Psalms 74:3

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“Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.”

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BSBPD

“Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 74:3 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 10:24When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.
  2. 2 Samuel 22:39I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
  3. 2 Kings 25:9He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  4. Nehemiah 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
  5. Nehemiah 2:3and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
  6. Nehemiah 2:13So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
  7. Psalms 44:23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
  8. Psalms 44:26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
  9. Psalms 79:1The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
  10. Psalms 102:13You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.
  11. Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
  12. Isaiah 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
  13. Isaiah 61:4They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
  14. Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
  15. Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
  16. Jeremiah 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  17. Lamentations 1:10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
  18. Daniel 8:11It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
  19. Daniel 9:17So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
  20. Daniel 9:27And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
  21. Daniel 11:31His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
  22. Micah 1:3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
  23. Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
  24. Mark 11:17Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

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