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Psalms 74

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture? ✦ 2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion where You dwell. ✦ 3Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. ✦ 4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs, ✦ 5like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees ✦ 6and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. ✦ 7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name. ✦ 8They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land. ✦ 9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last. ✦ 10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever? ✦ 11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them! ✦ 12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth. ✦ 13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea; ✦ 14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert. ✦ 15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. ✦ 16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. ✦ 17You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter. ✦ 18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name. ✦ 19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever. ✦ 20Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land. ✦ 21Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name. ✦ 22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long. ✦ 23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 89 ·8Ps 79 ·6Ps 44 ·6Ps 78 ·5Lam 2 ·5Exod 14 ·4Deut 32 ·42 Kgs 2 ·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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    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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

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

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