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**Title. Maschil** = Instruction. The ninth of thirteen so named. See note on Title, [Psalms 32](../../../kjv/psalms/32) , and App-65 of Asaph. The third of the twelve Asaph Psalms. See App-63 . Not David's Asaph, but a successor bearing the same name.
**God.** Hebrew *Elohim.* App-4 .
**why . . . ?** Figure of speech. *Erotesis.* See App-6 .
**cast us off.** Compare [Psalms 43:2](../../../kjv/psalms/43/2) ; [Psalms 44:9](../../../kjv/psalms/44/9) .
**smoke.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* Compare [Psalms 18:8](../../../kjv/psalms/18/8) .
**sheep of Thy pasture.** Occurs frequently in the Asaph Psalms ([Psalms 79:13](../../../kjv/psalms/79/13) ); also in [Jeremiah 23:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/1) .[Ezekiel 34:31](../../../kjv/ezekiel/34/31) .

**congregation** = assembly. The subject of Book II.
**purchased** = acquired as a possession. Hebrew. *kanah.* Compare [Psalms 78:54](../../../kjv/psalms/78/54) .
**of old** = aforetime. Refers to [Exodus 15:16](../../../kjv/exodus/15/16) .
**rod** = sceptre.
**redeemed.** Hebrew. *ga'al.* See note on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) .
**This.** Shows that the writer wrote while the scenes described were enacted. Compare [Psalms 79](../../../kjv/psalms/79) and [Lamentations 2:1-9](../../../kjv/lamentations/2/1-9) .
**mount Zion.** See App-68 .

**Lift up Thy feet unto** = Hasten to [and see]. Compare Idiom ([Genesis 29:1](../../../kjv/genesis/29/1) ).
**feet.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.*
**perpetual.** Same word as "for ever", [Psalms 74:1](../../../kjv/psalms/74/1) .

**enemies** = adversaries.
**Thy congregations** = Thine assembly.
**their.** Compare "our", [Psalms 74:9](../../../kjv/psalms/74/9) .
**ensigns for signs** = signs as signs [for us].
**signs.** Same word as "ensigns" and "standard" in [Numbers 2](../../../kjv/numbers/2) .

**was** = used to be [considered]. The contrast is with "now" in the next line.
**Axes.** Compare [Jeremiah 46:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/22) , [Jeremiah 46:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/23) .

**cast fire into, &c.** = cast Thy holy place into the fire.
**sanctuary.** Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "holy places" (plural)
**dwelling place.** Hebrew. *mishkan.* App-40 (2).

**together:** or, at once.
**synagogues** = meeting-places. See note on "congregations", [Psalms 74:4](../../../kjv/psalms/74/4) . This rendering comes from the Septuagint
**GOD.** Hebrew El. App-4 .

**signs:** i.e. the signs of God *'* s presence and power, or miraculous signs. Compare "their" of [Psalms 74:4](../../../kjv/psalms/74/4) with "our", [Psalms 74:9](../../../kjv/psalms/74/9) .
**prophet.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for prophetic utterances.

**how long . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* Compare [Psalms 74:1](../../../kjv/psalms/74/1) . Figure of speech *Ellipsis* , "how long [this shall last]".

**bosom.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 . Septuagint adds here "Selah". If this was in the primitive text, it marks the division of the Structure; and connects the conclusion of the prayer with the wonderful ground of the plea based upon it; which, with ([Psalms 74:12](../../../kjv/psalms/74/12) ) and (verses: [Psalms 74:13-17](../../../kjv/psalms/74/13-17) ) constitute the central members and subjects of the Psalm.

**salvation** = deliverances. Plural of majesty = great deliverance.
**in the midst, &c.** Compare [Exodus 8:22](../../../kjv/exodus/8/22) . (Hebrew. [Psalms 74:15](../../../kjv/psalms/74/15) ).

**divide** = cleave. Compare [Exodus 14:21](../../../kjv/exodus/14/21) , describing a sudden vehement act. Hebrew. *parar.*
**dragons** = crocodiles. (No Art.) Symbolical of Egypt.

**people inhabiting** = inhabitants: i.e. the wild beasts.

**cleave** = sunder, open a passage. Hebrew. *baka'.*
**fountain.** Compare [Exodus 17:6](../../../kjv/exodus/17/6) . [Numbers 20:11](../../../kjv/numbers/20/11) . Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), App-6 , for the rook from which the water flowed. flood. Compare [Joshua 3:13](../../../kjv/joshua/3/13) .

**light.** Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "moon".

**LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**Thy name** = Thee. See note on [Psalms 20:1](../../../kjv/psalms/20/1) .

**the soul** = the life. Hebrew. *nephesh.*
**multitude** = company, or host; same word as "congregation" in next line.
**poor** = oppressed. Hebrew. *'anah.* See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) .

**the.** Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "Thy".
**covenant.** Compare [Genesis 15:18](../../../kjv/genesis/15/18) ; [Genesis 17:7](../../../kjv/genesis/17/7) , [Genesis 17:8](../../../kjv/genesis/17/8) .
**the earth:** or the land.

**the oppressed** = an oppressed one. Same as [Psalms 74:19](../../../kjv/psalms/74/19) .
**return.** Compare [Psalms 6:10](../../../kjv/psalms/6/10) .
**the poor and needy praise** = a poor one, and a needy one will praise.

**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 . Al-taschith = Destroy not. See App-65 .

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