Psalms 74:1
O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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Exodus 32:11And Moses besought LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does thy wrath grow hot against thy people, whom thou have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
2 Kings 21:14And I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. And they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,
Psalms 18:8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
Psalms 42:11Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 50:1The Mighty One, God, LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
Psalms 60:10Have not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou go not forth, O God, with our armies.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:1
This psalm does so particularly describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, by Nebuchadnezzar and the army of the Chaldeans, and can so ill be applied to any other event we meet with in the Jewish history, that interpreters incline to think that either it was penned by David, or Asaph in David's time, with a prophetical reference to that sad event (which yet is not so probable), or that it was penned by another Asaph, who lived at the time of the captivity, or by Jeremiah (for it is of a piece with his… Read the whole commentary →