Verse 1

An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 29:20 : 20 Jehovah is not willing to be propitious to him, for then doth the anger of Jehovah smoke, also His zeal, against that man, and lain down on him hath all the oath which is written in this book, and Jehovah hath blotted out his name from under the heavens,
  • Ps 79:13 : 13 And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!
  • Ps 95:7 : 7 For He `is' our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,
  • Ps 100:3 : 3 Know that Jehovah He `is' God, He made us, and we are His, His people -- and the flock of His pasture.
  • Ps 44:9 : 9 In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
  • Ps 77:7 : 7 To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more?
  • Jer 23:1 : 1 Wo to shepherds destroying, And scattering the flock of My pasture, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Ezek 34:31 : 31 And ye, My flock, the flock of My pasture, Men ye `are' -- I `am' your God, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
  • Luke 12:32 : 32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
  • John 10:26-30 : 26 but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, 27 according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, 28 and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; 29 my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father; 30 I and the Father are one.'
  • Rom 11:1-2 : 1 I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: 2 God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,
  • Jer 31:37 : 37 Thus said Jehovah: If the heavens above be measured, And the foundations of earth below searched, Even I kick against all the seed of Israel, For all that they have done, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Ps 78:1 : 1 An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.
  • Ps 60:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.
  • Ps 60:10 : 10 Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!
  • Ps 10:1 : 1 Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,
  • Ps 18:8 : 8 Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.
  • Ps 42:9 : 9 I say to God my rock, `Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
  • Ezek 34:8 : 8 I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, If not, because of My flock being for a prey, Yea, My flock is for food to every beast of the field, Because there is no shepherd, And My shepherds have not sought My flock, And the shepherds do feed themselves, And My flock they have not fed.
  • Jer 33:24-26 : 24 `Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them! 25 Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant `is' not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed -- 26 Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back `to' their captivity, and have pitied them.'