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ਜ਼ਬੂਰ 74:22
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- Hastings'Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Arise: Psalms 9:19, Psalms 9:20, Psalms 79:9, Psalms 79:10
remember: Psalms 74:18, Psalms 75:4, Psalms 75:5, Psalms 89:50, Psalms 89:51, Isaiah 52:5
Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:11 - blasphemed Numbers 15:30 - reproacheth 2 Kings 19:22 - Whom Job 7:7 - remember Psalms 7:9 - Oh Psalms 12:5 - oppression Psalms 44:16 - For the Psalms 79:13 - we will Psalms 94:2 - Lift Psalms 115:1 - unto us Psalms 139:20 - for they speak Isaiah 37:17 - hear Lamentations 1:9 - for Mark 9:12 - set 2 Thessalonians 1:6 - General Hebrews 10:33 - by reproaches
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause,.... The church's cause being the cause of God; and therefore she desires that he would arise and exert himself, and take vengeance on his and her enemies: this is an interesting argument, and a forcible one:
remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily; this being so frequently repeated, as in Psalms 74:10, shows how much the name and glory of God lay near her heart; the Targum is,
"remember the reproach of thy people by a foolish king all the day;''
perhaps the man of sin is meant, the king of the locusts, and angel of the bottomless pit.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Arise, O God - As if God were now insensible to the wrongs and sufferings of his people; as if he were inattentive and indisposed to come to their help. See the notes at Psalms 3:7.
Plead thine own cause - literally, “Contend thine own contention.” That is, Maintain a cause which is really thine own. Thine own honor is concerned; thine own law and authority are assailed; the war is really made on “thee.” This is always the true idea in the prayers which are offered for the conversion of sinners, for the establishment of truth, and for the spread of the Gospel in the world. It is not originally the cause of the church; it is the cause of God. Everything in regard to truth, to justice, to humanity, to temperance, to liberty, to religion, is the cause of God. All the assaults made on these, are assaults made on God.
Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily - Constantly. He does not cease. The word “foolish” refers to the wicked. The idea is, that the wicked constantly reproach God - either by their language or their conduct; and this is a reason for calling on him to interpose. No better reason for asking his interposition can be given, than that such conduct is a real reproach to God, and reflects on his honor in the world.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 74:22. Plead thine own cause — Thy honour is concerned, as well as our safety and salvation. The fool-the idolater, reproacheth thee daily - he boasts of the superiority of his idols, by whose power, he asserts, we are brought under their domination.
