Psalm 79 (KJV) - 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• ¹<<Maschil of Asaph.>> O God, why hast thou cast us 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 feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
⁴Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. (Psa. 74:3‑4)

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Psa. 80:12‑13• ¹²Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
¹³The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. (Psa. 80:12‑13)

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2 Kings 21:12‑16• ¹²Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such 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 a man wipeth a dish, 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 that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
¹⁶Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. (2 Kings 21:12‑16)

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2 Kings 25:4‑10• ⁴And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
⁵And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
⁶So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
⁷And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
⁸And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
⁹And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake 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 condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
⁴And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned 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 in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
⁷Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
¹⁷Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: 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 shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)

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Rev. 11:2• ²But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. (Rev. 11:2)

into.

Psa. 74:2• ²Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. (Psa. 74:2)

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Psa. 78:71• ⁷¹From following the ewes great with young 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, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. (Ex. 15:17)

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Isa. 47:6• ⁶I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. (Isa. 47:6)

holy.

Psa. 74:7‑8• ⁷They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
⁸They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. (Psa. 74:7‑8)

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

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Ezek. 7:20‑21• ²⁰As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
²¹And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute 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 ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. (Ezek. 9:7)

have laid.

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2 Chron. 36:19• ¹⁹And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. (2 Chron. 36:19)

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Jer. 26:18• ¹⁸Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like 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 brake down the walls of Jerusalem. (Jer. 39:8)

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

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