The Book of Psalms
⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑
- Chapter 74 -
Why have you rejected us forever?
(Psalm 79:1-13; Jeremiah 52:1-11)
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Footnotes
(a)73:3 This last part is literally: “How much the enemy has been malicious in the sanctuary!”(Conte)
(b)73:4
Their ensigns, etc: They have fixed their colours for signs and trophies, both on the gates, and on the highest top of the temple: and they knew not, that is, they regarded not the sanctity of the place. This psalm manifestly foretells the time of the Machabees, and the profanation of the temple by Antiochus.(Challoner)
(c)73:5 They set up their own signs and then they use those signs as their proof. And they do not even understand that such signs are not valid because they come from themselves, but they consider such signs as if they had the validity of signs issued from on high (from God).(Conte)
(d)73:13
The sea firm: By making the waters of the Red Sea stand like firm walls, whilst Israel passed through: and destroying the Egyptians called here dragons from their cruelty, in the same waters, with their king: casting up their bodies on the shore to be stripped by the Ethiopians inhabiting in those days the coast of Arabia.(Challoner)
(e)73:15
Ethan rivers: That is, rivers which run with strong streams. This was verified in Jordan, Jos. 3, and in Arnon, Num. 21:14.(Challoner)
(f)73:20
The obscure of the earth: Mean and ignoble wretches have been filled, that is, enriched, with houses of iniquity, that is, with our estates and possessions, which they have unjustly acquired.(Challoner)