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Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?

Psalms 74:3

In 11 translations

BSB
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
KJV
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
WEB
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
ASV
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
LSV
Lift up Your steps to the continuous desolations, || Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.
YLT
Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.
DBY
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
DRC73:3
Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
GNV
Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.
JPS
Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
LXXE73:3
Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הָרִ֣ימָה פְ֭עָמֶיךָ לְמַשֻּׁא֣וֹת נֶ֑צַח כָּל־הֵרַ֖ע אוֹיֵ֣ב בַּקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃
LXX-Br73:3
Ἔπαρον τὰς χεῖράς σου ἐπὶ τὰς ὑπερηφανίας αὐτῶν εἰς τέλος· ὅσα ἐπονηρεύσατο ὁ ἐχθρὸς ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
  • Psalms 79:1The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
  • Daniel 9:17So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
  • Isaiah 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us…
  • Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Mark 11:17Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
  • Psalms 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
  • Micah 1:3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
  • Daniel 11:31His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
  • Isaiah 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
  • Daniel 8:11–14It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary. And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it…
  • Jeremiah 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  • Nehemiah 2:3and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
  • Revelation 11:2But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
  • Nehemiah 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
  • Isaiah 63:3–6“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained. For the day…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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