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Psalms 74:4

2 Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.

3 Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.

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

6 and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

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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.

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BSB
Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
KJV
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
WEB
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
ASV
Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.
DARBY
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs [for] signs.
BLB
Your adversaries have roared within Your meeting place; they have set up their signs [for] signs.
ÅB
Dine motstandere har brølt midt i ditt forsamlingshus; de har satt sine egne tegn opp til tegn.
OTB
Dine fiender brøler i hjertet av ditt møtested;
De har satt opp sine egne merker som symboler.
B1930
Dine motstandere har brølt midt i ditt forsamlingshus; de har satt sine egne tegn op til tegn.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Lamentations 2:7

    The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

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  • Matthew 24:15

    So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

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  • Numbers 2:2

    “The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.

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  • Daniel 6:27

    He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:17

    So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

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  • Revelation 13:6

    And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.

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  • Luke 21:20

    But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

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  • Luke 13:1

    At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

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