Psalm 74:2

Verse 2. Remember thy congregation. It is not without reason that they do not say, Remember us, but Remember thy congregation, not ours, but thine; nor that because it has now begun to be thine, but which thou hast purchased of old, the rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed: likewise, this Mount Zion; not wherein we, but wherein thou hast dwelt. They had nothing which they could bring before an angry God with greater confidence, than the ancient lovingkindness shown to their fathers in former days. Musculus.

Verse 2. The rod of thine inheritance. hlxg jbf, the inheritance rod is the staff with which the inheritance is measured; jkf hdmh hgq, the land surveyor's rod ( Ezekiel 40:3 ); and this is used as lrwg, the lot, is for the portion, for the inheritance itself. E. W. Hengstenberg.

Verse 2. Thine inheritance. It signifies a nation, which through all successions God had a peculiar right and title to. Henry Hammond.

Verse 2. Thou hast redeemed, i.e., the purchased people, by restoring them when they had been alienated, and had fallen into the hands of others: like a goel, or near kinsman, who ransoms a brother hurried into captivity, and regains an inheritance that has been sold. Hermann Venema.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

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