1 Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph. 2 We will confess to you, O God. We will confess, and we will call upon your name. We will describe your wonders. 3 While I have time, I will judge justices. 4 The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars. 5 I said to the iniquitous: “Do not act unjustly,” and to the offenders: “Do not exalt the horn.” 6 Do not exalt your horn on high. Do not speak iniquity against God. 7 For it is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor before the desert mountains. 8 For God is judge. This one he humbles and that one he exalts. 9 For, in the hand of the Lord, there is a cup of undiluted wine, full of consternation. And he has tipped it from here to there. So, truly, its dregs have not been emptied. All the sinners of the earth will drink. 10 But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob. 11 And I will break all the horns of sinners. And the horns of the just will be exalted.
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Psalm 74 (75) Catholic Public Domain Version
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Notes on this text (4)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalms follow the Greek/Latin numbering, with the psalm titles counted as verse 1 (as in the Vulgate).
- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Cross references (11)
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 Psalm 145:18; Psalm 138:2; Jeremiah 10:6; Deuteronomy 4:7; Exodus 23:21
- 2 Psalm 145:18; Psalm 138:2; Jeremiah 10:6; Deuteronomy 4:7; Exodus 23:21
- 3 Ecclesiastes 3:17; Acts 17:31; John 7:6; Acts 1:7; Psalm 102:13
- 4 1 Samuel 2:8; Isaiah 24:19; Hebrews 1:3; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 24:1–12
- 5 Zechariah 1:21; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 8:5; Psalm 82:2–8; Psalm 94:8
- 6 Isaiah 48:4; Acts 7:51; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 31:27
- 7 Psalm 3:3
- 8 Luke 1:52; Daniel 2:21–22; Psalm 147:6; Psalm 113:7–8; 2 Samuel 6:21
- 9 Job 21:20; Jeremiah 25:15; Psalm 11:6; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 14:9–10
- 10 Psalm 40:10; Psalm 104:33; Psalm 9:14; Psalm 145:1–2
- 11 Psalm 89:17; Psalm 92:10; Jeremiah 48:25; Zechariah 1:20–21; Psalm 101:8
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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: 75.
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).
There are passages, however, in regard to which it is uncertain in what sense they ought to be taken, as for example, "In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture." Now it is uncertain whether this denotes the wrath of God, but not to the last extremity of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" If ever you hear in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it;" see in these pillars the power which sustains it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)