Psalms 74

Verse 1

WEB A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

KJV Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

TSK A. M. 3416. B.C. 588. Maschil of Asaph: ps 78:1; O God: ps 10:1, ps 42:9,11, ps 44:9, ps 60:1,10, ps 77:7, jer 31:37, jer 33:24-26, ro 11:1,2; smoke: ps 79:5, de 29:20; the sheep: ps 79:13, ps 95:7, ps 100:3, jer 23:1, eze 34:8,31, lu 12:32, joh 10:26-30

Verse 2

WEB Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

KJV Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

TSK purchased: ex 15:16, de 9:29, ac 20:28; thine: ps 33:12, ps 106:40, ps 135:4, de 4:20, de 32:9, jer 10:16; redeemed: isa 51:11, isa 62:12, tit 2:14, re 5:9; this mount: ps 48:1,2, ps 78:68,69, ps 132:13,14

Verse 3

WEB Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

KJV Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

TSK Lift: ps 44:23,26, jos 10:24, 2sa 22:39-43, isa 10:6, isa 25:10, isa 63:3-6, mic 1:3; the perpetual: ps 102:13,14, ne 1:3, ne 2:3,13, isa 64:10,11, da 9:17, mic 3:12, lu 21:24, re 11:2; all: ps 79:1, jer 52:13, la 1:10, da 8:11-14, da 9:27, da 11:31, mr 11:17

Verse 4

WEB Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

KJV Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

TSK Thine: 2ch 36:17, la 2:7, lu 13:1, re 13:6; they set: jer 6:1-5, da 6:27, mt 24:15, lu 21:20

Verse 5

WEB They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

KJV A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

TSK A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.: 1ki 5:6, 2ch 2:14, jer 46:22,23

Verse 6

WEB Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

KJV But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

TSK But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.: 1ki 6:18,29,32,35

Verse 7

WEB They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

KJV They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

TSK cast fire into thy sanctuary: 2ki 25:9, isa 64:11, mt 22:7; defiled: ps 89:39, eze 24:21; dwelling: ex 20:24, de 12:5, 1ki 8:20

Verse 8

WEB They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

KJV They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

TSK said: ps 83:4, ps 137:7, es 3:8,9; all the synagogues: 2ki 2:3,5, 2ki 4:23, 2ch 17:9, mt 4:23

Verse 9

WEB We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

KJV We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

TSK We see: ex 12:13, ex 13:9,10, jud 6:17, eze 20:12, heb 2:4; no more: 1sa 3:1, am 8:11, mic 3:6

Verse 10

WEB How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

KJV O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

TSK O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?: ps 13:1,2, ps 79:4,5, ps 89:46,50,51, da 12:6, re 6:10

Verse 11

WEB Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

KJV Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

TSK withdrawest: isa 64:12, la 2:3; pluck it out: ps 44:23, ps 78:65,66

Verse 12

WEB Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

KJV For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

TSK God: ps 44:4, ex 19:5,6, nu 23:21,22, isa 33:22; working: ex 15:2-15, jud 4:23,24, 1sa 19:5, isa 63:8, hab 3:12-14

Verse 13

WEB You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

KJV Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

TSK divide: ps 66:6, ps 78:13, ps 106:8,9, ps 136:13-18, ex 14:21, ne 9:11, isa 11:15,16; brakest: ex 14:28, isa 51:9,10, eze 29:3; dragons: eze 32:2

Verse 14

WEB You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

KJV Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

TSK leviathan: ps 104:25,26, job 3:8, job 41:1-34, isa 27:1, re 20:2; meat: ps 72:9, ex 12:35,36, ex 14:30, nu 14:9

Verse 15

WEB You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

KJV Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

TSK cleave: ps 105:41, ex 17:5,6, nu 20:11, isa 48:21; flood: jos 3:13-17, 2ki 2:8,14, isa 11:16, isa 44:27, hab 3:9, re 16:12

Verse 16

WEB The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

KJV The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

TSK The day: ps 136:7-9, ge 1:3-5; prepared: ps 8:3, ps 19:1-6, ps 136:7-9, ge 1:14-18, mt 5:45

Verse 17

WEB You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

KJV Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

TSK set: ps 24:1,2, de 32:8, ac 17:26; made summer: ge 8:22, ac 14:17

Verse 18

WEB Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

KJV Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

TSK Remember: ps 74:22, ps 89:50,51, ps 137:7, isa 62:6,7, re 16:19; the foolish: ps 41:1, ps 39:8, ps 94:2-8, de 32:27, isa 37:23,24, eze 20:14

Verse 19

WEB Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

KJV O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

TSK turtle-dove: ps 68:13, so 2:14, so 4:1, so 6:9, isa 60:8, mt 10:16; forget: ps 68:10, ps 72:2, zep 3:12, jas 2:5,6

Verse 20

WEB Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

KJV Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

TSK Have: ps 89:28,34-36,39, ps 105:8, ps 106:45, ge 17:7,8, ex 24:6-8, le 26:40-45, de 9:27, 2sa 23:5, jer 33:20-26, lu 1:72-75, heb 8:10; the dark: de 12:31, ro 1:29-31, eph 4:17,18; habitations: ps 5:8, ge 49:5-7

Verse 21

WEB Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

KJV O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

TSK O let not: ps 9:18, ps 12:5, ps 102:19-21, ps 109:22, isa 45:17; poor: ps 102:21, ezr 3:11, jer 33:11

Verse 22

WEB Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

KJV Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

TSK Arise: ps 9:19,20, ps 79:9,10; remember: ps 74:18, ps 75:4,5, ps 89:50,51, isa 52:5

Verse 23

WEB Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

KJV Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

TSK Forget: ps 10:11,12, ps 13:1; tumult: ps 74:4, ps 2:1,2, isa 37:29, la 2:16, re 17:14; increaseth: jon 1:2