The Bible Study Podcast, episode 406. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues a study of the book of Psalms with Psalm 74.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. Today we continue on with Psalm 74,

which is a maskell of SF, and that is to say it was written by SF. And it goes like this.

Oh God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance whom you redeemed,

Mount Zion where you dwelt, turn your steps towards these everlasting ruins, all this destruction

the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

Your foes roared in the place where you met with us. They set up their

standards as signs. They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees. They

smashed all the carved panelling with their axes and hatchets. They burned your sanctuary to the

ground. They defiled the dwelling place of your name.

They said in their hearts, we will crush them completely.

They burned every place where God was worshipped in the land.

Obviously, Assef is having a bad day here, and based on the timing of when this was written,

we're probably talking about it re-being written during the time of the exile, after Solomon's temple has been destroyed, because God has rejected his people.

Now, we know the story of why God rejected his people and why, after 500 years of sending

prophets, especially to the Northern Kingdom, but also to the Southern

kingdom. He finally tired of their unfaithfulness to him. They'd been worshiping other gods.

The problem wasn't that people had come in and destroyed every place where God was worshipped

in the land. The problem was that God wasn't being worshipped in the land enough.

And so God has, in fact, rejected his people,

and this is a cry from the psalmist that that might not be forever, that the people whom God

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