Psalm 74:10-18

Arise, O God, Defend Your Cause

10 How long, O God, n is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
 11 Why o do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the fold of your garment 1 and destroy them!

12 Yet p God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
 13 You q divided the sea by your might;
you r broke the heads of s the sea monsters 2 on the waters.
 14 You crushed the heads of t Leviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
 15 You u split open springs and brooks;
you v dried up ever-flowing streams.
 16 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established w the heavenly lights and the sun.
 17 You have x fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you have made y summer and winter.

18 z Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
and a a foolish people reviles your name.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 74:18
    Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
    Psalms 74:22
    Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
    Psalms 79:12
    Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
    Psalms 89:51
    With which your enemies mock, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
  2. Cross References
    Lamentations 2:3
    He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 44:4
    You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob!
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 14:21
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:9
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:1
    In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
  7. Cross References
    Job 41:1
    Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 78:15
    He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
    Psalms 105:41
    He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.
    Exodus 17:5 - 6
    And the Lord said to Moses, "Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
    Numbers 20:11
    And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
    Isaiah 48:21
    They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out.
  9. Cross References
    Joshua 2:10
    For we have heard how the Lord dried up the wat...
    Joshua 4:23
    For the Lord your God dried up the waters of th...
    Isaiah 51:10
    Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters...
    Psalms 66:6
    He turned the sea into dry land; they passed th...
    Exodus 14:21 - 25
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,...
    Joshua 3:13 - 17
    And when the soles of the feet of the priests b...
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 104:19
    He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.
    Genesis 1:14 - 16
    And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:8
    When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
    Acts 17:26
    And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 8:22
    While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
  13. Cross References
    Psalms 74:2
    Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
    Psalms 74:22
    Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
    Psalms 89:50
    Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations.
    Revelation 16:19
    The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
    Revelation 18:5
    For her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
  14. Cross References
    Psalms 39:8
    Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!
    Deuteronomy 32:6
    Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
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