Psalm 74 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 A psalm (maskil) of Asaph. God, why have you rejected us? Is it forever? Why does your anger burn so hot against the sheep of your own field?
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?
1 A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember the people you made your own long ago, the tribe you redeemed and made your own. Remember too Mount Zion, the place where you live.
2 Acuérdate de tu congregación, que adquiriste de antiguo, [cuando] redimiste la vara de tu heredad; este monte de Sión, donde has habitado.
2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3 Come and walk through the complete devastation. The enemy has totally destroyed your Temple.
3 Levanta tus pies á los asolamientos eternos: á todo enemigo que ha hecho mal en el santuario.
3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 The enemy shouted in triumph right where you met with us. There they set up their war banners as signs of their victory.
4 Tus enemigos han bramado en medio de tus sinagogas: han puesto sus divisas por señas.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5 They acted like men chopping down a forest with axes.
5 [Cualquiera] se hacía famoso según que había levantado el hacha sobre los gruesos maderos.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 With axes and hammers they smashed in the carved wooden panels.
6 Y ahora con hachas y martillos han quebrado todas sus entalladuras.
6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 Then they set fire to your Temple, burning it to the ground. They defiled the place where you live, the place that bears your name.
7 Han puesto á fuego tus santuarios, han profanado el tabernáculo de tu nombre [echándolo] á tierra.
7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8 They said to themselves, “Let's destroy it all!” So they burned down every place where God was worshiped throughout the land.
8 Dijeron en su corazón: Destruyámoslos de una vez; han quemado todas las sinagogas de Dios en la tierra.
8 They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9 We no longer see any signs. There are no prophets left. And no one among us knows how long this will last.
9 No vemos ya nuestras señales: no hay más profeta; ni con nosotros hay quien sepa hasta cuándo.
9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10 How long will the enemy ridicule you, God? Will they insult your character forever?
10 ¿Hasta cuándo, oh Dios, el angustiador [nos] afrentará? ¿ha de blasfemar el enemigo perpetuamente tu nombre?
10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why do you hold back from doing something? Take action and destroy them!
11 ¿Por qué retraes tu mano, y tu diestra? ¿[por qué] la escondes dentro de tu seno?
11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
12 But you, God, are our king from long ago. You have saved us many times in the land.
12 Empero Dios es mi rey ya de antiguo; el que obra saludes en medio de la tierra.
12 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
13 You were the one who split apart the sea by your strength; you broke the heads of the sea monsters.
13 Tú hendiste la mar con tu fortaleza: quebrantaste cabezas de ballenas en las aguas.
13 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 You were the one who crushed the heads of Leviathan, and you gave its body to the desert animals to eat.
14 Tú magullaste las cabezas del leviathán; dístelo por comida al pueblo de los desiertos.
14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15 You were the one who made springs and rivers flow with water. You made permanent rivers dry up.
15 Tú abriste fuente y río; tú secaste ríos impetuosos.
15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16 You created the day, and also the night; you made the moon and the sun.
16 Tuyo es el día, tuya también es la noche: tú aparejaste la luna y el sol.
16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17 You set the boundaries of the earth; you made summer and winter.
17 Tú estableciste todos los términos de la tierra: el verano y el invierno tú los formaste.
17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18 So keep in mind how the enemy ridiculed you, Lord, and how irreverent people insulted your reputation.
18 Acuérdate de esto: que el enemigo ha dicho afrentas á Jehová, y que el pueblo insensato ha blasfemado tu nombre.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 Don't let wild animals kill your turtledoves! Don't abandon your people forever!
19 No entregues á las bestias el alma de tu tórtola: y no olvides para siempre la congregación de tus afligidos.
19 Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
20 Remember your promises in the agreement, because the land is full of dark places and violence.
20 Mira al pacto: porque las tenebrosidades de la tierra llenas están de habitaciones de violencia.
20 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21 Don't let those who suffer be mistreated again. Let the poor and needy praise you for you who are.
21 No vuelva avergonzado el abatido: el afligido y el menesteroso alabarán tu nombre.
21 Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Stand up, God, and plead your case. Don't forget how these foolish people insulted you all the time.
22 Levántate, oh Dios, aboga tu causa: acuérdate de cómo el insensato te injuria cada día.
22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23 Don't ignore what your enemies have said, for their loud accusations against you are getting worse and worse!
23 No olvides las voces de tus enemigos: el alboroto de los que se levantan contra ti sube continuamente.
23 Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
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).
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)