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Psalm 74 Bible in Basic English
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 Maschil. Of Asaph. Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
1 Masquil de Asaph. ¿POR qué, oh Dios, [nos] has desechado para siempre? ¿por qué ha humeado tu furor contra las ovejas de tu dehesa?
2 Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.
2 Acuérdate de tu congregación, que adquiriste de antiguo, [cuando] redimiste la vara de tu heredad; este monte de Sión, donde has habitado.
3 Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;
3 Levanta tus pies á los asolamientos eternos: á todo enemigo que ha hecho mal en el santuario.
4 Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.
4 Tus enemigos han bramado en medio de tus sinagogas: han puesto sus divisas por señas.
5 They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
5 [Cualquiera] se hacía famoso según que había levantado el hacha sobre los gruesos maderos.
6 Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.
6 Y ahora con hachas y martillos han quebrado todas sus entalladuras.
7 They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.
7 Han puesto á fuego tus santuarios, han profanado el tabernáculo de tu nombre [echándolo] á tierra.
8 They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.
8 Dijeron en su corazón: Destruyámoslos de una vez; han quemado todas las sinagogas de Dios en la tierra.
9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.
9 No vemos ya nuestras señales: no hay más profeta; ni con nosotros hay quien sepa hasta cuándo.
10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?
10 ¿Hasta cuándo, oh Dios, el angustiador [nos] afrentará? ¿ha de blasfemar el enemigo perpetuamente tu nombre?
11 Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?
11 ¿Por qué retraes tu mano, y tu diestra? ¿[por qué] la escondes dentro de tu seno?
12 For from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth.
12 Empero Dios es mi rey ya de antiguo; el que obra saludes en medio de la tierra.
13 The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.
13 Tú hendiste la mar con tu fortaleza: quebrantaste cabezas de ballenas en las aguas.
14 The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.
14 Tú magullaste las cabezas del leviathán; dístelo por comida al pueblo de los desiertos.
15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.
15 Tú abriste fuente y río; tú secaste ríos impetuosos.
16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
16 Tuyo es el día, tuya también es la noche: tú aparejaste la luna y el sol.
17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.
17 Tú estableciste todos los términos de la tierra: el verano y el invierno tú los formaste.
18 Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.
18 Acuérdate de esto: que el enemigo ha dicho afrentas á Jehová, y que el pueblo insensato ha blasfemado tu nombre.
19 O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.
19 No entregues á las bestias el alma de tu tórtola: y no olvides para siempre la congregación de tus afligidos.
20 Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.
20 Mira al pacto: porque las tenebrosidades de la tierra llenas están de habitaciones de violencia.
21 O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.
21 No vuelva avergonzado el abatido: el afligido y el menesteroso alabarán tu nombre.
22 Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.
22 Levántate, oh Dios, aboga tu causa: acuérdate de cómo el insensato te injuria cada día.
23 Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.
23 No olvides las voces de tus enemigos: el alboroto de los que se levantan contra ti sube continuamente.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 29:20; Psalm 79:13; Psalm 100:3; John 10:26–30; Psalm 44:9
- 2 Jeremiah 10:16; Exodus 15:13; Deuteronomy 32:9; Exodus 15:16; Psalm 135:4
- 3 Lamentations 1:10; Psalm 79:1; Daniel 9:17; Luke 21:24; Mark 11:17
- 4 Lamentations 2:7; Matthew 24:15; Numbers 2:2; Daniel 6:27; 2 Chronicles 36:17
- 5 Jeremiah 46:22–23; 2 Chronicles 2:14; 1 Kings 5:6
- 6 1 Kings 6:18; 1 Kings 6:35; 1 Kings 6:29; 1 Kings 6:32
- 7 2 Kings 25:9; Psalm 89:39; Isaiah 64:11; Deuteronomy 12:5; Ezekiel 24:21
- 8 Psalm 83:4; Esther 3:8–9; 2 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 4:23; Matthew 4:23
- 9 Amos 8:11; Ezekiel 7:26; 1 Samuel 3:1; Lamentations 2:9; Exodus 12:13
- 10 Revelation 6:10; Psalm 89:50–51; Psalm 79:4–5; Psalm 89:46; Daniel 12:6
- 11 Lamentations 2:3; Psalm 78:65–66; Isaiah 64:12; Psalm 44:23
- 12 Isaiah 33:22; Psalm 44:4; Exodus 19:5–6; Exodus 15:2–15; Isaiah 63:8
- 13 Exodus 14:21; Psalm 78:13; Isaiah 51:9–10; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:2
- 14 Isaiah 27:1; Job 41:1–34; Psalm 72:9; Psalm 104:25–26; Job 3:8
- 15 Numbers 20:11; Exodus 17:5–6; Joshua 3:13–17; Psalm 105:41; Isaiah 48:21
- 16 Genesis 1:3–5; Matthew 5:45; Psalm 136:7–9; Psalm 104:19; Genesis 1:14–18
- 17 Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 17:26; Genesis 8:22; Acts 14:17; Psalm 24:1–2
- 18 Psalm 39:8; Revelation 16:19; Deuteronomy 32:6; Psalm 74:22; Deuteronomy 32:27
- 19 Song of Songs 2:14; James 2:5–6; Psalm 9:18; Matthew 10:16; Psalm 68:13
- 20 Psalm 106:45; Genesis 17:7–8; Hebrews 8:10; Psalm 89:34–36; Psalm 89:28
- 21 Psalm 12:5; Ezra 3:11; Psalm 35:10; Psalm 9:18; Psalm 103:6
- 22 Psalm 74:18; Psalm 53:1; Isaiah 52:5; Psalm 9:19–20; Psalm 79:9–10
- 23 Psalm 65:7; Isaiah 37:29; Revelation 17:14; Psalm 74:4; Psalm 13:1
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
This Psalm hath an inscription, that is, a title, "There have failed the hymns of David, the son of Jesse. A Psalm of Asaph himself." So many Psalms we have on the titles whereof is written the name David, nowhere there is added, "son of Jesse," except in this alone.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
In the same way we may suitably understand what we read in the psalm, "But God, our King before the worlds, hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth;" so that the Lord Jesus may be understood to be our God who is before the worlds, because by Him the worlds were made, working our salvation in the midst …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
It is not my word, but it is a prophet who hath said, Thou hast wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)