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Mazmur 74:1

Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Mengapa, ya Allah, Kaubuang kami untuk seterusnya? Mengapa menyala murka-Mu terhadap kambing domba gembalaan-Mu?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Anger;   Music;   Sheep;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Names;   Sheep, God's;   Titles and Names;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Sheep;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Flock;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sheep;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Maschil;   Obadiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Agriculture;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Smoke;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Smoke;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Nyanyian pengajaran Asaf. Mengapa, ya Allah, Kaubuang kami untuk seterusnya? Mengapa menyala murka-Mu terhadap kambing domba gembalaan-Mu?
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karangan Asaf. Ya Allah! apa sebab Engkau membuangkan kami sama sekali? Apa sebab murka-Mu bernyala-nyala kepada domba yang Kaugembalakan?

Contextual Overview

1 O Lorde wherfore dost thou forsake vs altogether? wherfore breaketh foorth thy anger agaynst the sheepe of thy pasture. 2 Remember thy congregation, thou hast possest it nowe a long tyme: thou hast redeemed the rodde of thine inheritaunce, euen mount Sion wherein thou dwellest. 3 Lyft vp thy feete for to destroy vtterly euery enemie: which hath done euyll in thy sanctuarie. 4 Thyne aduersaries roare in the myddest of thy congregations: and set vp their banners for signes [of victorie.] 5 He that hewed tymber afore out of thicke woddes [for to builde the temple:] was esteemed as one offeryng a present [to God] aboue. 6 But nowe they breake downe into peeces all the carued worke therof: with axes and hammers. 7 They haue set fire on thy holy places: they haue defiled the dwellyng place of thy name [castyng it downe] to the groud. 8 Yea, they sayde in their heartes, let vs make hauocke of them altogether: thus haue they burnt vp all the houses of God in the lande. 9 We see not our ensignes, there is not one prophete more: no not one is there amongst vs that vnderstandeth our case. 10 O Lorde shall the aduersarie do this dishonour continually? shall the enemie blaspheme thy name for euer?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O God: Psalms 10:1, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 44:9, Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:10, Psalms 77:7, Jeremiah 31:37, Jeremiah 33:24-26, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2

smoke: Psalms 79:5, Deuteronomy 29:20

the sheep: Psalms 79:13, Psalms 95:7, Psalms 100:3, Jeremiah 23:1, Ezekiel 34:8, Ezekiel 34:31, Luke 12:32, John 10:26-30

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:11 - why doth Deuteronomy 9:26 - which thou hast redeemed Judges 10:7 - was hot Judges 21:3 - why is 1 Samuel 4:3 - Wherefore 2 Samuel 22:16 - nostrils 2 Samuel 24:17 - these sheep 1 Chronicles 6:39 - Asaph 1 Chronicles 25:2 - Asaph 2 Chronicles 36:16 - the wrath Esther 1:12 - burned Psalms 13:1 - How Psalms 18:8 - went Psalms 44:23 - cast Psalms 68:10 - Thy congregation Psalms 80:4 - be angry Psalms 85:5 - angry Psalms 106:40 - his own Isaiah 5:5 - I will take Isaiah 63:17 - Return Isaiah 64:9 - wroth Jeremiah 14:22 - vanities Lamentations 5:20 - dost

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Psalms 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, Romans 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", Zechariah 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; see Deuteronomy 19:20, alluding to men, who, when they are angry, become hot, as Kimchi observes, and their breath like smoke comes out of their nostrils.

k Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 29. col. 984. l Vid. T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 56. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? - Thou seemest to have cast us off forever, or finally. Compare Psalms 44:9, note; Psalms 13:1, note. “Why doth thine anger smoke.” See Deuteronomy 29:20. The presence of smoke indicates fire, and the language here is such as often occurs in the Scriptures, when anger or wrath is compared with fire. See Deuteronomy 32:22; Jeremiah 15:14.

Against the sheep of thy pasture - Thy people, represented as a flock. See Psalms 79:13; Psalms 95:7. This increases the tenderness of the appeal. The wrath of God seemed to be enkindled against his own people, helpless and defenseless, who needed his care, and who might naturally look for it - as a flock needs the care of a shepherd, and as the care of the shepherd might be expected. He seemed to be angry with his people, and to have cast them off, when they had every reason to anticipate his protection.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM LXXIV

The psalmist complains of the desolations of the sanctuary,

and pleads with God, 1-3;

shows the insolence and wickedness of their enemies, 4-8;

prays to God to act for them as he had done for their fathers,

whom, by his miraculous power, he had saved, 9-17;

begs God to arise, and vindicate his own honour against his

enemies, and the enemies of his people, 18-23.


NOTES ON PSALM LXXIV

The title is, Maschil of Asaph, or, "A Psalm of Asaph, to give instruction." That this Psalm was written at a time when the temple was ruined, Jerusalem burnt, and the prophets scattered or destroyed, is evident. But it is not so clear whether the desolations here refer to the days of Nebuchadnezzar, or to the desolation that took place under the Romans about the seventieth year of the Christian era. Calmet inclines to the former opinion; and supposes the Psalm to be a lamentation over the temple destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.

Verse Psalms 74:1. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? — Hast thou determined that we shall never more be thy people? Are we never to see an end to our calamities?


 
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