Parallel Verses English Standard Version We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long. King James Bible We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. American Standard Version We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. Douay-Rheims Bible Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more. English Revised Version We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. Webster's Bible Translation We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. Psalm 74:9 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe poet begins with the earnest prayer that God would again have compassion upon His church, upon which His judgment of anger has fallen, and would again set up the ruins of Zion. Why for ever (Psalm 74:10, Psalm 79:5; Psalm 89:47, cf. Psalm 13:2)? is equivalent to, why so continually and, as it seems, without end? The preterite denotes the act of casting off, the future, Psalm 74:1, that lasting condition of this casting off. למה, when the initial of the following word is a guttural, and particularly if it has a merely half-vowel (although in other instances also, Genesis 12:19; Genesis 27:45; Sol 1:7), is deprived of its Dagesh and accented on the ultima, in order (as Mose ha-Nakdan expressly observes) to guard against the swallowing up of the ah; cf. on Psalm 10:1. Concerning the smoking of anger, vid., Psalm 18:9. The characteristically Asaphic expression צאן מרעיתו is not less Jeremianic, Jeremiah 23:1. In Psalm 74:2 God is reminded of what He has once done for the congregation of His people. קדם, as in Psalm 44:2, points back into the Mosaic time of old, to the redemption out of Egypt, which is represented in קנה (Exodus 15:17) as a purchasing, and in גאל (Psalm 77:15; Psalm 78:35, Exodus 15:13) as a ransoming (redemptio). שׁבט נחלתך is a factitive object; שׁבט is the name given to the whole nation in its distinctness of race from other peoples, as in Jeremiah 10:16; Jeremiah 51:19, cf. Isaiah 63:17. זה (Psalm 74:2) is rightly separated from הר־ציון (Mugrash); it stands directly for אשׁר, as in Psalm 104:8, Psalm 104:26; Proverbs 23:22; Job 15:17 (Ges. 122, 2). The congregation of the people and its central abode are, as though forgotten of God, in a condition which sadly contrasts with their election. משּׁאות נצח are ruins (vid., Psalm 73:18) in a state of such total destruction, that all hope of their restoration vanishes before it; נצח here looks forward, just as עולם (חרבות), Isaiah 63:12; Psalm 61:4, looks backwards. May God then lift His feet up high (פּעמים poetical for רגלים, cf. Psalm 58:11 with Psalm 68:24), i.e., with long hurried steps, without stopping, move towards His dwelling - lace that now lies in ruins, that by virtue of His interposition it may rise again. Hath the enemy made merciless havoc - he hath ill-treated (הרע, as in Psalm 44:3) everything (כּל, as in Psalm 8:7, Zephaniah 1:2, for חכּל or את־כּל) in the sanctuary - how is it possible that this sacrilegious vandalism should remain unpunished! Treasury of Scripture Knowledge we see no more Cross References 1 Samuel 3:1 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. Psalm 6:3 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O LORD--how long? Psalm 74:4 Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. Psalm 78:43 when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan. Psalm 79:5 How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? Psalm 80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers? Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Jump to Previous Ensigns Longer Miraculous Prophet Prophets SignsJump to Next Ensigns Longer Miraculous Prophet Prophets SignsLinks Psalm 74:9 NIVPsalm 74:9 NLT Psalm 74:9 ESV Psalm 74:9 NASB Psalm 74:9 KJV Psalm 74:9 Bible Apps Psalm 74:9 Biblia Paralela Psalm 74:9 Chinese Bible Psalm 74:9 French Bible Psalm 74:9 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |