Psalms 74:18 meaning and explanation

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

Psalms 74:18, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is Asaph, a temple singer, lamenting the destruction of the sanctuary, likely the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem. Verses 1 through 17 pour out grief and appeal to God's past victories over the sea and Leviathan.

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