Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Psalms 74:3

1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Read the whole chapter

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 hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

    Read in context

  • Psalms 79:1

    O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

    Read in context

  • Daniel 9:17

    Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

    Read in context

  • Luke 21:24

    And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

    Read in context

  • Mark 11:17

    And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

    Read in context

  • Isaiah 64:10–11

    Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

    Read in context

  • Daniel 11:31

    And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

    Read in context

  • Jeremiah 52:13

    And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

    Read in context