74Psalms 74

1O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?Select Psalms 74:1

2Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled.Select Psalms 74:2

3Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.Select Psalms 74:3

4Your enemies roar in the middle of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.Select Psalms 74:4

5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees.Select Psalms 74:5

6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.Select Psalms 74:6

7They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.Select Psalms 74:7

8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.Select Psalms 74:8

9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.Select Psalms 74:9

10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?Select Psalms 74:10

11Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.Select Psalms 74:11

12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth.Select Psalms 74:12

13You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.Select Psalms 74:13

14You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.Select Psalms 74:14

15You did split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.Select Psalms 74:15

16The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.Select Psalms 74:16

17You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.Select Psalms 74:17

18Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.Select Psalms 74:18

19O deliver not the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.Select Psalms 74:19

20Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.Select Psalms 74:20

21O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.Select Psalms 74:21

22Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.Select Psalms 74:22

23Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.Select Psalms 74:23