Psalms 74:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זְכָר־זֹ֗את א֖‪[d]‬וֹיֵב חֵרֵ֣ף ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְעַ֥ם נָ֝בָ֗ל נִֽאֲצ֥וּ שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Zechor-zot oyev cheref YHWH, and am naval ni'atsu your shemecha.

Grammar Details

*Zechor-zot*: qal imperative masculine singular + feminine singular demonstrative pronoun - 'remember this'
*oyev*: qal participle masculine singular - 'enemy'
*cheref*: piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'has reproached'
*YHWH*: divine name - 'LORD'
*ve'am*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - 'and people'
*naval*: masculine singular adjective - 'foolish'
*ni'atsu*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they have spurned'
*shemecha*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your name'

Word Meanings

*cheref*: reproached/insulted/taunted
*naval*: foolish/senseless/impious
*ni'atsu*: spurned/despised/blasphemed

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 39:8 : 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Deut 32:6 : 6 Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
Rev 16:19 : 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Deut 32:27 : 27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.
Ps 41:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.
Ps 74:22 : 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples, 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Ps 94:2-8 : 2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud [their] desert. 3 Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph? 4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. 5 They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage. 6 They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless. 7 And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider. 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.
Isa 37:23-24 : 23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
Isa 62:6-7 : 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest, 7 and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Ezek 20:14 : 14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

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