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Psalms 74

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? ✦ 2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. ✦ 3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. ✦ 4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. ✦ 5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. ✦ 6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. ✦ 7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. ✦ 8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. ✦ 9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. ✦ 10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? ✦ 11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. ✦ 12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. ✦ 13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. ✦ 14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. ✦ 15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. ✦ 16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. ✦ 17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. ✦ 18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. ✦ 19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. ✦ 20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. ✦ 21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. ✦ 22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. ✦ 23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth 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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  • ★ 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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