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Psalms 74:12

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

KJV

Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

ASV

וֵ֭/אלֹהִים מַלְכִּ֣/י מִ/קֶּ֑דֶם פֹּעֵ֥ל יְ֝שׁוּע֗וֹת בְּ/קֶ֣רֶב הָ/אָֽרֶץ

Hebrew

And God is my king of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

YLT

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
ה
h
noun · 87×
וֹ
v
noun · 227×
י
y
noun · 73×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
מֶֽלֶךְ
mlk
noun · 2518×
פֹּ֣עֲלֵי
p'ly
verb · 55×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 4.—About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About the Things Hannah the Mother of Samuel Prophesied, Personating the Church. Therefore the advance of the city of God, where it reached the times of the kings, yielded a figure, when, on the rejection of Saul, David first obtained the kingdom on such a footing that thenceforth his descendan…

Cross-references

  • Exod 19:5 — 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:
  • Hos 13:10 — I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
  • Isa 33:22 — For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
  • Isa 43:15 — I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
  • Ps 5:2 — Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
  • Ps 20:9 — Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
  • Ps 44:4 — Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
  • Ps 44:4 — Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.