Psalms


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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