Psalms 74:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 74:1

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

KJV

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ASV

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

WEB

Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

YLT

An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

DBT

Why, OGod, hast thou cast off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Deuteronomy 29:20
The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Psalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 79:13
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalms 44:9
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

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), we hope not too great a liberty, for Christ himself, upon the cross, cried out, My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me? So the church here, O God! why hast thou forsaken us for ever?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

cast . . . off--with abhorrence (compare Ps 43:2; There is no disavowal of guilt implied. The figure of fire to denote God's anger is often used; and here, and in De 29:20, by the word "smoke," suggests its continuance. sheep . . . pasture--(Compare Ps 80:1;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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