Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 74:1
1Why have you rejected us forever, God? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 74:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
- New International Version (NIV)O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
- English Standard Version (ESV)O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
- New King James Version (NKJV)O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
Context of Psalms 74:1
Why have you rejected us forever, God? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture? 2Remember your congregation, which you purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe for your own possession. Remember Mount Zion where you dwell. 3Make your way to the perpetual ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.
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לָמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים זָנַ֣חְתָּ לָנֶ֑צַח יֶעְשַׁ֥ן אַ֝פְּךָ֗ בְּצֹ֣אן מַרְעִיתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 74:1
- Psalms 78:1My people, hear my instruction; listen to the words from my mouth.
- Psalms 10:1Lord, why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide in times of trouble?
- Psalms 42:9I will say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
- Psalms 44:9But you have rejected and humiliated us; you do not march out with our armies.
- Psalms 60:1God, you have rejected us; you have broken us down; you have been angry. Restore us!
- Psalms 77:7“Will the Lord reject forever and never again show favor?
- Jeremiah 31:37“This is what the Lord says: Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below explored, will I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done — this is the Lord’s declaration.
- Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families he had chosen.’ My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.
- Romans 11:1I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Psalms 79:5How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
- Psalms 79:13Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever; we will declare your praise to generation after generation.
- Psalms 95:7For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the sheep under his care. Today, if you hear his voice:
- Psalms 100:3Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are his— his people, the sheep of his pasture.
- Jeremiah 23:1“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Ezekiel 34:8As I live — this is the declaration of the Lord God — because my flock, lacking a shepherd, has become prey and food for every wild animal, and because my shepherds do not search for my flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than my flock,
Commentaries on Psalms 74:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? - Hast thou determined that we shall never more be thy people? Are we never to see an end to our calamities?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? - Thou seemest to have cast us off forever, or finally. Compare Psalm 44:9, note; Psalm 13:1, note. “Why doth thine anger smoke.” See Deuteronomy 29:20. The presence of smoke indicates fire, and the language here is such as often occurs in the Scriptures, when anger or wrath is compared with fire. See Deuteronomy 32:22; Jeremiah 15:14. Against the sheep of thy pasture - Thy people, represented as a flock. See…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The desolations of the sanctuary. (1-11) Pleas for encouraging faith. (12-17) Petitions for deliverances. (18-23) Verses 1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him. They plead the great things God had done for them. If the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was encouragement to hope that he would not…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1God rejected his people because their sin made him angry (Psalm 106:34–46). Like a caring shepherd, God looks after his people, the sheep of his pasture (Psalms 23; 100:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-231. cast ... off--with abhorrence (compare Psa 43:2; 44:9). There is no disavowal of guilt implied. The figure of fire to denote God's anger is often used; and here, and in De 29:20, by the word "smoke," suggests its continuance. sheep ... pasture--(Compare Psa 80:1; 95:7).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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