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Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?

Psalms 74:8

In 11 translations

BSB
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
KJV
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.destroy: Heb. break
WEB
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
ASV
They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
LSV
They said in their hearts, “Let us oppress them together,” || They burned all the meeting-places of God in the land.
YLT
They said in their hearts, 'Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.
DBY
They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.El
DRC73:8
They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
GNV
They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.
JPS
They said in their heart: 'Let us make havoc of them altogether'; they have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.
LXXE73:8
They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.

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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
אָמְר֣וּ בְ֭לִבָּם נִינָ֣ם יָ֑חַד שָׂרְפ֖וּ כָל־מוֹעֲדֵי־אֵ֣ל בָּאָֽרֶץ׃
LXX-Br73:8
Εἶπαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν, ἡ συγγένεια αὐτῶν ἐπιτοαυτὸ, δεῦτε, καταπαύσωμεν τὰς ἑορτὰς Κυρίου ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
  • Esther 3:8–9Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s…
  • 2 Kings 2:3Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
  • Matthew 4:23Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
  • 2 Kings 2:5Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
  • Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
  • 2 Kings 4:23“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
  • 2 Chronicles 17:9They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

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