Teks -- Psalms 79:7 (NET)

79:7 For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Psa 79:6-7

(Compare Jer 10:25). Though we deserve much, do not the heathen deserve more for their violence to us (Jer 51:3-5; Zec 1:14)? The singular denotes the chief power, and the use of the plural indicates the combined confederates.

JFB: Psa 79:6-7 - called upon

Or, "by"

JFB: Psa 79:6-7 - thy name

Proclaimed Thy attributes and professed allegiance (Isa 12:4; Act 2:21).

Clarke: Psa 79:7 - Laid waste his dwelling-place

Laid waste his dwelling-place - The Chaldee understands this of the temple. This, by way of eminence, was Jacob’ s place. I have already remarked that these two verses are almost similar to Jer 10:25, which has led many to believe that Jeremiah was the author of this Psalm.

TSK: Psa 79:7 - For they // laid

For they : Psa 80:13; Isa 9:12; Jer 50:7, Jer 51:34, Jer 51:35; Zec 1:15

laid : 2Ch 36:21; Isa 24:1-12, Isa 64:10, Isa 64:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Psa 79:7 - Jacob

Jacob the posterity of Jacob, whom thou didst love, and with whom and his seed thou madest a sure and everlasting covenant; whereby thou didst engage thyself to be an enemy to their enemies , Exo 23:22 . Besides, thou hatest cruelty, especially when the wicked devour those who are more righteous than themselves, Hab 1:13 .

Haydock: Psa 79:7 - At us

At us. See Psalm lxxviii. 4. (Haydock) ---

Such was the condition of Jeremias, xv. 10. (Calmet) ---

Hebrew, "have scoffed among themselves." Chaldean and St. Jerome agree with us. Scorn is more difficult to bear than poverty. Hence to comfort himself, the psalmist repeats, O God, &c. (Berthier)

Gill: Psa 79:7 - For they have devoured Jacob

For they have devoured Jacob,.... The posterity of Jacob, the people of the Jews, typical of the church of God, made havoc of by the Romish antichrist: and laid waste his dwelling place; both Jerusalem and the temple, which was done both by the Chaldeans and the Romans, and also in the times of Antiochus; see the Apocrypha:

"38 Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her. 39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.'' (1 Maccabees 1)

"4 In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey. 5 For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.'' (1 Maccabees 3)

which were types of the Gospel church made desolate by the Papists: the word ^d used signifies a sheepcote, the dwelling place of those sheep that are troubled by the beast of Rome.