Psalms 74:18

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

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WEBBE

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

BSB

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

KJV

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

ASV

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

BBE

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

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זְכָר־ ze·khor- remember H2142 זֹאת zot this H2063 אוֹיֵב 'o·yev [the] enemy H341 חֵרֵף che·ref he taunted H2778 יְהוָה yah·weh O Yahweh H3068 וְעַם ve·'am and a people H5971 נָבָל na·val foolish H5036 נִאֲצוּ ni·'a·tzu they spurned H5006 שְׁמֶךָ she·me·kha name your H8034

The early church

"Mindful be Thou of this Thy creature" (ver. 18). Of what creature of Thine? "The enemy hath reviled the Lord." O Asaph, grieve over thine old blindness in understanding: "the enemy hath reviled the Lord." It was said to Christ in His own nation, "a sinner is this Man: we know not whence He is:" we know Moses, to him spake God; this Man is a Samaritan. "And the unwise people hath provoked Thy name." The unwise people Asaph was at that time, but not the understanding of Asaph at that time. What is said in the former Psalm? "As it were a beast I have become unto Thee, and I am alway with Thee:" because He went not to the gods and idols of the Gentiles. Although he knew not, being like a beast, yet he knew again as a man. For he said, "alway I am with Thee, like a beast:" and what afterwards in that place in the same Psalm, where Asaph is? "Thou hast held the hand of my right hand, in Thy will Thou hast conducted me, and with glory Thou hast taken me up." In Thy will, not in my righteousness: by Thy gift, not by my work. Therefore here also, "the enemy hath reviled the Lord: and the unwise people hath provoked Thy name." Have they all then perished? Far be it. ...For even the Apostle Paul through unbelief had been broken, and through faith unto the root he was restored. So evidently "the unwise people provoked Thy name," when it was said, "If Son of God He is let Him come down from the Cross."
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 18–23

The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten the dark nations of the earth; and to rescue his people, that the poor and needy may praise his name. Blessed Saviour, thou art the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Make thy people more than conquerors. Be thou, Lord, all in all to them in every situation and circumstances; for then thy poor and needy people will praise thy name.

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PrayerZeal, ReligiousBlasphemyFool

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.