74Psalms 74

1O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?Select Psalms 74:1

2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.Select Psalms 74:2

3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.Select Psalms 74:3

4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.Select Psalms 74:4

5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon 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 thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy 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 knoweth how long.Select Psalms 74:9

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

11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.Select Psalms 74:11

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

13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.Select Psalms 74:13

14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.Select Psalms 74:14

15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.Select Psalms 74:15

16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.Select Psalms 74:16

17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.Select Psalms 74:17

18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.Select Psalms 74:18

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

20Have respect unto 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 thy name.Select Psalms 74:21

22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.Select Psalms 74:22

23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.Select Psalms 74:23