Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 74:1

"O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?" — Psalms 74:1 (ASV)

Why have ... —Better, why have you never ceased abandoning us?

Anger. —Literally, nostril, as in Psalm 18:8, there went a smoke from his nostril.

The sheep of your pasture. —An expression peculiar to the Asaphic psalms and Jeremiah 23:1.