Psalms 74:3-11

3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.
4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.
6 They smashed all the carved paneling with their axes and hatchets.
7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.
9 We are given no signs from God; no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be.
10 How long will the enemy mock you, God? Will the foe revile your name forever?
11 Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!

Cross References 17

  • 1. Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 52:9
  • 2. Lamentations 2:7
  • 3. S Numbers 2:2; S Jeremiah 4:6
  • 4. Jeremiah 46:22
  • 5. S 1 Kings 6:18
  • 6. S Leviticus 20:3; Acts 21:28
  • 7. S Leviticus 15:31
  • 8. Psalms 75:1
  • 9. Psalms 94:5; Psalms 83:4
  • 10. 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 34:22; Jeremiah 52:13
  • 11. S Exodus 4:17; S Exodus 10:1
  • 12. S 1 Samuel 3:1
  • 13. Psalms 6:3; Psalms 79:5; Psalms 80:4
  • 14. ver 22
  • 15. S Psalms 44:16
  • 16. S Exodus 15:6; Lamentations 2:3
  • 17. Nehemiah 5:13; Ezekiel 5:3
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