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Psalm 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
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“Remember this” turns the enemy’s mockery into a plea to God, where the dishonor of his name becomes part of the people’s lament.
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Psalm 137:7Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”Both prayers ask the LORD to remember hostile words: mockery of God in Psalm 74 and Edom’s demand for Jerusalem’s destruction in Psalm 137.
Psalm 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,Both ask God to remember reproach, with Psalm 74 naming insults against God and Psalm 89 naming taunts borne by his servants.
Psalm 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.Both bring the speech of foolish people before God, though Psalm 74 concerns mockery of God and Psalm 39 concerns the speaker’s disgrace.
Psalm 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.Both verses ask God to remember how the foolish mock him, with verse 22 adding a plea to defend his own cause.
Numbers 15:30“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That soul shall be cut off from among his …Both name blasphemy against the LORD; Numbers connects it with defiant conduct, while the psalm names the enemy’s mockery.
Ezekiel 36:21But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.God’s name is dishonored in both passages, by enemies in the psalm and by the house of Israel in Ezekiel.
Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth’? Turn …Both appeals to God raise concern about hostile speech against him, whether enemy mockery or Egyptian accusations about his purpose.
Deuteronomy 32:6Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.Both describe people as foolish in their treatment of the LORD, though Deuteronomy addresses the people he made and established.
Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.Both plead for God to remember, though Job names his fleeting life and the psalm names mockery against God.
Revelation 16:19The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup …The psalm asks God to remember an enemy’s mockery; Revelation describes Babylon being remembered before God for judgment.
Isaiah 62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the LORD, take no rest,Both concern calling on the LORD, though Isaiah urges unceasing prayer and the psalm makes a specific plea about mockery.
Lamentations 3:61You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me,Both address the LORD about reproach, directed against God in the psalm and against the speaker in Lamentations.
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Encouragement
The enemy’s mockery remains unresolved in this prayer. Yet the appeal is addressed to YHWH, whose name has been blasphemed and whose rule the surrounding verses affirm.
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