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Psalms 74

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? ✦ 2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived. ✦ 3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. ✦ 4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. ✦ 5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. ✦ 6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. ✦ 7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. ✦ 8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped. ✦ 9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long. ✦ 10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? ✦ 11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them! ✦ 12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth. ✦ 13You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. ✦ 14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. ✦ 15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers. ✦ 16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. ✦ 17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter. ✦ 18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. ✦ 19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever. ✦ 20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. ✦ 21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name. ✦ 22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day. ✦ 23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 89 ·8Ps 79 ·6Ps 44 ·6Ps 78 ·5Lam 2 ·5Ps 9 ·4Isa 63 ·41 Kgs 6 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 74 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 74David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 74Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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