Psalm 74:2 “Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed…”

Psalm 74:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Darby Translation

Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed [to be] the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

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Cross references

“purchased”

Exodus 15:16 Acts 20:28 Deuteronomy 9:29

Exodus 15:16 · BSB

and 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.

Acts 20:28 · BSB

Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Deuteronomy 9:29 · BSB

But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”

“thine”

Jeremiah 10:16 Deuteronomy 32:9 Psalm 135:4 Deuteronomy 4:20 Psalm 33:12 Psalm 106:40

Jeremiah 10:16 · BSB

The 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.

Deuteronomy 32:9 · BSB

But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

Psalm 135:4 · BSB

For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

Deuteronomy 4:20 · BSB

Yet 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.

Psalm 33:12 · BSB

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

Psalm 106:40 · BSB

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

“redeemed”

Isaiah 51:11 Isaiah 62:12 Titus 2:14 Revelation 5:9

Isaiah 51:11 · BSB

So 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.

Isaiah 62:12 · BSB

And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

Titus 2:14 · BSB

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

Revelation 5:9 · BSB

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

“this mount”

Psalm 48:1 Psalm 48:2 Psalm 78:68 Psalm 78:69 Psalm 132:13 Psalm 132:14

Psalm 48:1 · BSB

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

Psalm 48:2 · BSB

Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

Psalm 78:68 · BSB

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalm 78:69 · BSB

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Psalm 132:13 · BSB

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

Psalm 132:14 · BSB

“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

Also

Exodus 15:13 Jeremiah 51:19 Isaiah 63:9 Isaiah 63:17 Psalm 77:15 Psalm 68:16

Exodus 15:13 · BSB

With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

Jeremiah 51:19 · BSB

The 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.

Isaiah 63:9 · BSB

In 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.

Isaiah 63:17 · BSB

Why, 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.

Psalm 77:15 · BSB

With power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

Psalm 68:16 · BSB

Why 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

3Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.

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