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Psalms 74:4
4In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry]; They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].
Psalms 74:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
- New International Version (NIV)Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place; They set up their banners for signs.
Context of Psalms 74:4
2Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance; Remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt. 3Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary. In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry]; They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory]. 5It seems as if one had lifted up An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction]. 6And now all the carved work [of the meeting place] They smash with hatchets and hammers.
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שָׁאֲג֣וּ צֹ֭רְרֶיךָ בְּקֶ֣רֶב מוֹעֲדֶ֑ךָ שָׂ֖מוּ אוֹתֹתָ֣ם אֹתֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 74:4
- 2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore He brought the king of the Chaldeans against them, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
- Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary. He has given into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces; They have made a noise in the house of the Lord As on a day of an appointed feast.
- Luke 13:1Just at that time some people came who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate [the governor] had mixed with their sacrifices.
- Revelation 13:6And he opened his mouth to speak blasphemies (abusive speech, slander) against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those who live in heaven.
- Jeremiah 6:1“Run for safety, you children of Benjamin, Out of the midst of Jerusalem! And blow a trumpet in Tekoa [in Judah] And raise a signal-fire in Beth-haccherem [near Jerusalem]; For evil is looking down [with eager anticipation] from the north, And great destruction.
- Daniel 6:27He rescues and saves and performs signs and wonders In heaven and on earth— He who has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
- Matthew 24:15“So when you see the abomination of desolation [the appalling sacrilege that astonishes and makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader understand),
- Luke 21:20“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by [hostile] armies, then understand [with confident assurance] that her complete destruction is near.
Commentaries on Psalms 74:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Thine enemies roar - Thy people, who were formerly a distinct and separate people, and who would not even touch a Gentile, are now obliged to mingle with the most profane. Their boisterous mirth, their cruel mockings, their insulting commands, are heard every where in all our assemblies. They set up their ensigns for signs - אתות אותתם שמו samu othotham othoth, they set up their standards in the place of ours. All the ensigns and trophies were those of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Thine enemies roar - This refers to the shout and tumult of war. They raised up the war-cry even in the very place where the congregations had been assembled; where God had been worshipped. The word rendered “roar” properly has reference to wild beasts; and the meaning is, that their war-cry resembled the howling of beasts of prey. In the midst of thy congregations - literally, “in the midst of thine assembly.” This is a different word from that which is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-8Like a guide, the psalmist points out to the Lord what took place during the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. roar--with bestial fury. congregations--literally, "worshipping assemblies." ensigns--literally, "signs"--substituted their idolatrous objects, or tokens of authority, for those articles of the temple which denoted God's presence.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 74
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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