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Chapter Overview & Historical Context AI Insight

அதிகார சுருக்கம் & வரலாற்றுப் பின்னணி (Author, Themes & Exegesis)

74:1

[Maschil of Asaph.] O God, why hast thou cast {us} off for ever? {why} doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? {Maschil...: or, A Psalm for Asaph to give instruction}

74:2

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. {rod: or, tribe}

74:3

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

74:4

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

74:5

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

74:6

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

74:7

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled {by casting down} the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. {They have cast...: Heb. They have sent thy sanctuary unto the fire}

74:8

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

74:9

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

74:10

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

74:11

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

74:12

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

74:13

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. {divide: Heb. break} {dragons: or, whales}

74:14

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

74:15

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. {mighty...: Heb. rivers of strength}

74:16

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

74:17

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. {made: Heb. made them}

74:18

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

74:19

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

74:20

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

74:21

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

74:22

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

74:23

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. {increaseth: Heb. ascendeth}

Completed Psalms 74?

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Psalms 74 1/23
Verse 1