Psalms 74
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Lutheran reading notes
In Psalms chapter 74, the wisdom literature continues to explore prayer, worship, lament, praise, and trust in God. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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[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}
Psalms 74:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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}
Psalms 74:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; {even} all {that} the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psalms 74:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns {for} signs.
Psalms 74:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{A man} was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Psalms 74:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psalms 74:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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}
Psalms 74:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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}
Psalms 74:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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We see not our signs: {there is} no more any prophet: neither {is there} among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms 74:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 74:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck {it} out of thy bosom.
Psalms 74:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For God {is} my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 74:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. {divide: Heb. break} {dragons: or, whales}
Psalms 74:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, {and} gavest him {to be} meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms 74:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. {mighty...: Heb. rivers of strength}
Psalms 74:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The day {is} thine, the night also {is} thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms 74:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. {made: Heb. made them}
Psalms 74:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Remember this, {that} the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and {that} the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms 74:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude {of the wicked}: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Psalms 74:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms 74:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psalms 74:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms 74:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. {increaseth: Heb. ascendeth}
Psalms 74:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.