Psalms 74:2 meaning and explanation

Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance— Mount Zion where You dwell.

Psalms 74:2, 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 in 586 BC. He pleads with God to remember the people he bought and redeemed long ago, language drawn from the exodus, when Israel became God's own inheritance.

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