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Psalm 74:2

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

1A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
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“Remember your congregation” is a plea amid the sanctuary’s ruin, where the people appeal to God’s past redemption while facing what their enemies have destroyed.

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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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Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which …Both passages describe a congregation God purchased; Acts names the blood by which the assembly was purchased.
Jeremiah 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Armies is his name.Both passages call Israel the tribe of God’s inheritance, naming the people as belonging to him.
Exodus 15:16Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, LORD, until the people you have …Both passages describe the people as purchased by God, recalling his claim on the congregation.
Deuteronomy 32:9For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.Both passages describe God’s people as his inheritance, emphasizing that they belong to him.
Exodus 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.Both passages speak of people God redeemed and connect that redemption with his dwelling place.
Ephesians 1:14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.Both passages connect redemption with belonging to God, describing a people who are his possession.
Revelation 14:4These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from …Both passages describe redeemed people who belong to God; Revelation names Jesus as the one who redeemed them.
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 passages speak of God buying his people, grounding their relationship with him in what he has done.
Psalm 77:15You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.Both prayers recall God’s redemption of his people as a past act worth bringing before him.
Psalm 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.Both passages name Mount Zion in relation to God: his dwelling in Psalm 74 and the mountain he loved in Psalm 78.
Deuteronomy 4:20But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.Both passages describe a people God rescued to be his inheritance; Deuteronomy names their deliverance from Egypt.
Psalm 135:4For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.Both passages emphasize that Israel belongs to God, using the language of inheritance and possession.
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Encouragement

Loss can leave a congregation struggling to pray. Here, the plea rests on what God has done: he redeemed these people, and they belong to him.

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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).