The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 74:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy Name forever? There is no contradiction between these two clauses. The psalmist wishes to ask two things:

1. Is the present distress to continue forever?

2. And if not, how long is it to endure?

It is true that he inverts the natural order of the questions; but this is so common a mode of speech, that grammarians have given it a name, and call it ὔστερον- πρότερον.

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