Psalm 74:22

22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by [the] foolish {all day long}.

Psalm 74:22 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 74:22

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause
The church's cause being the cause of God; and therefore she desires that he would arise and exert himself, and take vengeance on his and her enemies: this is an interesting argument, and a forcible one:

remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily;
this being so frequently repeated, as in ( Psalms 74:10 Psalms 74:18 ) , shows how much the name and glory of God lay near her heart; the Targum is,

``remember the reproach of thy people by a foolish king all the day;''

perhaps the man of sin is meant, the king of the locusts, and angel of the bottomless pit.

Psalm 74:22 In-Context

20 Have regard for the covenant, because [the] dark places of [the] land are full of [the] haunts of violence.

21 Do not let [the] oppressed turn back humiliated; let [the] poor and needy praise your name.

22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by [the] foolish {all day long}.

23 Do not forget the sound of your adversaries, the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "all the day"