Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. The heathen are come into thine inheritance ] Thou didst cast them out, and take thy people in; they have cast us out, and now taken possession of the land that belongs to thee. They have defiled the temple, and reduced Jerusalem to a heap of ruins; and made a general slaughter of thy people.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - God is complained to: whither should children go but to a Father able and willing to help them? See what a change sin made in the holy city when the heathen were suffered to pour in upon them. God's own people defiled it by their sins, therefore he suffered their enemies to defil it by their insolence. They desired that God would be reconciled. Thos who desire God's favour as better than life, cannot but dread his wrat as worse than death. In every affliction we should first beseech the Lord to cleanse away the guilt of our sins; then he will visit us with his tender mercies.
Original Hebrew מזמור4210 לאסף623 אלהים430 באו935 גוים1471 בנחלתך5159 טמאו2930 את853 היכל1964 קדשׁך6944 שׂמו7760 את853 ירושׁלם3389 לעיים׃5856
