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Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?

Psalms 74:18

In 11 translations

BSB
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
KJV
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
WEB
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
ASV
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
LSV
Remember this—an enemy reproached YHWH, || And a foolish people have despised Your Name.
YLT
Remember this — an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.
DBY
Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.
DRC73:18
Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
GNV
Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.
JPS
Remember this, how the enemy hath reproached the LORD, and how a base people have blasphemed Thy name.
LXXE73:18
Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

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Original-language editions

WLC
זְכָר־זֹ֗את א֭וֹיֵב חֵרֵ֣ף ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְעַ֥ם נָ֝בָ֗ל נִֽאֲצ֥וּ שְׁמֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br73:18
Μνήσθητι ταύτης τῆς κτίσεώς σου· ἐχθρὸς ὠνείδισε τὸν Κύριον, καὶ λαὸς ἄφρων παρώξυνε τὸ ὄνομά σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
  • Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
  • Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
  • Isaiah 37:23–24Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my…
  • Psalms 41:1Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
  • Ezekiel 20:14But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  • Psalms 89:50–51Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people— how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
  • Isaiah 62:6–7On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves, nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her…
  • Psalms 74:22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
  • Deuteronomy 32:27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
  • Psalms 94:2–8Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult? They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast. They crush Your people, O…
  • Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

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