The Song of Zion

A Psalter-Psalm Devotional of Praise to Our Sovereign Covenant God Devotions on Psalm 79 by Keven Moelker * Calvin’s Commentaries on the Psalms January 1 Read Psalm 79:1-4, Psalter 216:1-4. [The heathen Assyrians inhabit Jerusalem, giving way to a bloody physical slaughter of the saints of God, causing God’s people to pray for the destruction of the heathen. Tyranny and death have come upon Israel. “The heathen have come into Thine inheritance; Thy holy temple they have defiled.” (Psalm...