12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
12 But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.
12 Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
12 God is my King from the very start; he works salvation in the womb of the earth.
12 For God is my King from of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
12 You, OÂ God, are my king from ages past, bringing salvation to the earth.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 74:12
Commentary on Psalm 74:12-17
(Read Psalm 74:12-17)
The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes.