Psalms 74:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַשְׂכִּ֗יל לְאָ֫סָ֥ף לָמָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים זָנַ֣חְתָּ לָנֶ֑צַח יֶעְשַׁ֥ן אַ֝פְּךָ֗ בְּצֹ֣אן מַרְעִיתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Maskil to Asaph. Why, Elohim, have you zanachta forever? Why ye'shan your af against tson of your mar'itecha?

Grammar Details

*Maskil*: masculine singular construct - instructive psalm/contemplation
*Asaph*: proper name with preposition lamed - 'to/for Asaph'
*Elohim*: masculine plural noun used as singular divine name - God
*zanachta*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you have rejected/cast off'
*lanetsach*: preposition + noun - 'forever/completely'
*ye'shan*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'smokes/will smoke'
*af*: masculine singular construct with 2nd person suffix - 'your anger/nostril'
*tson*: collective noun - 'sheep/flock'
*mar'itecha*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your pasture'

Word Meanings

*Maskil*: contemplative poem/skillful psalm/instructive psalm
*zanachta*: rejected/cast off/abandoned
*lanetsach*: forever/completely/perpetually
*ye'shan*: smokes/burns/fumes
*af*: anger/nostril/face

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Deut 29:20 : 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Ps 79:13 : 13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture Will give thee thanks for ever: We will show forth thy praise to all generations.
Ps 95:7 : 7 For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice!
Ps 100:3 : 3 Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Ps 44:9 : 9 But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
Ps 77:7 : 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?
Jer 23:1 : 1 Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith Jehovah.
Ezek 34:31 : 31 And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Luke 12:32 : 32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
John 10:26-30 : 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who hath given [them] unto me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one.
Rom 11:1-2 : 1 I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:
Jer 31:37 : 37 Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.
Ps 78:1 : 1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Ps 60:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
Ps 60:10 : 10 Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
Ps 10:1 : 1 Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Ps 18:8 : 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Ps 42:11 : 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; For I shall yet praise him, [Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God.
Ezek 34:8 : 8 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep;
Jer 33:24-26 : 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

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