Psalms 74:1
God, why have you rejected us forever? 1 Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture? 1
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Exodus 32:11But Moses tried to calm down Yahweh his God. He said, “Yahweh, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
2 Kings 21:14I will throw off the remnant of my inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies. They will become victims and plunder for all their enemies,
Psalms 18:8Smoke went up from out of his nostrils, and blazing fire came out of his mouth. Coals were ignited by it. 1
Psalms 42:11Why are you bowed down, my soul? 1 Why are you upset within me? 1 Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation and my God.
Psalms 50:1The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken 1 and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. 1
Psalms 60:10But you, God, have you not rejected us? 1 You do not go into battle with our army. 1
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 →