Psalm 74:12
New International Version
But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.

New Living Translation
You, O God, are my king from ages past, bringing salvation to the earth.

English Standard Version
Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

King James Bible
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

New King James Version
For God is my King from of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

New American Standard Bible
Yet God is my King from long ago, Who performs acts of salvation in the midst of the earth.

NASB 1995
Yet God is my king from of old, Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.

NASB 1977
Yet God is my king from of old, Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yet God is my King from of old, Who works deeds of salvation in the midst of the earth.

Amplified Bible
Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
God my King is from ancient times, performing saving acts on the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God my King is from ancient times, performing saving acts on the earth.

American Standard Version
Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Our God is King who has performed salvation in the midst of the Earth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Our God and King, you have ruled since ancient times; you have won victories everywhere on this earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

English Revised Version
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
And yet, from long ago God has been my king, the one who has been victorious throughout the earth.

Good News Translation
But you have been our king from the beginning, O God; you have saved us many times.

International Standard Version
But God is my king from ancient times, who brings acts of deliverance throughout the earth.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Literal Standard Version
And God [is] my king of old, | Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Majority Standard Bible
Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

New American Bible
Yet you, God, are my king from of old, winning victories throughout the earth.

NET Bible
But God has been my king from ancient times, performing acts of deliverance on the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the earth.

New Heart English Bible
Yet God is my King from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

World English Bible
Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
And God is my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

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Context
Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?
11Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them! 12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth. 13You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;…

Cross References
Psalm 44:4
You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

Psalm 74:13
You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;


Treasury of Scripture

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth.

God

Psalm 44:4
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

Exodus 19:5,6
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: …

Numbers 23:21,22
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them…

working

Exodus 15:2-15
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him…

Judges 4:23,24
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel…

1 Samuel 19:5
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

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Psalm 74
1. The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary
10. He moves God to help in consideration of his power
18. Of his reproachful enemies, or his children and of his covenant.














(12) For.--Better, and, or and yet.

My king.--The poet speaks for Israel. (Comp. Psalm 44:4; Habakkuk 1:12.)

In the midst of the earth.--Or, as we might say, "on the great theatre of the world." Certainly we must not render here land instead of earth, since the wonders of Egypt, &c, are the theme.

Verses 12-17. - Comfort springs from the thought of God's previous deliverances of his people, and of his other great mercies. The deliverance from Egypt has the foremost place (vers. 13,14), as the most striking. Then the deliverance from the wilderness, and the passage of Jordan (ver. 15). From these the poet passes to God's mercies in nature - day and night, light and sun, set bounds of earth and sea, alternations of the seasons - all formed and arranged by the Almighty (vers. 16, 17). Verse 12. - For God is my King of old (comp. Psalm 44:4). As "King," he has power to perform all that he wills, to set up and to cast down, to give into the enemy's hand and to deliver. Working salvation in the midst of the earth. Not in any imaginary earth centre, but, as Professor Cheyne says, "quite broadly, in various parts of the earth" (comp. Exodus 8:22).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Yet God
וֵ֭אלֹהִים (wê·lō·hîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

[is] my King
מַלְכִּ֣י (mal·kî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4428: A king

from of old,
מִקֶּ֑דֶם (miq·qe·ḏem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6924: The front, of place, time

working
פֹּעֵ֥ל (pō·‘êl)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6466: To do, make, to practise

salvation
יְ֝שׁוּע֗וֹת (yə·šū·‘ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity

on
בְּקֶ֣רֶב (bə·qe·reḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center

the earth.
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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