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The Holy Bible

  
Psalms Chapter 74   
  
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     1 O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? [gsn] [jfb]   2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; [And] mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. [jfb] [jwc]   4 Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   5 They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   6 And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers. [jfb] [jwc]   7 They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name [by casting it] to the ground. [jfb]   8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   9 We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? [jfb]   11 Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? [Pluck it] out of thy bosom [and] consume [them]. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   12 Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers. [jfb] [jwc]   16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter. [jwc]   18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. [jfb] [jwc]   19 Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   20 Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. [gsn] [jfb] [jwc]   21 Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name. [jfb] [jwc]   22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day. [gsn] [jfb]   23 Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. Psalm 75 For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song.   

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalms Chapter 74

  
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