Psalm 74 Darby Translation
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 An instruction: of Asaph. Why, O God, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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 Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
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 thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
3 Levanta tus pies á los asolamientos eternos: á todo enemigo que ha hecho mal en el santuario.
4 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
4 Tus enemigos han bramado en medio de tus sinagogas: han puesto sus divisas por señas.
5 [A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
5 [Cualquiera] se hacía famoso según que había levantado el hacha sobre los gruesos maderos.
6 And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
6 Y ahora con hachas y martillos han quebrado todas sus entalladuras.
7 They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
7 Han puesto á fuego tus santuarios, han profanado el tabernáculo de tu nombre [echándolo] á tierra.
8 They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.
8 Dijeron en su corazón: Destruyámoslos de una vez; han quemado todas las sinagogas de Dios en la tierra.
9 We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
9 No vemos ya nuestras señales: no hay más profeta; ni con nosotros hay quien sepa hasta cuándo.
10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
10 ¿Hasta cuándo, oh Dios, el angustiador [nos] afrentará? ¿ha de blasfemar el enemigo perpetuamente tu nombre?
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
11 ¿Por qué retraes tu mano, y tu diestra? ¿[por qué] la escondes dentro de tu seno?
12 But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
12 Empero Dios es mi rey ya de antiguo; el que obra saludes en medio de la tierra.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength; thou didst break the heads of the monsters on the waters:
13 Tú hendiste la mar con tu fortaleza: quebrantaste cabezas de ballenas en las aguas.
14 Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.
14 Tú magullaste las cabezas del leviathán; dístelo por comida al pueblo de los desiertos.
15 Thou didst cleave fountain and torrent, thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.
15 Tú abriste fuente y río; tú secaste ríos impetuosos.
16 The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared the moon and the sun:
16 Tuyo es el día, tuya también es la noche: tú aparejaste la luna y el sol.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter — thou didst form them.
17 Tú estableciste todos los términos de la tierra: el verano y el invierno tú los formaste.
18 Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
18 Acuérdate de esto: que el enemigo ha dicho afrentas á Jehová, y que el pueblo insensato ha blasfemado tu nombre.
19 Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
19 No entregues á las bestias el alma de tu tórtola: y no olvides para siempre la congregación de tus afligidos.
20 Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
20 Mira al pacto: porque las tenebrosidades de la tierra llenas están de habitaciones de violencia.
21 Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
21 No vuelva avergonzado el abatido: el afligido y el menesteroso alabarán tu nombre.
22 Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day;
22 Levántate, oh Dios, aboga tu causa: acuérdate de cómo el insensato te injuria cada día.
23 Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: the tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.
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
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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).
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“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)