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the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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New Living Translation

Psalms 74:10

How long, O God, will you allow our enemies to insult you? Will you let them dishonor your name forever?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Prayer;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blasphemy;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Leviathan;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blasphemy;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
How long, O God, will the adversary reproach?Will the enemy spurn Your name forever?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
How long, O God, will the adversary revile, And the enemy spurn Your name forever?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Lorde shall the aduersarie do this dishonour continually? shall the enemie blaspheme thy name for euer?
Darby Translation
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
New King James Version
O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
Literal Translation
O God, until when shall the enemy defame You ? Shall the enemy scorn Your name forever?
Easy-to-Read Version
God, how much longer will the enemy make fun of us? Will you let them insult your name forever?
World English Bible
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
King James Version (1611)
O God, how long shall the aduersarie reproach? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?
King James Version
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
We se oure tokens nomore, there is not one prophet more, no not one that vnderstondeth enymore.
Amplified Bible
O God, how long will the adversary scoff? Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?
American Standard Version
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Bible in Basic English
O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?
Update Bible Version
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Webster's Bible Translation
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
New English Translation
How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
Contemporary English Version
Our God, how much longer will our enemies sneer? Won't they ever stop insulting you?
Complete Jewish Bible
How much longer, God, will the foe jeer at us? Will the enemy insult your name forever?
Geneva Bible (1587)
O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?
George Lamsa Translation
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Hebrew Names Version
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme Thy name for ever?
New Life Bible
O God, how long will those who hate You laugh at the truth? Will they speak against Your name forever?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke thy name forever?
English Revised Version
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Berean Standard Bible
How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
New Revised Standard
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(73-10) How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
Lexham English Bible
How long, O God, will the adversary taunt? Will the enemy treat your name with contempt forever?
English Standard Version
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
New American Standard Bible
How long, God, will the enemy taunt You? Shall the enemy treat Your name disrespectfully forever?
New Century Version
God, how much longer will the enemy make fun of you? Will they insult you forever?
Good News Translation
How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you? Will they insult your name forever?
Christian Standard Bible®
God, how long will the enemy mock? Will the foe insult Your name forever?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, hou long schal the enemye seie dispit? the aduersarie territh to ire thi name in to the ende.
Young's Literal Translation
Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?
Revised Standard Version
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?

Contextual Overview

1

A psalm of Asaph.

O God, why have you rejected us so long? Why is your anger so intense against the sheep of your own pasture? 2 Remember that we are the people you chose long ago, the tribe you redeemed as your own special possession! And remember Jerusalem, your home here on earth. 3 Walk through the awful ruins of the city; see how the enemy has destroyed your sanctuary. 4 There your enemies shouted their victorious battle cries; there they set up their battle standards. 5 They swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest. 6 With axes and picks, they smashed the carved paneling. 7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground. They defiled the place that bears your name. 8 Then they thought, "Let's destroy everything!" So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped. 9 We no longer see your miraculous signs. All the prophets are gone, and no one can tell us when it will end. 10 How long, O God, will you allow our enemies to insult you? Will you let them dishonor your name forever?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 13:1, Psalms 13:2, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 79:5, Psalms 89:46, Psalms 89:50, Psalms 89:51, Daniel 12:6, Revelation 6:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:16 - blasphemeth 2 Samuel 12:14 - by this deed 2 Kings 19:14 - spread it Psalms 7:9 - Oh Psalms 10:13 - contemn Psalms 35:17 - how Psalms 89:41 - he is Psalms 94:3 - Lord Isaiah 6:11 - Lord Isaiah 37:14 - and Hezekiah went Isaiah 37:17 - hear Isaiah 52:5 - my name Isaiah 64:12 - General Lamentations 5:1 - behold Ezekiel 7:22 - face Ezekiel 36:6 - General Joel 2:17 - and give Habakkuk 1:2 - how Zechariah 1:12 - how Titus 2:5 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?.... The name of God, as in the next clause, the divine Persons and perfections, the purposes and providence of God, his people, ways, worship, truths, and ordinances:

shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? The "adversary" and "enemy" being in the singular number, may intend some particular one, as antichrist; who is emphatically and eminently "the enemy" of God, he opposing himself to, and exalting himself above, all that is called God; and the adversary of Christ, as his name shows; not only setting himself in his room and stead, but undermining him in all his offices; changing his laws as a King, dishonouring his sacrifice and intercession as a priest, and doing injury to his word and ordinances as a Prophet; and who has a mouth speaking blasphemies against God, his name, and tabernacle, heaven, and they that dwell therein, angels and saints, Revelation 13:5. He reproaches and blasphemes God himself, by showing himself to be God, by suffering himself to be so called, and to be worshipped as if he was God; by taking infallibility to himself, and setting up image worship, and obliging persons to it: he reproaches and blasphemes the Son of God, in whom the name of God is, by pretending to be his vicar on earth, and head of the church; to transubstantiate the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ; and to offer him up again in the blasphemous service of the mass: he reproaches and blasphemes his Gospel, which is his name, Acts 9:15, by introducing doctrines contrary to it, as the doctrines of merit, of works of supererogation, and justification by works; and the Scriptures, which bear the name and authority of God, by making them a nose of wax, taking upon himself to be the infallible interpreter of Scripture, and sole judge of controversies; by setting up his own unwritten traditions upon an equality with them, and forbidding the use of them to the people in their mother tongue: and he reproaches and blasphemes his name and authority by assuming it to himself in civil things, deposing and setting up kings at his pleasure; in religious affairs, dispensing with the laws of God, and teaching for doctrines the commandments of men; yea, in matters of salvation, giving out pardons and indulgences, pretending to open and shut heaven at pleasure. Moreover, these terms may be understood of many enemies and adversaries, even of all the enemies of the grace of God, and person of Christ; such reproach and blaspheme the name of God the Father; by denying some of his perfections, as his sovereignty, omniscience, and punitive justice, and by charging his decrees with injustice, insincerity, and cruelty; they reproach and blaspheme the name of Christ, by denying his deity, eternal sonship, and distinct personality, and by speaking contemptuously of his righteousness, blood, and sacrifice; and they do despight unto the Spirit of grace, and speak evil of his person, and the operations of his grace on the souls of men; and such a day of rebuke and blasphemy is the present one: and these things give good men that observe them a great concern for the name of God, who are ready to fear there will be no end to these reproaches and blasphemies; but there will, the time is coming when the name of the Lord will be excellent in all the earth, and the Lord alone shall be exalted; but it is not known how long it will be to it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?... - How long shall this state of things be allowed to continue? Is there to be no end to it? Are these desolations never to be repaired - these ruins never to be rebuilt? It “seemed” so; and hence, this earnest appeal. So to us it often appears as if our trials were never to come to an end. One calamity succeeds another; and there comes no relief. Yet there is relief. Deliverance may come, and soon come, in the present life; or if not in the present life, yet to all those who are the children of God it will soon come by their removal to a world where trial will be forever unknown.


 
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