Psalms 74
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Psalm 74
Plea for Help in Time of National Humiliation
A Maskil of Asaph.
1 #
Deut 29.20; Ps 44.9, 23 O God, why do you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 #
Deut 32.6; Ps 77.15 Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago,
which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage.
Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.
3 #
Ps 79.1; Isa 61.4 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.
4 #
Num 2.2; Lam 2.7 Your foes have roared within your holy place;
they set up their emblems there.
5 #
Jer 46.22
At the upper entrance they hacked
the wooden trellis with axes.#74.5 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
6And then, with hatchets and hammers,
they smashed all its carved work.
7 #
2 Kings 25.9
They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it to the ground.
8 #
Ps 83.4
They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 #
1 Sam 3.1; Ps 78.43 We do not see our emblems;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is no one among us who knows how long.
10 #
Lev 24.16
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
11 #
Ps 59.13
Why do you hold back your hand;
why do you keep your hand in#74.11 Cn: Heb do you consume your right hand from your bosom?
12 #
Ps 44.4
Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the earth.
13 #
Isa 51.9
You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food#74.14 Heb food for the people for the creatures of the wilderness.
15 #
Ex 17.5, 6; Num 20.11; Josh 3.13 You cut openings for springs and torrents;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.
16 #
Ps 104.19
Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you established the luminaries#74.16 Or moon; Heb light and the sun.
17 #
Gen 8.22
You have fixed all the bounds of the earth;
you made summer and winter.
18 #
v 10
; Ps 39.8Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and an impious people reviles your name.
19 #
Ps 9.18; Song 2.14 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.
20 #
Gen 17.7; Ps 88.6; 106.45 Have regard for your#74.20 Gk Syr: Heb the covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
21 #
Ps 35.10; 103.6 Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 #
v 18
; Ps 43.1Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.
23 #
v 10
; Ps 65.7Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.
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