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Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
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A Desperate Plea for God to See
Most commentators agree that the phrase "Lift up thy feet" is a poetic and urgent plea for God to hurry and personally witness the devastating, seemingly permanent ruin of His sanctuary. It's a desperate cry from a suffering people, asking God not to be distant but to come into the midst of their pain and see the full extent of the destruction.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lift up thy feet - That is, Advance, or draw near. Come and look directly and personally on the desolations which now exist in the holy city…
19th Century
Anglican
Lift up your feet. —Better, Lift your steps. A poetical expression. God is invoked to hasten to view the desolation of th…
16th Century
Protestant
Lift up your strokes. Here the people of God, on the other hand, implore him to inflict a deadly wound upon their enemies, corresponding t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations That is, arise, hasten, move swiftly, and in the greatness of stren…
This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time,…