Psalms 74:7
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
1 Kings 8:20The Lord has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:19They burnt God's house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.
Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
Lamentations 2:2The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied.He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.He has brought them down to the ground; he has humiliated the kingdom and its princes.GIMEL
Ezekiel 7:24Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
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 →