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Psalms 74:3

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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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  1. Lamentations 1:10Rank 1 from verse 3
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    10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

  2. Daniel 9:17Rank 2 from verse 3
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    17Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

  3. Psalms 79:1Rank 3 from verse 3
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    1O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

  4. Isaiah 64:10–11Rank 4 from verse 3
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    10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

    11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

  5. Luke 21:24Rank 5 from verse 3
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    24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

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Psalms 74:3

COMBINED MEANING

lift

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Sense 1: To raise, bear up, or elevate physically. Sense 2: To direct upward or raise in expression, as the eyes, hands, voice, soul, prayer, or countenance. Sense 3: To exalt, restore, strengthen, or raise in condition or honour. Sense 4: To raise or wield against, as a hand, tool, weapon, or standard. Sense 5: In lift from off, to remove or take away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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perpetual

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Continuing, enduring, or regularly recurring without interruption through the duration in view.

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even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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74:1O GOD, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

74:2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

74:3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

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74:4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

74:5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

74:6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

74:7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

74:8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

74:9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

74:11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

74:12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

74:13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

74:14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

74:15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

74:17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

74:18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

74:19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

74:21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

74:22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

74:23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

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