Psalms 74:18

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“Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.”

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BSBPD

“Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Remember this--an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 74:18 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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?
  2. 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.’”
  3. 2 Kings 19:4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 32:19They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
  5. Psalms 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
  6. Psalms 41:1Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.
  7. Psalms 74:22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
  8. Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
  9. Psalms 94:2Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.
  10. Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
  11. Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  12. Isaiah 62:6On 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,
  13. Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
  14. 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.
  15. Ezekiel 35:13You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
  16. 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.

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