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Psalms 74:1
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, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
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לָמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים זָנַ֣חְתָּ לָנֶ֑צַח יֶעְשַׁ֥ן אַ֝פְּךָ֗ בְּצֹ֣אן מַרְעִיתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 74:1
- Psalms 78:1Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
- Psalms 10:1Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?
- Psalms 42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Psalms 44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;
- Psalms 60:1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased: restore us again.
- Psalms 77:7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
- Jeremiah 31:37Thus saith Jehovah: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off the whole seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 33:24Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
- Romans 11:1I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.
- Psalms 79:5How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Deuteronomy 29:20Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;
- Psalms 79:13And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee for ever; we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation.
- Psalms 95:7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,
- Psalms 100:3Know that Jehovah is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Jeremiah 23:1Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.
- Ezekiel 34:8[As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because my sheep have been a prey, and my sheep have been meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds searched not for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not 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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