New English Translation
Psalms 74:1
1Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? 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, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture? 2Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell! 3Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!
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לָמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים זָנַ֣חְתָּ לָנֶ֑צַח יֶעְשַׁ֥ן אַ֝פְּךָ֗ בְּצֹ֣אן מַרְעִיתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 74:1
- Psalms 78:1Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!
- Psalms 10:1Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?
- Psalms 42:9I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”
- Psalms 44:9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.
- Psalms 60:1O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!
- Psalms 77:7I asked, “Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor?
- Jeremiah 31:37The Lord says, “I will not reject all the descendants of Israel because of all that they have done. That could only happen if the heavens above could be measured or the foundations of the earth below could all be explored,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 33:24“You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation.
- Romans 11:1So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Psalms 79:5How long will this go on, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.
- Psalms 79:13Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will continually thank you. We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts.
- Psalms 95:7For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!
- Psalms 100:3Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
- Jeremiah 23:1The Lord says, “The leaders of my people are sure to be judged. They were supposed to watch over my people like shepherds watch over their sheep. But they are causing my people to be destroyed and scattered.
- Ezekiel 34:8As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,
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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