Psalms 74:8

They have said in their heart, “Let us utterly crush them.” They have burned all the houses of God in the land.

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In The King James Version

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

In Context

7They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name.

9No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.

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Cross References

Psalms 83:4“Come, let us wipe them out as a nation, so Israel’s name will be mentioned no more.”

Psalms 137:7Remember the Edomites, Lord, the day of Jerusalem’s fall, when they said, “Lay her bare, lay her bare, right down to her very foundation.”

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 →

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