Psalms 74:3

What does Psalms 74:3 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 74:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

Context

v.2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; Andmount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

v.3This passage

v.4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 64:10

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

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  • Nehemiah 2:3

    And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

  • Isaiah 63:3

    I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.

  • Isaiah 10:6

    I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

  • Lamentations 1:10

    The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly.

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