诗篇 74:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

亞薩的訓誨詩。　神啊！你為甚麼永遠丟棄我們呢？為甚麼你的怒氣向你草場上的羊群好像煙冒出呢？（本節在《馬索拉抄本》包括細字標題）

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
（ 亚 萨 的 训 诲 诗 。 ） 　 神 啊 ， 你 为 何 永 远 丢 弃 我 们 呢 ？ 你 为 何 向 你 草 场 的 羊 发 怒 ， 如 烟 冒 出 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

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A maskil of Asaph.

God, why have you rejected us for so long? Why are you angry with us, the sheep of your pasture? ² Remember the people you bought long ago. You saved us, and we are your very own. After all, you live on Mount Zion. ³ Make your way through these old ruins; the enemy wrecked everything in the Temple. ⁴ Those who were against you shouted in your meeting place and raised their flags there. ⁵ They came with axes raised as if to cut down a forest of trees. ⁶ They smashed the carved panels with their axes and hatchets. ⁷ They burned your Temple to the ground; they have made the place where you live unclean. ⁸ They thought, "We will completely crush them!" They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land. ⁹ We do not see any signs. There are no more prophets, and no one knows how long this will last. ¹⁰ God, how much longer will the enemy make fun of you? Will they insult you forever?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O God: Psalms 10:1, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 44:9, Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:10, Psalms 77:7, Jeremiah 31:37, Jeremiah 33:24-26, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2

smoke: Psalms 79:5, Deuteronomy 29:20

the sheep: Psalms 79:13, Psalms 95:7, Psalms 100:3, Jeremiah 23:1, Ezekiel 34:8, Ezekiel 34:31, Luke 12:32, John 10:26-30

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:11 - why doth Deuteronomy 9:26 - which thou hast redeemed Judges 10:7 - was hot Judges 21:3 - why is 1 Samuel 4:3 - Wherefore 2 Samuel 22:16 - nostrils 2 Samuel 24:17 - these sheep 1 Chronicles 6:39 - Asaph 1 Chronicles 25:2 - Asaph 2 Chronicles 36:16 - the wrath Esther 1:12 - burned Psalms 13:1 - How Psalms 18:8 - went Psalms 44:23 - cast Psalms 68:10 - Thy congregation Psalms 80:4 - be angry Psalms 85:5 - angry Psalms 106:40 - his own Isaiah 5:5 - I will take Isaiah 63:17 - Return Isaiah 64:9 - wroth Jeremiah 14:22 - vanities Lamentations 5:20 - dost

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?..... This the church supposed because of the prevalence, oppression, and triumph of the enemy, because of the hardships and afflictions she laboured under, and because of the hidings of the face of God from her, which unbelief interpreted of a casting off; see Psalms 77:7 when in reality it was not so, only in appearance, and according to a wrong judgment made of things; for God never did nor never will cast off, nor cast away, his people whom he foreknew, Romans 11:1,

why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? the people of God are called "sheep", because subject to go astray, not only before conversion, but after; and because harmless and inoffensive in their lives and conversations; and because, though exposed to the insults and persecutions of men, and their butcheries and barbarities, and therefore called "the flock of slaughter", Zechariah 11:4, yet bear all patiently, as the sheep before her shearers is dumb; and because like sheep they are weak and timorous, unable to defend themselves; are clean, and so distinguished from dogs and swine; and are profitable, though not to God, yet to men, and one another; and like sheep are sociable, and love to be together: and they are called the sheep of the Lord's pasture; because he provides good pasture for them, leads them into it, and feeds them himself with Christ, the bread of life, the tree of life, and hidden manna; with covenant grace and promises, even the sure mercies of David; with discoveries of his love and grace, and with his word and ordinances; and yet these, when under afflictions and desertions, are ready to conclude that God is angry with them, yea, is very angry; that his anger burns against them, and his fierce wrath goes over them, signified by smoking; see Deuteronomy 19:20, alluding to men, who, when they are angry, become hot, as Kimchi observes, and their breath like smoke comes out of their nostrils.

k Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 29. col. 984. l Vid. T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 56. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? - Thou seemest to have cast us off forever, or finally. Compare Psalms 44:9, note; Psalms 13:1, note. “Why doth thine anger smoke.” See Deuteronomy 29:20. The presence of smoke indicates fire, and the language here is such as often occurs in the Scriptures, when anger or wrath is compared with fire. See Deuteronomy 32:22; Jeremiah 15:14.

Against the sheep of thy pasture - Thy people, represented as a flock. See Psalms 79:13; Psalms 95:7. This increases the tenderness of the appeal. The wrath of God seemed to be enkindled against his own people, helpless and defenseless, who needed his care, and who might naturally look for it - as a flock needs the care of a shepherd, and as the care of the shepherd might be expected. He seemed to be angry with his people, and to have cast them off, when they had every reason to anticipate his protection.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM LXXIV

The psalmist complains of the desolations of the sanctuary,

and pleads with God, 1-3;

shows the insolence and wickedness of their enemies, 4-8;

prays to God to act for them as he had done for their fathers,

whom, by his miraculous power, he had saved, 9-17;

begs God to arise, and vindicate his own honour against his

enemies, and the enemies of his people, 18-23.

NOTES ON PSALM LXXIV

The title is, Maschil of Asaph, or, "A Psalm of Asaph, to give instruction." That this Psalm was written at a time when the temple was ruined, Jerusalem burnt, and the prophets scattered or destroyed, is evident. But it is not so clear whether the desolations here refer to the days of Nebuchadnezzar, or to the desolation that took place under the Romans about the seventieth year of the Christian era. Calmet inclines to the former opinion; and supposes the Psalm to be a lamentation over the temple destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.

Verse Psalms 74:1. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? — Hast thou determined that we shall never more be thy people? Are we never to see an end to our calamities?