Psalms 74:1

Asaph cries out, asking why God has seemingly rejected his people forever and why his anger burns against the sheep of his pasture.

Cross-references · 22

• Deut 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
• Ps 100:3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
• Ps 79:13Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
• John 10:26–30But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
• Ezek 34:31‘You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
• Ps 44:9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
• Jer 23:1“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
• Jer 31:37This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
• Ps 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
• Luke 12:32Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
• Ps 95:7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
• Rom 11:1–2I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
• Ps 79:5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
• Ps 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
• Ps 60:10Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
• Ps 60:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
• Ps 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
• Jer 33:24–26“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
• Ps 77:7“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
• Ezek 34:8‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,
• Ps 18:8Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
• Ps 78:1A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

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