Psalms 74:1

Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

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KJV

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

ASV

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

YLT

An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

DBT

Why, OGod, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

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O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?.....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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Ver. 1. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? To cast us off at all were hard, but when thou dost for so long a time desert they people it is an evil beyond all endurance--the very chief of woes and abyss of misery. It is our wisdom when under chastisement to enquire, "Show me wherefore thou contendest with me?" and if the affliction be a protracted one, we should more eagerly enquire the purport of it.

Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David (1869-1885)reformed

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Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Psalms 13:1
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 100:3
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Psalms 79:13
Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
Psalms 44:9
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
John 10:26–30
But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
Psalms 95:7
For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
Ezekiel 34:31
‘You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Psalms 78:1
Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 42:11
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Romans 11:1–2
I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Jeremiah 23:1
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.

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About this book

Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Psalms 100:3
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
leads to
- Psalms 95:6–7
  O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
- Psalms 46:10
  “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Psalms 119:73
  Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.
- John 17:3
  Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
Through
Psalms 44:9
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
leads to
- Psalms 60:10
  Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?
Through
Psalms 79:13
Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
leads to
- Psalms 95:7
  For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
- Isaiah 43:21
  The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

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