Psalms 74:3
1 Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
4 Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
5 like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
- KJV
- Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
- WEB
- Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
- ASV
- Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
- DARBY
- Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
- BLB
- Lift up Your steps to the perpetual desolations—to everything done wickedly [by] the enemy in the sanctuary!
- ÅB
- Oppløft dine trinn til de evige grushoper! Alt har fienden fordervet i helligdommen.
- OTB
- Kom til de ødelagte ruinene;
Fienden har lagt alt øde i helligdommen. - B1930
- Opløft dine trin til de evige grushoper! Alt har fienden fordervet i helligdommen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
Read in contextPsalms 79:1
The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Read in contextDaniel 9:17
So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
Read in contextLuke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Read in contextMark 11:17
Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Read in contextIsaiah 64:10–11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Read in contextDaniel 11:31
His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
Read in contextJeremiah 52:13
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
Read in context