SEV Biblia, Chapter 74:8
Dijeron en su corazón: Destruyámoslos de una vez; quemaron todos los lugares de ayuntamiento del pueblo de Dios en la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 73:8
Verse 8. Let us destroy them ] Their object was totally to annihilate the political existence of the Jewish people. They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. ] It is supposed that there were no synagogues in the land till after the Babylonish captivity. How then could the Chaldeans burn up any in Judea? The word yd[wm moadey, which we translate synagogues, may be taken in a more general sense, and mean any places where religious assemblies were held: and that such places and assemblies did exist long before the Babylonish captivity, is pretty evident from different parts of Scripture. It appears that Elisha kept such at his house on the sabbaths and new moons. See 2 Kings iv. 23. And perhaps to such St. James may refer, Acts xv. 23, a species of synagogues, where the law was read of old, in every city of the land. And it appears that such religious meetings were held at the house of the Prophet Ezekiel, xxxiii. 31. And perhaps every prophet's house was such. This is the only place in the Old Testament where we have the word synagogue. Indeed, wherever there was a place in which God met with patriarch or prophet, and any memorial of it was preserved, there was a d[wm moed, or place of religious meeting; and all such places the Chaldeans would destroy, pursuant to their design to extinguish the Jewish religion, and blot out all its memorials from the earth.
And this was certainly the most likely means to effect their purpose. How soon would Christianity be destroyed in England if all the churches, chapels, and places of worship were destroyed, and only the poor of the people left in the land; who, from their circumstances, could not build a place for the worship of God! After such desolation, what a miracle was the restoration of the Jews!
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
אמרו 559 בלבם 3820 נינם 3238 יחד 3162 שׂרפו 8313 כל 3605 מועדי 4150 אל 410 בארץ׃ 776
