Psalms 74:8

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
said	אָמְר֣וּ 'a.me.Ru	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
hearts	בְ֭לִבָּם Ve.li.bom	H3820	the heart · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
destroy	נִינָ֣ם ni.Nam	H3238	to rage or be violent · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
together	יָ֑חַד Ya.chad	H3162	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
up	שָׂרְפ֖וּ sa.re.Fu	H8313	to be (causatively · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
synagogues	מוֹעֲדֵי mo.'a.dei-	H4150	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct
God	אֵ֣ל 'el	H410	strength · noun, common masculine singular absolute
land	בָּאָֽרֶץ ba.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Psalms 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
2 Kings 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy mas…
2 Kings 2:5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master fr…
2 Kings 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
Esther 3:8-9 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy ki…
Psalms 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness…
2 Chronicles 17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught t…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:1-11

This psalm is entitled Maschil - a psalm to give instruction, for it was penned in a day of affliction, which is intended for instruction; and this instruction in general it gives us, That when we are, upon any account, in distress, it is our wisdom and duty to apply to God by faithful and fervent prayer, and we shall not find it in vain to do so. Three things the people of God here complain of: - I. The displeasure of God against them, as that which was the cause and bitterness of all their calamities. They look above the instruments of their trouble, who, they knew, could have no power against them unless it were given them from above, and keep their eye upon God, by whose determined coun…

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John Gill on Psalms 74:8

They said in their hearts, let us destroy them together,.... The Targum is, "their children, are together;'' or "their kindred", as the Septuagint Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, taking the word to be of which signifies a "son"; and the sense to be, that seeing they were all together, as the Jews were at the taking of Jerusalem, they might be cut off at once. Jarchi explains it of their rulers; Marinus, as Aben Ezra observes, derives it from a word which signifies to afflict and oppress, to which he agrees; see Psalm 83:3, they have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land; not only in Jerusalem, where there were, the Jewish (q) writers say, four hundred and sixty, an…

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John Calvin on Psalms 74:1-8

Psalm 74:1-8 1. O God! why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thy anger smoke against the flock of thy pastures? 2. Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed of old, the rod of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed, this mount Zion on which thou hast dwelt. 3. Lift up thy strokes to destroy for ever every enemy that worketh mischief to thy sanctuary. 4. Thy adversaries have roared [213] in the midst of thy sanctuaries; they have set up their signs for signs. 5. He who lifted up the axes upon the thick trees was renowned as doing an excellent work. 6. And now they break in pieces the carved work thereof with axes and hammers together. 7. They have set on fire thy sanctuar…

The Church Fathers

"They have said in their heart (the kindred of them is in one)"— Have said what? "Come ye, let us suppress the solemnities of the Lord from the land" [Psalm 74:8]. "Of the Lord," has been inserted in the person of this man, that is, in the person of Asaph. For they raging would not have called Him the Lord whose temple they were overthrowing. "Come ye, let us suppress all the solemnities of the Lord from the land." What of Asaph? What understanding has Asaph in these words? What? Does he not profit even by the discipline accorded? Is not the mind's crookedness made straight? Overthrown were all things that were at first: nowhere is there priest, nowhere Altar of the Jews, nowhere victim, nowhere Temple. Is there then no other thing to be acknowledged which succeeded this departing? Or indeed would this promissory sign have been taken away, unless there had come that which was being promised?
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 74

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Dictionary and topics

Synagogue — (Gr. sunagoge, i.e., “an assembly”), found only once in the Authorized Version of Ps. 74:8, where the margin of Revised Version has “places of assembly,” which is probably correct; for while the…
Arson · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Persecution · OF THE RIGHTEOUS — OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Synagogues · Early notice of their existence — Early notice of their existence

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 74:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:1-11

John Gill on Psalms 74:8

John Calvin on Psalms 74:1-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 74:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:1-11

John Gill on Psalms 74:8

John Calvin on Psalms 74:1-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 74:4-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 74:3-8

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 74:8