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Psalms 74

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture? ✦ 2Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed— This Mount Zion where You have dwelt. ✦ 3Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations. The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary. ✦ 4Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place; They set up their banners for signs. ✦ 5They seem like men who lift up Axes among the thick trees. ✦ 6And now they break down its carved work, all at once, With axes and hammers. ✦ 7They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground. ✦ 8They said in their hearts, “Let us destroy them altogether.” They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land. ✦ 9We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet; Nor is there any among us who knows how long. ✦ 10O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever? ✦ 11Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them. ✦ 12For God is my King from of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. ✦ 13You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters. ✦ 14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. ✦ 15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers. ✦ 16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun. ✦ 17You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter. ✦ 18Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Lord, And that a foolish people has blasphemed Your name. ✦ 19Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast! Do not forget the life of Your poor forever. ✦ 20Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty. ✦ 21Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise Your name. ✦ 22Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily. ✦ 23Do not forget the voice of Your enemies; The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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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  • 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).

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