Psalm 74:3

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

Cross-references

Psalm 44:23 Parallel

In Psalm 44:23, the same cry for God to awake and act against enemies echoes the plea for divine intervention in desolations.

Psalm 44:26 Parallel

Psalm 44:26 continues the plea for God to arise and redeem, directly paralleling the call for God to lift his feet against destruction.

Psalm 79:1 Parallel

In Psalm 79:1, nations defile the holy temple and lay Jerusalem in ruins—an almost identical lament over the same catastrophe.

Psalm 102:13 promises God will arise and have mercy on Zion, directly answering the plea for God to act against Zion's desolations.

In Isaiah 64:11, the holy house is burned with fire and pleasant places ruined—a precise parallel to the enemy's destruction of the sanctuary.

Micah 3:12 Parallel

In Micah 3:12, Zion is plowed as a field and the temple mount becomes a wooded height—a prophetic echo of the same sanctuary ruin.

Micah 1:3 Parallel

Micah 1:3 declares the LORD coming down to tread on high places, matching the plea for God to lift his feet against desolations.

Daniel 9:17 Parallel

In Daniel 9:17, Daniel pleads for God's face to shine on the desolate sanctuary—directly mirroring the psalm's cry over the ruined temple.

Lamentations 1:10 depicts enemies entering the sanctuary, echoing the same destruction.

Jeremiah 52:13 Historical context

Jeremiah 52:13 describes the burning of the temple by Babylonians, the very event lamented in this verse.

In Isaiah 64:10, Zion and Jerusalem are called a wilderness and desolation—directly echoing the perpetual ruins of the sanctuary in the psalm.

Isaiah 63:3-6 vividly portrays God treading the winepress of wrath, directly paralleling the trampling action implied in 'lift up your feet'.

In 2 Samuel 22:39-43, David describes enemies fallen under his feet and trampled, mirroring the trampling imagery of God's feet in Psalm 74:3.

Isaiah 63:18 echoes the same lament: adversaries have trampled God's sanctuary, reinforcing the devastation described here.

Leviticus 26:31 warns that God will make sanctuaries desolate as a covenant curse, which this verse sees fulfilled.

Jeremiah 51:51 directly matches the shame of foreigners entering the holy places, echoing the sanctuary's defilement.

Lamentations 2:7 describes the Lord disowning his sanctuary and enemies clamoring in it—a vivid parallel to the ruins here.

Lamentations 5:18 depicts Mount Zion desolate with jackals—reinforcing the perpetual ruins of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 5:14 declares Jerusalem a desolation and reproach—mirroring the sanctuary's ruin as God's judgment.

2 Kings 25:9 Historical context

2 Kings 25:9 records the burning of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar, the same event this verse laments.

Daniel 8:11-14 describes a later desecration of the sanctuary by the little horn, a similar pattern of enemy assault.

Daniel 9:27 Parallel

Daniel 9:27 prophesies the abomination of desolation, a future temple desecration paralleling this lament.

Daniel 11:31 also describes defiling the sanctuary and stopping sacrifices, another instance of temple desecration.

Isaiah 25:10 says Moab will be trodden down under God, echoing the call for God to lift his feet and trample the enemy's work.

Isaiah 10:6 Parallel

Isaiah 10:6 depicts God using Assyria to tread down nations like mire, similar to the plea for God to trample the enemy's desolations.

In Nehemiah 1:3, the same desolation is described but focusing on the broken walls and burned gates of Jerusalem, echoing the ruins of the sanctuary.