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Psalm 73 (74) Catholic Public Domain Version

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 74 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (4)

Psalm 73 in CPDV = Psalm 74 in RV1909.

CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture?
74:1 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 Be mindful of your congregation, which you have possessed from the beginning. You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, mount Zion, in which you have dwelt.
74:2 Acuérdate de tu congregación, que adquiriste de antiguo, [cuando] redimiste la vara de tu heredad; este monte de Sión, donde has habitado.
3 Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!
74:3 Levanta tus pies á los asolamientos eternos: á todo enemigo que ha hecho mal en el santuario.
4 And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof,
74:4 Tus enemigos han bramado en medio de tus sinagogas: han puesto sus divisas por señas.
5 as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,
74:5 [Cualquiera] se hacía famoso según que había levantado el hacha sobre los gruesos maderos.
6 they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.
74:6 Y ahora con hachas y martillos han quebrado todas sus entalladuras.
7 They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
74:7 Han puesto á fuego tus santuarios, han profanado el tabernáculo de tu nombre [echándolo] á tierra.
8 They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.
74:8 Dijeron en su corazón: Destruyámoslos de una vez; han quemado todas las sinagogas de Dios en la tierra.
9 We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.”
74:9 No vemos ya nuestras señales: no hay más profeta; ni con nosotros hay quien sepa hasta cuándo.
10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?
74:10 ¿Hasta cuándo, oh Dios, el angustiador [nos] afrentará? ¿ha de blasfemar el enemigo perpetuamente tu nombre?
11 Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?
74:11 ¿Por qué retraes tu mano, y tu diestra? ¿[por qué] la escondes dentro de tu seno?
12 But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
74:12 Empero Dios es mi rey ya de antiguo; el que obra saludes en medio de la tierra.
13 In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
74:13 Tú hendiste la mar con tu fortaleza: quebrantaste cabezas de ballenas en las aguas.
14 You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.
74:14 Tú magullaste las cabezas del leviathán; dístelo por comida al pueblo de los desiertos.
15 You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.
74:15 Tú abriste fuente y río; tú secaste ríos impetuosos.
16 Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.
74:16 Tuyo es el día, tuya también es la noche: tú aparejaste la luna y el sol.
17 You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.
74:17 Tú estableciste todos los términos de la tierra: el verano y el invierno tú los formaste.
18 Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.
74:18 Acuérdate de esto: que el enemigo ha dicho afrentas á Jehová, y que el pueblo insensato ha blasfemado tu nombre.
19 Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end.
74:19 No entregues á las bestias el alma de tu tórtola: y no olvides para siempre la congregación de tus afligidos.
20 Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.
74:20 Mira al pacto: porque las tenebrosidades de la tierra llenas están de habitaciones de violencia.
21 Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name.
74:21 No vuelva avergonzado el abatido: el afligido y el menesteroso alabarán tu nombre.
22 Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long.
74:22 Levántate, oh Dios, aboga tu causa: acuérdate de cómo el insensato te injuria cada día.
23 Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.
74:23 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. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.

  1. 1 Deuteronomy 29:20; Psalm 79:13; Psalm 100:3; John 10:26–30; Psalm 44:9
  2. 2 Jeremiah 10:16; Exodus 15:13; Deuteronomy 32:9; Exodus 15:16; Psalm 135:4
  3. 3 Lamentations 1:10; Psalm 79:1; Daniel 9:17; Luke 21:24; Mark 11:17
  4. 4 Lamentations 2:7; Matthew 24:15; Numbers 2:2; Daniel 6:27; 2 Chronicles 36:17
  5. 5 Jeremiah 46:22–23; 2 Chronicles 2:14; 1 Kings 5:6
  6. 6 1 Kings 6:18; 1 Kings 6:35; 1 Kings 6:29; 1 Kings 6:32
  7. 7 2 Kings 25:9; Psalm 89:39; Isaiah 64:11; Deuteronomy 12:5; Ezekiel 24:21
  8. 8 Psalm 83:4; Esther 3:8–9; 2 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 4:23; Matthew 4:23
  9. 9 Amos 8:11; Ezekiel 7:26; 1 Samuel 3:1; Lamentations 2:9; Exodus 12:13
  10. 10 Revelation 6:10; Psalm 89:50–51; Psalm 79:4–5; Psalm 89:46; Daniel 12:6
  11. 11 Lamentations 2:3; Psalm 78:65–66; Isaiah 64:12; Psalm 44:23
  12. 12 Isaiah 33:22; Psalm 44:4; Exodus 19:5–6; Exodus 15:2–15; Isaiah 63:8
  13. 13 Exodus 14:21; Psalm 78:13; Isaiah 51:9–10; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:2
  14. 14 Isaiah 27:1; Job 41:1–34; Psalm 72:9; Psalm 104:25–26; Job 3:8
  15. 15 Numbers 20:11; Exodus 17:5–6; Joshua 3:13–17; Psalm 105:41; Isaiah 48:21
  16. 16 Genesis 1:3–5; Matthew 5:45; Psalm 136:7–9; Psalm 104:19; Genesis 1:14–18
  17. 17 Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 17:26; Genesis 8:22; Acts 14:17; Psalm 24:1–2
  18. 18 Psalm 39:8; Revelation 16:19; Deuteronomy 32:6; Psalm 74:22; Deuteronomy 32:27
  19. 19 Song of Songs 2:14; James 2:5–6; Psalm 9:18; Matthew 10:16; Psalm 68:13
  20. 20 Psalm 106:45; Genesis 17:7–8; Hebrews 8:10; Psalm 89:34–36; Psalm 89:28
  21. 21 Psalm 12:5; Ezra 3:11; Psalm 35:10; Psalm 9:18; Psalm 103:6
  22. 22 Psalm 74:18; Psalm 53:1; Isaiah 52:5; Psalm 9:19–20; Psalm 79:9–10
  23. 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). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 74.

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).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXIII)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 74:12 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVII, Chapter 4)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 74:12 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIII)

    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)