Psa 74:1 Maschil of Asaph.
Maschil - the definition of Maschil is...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Instructing, occurs in the title of thirteen Psalms (32, 42, 44, etc.). It denotes a song enforcing some lesson of wisdom or piety, a didactic song. In Psalm 47:7 it is rendered, Authorized Version, "with understanding;" Revised Version, marg., "in a skilful psalm."
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… a song enforcing a lesson of wisdom or piety.
Didactic- means-
DIDACTIC, DIDACTICAL, a. [Gr., to teach.] Adapted to teach; preceptive; containing doctrines, precepts, principles or rules; intended to instruct; as a didactic poem or essay.
In Psa. 74:1 we have a teaching psalm of Asaph… who is Asaph--
Who was Asaph?
We can read about Asaph in two books of the *Old Testament, Chronicles and Nehemiah. From them we learn 4 things about Asaph:
· his father was Berechiah (1 Chronicles 6:39)
· he was a music leader (1 Chronicles 15:17 ... this verse also calls Heman and Ethan music leaders)
· he was a *seer (2 Chronicles 29:30) ... a *seer can "see what will happen", it is another word for "*prophet"
· he lived at the same time as King David (Nehemiah 12:46)
The Psalm in its entirety at the end.
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Psa 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
We see not our signs.
There is no more any prophet.
Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psa 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
How long shall the adversary reproach?
Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?
(1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: )
Psa 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Salvation!
Psa 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Have respect unto the covenant.
For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
This verse had me in tears.
This is the truth of this earth… the DARK PLACES are FULL of the HABITATIONS OF CRUELTY.
There is such cruelty in our world! For all that we are supposed to be civilized, living in an enlightened age, it only seems our cruelties have become even more cruel with our technological advancements.
There are SO many dark places on this earth. They could be right next door in a neighbor's house. They could be in the doctor's office you go to. They could fill many seats in our congress, our senate, even our churches have become habitations of cruelty in so many ways. There is heartache and pain enough to fill the earth with endless sorrow. The torturing that goes on unabated in places we consider less civilized, and we don't lift a finger to stop. The legalized torture that goes on in societies governed by dictating men living in dark places. Cruelty! It breaks my heart! You can pick up most newspapers and find inside them samplings of how cruel this world is. Turn on the news and you'll hear such cruel things, horrible things. We can't shut our minds off to all this. It's so easy to turn a blind eye to the suffering because it pains us and we don't want to feel pain, we don't want our heart to ache, we don't want our tears to fall. God knows our pain, He knows the cruelty in this world.
O God HOW LONG shall we suffer under the adversary?!
We see not signs.
There is no more any prophet.
Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
NO more prophets… so many that claim to be prophets of God and yet they have no light in them, they prophesize towards their own glory, they spread the poison that Satan feeds to them and disguise it as being God's. They are angels of darkness pretending to be angels of light.
Please dear GOD it is my deep prayer, my earnest cry, my entreaty… Have respect unto the covenant, the covenant that is between you and man and made possible by the sacrifice of Your Son, the better covenant.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Your Son, a High Priest ordained by You is the mediator of the new covenant. It is the blood He spilled that He offers for us sinners, to save us. Please Lord God, have respect unto this new, better covenant between mankind and You. We don't deserve Your love, we are the worst of sinners filled with corruption, the earth where we dwell, the earth you created and placed us upon is filled with dark places, so much so that they threaten to overwhelm any places of light. We don't know how long Lord, that is in Your all wise discretion but please Lord, please save us. The pain of cruelty in this world knows no bounds, it's run rampant, the adversary- Your adversary, our adversary roars loudly seeking to devour all of us. Please Lord, please have mercy upon us and come soon!
By Your Grace, Lord! By YOUR GRACE and MERCY!
Save us!
Psalm in its entirety--
Psa 74:1 Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psa 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psa 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psa 74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Psa 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Psa 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psa 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Psa 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Psa 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psa 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psa 74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
Psa 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psa 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psa 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psa 74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psa 74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Psa 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Psa 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psa 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psa 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psa 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psa 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psa 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
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