Psalms 74:1
Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?
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Psalms 18:8Smoke went up from his nostrils, devouring fire from his mouth, coals were kindled by it.
Psalms 42:11Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
Psalms 50:1The Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.
Psalms 60:10Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:1
This psalm does so particularly describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, by Nebuchadnezzar and the army of the Chaldeans, and can so ill be applied to any other event we meet with in the Jewish history, that interpreters incline to think that either it was penned by David, or Asaph in David's time, with a prophetical reference to that sad event (which yet is not so probable), or that it was penned by another Asaph, who lived at the time of the captivity, or by Jeremiah (for it is of a piece with his… Read the whole commentary →