Psalms 78:42

“Their enemies also oppressed them, etc.] By taxes, and taking the increase of their fields and sustenance, which often obliged them to cry for a deliverer, who upon this was sent to them; (see <070209>Judges 2:9,15 5:1). And they were brought into subjection under their hand; or were humbled under their hand, as the Targum; they were not only made to submit to their enemies, but they were humbled before the Lord; brought to a sense of their sins, and acknowledgment of them, when the Lord appeared for their deliverance, as follows.”

“They remembered not his hand - His gracious interpositions; the manifestations of his power. They forgot that power had been exercised which showed that he was omnipotent - that there was no limit to his ability to aid them. Nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy - The time when he rescued them. The power then manifested was sufficient to defend and deliver them in any new dangers that could befall them. The margin is, from affliction. The Hebrew will admit of either interpretation. The sense is not materially changed. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Hand - The glorious works of his hand. Enemy - That remarkable day, in which God delivered them from their greatest enemy, Pharaoh. Psalms 78:45”

“remembered: Psa 78:11, Psa 78:21, Psa 78:22, Psa 136:10-15; Exo 13:9; Isa 11:11; Jer 32:21 the day: Psa 106:7-10; Exo 14:12, Exo 14:30, Exo 14:31 the enemy: or, affliction Psalms 78:43”