Psalm 74:3 “Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctua…”

Psalm 74:3

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.

Darby Translation

Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

Young's Literal Translation

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

Bible in Basic English

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

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Cross references

“Lift”

Psalm 44:23 Psalm 44:26 Joshua 10:24 2 Samuel 22:39–43 Isaiah 10:6 Isaiah 25:10

Psalm 44:23 · BSB

Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

Psalm 44:26 · BSB

Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

Joshua 10:24 · BSB

When 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 forw…

2 Samuel 22:39–43 · BSB

I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

I 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.

Isaiah 25:10 · BSB

For 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.

“the perpetual”

Daniel 9:17 Luke 21:24 Nehemiah 1:3 Nehemiah 2:3 Nehemiah 2:13 Micah 3:12

Daniel 9:17 · BSB

So 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.

Luke 21:24 · BSB

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Nehemiah 1:3 · BSB

And 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 have been burned with fire.”

Nehemiah 2:3 · BSB

and 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?”

Nehemiah 2:13 · BSB

So 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.

Micah 3:12 · BSB

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

“all”

Lamentations 1:10 Psalm 79:1 Mark 11:17 Jeremiah 52:13 Daniel 8:11–14 Daniel 9:27

Lamentations 1:10 · BSB

The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

Psalm 79:1 · BSB

The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

Mark 11:17 · BSB

Then 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.’ ”

Jeremiah 52:13 · BSB

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

Daniel 8:11–14 · BSB

It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.

Daniel 9:27 · BSB

And 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…

Also

Isaiah 61:4

Isaiah 61:4 · BSB

They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

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

In context

2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion, where You dwell.

4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,

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