Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
The verse predicts the future desolation of God's temple or sanctuary by the enemy. It is part of Asaph's prediction of the sanctuary's desolation, fulfilled when the heathen entered and profaned the holy places and the sanctuary and its stones were cast down. It belongs with post-Davidic psalms associated with the Babylonian captivity, expressing the captives' sorrow over desolation, their longing, and their prayers for deliverance.
The sanctuary so desolated is God's dwelling place and habitation built by Israel, first the tabernacle and later the temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. The sanctuary laid in ruins is God's sanctuary itself, not the land of Canaan. The land and the ground on which it stood were only its location and are distinct from the sanctuary, which was God's habitation in Jerusalem destroyed when the people were driven from the land. In the same way the verse witnesses that Isaiah 63:19 concerns the destruction of God's sanctuary, not the land itself, when God's people were driven from the land and the sanctuary built there was laid in ruins.
The prediction was fulfilled in Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians, when the temple was burned and razed to the ground and left desolate. Babylon's forces plundered its sacred vessels, taking or destroying them, burned the temple, carried the people into captivity, and left the city in ruins and the sanctuary desolate. Its setting is Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem after repeated conquests and Judah's rebellion.
The verse predicts the future desolation of God's temple or sanctuary by the enemy. It is part of Asaph's prediction of the sanctuary's desolation, fulfilled when the heathen entered and profaned the holy places and the sanctuary and its stones were cast down. It belongs with post-Davidic psalms associated with the Babylonian captivity, expressing the captives' sorrow over desolation, their longing, and their prayers for deliverance.
The sanctuary so desolated is God's dwelling place and habitation built by Israel, first the tabernacle and later the temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. The sanctuary laid in ruins is God's sanctuary itself, not the land of Canaan. The land and the ground on which it stood were only its location and are distinct from the sanctuary, which was God's habitation in Jerusalem destroyed when the people were driven from the land. In the same way the verse witnesses that Isaiah 63:19 concerns the destruction of God's sanctuary, not the land itself, when God's people were driven from the land and the sanctuary built there was laid in ruins.
The prediction was fulfilled in Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians, when the temple was burned and razed to the ground and left desolate. Babylon's forces plundered its sacred vessels, taking or destroying them, burned the temple, carried the people into captivity, and left the city in ruins and the sanctuary desolate. Its setting is Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of Jerusalem after repeated conquests and Judah's rebellion.