Tree of Life Version
Psalms 74:1
1A contemplative song of Asaph. Why have You cast us off forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the flock 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
A contemplative song of Asaph. Why have You cast us off forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the flock of Your pasture? 2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased of old, redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance, and Mount Zion, where You dwelt. 3Lift Your steps toward the perpetual ruins— an enemy has done all evil to the Sanctuary!
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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 78:1A contemplative song of Asaph. Listen, my people, to my teaching. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
- Psalms 10:1Why, Adonai, are You standing far off? Why hide Yourself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 42:9By day Adonai commands His love, and at night His song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 44:9In God we make our boast all day and Your Name we praise forever. Selah
- Psalms 60:1For the music director, on the “Lily of the Covenant,” a Michtam of David, for teaching,
- Psalms 77:7In the night I remember my song. I meditate with my heart and my spirit is searching.
- Jeremiah 31:37“Behold, days are coming”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“when the city will be rebuilt for Adonai, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
- Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not noticed what this people have spoken, saying: ‘The two families which Adonai did choose, He has rejected them’? Thus they despise My people—no longer a nation before them.”
- Romans 11:1I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Psalms 79:5How long, Adonai, will You be angry? Forever? Will Your jealousy keep blazing like fire?
- Deuteronomy 29:20Adonai will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this scroll of the Torah.
- Psalms 79:13So we, Your people, the flock of Your pasture, will praise You forever. From generation to generation we will recount Your praise.
- Psalms 95:7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the flock of His hand. Today, if you hear His voice:
- Psalms 100:3Know that Adonai, He is God. It is He who has made us, and we are His. We are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
- Jeremiah 23:1“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Ezekiel 34:8“As I live”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“as surely as My sheep became prey and My sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds 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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