Psalms 74:7
For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
6Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God.
8For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savour of your sacrifices.
1 Kings 8:20And the Lord has confirmed the word that he spoke, and I am risen up in the place of my father David, and I have sat down on the throne of Israel, as the Lord spoke, and I have built the house to the name of the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:19And he burnt the house of the Lord, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt its palaces with fire, and utterly destroyed every beautiful vessel.
Isaiah 64:11And for all these things thou, O Lord, hast withholden thyself, and been silent, and hast brought us very low.
Lamentations 2:2Beth. In the day of his wrath the Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, and not spared: he has brought down in his fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; he has brought down to the ground the strong-holds of the daughter of Juda: he has profaned her king and her princes.
Ezekiel 7:24And I will turn back the boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:2-12
Mournful Complaints. 1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. 5 A man was famous… Read the whole commentary →