Psalms 74:22
Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember thy defiance from the worthless fool all the day.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
In Context
21Oh let not the oppressed return confounded: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:16Bend down, O Lord, thy ear, and hear! open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see! and hear the words of Sennacherib, that which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.
Psalms 35:23Arouse thyself, and awake to do me justice, my God and my Lord, unto my cause.
Psalms 74:18Remember this, that the enemy hath defied the Lord, and that a worthless foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Psalms 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and atone for our sins, for the sake of thy name.
Isaiah 52:5And now what have I here, saith the Lord, since my people hath been taken away for naught? its rulers vaunt aloud, saith the Lord, and continually, all the day, is my name blasphemed.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:19-23
Earnest Supplications; Pleading with God. 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord , and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. 20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:… Read the whole commentary →