Psalm 74:4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs.

◄ Psalm 74:4 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs.

English Standard Version
Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.

New American Standard Bible
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs.

King James Bible
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your adversaries roared in the meeting place where You met with us. They set up their emblems as signs.

International Standard Version
Those who are opposing you roar where we were meeting with you; they unfurl their war banners as signs.

American Standard Version
Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

Darby Bible Translation
Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.

Young's Literal Translation
Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.

Cross References

Numbers 2:2
Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

Psalm 74:9
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.

Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.

Lamentations 2:7
The LORD has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

74:1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him. They plead the great things God had done for them. If the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was encouragement to hope that he would not cast them off, much more reason have we to believe, that God will not cast off any whom Christ has redeemed with his own blood. Infidels and persecutors may silence faithful ministers, and shut up places of worship, and say they will destroy the people of God and their religion together. For a long time they may prosper in these attempts, and God's oppressed servants may see no prospect of deliverance; but there is a remnant of believers, the seed of a future harvest, and the despised church has survived those who once triumphed over her. When the power of enemies is most threatening, it is comfortable to flee to the power of God by earnest prayer.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. roar—with bestial fury.

congregations—literally, "worshipping assemblies."

ensigns—literally, "signs"—substituted their idolatrous objects, or tokens of authority, for those articles of the temple which denoted God's presence.