Psalm 74:10-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
10 How long, O God, will the enemy jeer?(A)
Will the enemy revile your name forever?
11 Why draw back your hand,
why hold back your right hand within your bosom?[a]
II
12 [b]Yet you, God, are my king from of old,
winning victories throughout the earth.
Footnotes
- 74:11 Why hold back…within your bosom: i.e., idle beneath your cloak.
- 74:12–17 Comparable Canaanite literature describes the storm-god’s victory over all-encompassing Sea and its allies (dragons and Leviathan) and the subsequent peaceful arrangement of the universe, sometimes through the placement of paired cosmic elements (day and night, sun and moon), cf. Ps 89:12–13. The Psalm apparently equates the enemies attacking the Temple with the destructive cosmic forces already tamed by God. Why then are those forces now raging untamed against your own people?
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