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Psalm 74:12

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.

10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!
12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
13You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
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“Yet” marks a turn within an unfinished lament: the speaker still names God as King while the questions about his delay remain unanswered.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 44:4God, you are my King. Command victories for Jacob!Both speakers name God as their King and connect his rule with saving action for his people.
Isaiah 33:22For the LORD is our judge. The LORD is our lawgiver. The LORD is our king. He will save us.Both passages name God as King and speak of salvation as his work.
Psalm 20:9Save, LORD! Let the King answer us when we call!Both texts join royal language with salvation, one confessing God's work and the other asking for rescue and an answer.
Isaiah 43:15I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”Both identify God as King, with the psalm expressing personal allegiance and Isaiah declaring his kingship over Israel.
Psalm 5:2Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.Both speakers address God as their own King within prayers that seek his help.
Exodus 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;The shared scope is the earth: the psalm describes God's saving work throughout it, while Exodus declares that it belongs to him.
Hosea 13:10Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?Both link kingship and rescue; the psalm affirms God's saving work, while Hosea questions a human king's ability to save.
Exodus 8:22I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am the LORD …Both speak of God acting on earth, with Exodus naming his protection of Goshen from the swarms of flies.
1 Samuel 12:12“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was …Both name God as King, though Samuel recalls Israel seeking a human king when threatened by Nahash.
Numbers 23:21–22He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.Both use royal language in connection with God, while Numbers also speaks of his presence with Israel.
Judges 4:23–24So God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel on that day.Both credit God with decisive action: the psalm names his saving work, and Judges recounts his subduing Jabin.
Exodus 15:2–15The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.Both confess God in personal terms and name him as the source of salvation.
Where this verse fits

Waiting. feeling distant from God. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

Your unanswered questions need not keep you from confessing God's rule. Here, lament and trust share the same prayer: God remains King, working salvation throughout the earth.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).