Passage Research
Psalm 79 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Psalm 79, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 13
- verses
- 132 / 101
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 79 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| גּוֹי | gôwy | H1471 | 4 | nation, a Gentile |
| שָׁפַךְ | shâphak | H8210 | 3 | spill forth, expend |
| שָׁכֵן | shâkên | H7934 | 2 | resident, fellow-citizen |
| שֵׁם | shêm | H8034 | 3 | appellation, honor |
| חֶרְפָּה | cherpâh | H2781 | 2 | contumely, disgrace |
| דּוֹר | dôwr | H1755 | 2 | revolution, age |
| סָבִיב | çâbîyb | H5439 | 2 | circle, neighbour |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 79, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This psalm, if penned with any particular event in view, is with most probability made to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the woeful havoc made of the Jewish nation by the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar. It is set to the same tune, as I may say, with the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and that weeping prophet borrows two verses out of it (ver. 6, 7) and makes use of them in his prayer, Jer. x. 25. Some think it was penned long before by the spirit of prophecy, prepared for the use of the church in that cloudy and dark day. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 79:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem — Ps 79:1
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