Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary. New Living Translation Walk through the awful ruins of the city; see how the enemy has destroyed your sanctuary. English Standard Version Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! Berean Standard Bible Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. King James Bible Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. New King James Version Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations. The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary. New American Standard Bible Step toward the irreparable ruins; The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary. NASB 1995 Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary. NASB 1977 Turn Thy footsteps toward the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary. Legacy Standard Bible Lift up Your steps toward the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary. Amplified Bible Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary. Christian Standard Bible Make your way to the perpetual ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary. Holman Christian Standard Bible Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed 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. Contemporary English Version walk over to the temple left in ruins forever by those who hate us. English Revised Version Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. GOD'S WORD® Translation Turn your steps toward these pathetic ruins. The enemy has destroyed everything in the holy temple. Good News Translation Walk over these total ruins; our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple. International Standard Version Hurry! Look at the permanent ruins— every calamity the enemy brought upon the Holy Place. Majority Standard Bible Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. NET Bible Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple! New Heart English Bible Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. Webster's Bible Translation Lift up thy feet to 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionLift up Your steps to the continuous desolations, "" Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary. Young's Literal Translation Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary. Smith's Literal Translation Lift up thy steps to desolations forever; all the evil of the enemy in the holy place. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleLift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible Direct your steps toward the utter destruction, everything the enemy laid waste in the sanctuary. New Revised Standard Version Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleExalt thy servants over those who are carried away by power; all those who oppress are enemies of thy sanctuary. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Lift your Servants above those who are taken by your might: everyone who oppresses is the enemy of your Holiness. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, Even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. Brenton Septuagint Translation Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?…2Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion where You dwell. 3Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. 4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,… Cross References Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. 2 Kings 25:9 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. Jeremiah 52:13 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. 2 Chronicles 36:19 Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. Isaiah 64:10-11 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. / Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. Nehemiah 2:3 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?” Ezekiel 7:20-22 His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them. / And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. / I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it. Micah 3:12 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. Daniel 9:17 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. Joel 1:9-10 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD. / The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. Matthew 24:2 “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Mark 13:2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Luke 21:6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Acts 6:13-14 where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law. / For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.” Hebrews 10:11 Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. Treasury of Scripture Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary. lift Psalm 44:23,26 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever… Joshua 10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. 2 Samuel 22:39-43 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet… the perpetual Psalm 102:13,14 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come… Nehemiah 1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. Nehemiah 2:3,13 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? … all Psalm 79:1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: Lamentations 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. Jump to Previous Damaged Desolations Destroyed Destruction Direct Enemy Everlasting Evil Feet Footsteps Haters Holy Lift Perpetual Ruins Sanctuary Steps Turn Unending Wickedly WithinJump to Next Damaged Desolations Destroyed Destruction Direct Enemy Everlasting Evil Feet Footsteps Haters Holy Lift Perpetual Ruins Sanctuary Steps Turn Unending Wickedly WithinPsalm 74 1. The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary10. He moves God to help in consideration of his power 18. Of his reproachful enemies, or his children and of his covenant. Turn Your steps This phrase is a plea for divine intervention, urging God to direct His attention and presence towards the plight of His people. The Hebrew root for "turn" is "שׁוּב" (shuv), which often conveys the idea of returning or restoring. This suggests a longing for God to return to His people in a time of distress, reminiscent of the covenant relationship where God promises to be with His people. The imagery of "steps" implies movement and action, indicating a desire for God to actively engage in their situation. to the everlasting ruins all that the enemy has destroyed Perpetual desolations.--The word rendered "desolations" occurs also in Psalm 73:18, where it is rendered "destruction." Here, perhaps, we should render ruins which must be ever ruins, or complete ruins, or possibly, taking the first meaning of netsach, ruins of splendour. Isaiah 11:4 does not offer a parallel, since the Hebrew is different, and plainly refers to the long time the places have been in ruins. Even all . . .--Better, the enemy hath devastated all in the holy place. 1 Maccabees 1:38-40; 1 Maccabees 3:45 ("Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness") give the best explanation of the verse, descriptive, as it is, of the condition of the whole of Zion. . . . Verse 3. - Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; or, the perpetual ruins. God is asked to visit and protect, or else to visit and inspect, the desolate ruins with which the Babylonians have covered Mount Zion. Even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. The Babylonians had plundered the temple of all its treasures, breaking the precious Phoenician bronze work into pieces, and carrying off everything of value that was portable (2 Kings 25:13-17). They had also "burnt the house of the Lord "(ver. 9), and "broken down the walls of Jerusalem" (ver. 10) and the walls of the temple to a large extent (see below, ver. 7). It is quite certain that neither Shishak nor the Syrians under Antiochus Epiphanes created any such devastation.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Turnהָרִ֣ימָה (hā·rî·māh) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise Your steps פְ֭עָמֶיךָ (p̄ə·‘ā·me·ḵā) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 6471: A beat, foot, anvil, occurrence to the everlasting נֶ֑צַח (ne·ṣaḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5331: Eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity ruins, לְמַשֻּׁא֣וֹת (lə·maš·šu·’ō·wṯ) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's 4876: Perhaps deceptions to everything כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every in the sanctuary בַּקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃ (baq·qō·ḏeš) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity the enemy אוֹיֵ֣ב (’ō·w·yêḇ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary has destroyed. הֵרַ֖ע (hê·ra‘) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad Links Psalm 74:3 NIVPsalm 74:3 NLT Psalm 74:3 ESV Psalm 74:3 NASB Psalm 74:3 KJV Psalm 74:3 BibleApps.com Psalm 74:3 Biblia Paralela Psalm 74:3 Chinese Bible Psalm 74:3 French Bible Psalm 74:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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