Psalms 74:2

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“Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.”

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BSBPD

“Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; Andmount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Remember Thy company. Thou didst purchase of old, Thou didst redeem the rod of Thy inheritance, This mount Zion--Thou didst dwell in it.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 74:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 15:13With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.
  2. Exodus 15:16and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
  3. Deuteronomy 4:20Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
  4. Deuteronomy 9:26And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  5. Deuteronomy 9:29But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
  6. Deuteronomy 32:9But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
  7. Psalms 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; proclaim His deeds among the nations.
  8. Psalms 9:12For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
  9. Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
  10. Psalms 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
  11. Psalms 68:16Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
  12. Psalms 77:15With power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
  13. Psalms 78:68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
  14. Psalms 94:14For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
  15. Psalms 106:40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
  16. Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
  17. Psalms 135:4For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
  18. Isaiah 51:11So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
  19. 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,
  20. Isaiah 62:12And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
  21. Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
  22. Isaiah 63:17Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
  23. Jeremiah 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  24. Jeremiah 51:19The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

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