Psalm 74:3

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

Lift up Your steps to the perpetual desolations—to everything done wickedly by the enemy in the sanctuary!

Latin

Leva manus tuas in superbias eorum in finem: quanta malignatus est inimicus in sancto!

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Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Psalms 74:3–8

Like a guide, the psalmist points out to the Lord what took place during the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC.

Psalms 74:1–23

The psalmist laments the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. This happened in 586 BC. The psalmist uses vivid imagery, asks questions, recalls fresh memories, and directly asks the Lord to act (Psalm 74:19–23).

Psalms 73:1–75:10

The seeming success of the wicked (Psalm 73) and God's apparent rejection of his people (Psalm 74) raise questions about his justice. God rules the entire world and decides when to judge (Psalm 75).

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The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
Daniel 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.
Psalm 79:1
A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Mark 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.’”
Luke 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.
Isaiah 64:10–11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Isaiah 25:10
For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
2 Samuel 22:39–43
I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
Isaiah 63:3–6
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
Psalm 102:13–14
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.

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