Psalm 74:22
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Rise up, O God, and defend your cause; remember how fools mock you all day long.
Read Psalm 74:22 Using Other Translations
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
Arise, O God, and defend your cause. Remember how these fools insult you all day long.
What does Psalm 74:22 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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.
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