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SOTD Psalm 74

Psalm 74

Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause
A Maskil of Asaph.

1O God, why do you cast us off forever?
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old,
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage!
Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
3Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

4Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place;
they set up their own signs for signs.
5They were like those who swing axes
in a forest of trees.
6And all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7They set your sanctuary on fire;
they profaned the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
8They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

9We do not see our signs;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.
10How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
11Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!

12Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.
14You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
15You split open springs and brooks;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.
16Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
17You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you have made summer and winter.

18 Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs,
and a foolish people reviles your name.
19Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.

20Have regard for the covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.

22Arise, O God, defend your cause;
remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
23Do not forget the clamor of your foes,
the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 74:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 74:5 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  3. Psalm 74:11 Hebrew from your bosom
  4. Psalm 74:13 Or the great sea creatures

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 74:1 : Psalm 50, title
  2. Psalm 74:1 : Psalm 44:9
  3. Psalm 74:1 : Deut 29:20; Psalm 18:8
  4. Psalm 74:1 : Psalm 79:13; 100:3; Jer 23:1; Ezek 34:31; Psalm 95:7
  5. Psalm 74:2 : Psalms 42:18, 22
  6. Psalm 74:2 : Exodus 15:16; Deut 32:6; Psalm 78:54
  7. Psalm 74:2 : Psalm 77:15; Isa 63:9
  8. Psalm 74:2 : Isa 63:17; Jer 10:16; 51:19
  9. Psalm 74:2 : Psalm 9:11
  10. Psalm 74:3 : Isa 61:4
  11. Psalm 74:4 : Lam 2:6, 7
  12. Psalm 74:4 : Matt 24:15
  13. Psalm 74:4 : Num 2:2
  14. Psalm 74:4 : Psalms 42:9
  15. Psalm 74:5 : Jer 46:22
  16. Psalm 74:6 : 1 Kgs 6:18, 29, 32, 35
  17. Psalm 74:7 : 2 Kgs 25:9; Psalm 79:1
  18. Psalm 74:7 : Psalm 89:39; Lam 2:2
  19. Psalm 74:7 : Psalm 26:8
  20. Psalm 74:8 : Psalm 83:4
  21. Psalm 74:9 : Psalms 42:4
  22. Psalm 74:9 : 1 Sam 3:1; Lam 2:9; Ezek 7:26; Amos 8:11
  23. Psalm 74:10 : Psalms 42:18, 22; Psalm 79:12; 89:51
  24. Psalm 74:11 : Lam 2:3
  25. Psalm 74:12 : Psalm 44:4
  26. Psalm 74:13 : Exodus 14:21
  27. Psalm 74:13 : Isa 51:9
  28. Psalm 74:13 : Isa 27:1
  29. Psalm 74:14 : Job 41:1
  30. Psalm 74:15 : Psalm 78:15; 105:41; Exodus 17:5, 6; Num 20:11; Isa 48:21
  31. Psalm 74:15 : Josh 2:10; 4:23; Isa 51:10; Psalm 66:6; Exodus 14:21-25; Josh 3:13-17
  32. Psalm 74:16 : Psalm 104:19; Gen 1:14-16
  33. Psalm 74:17 : Deut 32:8; Acts 17:26
  34. Psalm 74:17 : Gen 8:22
  35. Psalm 74:18 : Psalms 42:2, 22; Psalm 89:50; Rev 16:19; 18:5
  36. Psalm 74:18 : Psalm 39:8; Deut 32:6
  37. Psalm 74:19 : Song 2:14
  38. Psalm 74:19 : Psalm 68:10
  39. Psalm 74:20 : Psalm 106:45; Gen 17:7, 8; Lev 26:44, 45; Jer 33:21
  40. Psalm 74:20 : Psalm 10:8
  41. Psalm 74:21 : Psalm 9:9; 10:18
  42. Psalm 74:21 : Psalm 6:10
  43. Psalm 74:21 : Psalm 86:1
  44. Psalm 74:22 : 1 Sam 24:15
  45. Psalm 74:22 : Psalms 42:2, 18
  46. Psalm 74:23 : Psalm 65:7