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 · 2000Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
Context
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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