Psalms 74 · Verse 12

Psalms 74:12

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 74:12, King James Version

Psalms 74:12 in other translations

BSBYet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
WEBYet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
ASVYet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
YLTAnd God is my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
DARBYBut God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.
BBEFor from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth.
WebsterFor God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

What does Psalms 74:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. For--literally, "And," in an adversative sense.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 For God is my King of old - We have always acknowledged thee as our sovereign; and thou hast reigned as a king in the midst of our land, dispensing salvation and deliverance from the center to every part of the circumference.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 74:12-17
The church silences her own complaints. What God had done for his people, as their King of old, encouraged them to depend on him. It was the Lord's doing, none besides could do it. This providence was food to faith and hope, to support and encourage in difficulties. The God of Israel is the God of nature. He that is faithful to his covenant about the day and the night, will never cast off those whom he has chosen. We have as much reason to expect affliction, as to expect night and winter. But we have no more reason to despair of the return of comfort, than to despair of day and summer. And in the world above we shall have no more changes.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 74:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וֵ֭אלֹהִיםVe.lo.himand GodH430
מַלְכִּ֣יmal.Ki[has been] king myH4428
מִקֶּ֑דֶםmi.Ke.demfrom antiquityH6924
פֹּעֵ֥לpo.'El[who] doesH6466
יְ֝שׁוּע֗וֹתye.shu.'otsalvation<s>H3444
בְּקֶ֣רֶבbe.Ke.revin [the] midst ofH7130
הָאָֽרֶץ\׃ha.'A.retzthe earthH776

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 74:12

  • Isaiah 33:22

    For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

  • Psalms 44:4

    Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

  • Exodus 19:5-6

    Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

  • Exodus 15:2-15

    The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. …

  • Isaiah 63:8

    For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

  • Numbers 23:21-22

    He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

  • Habakkuk 3:12-14

    Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

  • 1 Samuel 19:5

    For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

  • Judges 4:23-24

    So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel. And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
God.
44:4; Ex 19:5,6; Nu 23:21,22; Isa 33:22
working.
Ex 15:2-15; Jud 4:23,24; 1Sa 19:5; Isa 63:8; Hab 3:12-14

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Context

  • Psalms 74:11

    Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

  • Psalms 74:12

    For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

  • Psalms 74:13

    Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

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Psalms 74:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Empero Dios es mi rey ya de antiguo; el que obra saludes en medio de la tierra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Dieu est d’ancienneté mon roi, opérant des délivrances au milieu de la terre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Gott ist ja mein König von alters her, der Rettungen schafft inmitten des Landes.