Psalms 79:1
A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
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Exodus 15:17You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.
2 Kings 24:13And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
2 Kings 25:9And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;
2 Chronicles 36:6Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:19And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.
Psalms 74:1Maschil. Of Asaph. Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:1
This psalm, if penned with any particular event in view, is with most probability made to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the woeful havoc made of the Jewish nation by the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar. It is set to the same tune, as I may say, with the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and that weeping prophet borrows two verses out of it ( ver. 6, 7 ) and makes use of them in his prayer, Jer. x. 25 . Some think it was penned long before by the spirit of prophecy, prepared for the use of the… Read the whole commentary →