Psalms 74

1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Ps 10:1 · Ps 18:8 · Ps 42:9 · Ps 42:11 · Ps 44:9 · +16 more

2Remember 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.Cross-references: Ex 15:13 · Ex 15:16 · Deut 4:20 · Deut 9:29 · Deut 32:9 · Ps 9:11 · +17 more

3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.Cross-references: Josh 10:24 · 2Sam 22:39 · Neh 1:3 · Neh 2:3 · Neh 2:13 · Ps 44:23 · +19 more

4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.Cross-references: Num 2:2 · 2Chr 36:17 · Jer 6:1 · Lam 2:7 · Dan 6:27 · Matt 24:15 · +3 more

5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.Cross-references: 1Ki 5:6 · 2Chr 2:14 · Jer 46:22

6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.Cross-references: 1Ki 6:18 · 1Ki 6:29 · 1Ki 6:32 · 1Ki 6:35

7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Deut 12:5 · 1Ki 8:20 · 2Ki 25:9 · Ps 89:39 · Isa 64:11 · +3 more

8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.Cross-references: 2Ki 2:3 · 2Ki 2:5 · 2Ki 4:23 · 2Chr 17:9 · Esth 3:8 · Ps 83:4 · +2 more

9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.Cross-references: Ex 12:13 · Ex 13:9 · Judg 6:17 · 1Sam 3:1 · Lam 2:9 · Ezek 7:26 · +4 more

10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?Cross-references: Ps 13:1 · Ps 44:16 · Ps 79:4 · Ps 79:12 · Ps 89:46 · Ps 89:50 · +2 more

11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!Cross-references: Ps 44:23 · Ps 78:65 · Isa 64:12 · Lam 2:3

12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.Cross-references: Ex 15:2 · Ex 19:5 · Num 23:21 · Judg 4:23 · 1Sam 19:5 · Ps 44:4 · +3 more

13You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.Cross-references: Ex 14:21 · Ex 14:28 · Neh 9:11 · Ps 66:6 · Ps 78:13 · Ps 106:8 · +5 more

14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.Cross-references: Ex 12:35 · Ex 14:30 · Num 14:9 · Job 3:8 · Job 41:1 · Ps 72:9 · +3 more

15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.Cross-references: Ex 14:21 · Ex 17:5 · Num 20:11 · Josh 2:10 · Josh 3:13 · 2Ki 2:8 · +8 more

16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · Gen 1:14 · Ps 8:3 · Ps 19:1 · Ps 104:19 · Ps 136:7 · +1 more

17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.Cross-references: Gen 8:22 · Deut 32:8 · Ps 24:1 · Acts 14:17 · Acts 17:26

18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.Cross-references: Deut 32:6 · Deut 32:27 · Ps 39:8 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 74:22 · Ps 89:50 · +6 more

19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.Cross-references: Ps 9:18 · Ps 68:10 · Ps 68:13 · Ps 72:2 · Song 2:14 · Song 4:1 · +5 more

20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Gen 49:5 · Ex 24:6 · Lev 26:40 · Deut 9:27 · Deut 12:31 · +12 more

21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.Cross-references: Ezra 3:11 · Ps 9:18 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 35:10 · Ps 102:19 · Ps 103:6 · +3 more

22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.Cross-references: Ps 9:19 · Ps 53:1 · Ps 74:18 · Ps 75:4 · Ps 79:9 · Ps 89:50 · +1 more

23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.Cross-references: Ps 2:1 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 13:1 · Ps 65:7 · Ps 74:4 · Isa 37:29 · +3 more