable things: therefore have I made it an impurity unto them.
²¹And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. (Ezek. 7:20‑21)

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Ezek. 9:7• ⁷And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city. (Ezek. 9:7)

have laid.

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2 Chron. 36:19• ¹⁹And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all the palaces thereof with fire, and all the precious vessels thereof were given up to destruction. (2 Chron. 36:19)

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Jer. 26:18• ¹⁸Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Jer. 26:18)

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Jer. 39:8• ⁸And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. (Jer. 39:8)

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Jer. 52:13• ¹³and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great man's house he burned with fire. (Jer. 52:13)

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Mic. 3:12• ¹²Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Mic. 3:12)

• Book 3. Series 2. The Indignation after the attack of the King of the North. (““The Placement of the Psalms in Prophecy”” by B. Anstey)

• The confession by the godly of the sin and utter helplessness of God’s people, with an appeal to God to act on their behalf on the ground of his tender mercies, and for the glory of His great Name. (“Psalms 79” by H. Smith)

• They plead, however, that the enemy is attacking God’s inheritance, God’s holy temple, God’s servants, and God’s saints. (“Psalms 79” by H. Smith)

• This psalm begins a new series taking us back again to the time when the armies of the King of the North will have passed through the land of Israel destroying both the city of Jerusalem and the temple in their conquest into Egypt (Dan. 11:40-42). (“Book 3.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.