Psalms 74:7
For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, 1 Nor from the desert mountains. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
6Lift not up your horn on high; 1 Speak not unrighteousness against God. 1
8For God is the judge; 1 He puts down one, and raises up another. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor 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 burned the house of the Lord, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned 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 2:2In the day of his wrath 1 The Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, 1 And not spared: 1 He has brought down in his fury 1 All the beautiful things of Jacob; 1 He has brought down to the ground 1 The strongholds of the daughter of Judah: 1 He has profaned her king and her princes. 1
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 →