A Prayer for National Deliverance. 1 Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people for ever?

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 ...

74 Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever? 2 Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago,

1. Psalm 74:16 Good News Translation You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places.

74 Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever? 2 Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago,

1 Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever? 2 Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago, whom ...

10How long, O God, will our enemies laugh at you? Will they insult your name for ever?

However, this psalm appears to refer to the Babylonian devastation of 586 BC; that invasion destroyed the temple in Jerusalem. This event happened centuries ...

A prayer that God remember his people. God's saving acts recalled (12-17) “Remember the enemy's taunts” (18)

A communal lament sung when the enemy invaded the Temple; it would be especially appropriate at the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC.