KJV King James Version
Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
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Psalm 74:18
Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
WEB World English Bible
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
ASV American Standard Version
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Remember this—an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.
Surrounding context — Psalm 74
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
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Psalm 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.Deuteronomy 32:6Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?Revelation 16:19And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.Isaiah 62:6-7I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,Isaiah 37:23-24Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.Psalm 94:2-8Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.Psalm 137:7Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.Deuteronomy 32:27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.Psalm 89:50-51Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;Ezekiel 20:14But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.Psalm 41:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.Psalm 74:22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
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