Psalms 74:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:9 : 9 For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.
  • Jer 10:16 : 16 The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Exod 15:16 : 16 Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people whom you have bought pass by.
  • Deut 4:20 : 20 You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.
  • Deut 9:29 : 29 They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.
  • Exod 15:13 : 13 By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.
  • Jer 51:19 : 19 The LORD, who is the portion of the descendants of Jacob, is not like them. For he is the one who created everything, including the people of Israel whom he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
  • Ps 9:11 : 11 Sing praises to the LORD, who rules in Zion! Tell the nations what he has done!
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.
  • Ps 48:1-2 : 1 A song, a psalm by the Korahites. The LORD is great and certainly worthy of praise in the city of our God, his holy hill. 2 It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.
  • Ps 68:16 : 16 Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks, at the mountain where God has decided to live? Indeed the LORD will live there permanently!
  • Ps 77:15 : 15 You delivered your people by your strength– the children of Jacob and Joseph.(Selah)
  • Ps 78:68-69 : 68 He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves. 69 He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; as secure as the earth, which he established permanently.
  • Ps 106:40 : 40 So the LORD was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home. 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 Indeed, the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.
  • Isa 51:11 : 11 Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return; they will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.
  • Isa 62:12 : 12 They will be called,“The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the LORD.” You will be called,“Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.
  • Isa 63:17 : 17 Why, LORD, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

  • Ps 74:3-4
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    3Hurry to the permanent ruins, and to all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!

    4Your enemies roar in the middle of your sanctuary; they set up their battle flags.

  • 17You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place you made for your residence, O LORD, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

  • 51After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

  • Ps 74:18-19
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    18Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O LORD, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!

    19Do not hand the life of your dove over to a wild animal! Do not continue to disregard the lives of your oppressed people!

  • 6Remember your compassionate and faithful deeds, O LORD, for you have always acted in this manner.

  • Isa 63:17-18
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    17Why, LORD, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

    18For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

  • 53After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

  • 10for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

  • Ps 20:2-3
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    2May he send you help from his temple; from Zion may he give you support!

    3May he take notice of all your offerings; may he accept your burnt sacrifice!(Selah)

  • 13Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

  • 4Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,

  • 1The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

  • Isa 64:9-11
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    9LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

    10Your chosen cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem, a desolate ruin.

    11Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.

  • 49Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?

  • 8Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

  • 1A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

  • 7Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said,“Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”

  • Ps 102:13-14
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    13You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. For it is time to have mercy on her, for the appointed time has come.

    14Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

  • 10For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

  • 14Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.

  • 1A song of ascents. O LORD, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,

  • 22You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • 9Deliver your people! Empower the nation that belongs to you! Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms at all times!

  • 35For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his people will again live in them and possess Zion.

  • 11Sing praises to the LORD, who rules in Zion! Tell the nations what he has done!

  • 2He lives in Salem; he dwells in Zion.

  • 1א(Alef)The Prophet Speaks: Alas! The Lord has covered Daughter Zion with his anger. He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he did not protect his temple when he displayed his anger.

  • 18You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

  • 13By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.

  • 6ו(Vav) He destroyed his temple as if it were a vineyard; he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The LORD has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. In his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

  • 20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

  • 54He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.

  • 35They remembered that God was their protector, and that God Most High was their deliverer.

  • 17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.

  • 5They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

  • 24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

  • 15Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion!

  • 1For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

  • 12Extol the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

  • 7When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the LORD. And my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.

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    7The countries are assembled all around you; take once more your rightful place over them!

  • 21Remember these things, O Jacob, O Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you to be my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you!