SEV Biblia, Chapter 74:4
Tus enemigos han bramado en medio de tus asambleas; han puesto sus propias banderas por seńas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:4
Verse 4. Thine enemies roar ] Thy people, who were formerly a distinct and separate people, and who would not even touch a Gentile, are now obliged to mingle with the most profane. Their boisterous mirth, their cruel mockings, their insulting commands, are heard every where in all our assemblies. They set up their ensigns for signs. ] twta µttwa wm samu othotham othoth, they set up their standards in the place of ours. All the ensigns and trophies were those of our enemies; our own were no longer to be seen.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh verses give a correct historical account of the ravages committed by the Babylonians, as we may see from 2 Kings xxv. 4, 7-9, and Jer. lii. 7, 18, 19: "And the city was broken up, and all the men fled by night by the way of the gate. They took Zedekiah, and slew his sons before his eyes; and put out his eyes, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. And on the second day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, came unto Jerusalem; and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and every great man's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem burnt he with fire. And they broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. And the pillars of brass and the bases, and the brazen sea, they broke in pieces, and carried the brass to Babylon. And the pots, shovels, snuffers and spoons, and the fire pans and bowls, and such things as were of gold and silver, they took away." Thus they broke down, and carried away, and destroyed this beautiful house; and in the true barbarian spirit, neither sanctity, beauty, symmetry, nor elegance of workmanship, was any thing in their eyes. What hammers and axes could ruin, was ruined; Jerusalem was totally destroyed, and its walls laid level with the ground. Well might the psalmist sigh over such a desolation.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, a the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him. They plead the great things God had done for them. If the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was encouragement to hope that he would not cast them off, muc more reason have we to believe, that God will not cast off any who Christ has redeemed with his own blood. Infidels and persecutors ma silence faithful ministers, and shut up places of worship, and say the will destroy the people of God and their religion together. For a lon time they may prosper in these attempts, and God's oppressed servant may see no prospect of deliverance; but there is a remnant of believers, the seed of a future harvest, and the despised church ha survived those who once triumphed over her. When the power of enemie is most threatening, it is comfortable to flee to the power of God be earnest prayer.
Original Hebrew
שׁאגו 7580 צרריך 6887 בקרב 7130 מועדך 4150 שׂמו 7760 אותתם 226 אתות׃ 226
