Psalms 74:1

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Psalms 74:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

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

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

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Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

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Psalms 42:9

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

Psalms 42:11

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Psalms 44:9

But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

Psalms 60:1

You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!

Psalms 60:10

Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

Psalms 77:7

“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

Jeremiah 31:37

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Jeremiah 33:25

This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

Jeremiah 33:26

then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”

Romans 11:1

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:2

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

Psalms 79:5

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Deuteronomy 29:20

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Psalms 79:13

Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

Psalms 95:7

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

Psalms 100:3

Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Jeremiah 23:1

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 34:8

‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,

Ezekiel 34:31

‘You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

Luke 12:32

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

John 10:26

But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.

John 10:27

My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

John 10:29

My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.”