Psalms · Young's Literal Translation
Psalm 74 Young's Literal Translation
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- 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? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.
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 Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion — Thou didst dwell in it.
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 Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.
3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5 He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood — axes.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,
6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,
7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8 They said in their hearts, 'Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.
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 Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long.
9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10 Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?
10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove [it].
11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
12 And God [is] my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
12 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
13 Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea -[monster], Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,
13 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14 Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.
14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
15 Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.
15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
16 Thine [is] the day, also Thine [is] the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver — the sun.
16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.
17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18 Remember this — an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever.
19 Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
20 Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
20 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
21 Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,
21 Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.
22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
23 Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, The noise of Thy withstanders is going up continually!
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).
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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)