Psalm 74

Dear Jennie:

My notes say that this Psalm is against the backdrop of the Babylonian captivity. And that Asaph lived long before this Psalm was written so it was either written by one of his descendants or by a choir guild that took on his name.

- vs. 1: we know God doesn't reject his people forever but I'm sure it felt like it. Like maybe sometimes we feel like God is rejecting us.

- vs. 2-9: The destruction that God allowed on the land, on the people, and in His dwelling place.

- vs. 10: I think there was eventually a prophet that told the people how long the exile would last?

- vs. 12-17: Mighty acts of the Lord (deeds of deliverance)
- divided the sea by his strength
- broke the heads of the sea monsters (my notes say this and point below are poetic descriptions of God's victory over the Egyptians)
- crushed the heads of Leviathan
- broke open springs and torrents
- dried up streams
- His is the day and the night
- He prepared the light and the sun
- established boundaries on the earth
- made summer and winter

- vs. 18-23: I seem to remember other places in the Psalms or maybe in the OT where God is called upon to remember his own covenant. To rescue his people not because they deserve it but because of his own name and his own promise that he made with them.

Love!